Patrick Lefevere to step down as Soudal Quick-Step CEO

[Netserk]

Good riddance. Better hope the team folds soon.

 

[Breezy1985]

He is neither of those things, he's just honest and direct.

More words commonly used to describe a$$holes.

I suppose he is just "telling it like it is" and "saying what the rest of us are afraid to" as well.

 

[Berniece]

More words commonly used to describe a$$holes.

I suppose he is just "telling it like it is" and "saying what the rest of us are afraid to" as well.

Everything you are saying doesn’t come remotely close to what journalists, ex-riders and staff members are saying about him at the moment

 

[Wvv]

Most riders loved him as a team manager, and that is what really matters. The great atmosphere in the squad is no stage play. Even when he was hard in the press, he rarely was unfair. And ask the likes of Fabio Jakobsen what he thinks of Lefevere. After a few months of inactivity, a team isn't obliged to keep paying the full wage, but Patrick kept honouring the contract.

 

[Bolder]

Do the "Madiots, Pints, Sagan's and Remcos" say the miserable **** he does ?

Being a "character" isnt an excuse for being a ****. It's like people who are really cruel and mean but pass it off as being"sassy"

He was an anti-hero, every good entertainment needs one.

 

[Berniece]

Most riders loved him as a team manager, and that is what really matters. The great atmosphere in the squad is no stage play. Even when he was hard in the press, he rarely was unfair. And ask the likes of Fabio Jakobsen what he thinks of Lefevere. After a few months of inactivity, a team isn't obliged to keep paying the full wage, but Patrick kept honouring the contract.

He even paid for a private airplane for Jakobsen's parents and girlfriend to fly to Poland as quickly as possible.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Most riders loved him as a team manager, and that is what really matters. The great atmosphere in the squad is no stage play. Even when he was hard in the press, he rarely was unfair. And ask the likes of Fabio Jakobsen what he thinks of Lefevere. After a few months of inactivity, a team isn't obliged to keep paying the full wage, but Patrick kept honouring the contract.

The later is not only him. Vino and Astana still honoured Scarponi's contract after he had died and payed his wife and children the money until the end of the contract (at the end of the year).

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

I like big Pat. He's not a saint, but it seems to me that he never pretended to be either. Quick Step will not be the same and pro cycling will miss one of it's greatest team managers, but that's life. Big names comes and goes, the wheels keep rolling.

 

[Leadbelly]

Better hope the team folds soon.

Bakala - "With this transition I demonstrate my commitment to the long-term future of the team and ensuring a bright future for Soudal Quick-Step."

The long term future, but not a long term commitment?

Fore - "I will now look to lead this team, working towards securing its long-term future"

Working towards getting a new owner?

 

[Extinction]

You'll be lucky, I bet he still keeps his saturday newspaper comments job, personally I think we need characters in our sport who don't keep their mouths shut and play the politically correct corporate company spokesman line all the time.

Confess I had never heard of Bobby Knight, had to resort to Google.

Absolutely, the politically correct world of sport is so very boring. He is a true Flandrian, brash, bold, with a sarcastic sense of humor, a hard man for a hard man's sport. He's the last of a 70s-80s generation that folks who came afterwards or were born afterwords have no idea what free and adventurous spirits animated that era. By contrast, today everybody seems to relish at the opportunity of being offended, because everything has become offensive.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Lefevere now having a pop at 'UncleCycling' on twitter at 2 in the morning after a few wines, hilarious scenes.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1867361809008628087