Jumbo - QuickStep merger

[samhocking]

I'm not sure a 25M black-hole is how Fretz's team manager contact has worded that really. He's saying that Jumbo along with all the other sponsors leaving the team after 2023/2024 means Plugge is looking for a 25M main sponsor. They can take the 25M from Jumbo et al divided into 3 years, so around 8M + Visma Sponsorship in 2024 + Soudal Sponsorship after the merger probably gets them enough to survive once Roglic's 5M transfer comes from wherever he goes. That buys Plugge a year more to sort the finance of the team. I'm not sure where that leaves Soudal, but perhaps the team moves to a SponsorNameHere-Soudal arrangement in 2025?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Leaked footage from inside JV HQ.

View: https://youtu.be/w_KqQZETfR0?si=BXaFENYzJBhDXlEG&t=3

 

[Lexman]

One can suppose when Roglic leaves he might take some teammates with him like Tratnik, Valter?

 

[Lequack]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2vv2tFTMA

 

[ManicJack]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2vv2tFTMA

Anyone that would listen to Spencer Martin is a fool, and I say that knowing him personally as a fellow part of the Boulder cycling community.

 

[joseph89]

Amazon joins the Jumbo-Visma merger team as a new sponsor

Amazon stapt als nieuwe sponsor in fusieploeg Jumbo-Visma

De nieuw op te zetten fusieploeg van Jumbo-Visma heeft voor de komende jaren een eerste nieuwe belangrijke sponsor aangetrokken. Het Amerikaanse e-commerce bedrijf Amazon, dat gevestigd is in Seattle, stapt als een van de nieuwe geldschieters in de wielerploeg. Dit heeft de Nederlandse marketeer...

www.wielerflits.nl

 

[tobydawq]

Really?
With the B&B disaster they lost a sponsor/couldn't attract a sponsor after all.
Here, they had sponsors, and then suddenly someone just went full dumbass!

It's not like all the other rosters are full. Everybody has known that something has been going on behind the scenes.

 

[pman]

Could you imagine if Visma-Soudal emerges as a weaker team than before? What if Roglic and Remco aren't part of the new team? Maybe Roglic takes a few domestiques with him. They could actually be weaker as a result.

 

[noob]

Listening to Brunyel has become a noob habit

 

[joseph89]

Amazon joins the Jumbo-Visma merger team as a new sponsor

Amazon stapt als nieuwe sponsor in fusieploeg Jumbo-Visma

De nieuw op te zetten fusieploeg van Jumbo-Visma heeft voor de komende jaren een eerste nieuwe belangrijke sponsor aangetrokken. Het Amerikaanse e-commerce bedrijf Amazon, dat gevestigd is in Seattle, stapt als een van de nieuwe geldschieters in de wielerploeg. Dit heeft de Nederlandse marketeer...

www.wielerflits.nl

You know they're sticking the amazon/prime logo on the backside of the bibs.

Imagine getting dropped and seeing that riding off into the distance 🤣

 

[Samamba]

About the QS license:

Heulot, CEO of Lotto Dstny contacted the UCI. According the him the UCI said the license won't be on the market as long as there are 15 or more WT teams. The only possible way to take over the license is to take over the company that owns the QS license (which is Decolef, aka Bakala, Lefevere & Bessel Kok), but when you do that you have to take over all the contracts, which basically not a single ProConti team can do.

 

[VeloMaster]

No rider is above the team, this is Jumbo we are talking about. #samenwinnen, Vingegaard won't complain because he knew what he signed up for when he started there. Just because you are now the best and the leader doesn't mean you can now dictate that that position can't be challenged within the team.

You are assuming, against all evidence to date, that Remco can win the TdF. Yes, he is a great talent. Is he TdF material, I for one seriously doubt it.

 

[Izzyeviel]

At this rate its going to be 'Apple Amazon B&B hotels Quickstep Soudal Decunink Visma presented by Specialised & Berlin 2036'

 

[Sciatic]

You know they're sticking the amazon/prime logo on the backside of the bibs.

Imagine getting dropped and seeing that riding off into the distance 🤣

Their domestiques will no longer need to go back to the team car for bottles & gels—Amazon delivery trucks will take care of that task.

 

[ManicJack]

Their domestiques will no longer need to go back to the team car for bottles & gels—Amazon delivery trucks will take care of that task.

Drones

 

[Anderis]

Could you imagine if Visma-Soudal emerges as a weaker team than before?

You can't get much stronger than what they have been recently so they're bound to emerge as a weaker team sooner or later.

 

[samhocking]

All I want to happen out of this is the team is named Apple-Soudal, it sounds delicious!

 

[Panda Claws]

Remco too strong to be constrained to a single team.

 

[Kaptain Kool]

All I want to happen out of this is the team is named Apple-Soudal, it sounds delicious!

If the other half was the one staying, you'd have future the possibility of Green Apple-Quick Step.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707458360612733198

View: https://twitter.com/Debby_Drckx/status/1707458360612733198

 

[Berniece]

Wasn’t the whole point of the merger to get Soudal? Can’t imagine them wanting anything else besides being a name sponsor

 

[RedheadDane]

It's not like all the other rosters are full. Everybody has known that something has been going on behind the scenes.

Really?

Soudal Quick-Step riders informed of 'ongoing discussions' over merger plans according to leaked memo

Belgian team states that no agreement is yet in place in relation to talks with several parties

www.globalcyclingnetwork.com

“I'm writing to you with regards to the reports that you have seen in the media recently. I am sure this has caused some uncertainty, for which I apologise,” Lefevere wrote.

That doesn't seem to indicate that everybody has known.
Would guys like Jorgenson and Landa have signed with the respective teams if they'd known?

 

[noob]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707510017778164089

View: https://twitter.com/BenjiNaesen/status/1707510017778164089


What if Kuss leaves? 🤣🤣🤣 Or Wout? 🤣🤣🤣

Or even more hilarious if Jonas left 🤣 😂 😆

 

[tobydawq]

Really?

Soudal Quick-Step riders informed of 'ongoing discussions' over merger plans according to leaked memo

Belgian team states that no agreement is yet in place in relation to talks with several parties

www.globalcyclingnetwork.com

That doesn't seem to indicate that everybody has known.
Would guys like Jorgenson and Landa have signed with the respective teams if they'd known?

Not specifically about this merger. But if you have been cycling a little more than just watching races, there has absolutely been the indications that something unusual would happen this fall. That's why I wrote that the other team rosters are not full (ie. other teams have been waiting to see what would happen).

Also, reading your posts the past couple of pages is like peak Koronin after the Harrogate worlds. Maybe relax a little, we got your opinion...

 

[RedheadDane]

Not specifically about this merger. But if you have been cycling a little more than just watching races, there has absolutely been the indications that something unusual would happen this fall. That's why I wrote that the other team rosters are not full (ie. other teams have been waiting to see what would happen).

So, you're saying that "everybody" knew... except for the people who should have been the first to know? Yeah... that's worse!