The soap for the future of Remco Evenepoel takes a more concrete turn. According to the Belgian newspaper The evening Well informed, a transfer of the double Olympic champion to the team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe is no longer a baseless rumor, but a real and legally prepared possibility. For the past four years, the name of the Belgian has been circulating in transfer discussions. Announced in turn at Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe, Visma | Lease a Bike or INEOS Grenadiersit is now the German team that seems more than ever to hold the rope. We know that the German training has activated the system of contract breaking several times compared to other runners and strangely they are all Belgian (Cian Uijtdebroeks to free it towards Visma and Maxim van Gils to attract it from Lotto. Behind these two transactions, we find the Italian manager Alex Carerawho is not the agent of Remco Evenepoellet us have stated it).
Video – Tom Steels, Sports Director of Evenepoel at Soudal
Remco Evenepoel will not move alone!
Several elements make this transfer plausible. On the sporting level, Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe seeks to build around a young and credible leader on the Tour de France. Primoz Roglic arrives at the end of his career, and Florian Lipowitz Still in learning. Evenepoel So embodies an ideal successor. He would even have received the assurance of an absolute leader's role, with the possibility of being surrounded by his close collaborators: his sports director Klaas Lodewyckthe former coach of Belgium Sven Vanthourenhouthis faithful lieutenant Mattia Cattaneoas well as some members of his personal staff.
The other key actor in this file is Specializedthe American equipment supplier. Already partner of Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe and linked to Evenepoel Since its inception, the brand has actively supported this transition. She sees it as a way to strengthen her image around her number one ambassador, without logistical change. We know that the German training has activated the system of contract breaking several times compared to other runners and strangely they are all Belgian (Cian Uijtdebroeks to free it towards Visma and Maxim van Gils to attract it from Lotto. Behind these two transactions, we find the Italian manager Alex Carerawho is not the agent of Remco Evenepoellet us have stated it).
A win-win deal
Side Soudal Quick-Stepthe file is sensitive. The new boss Jurgen drilledlucid in the face of economic realities, knows that the Belgian team can no longer compete with armadas as UAE Team Emirates XRG or Visma | Lease a Bike. The loss ofEvenepoel would be a symbolic blow, but it would be offset by a transfer compensation, a maintenance of the partnership with Specialized and a reorientation of the team to the classics, notably with the planned arrivals of Jasper Stuyven, Dylan van Baarle…
In a sport long resistant to the logic of paid transfers, the case Evenepoel mark a turning point. If the operation is materialized, it would definitively bring cycling into an era closer to that of football, where sports ambitions, commercial interests and legal montages are closely mixed.
