{"id":447291,"date":"2026-01-30T12:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447291\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:08:27","slug":"wallabies-star-reveals-he-didnt-speak-with-roosters-before-signing-long-term-rugby-australia-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447291\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallabies star reveals he didn’t speak with Roosters before signing long-term Rugby Australia deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jorgensen\u2019s deal is equal to the longest ever offered by Rugby Australia, with Michael Hooper and Lote Tuqiri the only others to have signed five-year deals.<\/p>\n

The 20-cap Wallaby said he jumped at the deal, which is believed to be worth $900,000 a season, despite being a long one and keeping him off the market for a considerable time.<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Jorgensen poses with members of his junior rugby club, the Balmain Wolves.Credit: Getty Images for Rugby Australia<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t my idea, but it was good. It was special, you know, to be wanted, you could say,\u201d Jorgensen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously I talked to my family a lot, I talked to my managers. It was just the right time for me to sign that type of deal. I\u2019m still young, I\u2019m only 21 still, so by the time that ends anyway, I\u2019m only 27 or something like that. So hopefully I still have some years left in my career after that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut as I said, it\u2019s a special deal. And to be able to have the opportunity to stay with the Wallabies and the Tahs for five years, you can\u2019t really say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jorgensen said he had also sought the counsel of star teammate Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are good mates so we can sort of share that stuff with each other, and it\u2019s also good to have a different perspective on things,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not only getting your family and your manager\u2019s perspectives, but sometimes it\u2019s good to get an outside perspective that\u2019s got no bias towards you or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Max<\/p>\n

Max Jorgensen dives over to score a try during the third Test against the British and Irish Lions.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Jorgensen\u2019s deal will allow him to experience overseas rugby, and importantly for RA, potentially earn a significant sum in stints in Japan or Europe, which would see him miss Super Rugby.<\/p>\n

Jorgensen said he would also be open to a crack at making the 2028 LA Olympics in sevens.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone grows up going, \u2018Oh, going to the Olympics is really special and really cool\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cBut that might not even ever happen. So it\u2019s more a conversation for the future, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jorgensen said a future switch to the NRL \u201cis always on the table\u201d but whether it will ever happen is now a fair question, given he\u2019ll be 26 when next off contract.<\/p>\n

Being part of a rebuild with the Wallabies during that time \u201cis really cool\u201d, Jorgensen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s obviously the end goal for us. You want to be that number one team in the world that no one can beat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd everyone\u2019s scared to go up against. So to be able to be part of sort of that rebuild process where you have the chance to just climb those ranks and then end up being the best in the world, that\u2019s so special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jorgensen\u2019s deal is equal to the longest ever offered by Rugby Australia, with Michael Hooper and Lote Tuqiri…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-447291","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\/447291","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=447291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}