It appears it will take more than head-turning sums of cash if the rugby start-up R360 is going to land all the players it wants for its globetrotting, all-star teams.
England fly-halves George Ford and Fin Smith, with 105 and 13 Test caps respectively, have already snubbed any transfer to R360, rugby's mysterious rebel league fronted by Mike Tindall, before the 2027 World Cup.
Now a player in the bracket of England hopefuls is adding his name to those for whom the security and familiarity of an established Premiership club and the lure of the national team has trumped the dangling of riches from R360.
The Harlequins centre Oscar Beard this week made a multi-year extension to his contract at the London club, taking in the period up to the next World Cup.
The i Paper understands Beard turned down an offer in excess of £1million from R360 for a three-year deal, with a promise to transform his rugby life in a cosmopolitan travelling circus taking in Tokyo, Miami, Boston, Lisbon and Dubai, among other venues.
The 24-year-old Beard made his England debut earlier this year, as a substitute in a 40-5 win over the USA in Washington DC in July.
But when he describes that appearance as "a dream come true" and Harlequins as his "home on the pitch and off the pitch", you understand the hurdles R360 is facing, that also include awaiting clearance from World Rugby, and England's Rugby Football Union saying they will not pick R360 players for international rugby.
Beard was named in Steve Borthwick's first England squad of the current season in September, but a quad muscle injury ruled Beard out of England's autumn series and he has just returned to fitness for Quins' trip to Gloucester this weekend.
"Being approached by them [R360], it was interesting to just be all ears and hear what they had to say," Beard told The i Paper.
"It's like the whole LIV Golf versus the PGA [situation]. Financially, obviously, you get the benefits. But for me, it's not always about that.
"I think it depends on players' ambitions, what motivates them. To have made my England debut in the summer was a dream come true, and it makes me way more hungry to do that as much as possible.
"I'm not naive, I know I'll have to put in a lot of work. And I know if I was to do that R360 thing, it wouldn't be possible."
Beard, who went to school in Surrey, first walked into Harlequins aged 13; he was a ball-boy for first-team matches before graduating to playing that level himself, and he has clocked up 80 appearances in the Premiership and Champions Cup.
"I love playing for Quins," he says. "I want to give back to the club, which I have been at half my life now, and win some trophies.
"I spoke to my real close mates at Harlequins. Some hadn't been approached, some had. But their mindset - particularly in my age category - is to stick around at Quins and it isn't worth taking a sort of lunge into the unknown."
At international level the centre position is quite the logjam: this calendar year alone the England No 12 and No 13 jerseys have been occupied by Henry Slade, Max Ojomoh, Ollie Lawrence, Fraser Dingwall, Tommy Freeman, Luke Northmore and Seb Atkinson.
But Beard wants to earn his place among them by improving his "super strength", which means his running game, his footwork, and getting as many attacking involvements as possible.
"Travelling the world and that sort of thing [with R360] sounds awesome," he added.
"But staying at Quins and developing further into Europe, winning as a club, you travel around the world.
"And if I was to push into England... I have just been to Argentina and the USA with them, and I'd never been to either of those countries, so the opportunity is still there."