Evenepoel-Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe case: confirmations arrive

Rome, 4 November 2024 - La 'bomb' lit it as usual Patrick Lefebvre, criticizing Ralph Denk, the counterpart of the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, for trying to grab Remco Evenepoel with a monstrous offer. If those of the sports director of the Soudal Quick Step they might have seemed exaggerated statements and perhaps thrown out there by chance by a notoriously very provocative and divisive man, the perspective risks changing now that further details are arriving, provided by the journalist Michel Wuyst to the head The Last New.  

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  The offer presented by Think to try evenepoel it seems to have even amounted to 10 million per season, but the 'package' proposed by the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe it was not limited to 'just' money: the Belgian could in fact have brought with him three trusted men, including Klaas Lodewyck, team manager of Soudal Quick Step, before the veto of the head of the aforementioned team. "Lefevere he said no to the exchange of professional figures and decided to keep evenepoel for the duration of the contract. The plan included the hiring of a performance manager Frederik Broche, who together with the operations director Jurgen Fore has smoothed out the issue from an economic point of view: now evenepoel earns 5 million per year (including bonuses)." These are the words of Wuyst, former commentator of Spouse, who also examined the issue from the perspective of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. "The amount offered seems high, but for the second place achieved by evenepoel in the ranking UCI the value of the runner is that. With that basis the project could be tackled Tour de France in a calm and ambitious way for years, but I don't know if it would have been enough to win". The objection is articulated by citing the recent transfer market of the German team. "They took Jan Tratnik, Oier Lazkano e Gianni moscon, that the Belgian likes a lot, but they are pace runners, controllers, not climbers. And then there is Primois Roglic, with whom who knows how things would have gone".

Lefevere and Boonen criticize women's cycling

  Until recently, from what can be seen, Lefevere had other problems to think about, but today she allows herself a criticism of women's cycling. "I see that there the team interests are less important and everyone is chasing everyone else. However, I think that the recent transfers could make things more balanced in the future". The reshuffle referred to by the head of the Soudal Quick Step concerns the losses of the Team SD Worx-Protime, In which 2025 will greet Demi Vollering (passed to the FDJ-Suez), Marlene Reusser (hired by the Movistar Team) to Niamh Fisher-Black (promised bride of the Lidl Trek). Along the same lines, on the microphones of Het Nieuwsblad, he joins the queue Tom Boonen. "The women's races are bizarre: most of the time you don't understand what they are doing tactically. That said, I like watching them, because you can feel the effort they make, but I think there is still too wide a gap between the best and the others."

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