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That's pretty funny.Is Richard Plugge vying for the title of most hated team owner within the peloton?
"His facial expression was priceless" - Richard Plugge recalls telling Patrick Lefevere of Jumbo-Visma's plans to take Roglic & Vingegaard to the Vuelta
For the Jumbo-Visma team, the possibility of claiming a histcyclinguptodate.com
I don't know what that amount is based on, but you have to keep in mind that this is the Wielerflits podcast, which struggles to find any listeners and needs every kind of clickbait to gain attention. They say that Jumbo really can't use a doping case right now because of their sponsor search. No sh.t, Sherlock."And so Plugge has to find another way to fill the budget, which is estimated at around 60 million euros."
'Jumbo-Visma kan een dopingzaak op dit moment echt niet gebruiken'
Podcast Een dopingzaak komt altijd ongelegen, maar voor Jumbo-Visma komt de positieve test van Michel Hessmann op een vochtafdrijvend middel op een heel ongelukkig moment. Zeker omdat ploegbaas Richard Plugge druk op zoek is naar een grote, nieuwe internationale hoofdsponsor. De zaak van...www.wielerflits.nl
Either way their budget is probably higher than €25 million that is always quoted.
No reason to assume that. If the main sponsor contributes 10 million, 25 million in total seems about right. I can't be bothered to listen to this podcast but I suppose it's an amount over multiple years... or a typo.
I don't think it's much higher, no. Otherwise they wouldn't have to get these questionable sponsors on board like Gorillas, Betcity, and some crypto company I can't remember the name of. To me that reeks of desperation, not of having a huge budget.
Well, then another example for you: if you have so much money to spend, why do only a few riders on your team get the fancy tailor made TT bars, and the others just get the standard ones? Money is the only possible explanation, because they're quite expensive.
Of course they want more money. But there's no need to strike a deal with a nearly defunct home delivery company which can't follow up on the deal, if you aren't desperate.
Regardless, it's still a little bit sad to be reminded what a dinky sport (outside of the Tour) cycling really is. Let's be generous and say Jumbo was operating with $40 million a year; that's about enough to buy the ink for all the zeroes on some footballer transfers, and Max Verstappen alone is reportedly on $55 million USD salary this year. Crazy.
It is, and other other than the Gulf states there are not many really big corporations investing in cycling.
They also support a third division team, but it would of course be quite hard for them to ever reach WT level with only diabetic riders.
I don't think there's been a GT in history that team couldn't win. Anything less than an easy win would be a disaster. Only way to beat them, outside of Remco going ham, is for other teams to collaborate - and we know how well that works...Ouch!
Doesn't need to be easy, but if you bring Roglic and Vingegaard to a Grand Tour and Pogacar isn't even there, you're not gonna go home happy without the win.
I can think of three reasons for Jonas riding the Vuelta: 1. Jumbo wants to win all three grand tours in the same calendar year. I don't think any team has done this before. Having their top GC men in the Vuelta significantly improves the odds. 2. Jumbo wants to win the UCI team ranking at the end of the year (UAE is currently in first place). 3. Jonas may want to win three consecutive grand tours, TDF, Vuelta, then Giro. If Jonas does this, Jumbo might then make Primoz the leader for next year's Tour. This third reason is total wild-ass speculation on my part.
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