{"id":196448,"date":"2024-08-07T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=196448"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:42:15","slug":"will-he-stay-or-will-he-go-evenepoel-transfer-talk-heats-up-after-golden-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/08\/07\/will-he-stay-or-will-he-go-evenepoel-transfer-talk-heats-up-after-golden-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Will He Stay or Will He Go? Evenepoel Transfer Talk Heats up After Golden Double"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the space of about six weeks, thanks to a remarkable series of accomplishments \u2013 a podium finish in his first Tour de France and a Golden Double, gold medals in both the time trial and road race at the Paris Olympics \u2013 Remco Evenepoel has become arguably the most admired athlete in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A case could be made for the fabulous American gymnast Simone Biles who won three gold medals in Paris but she is nearing the end of her career while the 24-year-old Belgian is much closer to the beginning than the end of his. In light of Evenepoel\u2019s accomplishments in his first French summer, there seems to be no limit to what he can still achieve.<\/p>\n

This has also made him one of the hottest properties in all sports, with such big-money teams as Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe and INEOS Grenadiers ready to spend lavishly to acquire his services. HLN<\/a>reported that, according to \u201cseveral sources within the peloton,\u201d a deal that would see Evenepoel move from current team Soudal\u2013Quick Step \u2013 which has him signed until the end of 2026 \u2013 to Red Bull for 2025 is \u201cimminent or already complete.\u201d In addition, the publication stated, INEOS, UAE Team Emirates and Israel\u2013Premier Tech are also interested in acquiring his services.<\/p>\n

Whoever wants him will have to be able to shell out a fortune. Soudal team boss Patrick Lefevere told Het Nieuwsblad<\/a>, \u201cAs long as no one puts anything concrete on my table, he will ride for us. If someone says tomorrow, ‘Look, that’s his annual salary, we’ll double that and add a little bit more,<\/em>\u2019\u00a0then I might be able to accept it. But first and foremost, it’s about the athlete himself! A year or two ago, he said that there was a lot we weren’t up to par with. But I don’t know in which area we can’t keep up. I’m not going to give him away for nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Evenepoel\u2019s annual salary is not known, though one report<\/a> estimates it at about \u20ac2.8 million or less than half of what Tadej Poga\u010dar earns at UAE Team Emirates. That would be an expensive contract buy-out for a team, especially as that team would probably also have to put Evenepoel\u2019s salary on a par with Poga\u010dar\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Of the teams cited in the report, only Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe and INEOS Grenadiers have both the money and the need. I cannot see Evenepoel signing with UAE Team Emirates, which already has a charismatic superstar like Poga\u010dar as its leader. And Israel\u2013Premier Tech may not have the money.<\/p>\n

INEOS probably needs him more than anyone. The former lords of the peloton have hit a dry spell that has seen some top riders leave. In the past weeks, unofficial reports announced the departures of Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez to UAE Team Emirates and Ethan Hayter to Soudal\u2013Quick Step. A superstar like Evenepoel would give the team instant credibility and attract other riders to its ranks.<\/p>\n

As for Red Bull, they already have a top rider in Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d who transferred there from Visma\u2013Lease a Bike to have a real chance to win the Tour de France.<\/a> But he had a disastrous Tour, falling behind early in the yellow jersey race and then abandoning it after crashing in two successive stages. In addition, the Slovenian will be 35 in October, a little long in the tooth to compete with the likes of Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Poga\u010dar. It\u2019s hard to see that big-name, big-bucks team stick with an ageing rider who is prone to falling from his bike.<\/p>\n

The move to Red Bull would certainly help Evenepoel, if only because the team has several accomplished Grand Tour climbers on its squad, such as Vuelta winner Jai Hindley, Alexandr Vlasov, and Emanuel Buchmann.<\/p>\n

As for Soudal, Hayter is a fast rider and sometimes sprinter who suits Soudal\u2019s traditional strategy of winning Grand Tour stages and one-day races. But the team and Evenepoel need at least one more accomplished climber \u2013 or, better, two \u2013 to help the excellent Mikel Landa counter Poga\u010dar\u2019s army of top mountain men \u2013 Adam Yates, Jo\u00e3o<\/a> Almeida, Juan Ayuso and Felix Gro\u00dfschartner (to name just a few) in the Tour de France.<\/p>\n

The transfer market is already starting to heat up. In addition to news regarding Evenepoel, it will be interesting to see what climbers, if any, Lefevere signs in order to keep his superstar. \u201cWe’ve never paid Remco a single euro too little, on the contrary,\u201d Lefevere said. \u201cSo in that area, it’s not a problem. It’s not easy. You have to compete with big budgets. But, on the other hand, we’re up for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sounds like he is willing to deal if\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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