AFP - Lawrence Dallaglio has told Wasps fly-half Danny Cipriani that he should stay at the Premiership club if he wants to get his England career back on track.

Cipriani's current one-year contract expires at the end of the season and he is certain to attract interest from clubs in the Premiership and the French Top 14.

The 22-year-old is free to explore other options from January but Dallaglio, whose role on the Wasps board includes player recruitment and retention, has opened talks with Cipriani over a new deal and believes Wasps can provide the ideal setting to reestablish his international credentials.

"Every player is entitled to look elsewhere but one has to remember where your bread is buttered and what the best chance of getting international rugby is," Dallaglio said.

"Danny Cipriani was born to play for Wasps and I am pretty confident he will be a Wasps player next year. Negotiations are under way.

"He is happy where he is - I am sure if he wasn't he would tell us - and he has got a half-back in Joe Simpson who is one of the bright young stars of English rugby and someone (England manager) Martin Johnson will have to look at for the Six Nations."

Dallaglio believes Cipriani would have been the ideal answer to England's full-back problems and their depressing lack of creativity during the recent internationals had he not been sidelined by injury.

Cipriani's international career hit the buffers last season following a drop in form and an apparent personality clash with the England management. He ended the season as back-up fly-half for the Saxons.

But Dallaglio has urged Johnson to put any differences to one side and bring Cipriani back into the England set-up for the Six Nations.

"You get guys from Leicester and guys from London and they are going to think differently. Me and Martin had a difference of opinion for the first three years," he said.

"Danny is certainly getting back to his best. The plate is now out of his ankle and he is regaining his confidence, his fitness and his form.

"Danny has been playing really well this season. He is a player who can add a new dimension to England. He gets the ball and you expect things to happen around him.

"He was playing full-back for Wasps when he got injured and he could have offered England an option in that position in November.

"He was playing really well at the start of the season when Wasps were flying at the top of the table. You cannot ignore him."