Of course, training Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team – very soon Soudal-Quick Step – did not achieve its best season on an accounting level (47 wins against 65 last year) and lost its place as number 1 in the team classification UCIbut the stable of Patrick Lefevere can still to pull a positive assessment of his 2022 season. Retaining a framework in its workforce, with five departures (Mark Cavendish, Zdenek Stybar, Mikkel Frolich Honoré, Stijn Steels and Iljo Keisse) for three arrivals (Tim Merlier, Jan Hirt and Casper Pedersen), the Belgian team will have ambitions for the next year. While multiplying the media releases on the 2023 season, the general manager of the Wolfpack confided in 2024.
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“There are people who want to come but we naturally raise the prices”
“There are still riders who are there and who have a contract. We will then see for 2024 and laterExplain Patrick Lefevere in remarks reported by the RTBF. Officially, we can only discuss from August but naturally the agents are already calling me. We are in December 2022 and we are discussing 2024 contracts. Everyone reads the press and knows that I want to support Remco on the Grand Tours. There are people who want to come but we naturally raise the prices. It’s up to me as a manager to find the balance between what someone is worth and what they ask for, avoiding making mistakes..”
What about the 2023 season for the Soudal-Quick Step team?
Retaining a backbone in its workforce, with five departures (Mark Cavendish, Zdenek Stybar, Mikkel Frolich Honoré, Stijn Steels and Iljo Keisse) for three arrivals (Tim Merlier, Jan Hirt and Casper Pedersen), the formation Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team – very soon Soudal-Quick Step – will obviously have great ambitions. First of all, she will try to win a great Flanders classic with leaders like Kasper Asgreen, Florian Senechal or Julian Alaphilippe which aims in particular to Tour of Flanders after a very gloomy 2022 season. The other big moment of 2023 will be the attempt to Remco Evenepoel on the Giro in May. the Wolfpack will also be able to count on an impressive strike force to enable it to achieve several successes next year: Andrea Bagioli (23 ans), Ilan Van Wilder (22 ans), Mauro Schmid (23 ans), David Dancers (28 ans)…
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