Danny Cipriani is set to sign for Gloucester Rugby, The Daily Telegraph understands. Cipriani’s midweek recall to the England squad to tour South Africa in June was the final piece in the jigsaw for the 30 year old who has been released by Wasps for next season and has been looking for a new club for the past few months.

There has been interest from at least two Top 14 clubs in France but Cipriani was still intent on pressing his claims for England despite the fact that he had not featured under Eddie Jones and won the last of his 14 caps three years ago.

However, he has been in outstanding form for Wasps, helping them into the Aviva Premiership play-offs. Cipriani is certain to be involved when Wasps take on Saracens in the first of the semi-finals at Allianz Park on Saturday.

The lure of fighting for a place in the England squad has driven Cipriani this season and he has never lost faith in his own ability.

If he had decided to pursue any approaches shown from French clubs and sign for one of them, then his international career would have been effectively over as RFU policy prohibits Jones from selecting outside the Premiership.

The likes of Chris Ashton, and the Armitage brothers, Delon and Steffon, have fallen foul of that ruling in recent years.

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There has been interest from other English clubs, too, notably, Bath but Cipriani appears to have opted for the challenge of helping Gloucester build on the promise they have shown this season under new head coach, Johan Ackermann.

Gloucester finished seventh in the Premiership but have qualified for the Champions Cup next season by dint of them also reaching the Challenge Cup final in Bilbao on Friday night where they were edged out in a nail-biting finale by Cardiff Blues, 31-30, full-back, Gareth Anscombe, landing the winning penalty goal with only 65 seconds remaining.

Wasps had already indicated that they wanted to take a new direction by signing All Black fly-half, Lima Sapooga, for next season forcing Cipriani to consider a new direction.

There have always been question marks swirling around his temperament but there is little doubt that he now has the opportunity with an England call-up and a fresh-start in the west country to showcase what he can offer both club and country.

Gloucester have shown huge promise under Johan Ackermann credit: Getty Images

Even though one of the headline comments from the England camp this week was that Cipraini could be on ‘the plane back from Johannesburg,’ if he is a ‘bad character,’ it was more of a throwaway remark from Eddie Jones. The England head coach went on to say:

The baggage doesn’t worry me. It is about how he comes in, how he reacts, how he communicates with other players, how he responds to coaching. We have to give him the flexibility to display his talent. He has got a creative talent and we don’t want to annul that.”

Jones also stated that he wants to use Cipriani at full-back and that will almost certainly have been a consideration, too, in the talks about his club future.