Financial rewards of a breakaway tour appeal to Ronnie O’Sullivan: ‘I would love to see a LIV-style breakaway, gosh!’

Ronnie O’Sullivan joked that he would ‘love to see’ a LIV Golf-style breakaway in snooker if someone was willing to offer him £600million (Martin Rickett/PA)

Euan Parsons

Ronnie O’Sullivan joked that he would “love to see” a LIV Golf-style breakaway in snooker if someone was willing to offer him hundreds of millions of pounds but was not interested in contributing to the noise around what a possible rival could mean for the World Snooker Tour.

Leading players, including O’Sullivan, are understood to have been approached by Far East backers about the prospect of establishing a breakaway circuit from as early as next season.