Lefevere claims: Pogacar and Philipsen should be riding with us [in Dutch] :
Als teammanager van Deceuninck-Quick-Step zegt Patrick Lefev
www.indeleiderstrui.nl
Translated by a reddit user:
"He's talking about Joxean Matxin, who was DQS's talent scout for 2 years. He's saying they paid him to travel the world to find new talents for two years, and then Matxin announced he wanted to leave the role to become a DS. Lefevre says he was nice enough to let him go for free (I guess he's hinting that he could have made him buy out his contract), and then he stabbed them in the back by taking along some of the talents he found while on DQS' payroll to UEA.
He's also angry at Thomas de Gendt - he says he gave him a chance after his Vacansoleil adventure. He said that without Lefevre, De Gendt wouldn't be in the World Tour. And De Gendt never even thanked him for this.
The article just takes some highlights from a longer interview
in Bahamontes - I can only read the first few paragraphs without a subscription, but Lefevre is also angry at people serving wine at the wrong temperature, the ASO in general, but also for not being biased towards the French enough to let Alaphillipe keep the yellow jersey after the cancelled stage to Tignes, and not letting him go of the yellow jersey press responsibilities after each stage, the Giro for not cancelling the stage where Quintana took the pink jersey from Uran, races with gravel sections, races with steep climbs, races not sticking to the extreme weather protocol, and strandjanetten."