UAE-Team Emirates thread

[YavorD]

With Narvaez and Sivakov out, these renews are important for UAE.
There are also important riders on the market.
Gall, Buitrago, Van Eetvelt, etc.

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I don't think any of them would want to join UAE.
Limited chances in any race.

 

[Peter von]

I don't think any of them would want to join UAE.
Limited chances in any race.

yeah, but tbh we've been surprised in the past.

Some riders think so highly of themselves they reckon they can take Almeida/Del Torros spot as the 2nd GT rider and some riders just reckon they can take a year or two as a dom and make some bank and then return to a second tier team to ride for own chances.

 

[TheKidsCallMeBoss]

The UAE always gives all its riders a chance to win something throughout the season. It's only when Pogacar is racing that there's a clear leader.

The names mentioned above don't really make sense from the UAE's perspective. Ramírez is 100% guaranteed a promotion to the WT team next year. If I were the UAE boss, I’d be looking for riders like Denz or Affini & Frigo or De Plus.

 

[Rou]

18 victories so far this season while last year at this time they were at 25.
Non existent in Paris-Nice and Catalunya and it's very likely it will be the same in Basque Country.
I don't see them reaching 70 wins this year.

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

18 victories so far this season while last year at this time they were at 25.
Non existent in Paris-Nice and Catalunya and it's very likely it will be the same in Basque Country.
I don't see them reaching 70 wins this year.

And two of them are the Mexican national races that dind´t exist in 2025.

UAE's peak has passed; now it seems Decathlon's is coming, and BORA appears stronger as a team but without a stronger elader than UAE's.

Visma at its peak won Grand Tours, Omloop with his Tratnik, their seventh rider? A time trial world champioship with their fifht time trialist? UAE has won the Tour de Romandie and the Calisca de Jaen, Trofeo Matteoti. Overrated victories.

 

[Rob5091]

The Saudis are apparently pulling the plug on various sport sponsorship, and now the UAE is asking for financial help from the USA.
Pogi might have to pawn his watch!

 

[Unchained]

And two of them are the Mexican national races that dind´t exist in 2025.

UAE's peak has passed; now it seems Decathlon's is coming, and BORA appears stronger as a team but without a stronger elader than UAE's.

Visma at its peak won Grand Tours, Omloop with his Tratnik, their seventh rider? A time trial world champioship with their fifht time trialist? UAE has won the Tour de Romandie and the Calisca de Jaen, Trofeo Matteoti. Overrated victories.

Mexican races in 2026 that are new and UCI sanctioned.. Do tell...?

 

[Wyndbrook]

The Saudis are apparently pulling the plug on various sport sponsorship, and now the UAE is asking for financial help from the USA.
Pogi might have to pawn his watch!

Might be one he borrowed from Cav.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

The Saudis are apparently pulling the plug on various sport sponsorship, and now the UAE is asking for financial help from the USA.
Pogi might have to pawn his watch!

He might get lucky, Cycling in comparison is cheap, and the UAE still need their tourism.

 

[the asian]

He might get lucky, Cycling in comparison is cheap, and the UAE still need their tourism.

UAE certainly is in deep financial trouble. if they stop their reckless spending, and fall back with their budget , then it would be a big win for cycling. Don't want them to have every promising rider lining up for them.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

UAE certainly is in deep financial trouble. if they stop their reckless spending, and fall back with their budget , then it would be a big win for cycling. Don't want them to have very promising rider lining up for them.

True. Yet I don't know if spending in cycling is 'reckless' when you need advertising and PR. You can still run a very good cycling team on the salary of a few very good footballers. So when you cut your sports spending, maybe cycling isn't on the top of the list.
But it would certainly be good if the UAE super-super team thing would stop and all the talent spread out to more teams.

 

[YavorD]

UAE certainly is in deep financial trouble. if they stop their reckless spending, and fall back with their budget , then it would be a big win for cycling. Don't want them to have every promising rider lining up for them.

Don't think so. Another team will take over and do the very same thing. Cycling would be in the same spot, just the colors would be different.

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

True. Yet I don't know if spending in cycling is 'reckless' when you need advertising and PR. You can still run a very good cycling team on the salary of a few very good footballers. So when you cut your sports spending, maybe cycling isn't on the top of the list.
But it would certainly be good if the UAE super-super team thing would stop and all the talent spread out to more teams.

They would go to RED BULL BORA, which is already happening with Roglic, Lipowitz, Remco, Pellizzari, Finn.... Do you think they would go to Lotto? In fact, it's already being said that De Lie, supposedly Lotto's best rider, is going to BORA in 2027.
That's the opposite of spreading talent.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

They would go to RED BULL BORA, which is already happening with Roglic, Lipowitz, Remco, Pellizzari, Finn.... Do you think they would go to Lotto? In fact, it's already being said that De Lie, supposedly Lotto's best rider, is going to BORA in 2027.
That's the opposite of spreading talent.

Sure, they'd go to other big teams for sure. But it's not a given that all of them would go to the same teams, and some might stay at UAE or what would become of it. I was talking about spreading out to more teams, not spreading out to small teams.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Mexican races in 2026 that are new and UCI sanctioned.. Do tell...?

I presume he means the National championships (RR and TT) which are technically in the 2026 season, as they took place after the UCI's cut off date. The previous events were in 2024 before the cut off date.

However, at the date he wrote, UAE had 18 wins in the calendar year 2026 (ie, excluding the Mexican championship events).