168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Jakobsen has all but confirmed his departure from 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Soudal-QuickStep for the 2024 season, with a move to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:DSM-Firmenich highly likely but as-yet unconfirmed.
The Dutch sprinter is on the way out after six years at the Belgian squad as the team continues to build around 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel for an expected 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France debut next summer.
following stage 9 of the Tour on Sunday night, Jakobsen said he had spoken with team boss Patrick Lefevere during the race, confirming that he'll be switching teams once the pro cycling transfer window opens on August 1.
"I talked to Patrick on the Tour in the bus. At the end of the conversation, we had a hug. But unfortunate✱ly, I can't stay – I have to look for another team," Jakobsen said.
"[The search] is onဣgoing and it looks good. I've been a family member of the team for six years. Soudal-QuickStep is in my heart and so is Patrick. I want to finish the job here and on August 1 it will be k🍌nown.
"It was already coming but I hadn't seen Patrick since the spring. As boss of the team he also has to take stock of the situation and I can ꧒also discuss with him. We didn't want to part with a fight."
Jakobsen is currently battling on at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour after crashing hard in the final on stage 4 to Nogaro. The European champion won a stage last year and finished fourth in Bayonne on stage 3 thܫis time ཧaround. He'll have more chances on stages 11, 18, 19, and 21, should he recover from his heavy road rash and abrasions.
But with Soudal-QuickStep looking to build a team focussed on world champion Evenepoel next July, there's unlikely to be any places on the squad for their fabled lead-out train. Fellow sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tim Merlier is contracted through the end of 2025 and could eithe𒅌r feature as a sole, 'freelancing' sp𒁃rinter without a train or instead focus on the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.
"Tim Merlier is here for three years, so if I stayed 💛another two years I would have to share with Remco and with another top sprinter," Jakobse🐭n said. "I want to go to the Tour and sprint, which won't happen in the next few years at Soudal-QuickStep."
DSM-Firmenich are the likely landing spot for �⛄�Jakobsen, with the newly rebranded team looking for a proven top sprinter to lead them next season.
A move for the 26-y🐽ear-old is set to come with a clear-out at the Dutch squad and with it start a mini merry-go-round of sprinters.
Italian sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Dainese, who has won two stages of the Giro in the past two years, has been linked with a switch to Tudor Pro Cycling, while second-year pro 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sam Welsford, currently racing the Tour, could move to Bora-Hansgrohe. Sam Bennett could also be on the way out at the German squad with his contract expiring🌃 this year.
German 22-year-old Marius Mayrhofer, who won🦩 the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, could also leave dsm. Elsewhere, 21-year-old Olav Kooij had been linked with Bora-Hansgrohe, among others, but extended 👍his contract at Jumbo-Visma last month.
Since rider transfers can't be officially announced until August 1, Jakobsen could🦋n't confirm his move to DSM-Firmenich, instead calling the decision on his future "something for after the Tour".
"It's ♏a nice Dutch/Swiss team," he said. "But that's something for after the Tour. 🐭First to perform with my second family here in the Tour."
