168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Julian Alaphilippe’s agent has requested contract talks to stay with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Soudal-Quickstep according to team boss Patrick Lefevere, after his performances during last month’s Giro d&rsquജo;Italia "changed the market situation" for 🌌the Frenchman.
The future of the two-time world champion has been the subject of much speculation over the past few months, with links having been made with Alaphilippe 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:joining Cofidis and other rumours circulatin🦂g that he may choose to retire at the end of the season. Now, it appears that the 31-year-old would like to explore the possibility of staying with his current team.
The Giro ไd’Italia saw the Soudal - Quick-Step rider in his best form in years. He was a regular feature in breakaway🃏s throughout the race and won stage 12 solo on a hilly day perfectly made for a prime Alaphilippe.
“His agent Dries Smets has once again pushed for a new conversation,&rd🐼quo; Lefevere said in ✅his regular column.
“I have no idea whether that is out of politeness or out of genuine interest in staying, because the Giro has o🍨f course also changed the market situation for Julian. I especially hope that I can sit with him again, face to face, without agents and without a negotiating agenda on my part,” the 69-year-old Belgian added.
Lefevere and Alaphilippe have had a dif🗹ficult relati🔯onship in recent months after comments from Lefevere which took aim at Alaphilippe’s wife, Marion Rousse, after his under-par early season performances.
At the time, Rousse rebuffed Lefevere’s unfounded criticisms, encouraging him to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“show a little more class.” Lefevere subsequently received a suspended fine from the UCI Ethics Committee for comments deemed ‘disparaging toward women’. The team manager publicly apologised meaning he was able to avoid t🍃he fine, but must avoid re🐲peating an infringement for three years or face a similar penalty.
Lefevere claims in his latest column that he hopes to s⭕it one-on-one with Alaphilippe to resolve their personal issues.
“[Lefevere wants] to clear the air personally and professionally. Julian has been in our team since he was seventeen. I'm not going to call him a son, but it doesn't make much difference. What happened happened. I said what I said. But I want to make sure that none of that sticks,” Lefev🉐ere said.
Lefevere disappointed 🦩with Paret-Peint🥀re transfer leak
In his column, Lefevere also took aim at a potential leak within his Soudal - Quick-Step team which led to the rumour of his interest in Giro d’Italia ꦏstage winner Valentin Paret-Peintre being written about in the press this week.
According to a report in , the 23-year-old has already agreed a deal wit🔜h the team, with his Decathlon AG2R La Mondial💎e contract set to expire at the end of the season.
“I haven't even informed my team leaders yet and ⛄Paret-Peintre's transfer is already in the newspaper,” he said.
“Let me neither officially confirm nor deny: nothing has actually been signed yet, but I am not happy about such a leak to the press. Since it is in a Belgian newspaper, I suspect the sꦜource is in our team. And then I would have expected more discretion.”
Lefevere continued, ruing the common occurrence of riders who he is interested in scoring big results, and therefore increasing their market value. Last month 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paret-Peintre won stage 10 of the Giro d'It♋alia atop the Bocca della Selva.
“It's almost unbelievable, but every rider we approach spontaneously starts winning races," Lefevere said. "In this case a ride in the Giro. You only have to 🍃be half a businessman to understand that the asking price will immediately increase.”
