Beale, who was fined $3,000 for his mid-air row with former ARU staffer Di Patston on Friday, is currently negotiating a new deal with the Australian Rugby Union.
He has been linked with a move to the NRL as well as French rugby.
The off-contract star was also fined $45,000 last Friday for sending a lewd photo to Patston in June, but was spared the sack after a marathon six-hour disciplinary hearing.
Beale's future was one of several hot topics the 55-year-old discussed openly in an exclusive chat with Sportal on Friday.
Deans, who is in the second season of a three-year contract with Japanese club Panasonic Wild Knights, was in Sydney to promote his new book, 'Robbie Deans: Red, black and gold', written by his long time media manager Matt McIlraith.
The truth of his relationships with Matt Giteau and Quade Cooper, his Wallabies regrets, Australia's World Cup hopes under new coach Michael Cheika and his own aspirations to one day coach the All Blacks were also discussed.
Keep Kurtley in the game
Deans was one of the first people to visit the troubled playmaker in a rehabilitation clinic last year and went out of his way to help the former John Eales medallist conquer his personal demons. He says the 25-year-old needs rugby as much as the game needs Beale.
"It'd be a shame if he's lost to the game because he's a bloke who offers the game a lot and probably even more importantly from my perspective it'd be a shame if the game is lost to Kurtley," Deans said. "Because the game offers him more and it just would concern me where he would finish up if he ended up isolated because he's got some good support mechanisms in the game. He's got to master himself.
Regrets, I've had a few
The former All Black is not one to dwell on the past but concedes there are things he would do differently if he was in possession of a time machine.
"I think (former England coach) Martin Johnson answered this question best – I saw an interview he did where he was asked about his 2011 World Cup experience and if there was anything he would do differently - and his answer was, 'Of course. If you knew where you were going to end up and you knew the way things were going to unfold and outcomes and so forth, and you had the luxury of being able to go back and change your decisions, then you'd try something else. But you don't make those decisions lightly, they're based on a lot of thought, a lot of discussion, a lot of analysis and then you commit and you get on with it. Look if we had the potential to go back and change an element or a part in seeking a better outcome then clearly you'd do that but it doesn't really warrant the time. You just keep going mate. We gave it a good crack, keep going."
No hard feelings Quade, Gits
His alleged fall-outs with Giteau and Cooper were great fodder for journos but the coach insists his relationships with the playmakers were not as broken as portrayed.
"I had perfectly good working relationships with both of those blokes but as is the case, people presume beyond the reality, 'Well it must be this, it must be dysfunctional, etc, etc'. And there's always those who will prey off that and leverage off it but that's part of the territory, part of the industy, particularly in Australia."
I had full control Bill!
At a press conference earlier this month ARU boss Bill Pulver defended his decision to sack Deans, saying the Kiwi did not have control of the squad. His detractors also claim he gave the three amigos – Quade Cooper, Beale and James O'Connor – too much freedom. Deans disagrees strongly.
"The three amigos, we were criticised for what we did. There were two events: Canberra, the food fight (when we fined them) $35,000 and people said, 'Well that's ridiculous. The second was when (James O'Connor) missed the photo (before the 2011 World Cup) and bang, he was fined and out of the team with the deciding Tri Nations fixture to come. Look, people will latch onto whatever they want to justify decision made, etc, etc and that's fine, no problem. The step that needs to be taken is the players need to fill that void. It's like the playing of the game, they have choice and consequence and they will stand and fall by their ability to make their choices and actually impose their will. If they're waiting for instruction or a directive from above it's all over rover."
Can Cheika's Wallabies win the World Cup?
"Absolutely, absolutely. The World Cup is an abbreviated campaign, it's a knockout contest, it's do-or-die on the day and they've got real capability in that group and they're adding more to it by the day. (Henry) Speight's now eligible and you've got blokes coming back who are point-of-difference players. There's no guarantees in any of that but that context, that World Cup context is much easier to deal with and to achieve it than the international rankings." "...They're primed, they're ready, they are poised. They've been close, they know they're close, they want more."
Of course I would consider All Blacks job
He lost out to Graham Henry in 2007 and the odds of Deans achieving his ultimate goal of coaching the All Blacks have surely lengthened. But while he insists it doesn't keep him up at night, the itch is clearly still there for the five-Test All Black.
"I'm a much better coach for the recent experience I've had. Whether that possibility ever opens up, who knows? You just never know what's around the corner and there's processes to follow, there's decisions that are made by others. If they have an interest, yeah, why wouldn't you as a coach? I'm still passionate about coaching, I still enjoy the game and that's got to be the ultimate coaching role. But I'm not obsessed with it, I consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the experiences I've already had in the game."