Catalans Dragons star James Maloney said he is not considering a short-term NRL return amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Super League has been suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19 crisis, which has led to more than 126,760 confirmed fatalities worldwide.

While a return date for the Super League is unknown, Australia's NRL is planning to restart on May 28 after the competition was postponed through two rounds on March 23.

Maloney – a Grand Final winner with Sydney Roosters (2013) and Cronulla Sharks (2016) –has been linked with a brief return to the NRL along with Catalans team-mate Israel Folau and Toronto Wolfpack star Sonny-Bill Williams.

But Maloney, who left Penrith Panthers for Catalans this year, has no such plans despite the appeal of a brief homecoming.

"When we thought about it, if you went back home you had to go into quarantine for two weeks, and we've got four kids," he told 2GB Radio.

"It's a hard one. You know, obviously, for us, it'd be nice to go back home.

"But then I think with the announcement [of France's lockdown], I think they also said borders to non-European countries are closed indefinitely, so I don't even know where that would leave you in terms of coming back once it was all over."

Maloney, 33, added: "I don't know logistically how it works.

"I know Catalans are doing their best obviously to be able to keep paying us so I don't know how you could all of a sudden try and work out – even if the NRL did manage to get back – how you'd try and manage a short-term deal.

"I think it's probably more headaches logistically than what it's sort of worth and I just don't think it's possible, so it's probably nothing I've really thought about."