168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Soudal-QuickStep boss Patrick Lefevere is reportedly trying to 'save' Soudal-QuickStep by keeping the team running under its current WorldTour licence following any partial takeover or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:merger with Jumbo-Visma.

The plans to merge the two teams together, with the new squad set to run under sponsorship b🍬y Soudal and Visma, emerged 10 days ago and clarity on the outcome of such a move h๊as been in short supply since.

Latest reports indicate just six riders – including 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel – plus 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:title sponsor Soudal, and possibly bike supplier Specialized, could join theꦚ Du💧tch squad. 

Primož Roglič will leave and is expected to join Bora-Hansgrohe, while Jonas Vingegaard and Wout Van Aert would remain as team leaders. Evenepoel has so far stayed tight-lipped about his own future. He has been approached by the Jumbo-Visma management but has been linked to Ineos Grenadiers. However if Lefevere can keep the current team alive, then Evenepoel is under contract and would have to stay or buy himself out of the contract. 

Around 50 rﷺiders are und🏅er contract for 2024 with the two teams, as well as many more staff members, sparking questions and concerns about their future. This is where Lefevere could become their savour.

A report by on Wednesday indicated that Lefevere is seeking to save the riders and staff left behind by keeping a team running under the QuickStep WorldTour licence. However he need to secure the sponsorship, hire 27 riders and complete🎃 the plan before the UCI's mid-October deadline for team registrations.

Het Laatste Nieuws reports that the project – a "remnant team" in their words, which aims to keep running for "a few more years" – is a "w🌱ork in progress", though numerous questions hang over the idea.

Excluding Evenepoel, a total of 23 riders – including double world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Julian Alaphilippe, Classics stars Yves Lampaert and Kasper Asgreen, climbers Mikel Landa and Ilan Van Wilder, and sprinter 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tim Merlier are all under contract with the team for 2024, as are numerou🅘s loyal staff members. 

Sponsors including QuickStep, Renson, Latexco, and Safety Jogger could be ꧟left out of any takeover/merger with Jumbo-Visma and so perhaps fund the team. However the team would have to prove to the UCI that it has the funding and the s♏porting talent to  desire a place in the WorldTour, via the UCI's sporting and financial criteria. 

Riders and staff currently at the team have yet to be informed of Lefevere's plan, Het Laatste Nieuws says.

Soudal-QuickStep recently ജ168澳洲5最新开奖结果:cancelled next week's team-building g🌼et-together amid the ongoing uncertainty and anger about the potential merger. Following his win at Tre Valli Varesine, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Van Wilder spoke passionately about the future of the squad.

"This victory is for our staff and my teammates, to show we don't agree with all this shit, and we want to continue Soudal-QuickStep," he said after soloing to victory in Varese. "We are stro🉐ng enough and I hope it will be like this🦩."

Regardless, the clock is ticking on Lefeve🧸re's action plan to save the Belgian team. 

Should any plan to save the team and the licence not come to fruition by October 19, then all r𒊎iders and staff will be released fro🅘m their contracts at what is a late stage of the 'transfer window' for 2024.

If the team doesn't continue next season, then the WorldTour is set to continue with just 17 teams after the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI released a statement declar🌃ing that licences can be "re-evaluated at any time" and that "if the contin🔜uity of one of the teams could not be guaranteed for the 2024 season, the number of UCI WorldTeams would be 17 for the 2024 and 2025 seasons."

The statement effectively shut the door on ProTeams such as Uno-X or Israel-Premier Tech being awarded a WorldTour place. They would have to buy the Soudal- QuickStep team snd integrate its own🐟 current riders and staff into it to secure World𒆙Tour for the next two seasons.