{"id":442787,"date":"2026-01-28T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:13:11","slug":"rugby-australia-put-max-jorgensen-nrl-saga-to-bed-with-mega-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/442787\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Australia put Max Jorgensen NRL saga to bed with mega deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Max Jorgensen has turned his back on a move to the Sydney Roosters for a third time after shaking hands with Rugby Australia<\/a> on a monster multi-million dollar five-year deal.<\/p>\n

The Roosters, who had twice failed to lure Jorgensen, 21, to switch codes, were expected to make a third attempt, and he was also linked with a switch to R360 before they were forced to postpone their launch until 2028.<\/p>\n

Jorgensen, who was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, when his dad Peter played for Rotherham Titans, is only the third player, after Michael Hooper<\/a> and Lote Tuqiri<\/a>, to sign on for five years.<\/p>\n

The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> have revealed that he will earn more than $900k (\u00a3456k) a season, rising to $1m (\u00a3507k) a season for signing for Rugby Australia and the NSW Waratahs<\/a> through to 2031.<\/p>\n

It is also understood that Jorgensen, who won the first of his 20 Wallabies caps when he was 18 and touched down in two Tests against the Lions<\/a> last year, has a clause to allow an overseas sabbatical.<\/p>\n

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Jorgensen, who was called a \u201cgenerational talent\u201d by RA boss Phil Waugh<\/a>, has committed his future, which will officially be announced later this week, just days after the Waratahs signed Roosters star Angus Crichton.<\/p>\n

Wallabies team-mate Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii<\/a>, who became a Roosters fan after joining the club in 2021, inadvertently let on at Waratahs media day that Jorgensen\u2019s future was sorted and was excited to see Crichton at the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cMax is here for a bit. I love the Sydney Roosters. I\u2019ve loved that club ever since I got there. I still do. But hopefully they don\u2019t take Max. He\u2019s been killing it here. He\u2019s a superstar, and he just keeps on getting better and better.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I\u2019ve spoken to Angus, he\u2019s always said he\u2019s loved rugby. It\u2019s a pleasure for him to come across. I think everyone\u2019s very, very excited,\u201d Suaalii is quoted in the SMH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Jorgensen has turned his back on a move to the Sydney Roosters for a third time after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-442787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}