Soudal - Quick Step Thread

[Mayomaniac]

With Bagioli I don't know if he'll still be on the team next year. If a team like Trek or Bahrain (to name 2 with a decent sized Italian element) offers him a nice contract and leadership/a co-leader role for hilly one day races he probably should take it.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Why is van Wilder more a main asset than Schmid at the moment? I would actually rate them quite similar right now. Maybe van Wilder has a bigger potential, but that's also unsure because Schmid seems to be the type of rider who progresses very linear year after year. The only problem with Schmid for me as that he seems to go more in the direction in short stage races + hilly one day races rather than the cobbles + hilly races that I would rather see him do.

Imho Van Wilder is more a main asset because he is the only one able and willing to help Evenepoel into the final of a stage in GC/GT at the moment. That is reason enough why he should be valued higher. He is doing a job nobody else at the team can, and for which the team doesn't seem to have the budget otherwise. Then there is the fact that he has just as much potential as Schmid in 1 day hilly races (actually more imho), and more potential in GC's. I don't see Schmid for instance finish top 5 in Burgos tbf, and that was definitely not Van Wilder's ceiling. The team is going into the direction of GC - which is why Soudal has doubled down- that means Van Wilder is either their best GC domestique for Evenepoel, or their first in line to take the place as GC leader in other races.

That said, they are vastly different riders. I think Schmid could be a great stagehunter on all sorts of terrain. He is also a decent TT'er and i think his engine is big enough to go in long breakaways as well as doing domestique work. I think he could be a great asset to a GT team as well and have argued in the past to include him in the Giro team. He is also a lot taller and should do fine in spring classics.

Schmid is much better, he has actually won races (Giro stage, baloise tour Belgium , Coppi e Bartali tour) and can steer his bike round corners much better than van Welder . But van Welder has some Belgian lobbyist in here who are constantly arguing that he is the next great talent of quickstep and should be a leader.

Not sure if you are just trolling again, or if you actually have no idea what you are talking about. So difficult to tell.

 

[houtdffan]

This team can still win classics.

However, the wolfpack is dead.

Team needs to go all in for Remco at this point, in both the classics and for GC

 

[Skalman]

van wilder is turning out to be a very good addition though

 

[houtdffan]

van wilder is turning out to be a very good addition though

yeah, he is. Wouldnt be a bad idea to let him lead some of the smaller stage races that Remco does not enter

 

[Mayomaniac]

yeah, he is. Wouldnt be a bad idea to let him lead some of the smaller stage races that Remco does not enter

That's what they did with him in Algarve this year and Burgos last year. Maybe he'll get to ride for himself in the Tour de Suisse after the Giro and Poland or Burgos during the 2nd half of the season.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

This team can still win classics.

However, the wolfpack is dead.

Team needs to go all in for Remco at this point, in both the classics and for GC

Yeah, exactly…

I‘d even advise them to apply for a PCT licence now. ASO will invite them to LBL and TdF, and that‘s all Remco needs.

So Lefevere would avoid to become humiliated in the cobbled Flemish classics, again.

I think they should concentrate now on LBL and TdF, and perhaps leave MSR, RVV and Roubaix to teams who will perform better there, like for example Euskaltel, Bardiani or Bolton Equities…

 

[houtdffan]

Yeah, exactly…

I‘d even advise them to apply for a PCT licence now. ASO will invite them to LBL and TdF, and that‘s all Remco needs.

So Lefevere would avoid to become humiliated in the cobbled Flemish classics, again.

I think they should concentrate now on LBL and TdF, and perhaps leave MSR, RVV and Roubaix to teams who will perform better there, like for example Euskaltel, Bardiani or Bolton Equities…

Remco can win MSR. He's probably targeting it in future years, He also said he would do RVV

They can win any classic, that Remco rides...

 

[Barnacle Bill]

The Wolfpack down to two... but the team is trying to look on the bright side

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