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The 2020 Dally M Medallist, Jack Wighton, has blown the player market wide open by telling Canberra he wants to speak to other clubs about a deal for next season.

The Australian and New South Wales representative has an option in his favour to stay at the Raiders for 2024, where he's reported to earn around $900,000 a season.

But the 30-year-old has told the club he wants to explore his options elsewhere for the first time since he debuted with the Raiders in 2012.

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Fox League

The Canberra Raiders face a fight to retain star five-eighth Jack Wighton amid confirmation the 30-year-old is going to the open market for the first time since joining the club.

Wighton, who is off-contract at the end of this season, has an option in his favour for 2024 and it was widely expected he would extend his stay in the nation’s capital.

But The Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday afternoon that Wighton, who had until round 10 to trigger that automatic extension, will instead test his worth.

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The Australian

The Raiders are ready to fight to keep their hugely influential playmaker.

“Jack’s quite within his rights to test the market,’’ Don Furner told News Corp.

“He’s been incredibly loyal to us for 14 seasons, he’s never once gone out and tested the market.

“He has our full support. He knows that we’re going to do everything we can to keep him and extend him.

“But being possibly his last contract, he has to do what is right for his young family and we fully understand and appreciate that.’’

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