(procycling.no): on Wednesday, it was clear that the Cloud cuts out sykkelsponsingen in 2020, but not all think storlaget standing on the bare ground after the disheartening news.
Sykkelagent Johnny Carera is among those who point to the fact that the team’s biggest profiles all sitting with long term contracts.
In October, the signers of this year’s Tour de France-the comet, Egan Bernal, a new five-year contract with Team Sky.
In addition, sitting Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome on appointments, out to 2021 and 2020. Sykkelagent Carera mean there are obvious signs that the unit around the Dave Brailsford of Team Sky have plans to drive the cycling team for a long time to come.
– I think Dave Brailsford has something up its sleeve based on that he has signed riders for both 2020 and 2021. I don’t think he just did it without further ado. I think he has another option, a sponsor in your pocket. If not you will have to honor the contracts. Therefore, I think some have an idea and a plan, ” says Carera in an interview with Cycling Weekly.
Brailsford: – Surprised? Not really
In the year – as last year – was it ’business as usual’ as Team Sky arrived at the training camp on Mallorca, only to receive gravalvorlige news to the dinner the evening before.
Dave Brailsford asked among other things to the live interview with Sky News. There was generally little dramatics to the track, which again indicates that the world gigantprosjekt don’t intend to sit quiet in the boat when the Sky ship drops the further out in the 2019 season.
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Brailsford should have received the news during a meeting with the Sky in London for a couple of weeks back. It was after that the cable company Comcast had paid 30 million pounds to secure the majority shareholding in the company. And based on the impression the interview with the BBC leaves, not the news have come as no surprise.
– Let’s face the realities with the Sky, the surroundings and everything else. Got this as a surprise? Not really, ” said Brailsford of the british allmennkringkasteren.
BMC Racing experienced turmoil in the ranks
the Idyll around the Team Sky sesongforberedelser despite. The light has already begun to burn.
This season ended up the BMC Racing in a similar situation after sykkelprodusenten announced that sponsoratet would cease in 2019 – 12 years after its inception in 2007.
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Teamsjef Jim Ochowicz did his best to keep the riders quiet, but when spring erupted in full bloom and the american had not yet secured the financing for the upcoming season, so he ended up losing Dylan Teuns, Stefan Küng, Rohan Dennis and Richie Porte to the competition.
– If the Cloud has an agreement 2019, does not give the team a one-year notice. In reality, they have months to find a new sponsorat, because the team can’t start the fall without funding for the following year. When the BMC announced that they pulled out, we came all the way to July before they found the substitute via the CCC. At that point, had many of the riders left the betting already. It is a little different for Sky, because the BMC-riders known enough to have been on one-year contracts, which meant that they had to find themselves new places, but it turns out that the riders on the outgoing contracts is not willing to wait too long on good news about the future development in this area, wrote sykkelbloggeren The Inner Ring in a post, on Wednesday.
Froome: “We stick together,
Team Sky is of course the top of the famous icing, with Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas, Michal Kwiatkowski and Egan Bernal on lønningslista.
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It is of course exciting to see how loyal Sky riders are faced with the project after Wednesday’s disheartening sponsor-new:
– I can’t predict the future, but I can tell you that this is a very unique team. We are planning that we should still stay together even in 2020, if there are opportunities for it, ” said Froome to the Daily Mirror.
After having signed contract extension last year, will Froome have passed 35 when his contract with Team Sky runs out in 2020.
Louie: – No crisis
This fall do not have the british gone banans on the market, but it needed they might rather not to do after they wrote contracts with Bernal, Pavel Sivakov, Chris Lawless and Kristoffer Halvorsen year in advance.
– I think already there are some who have shown interest and in my experience not really this as a major crisis, ” said Halvorsen to procycling.no, Wednesday.
Nevertheless, Filippo Ganna, Eddie Dunbar, Ben Swift and Jhonatan Narvaez picked up by the betting who still has one year left of the ten-year sponsoratet with the Sky.
– There have been nine amazing years so far and we want to end with a bang and to make 2019 to the last and the best year of them all. We have faith that Dave and the rest of the support system will continue and that the team also kept together, ” says Geraint Thomas to the BBC.
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