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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo manager Luca Guercilena has confirmed that his team has ended its attempt to sign 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vincenzo Nibali, whose contract with Astana expires at the end of this season.

Nibali has been linked in recent weeks with a move to a potential new Bahra꧃iniꦚ-sponsored team in 2017, and speaking to Cyclingnews and Gazzetta dello Sport in Bruges on Friday evening, Guercilena said that he believ♉ed this project was now the Sicilian's most likely destination.

"To me it seems quite clear that he has chosen the Bahrain project, from what's being said arouꦕnd. We made our offer and we were told that he has made other choices, so we'll move on other fronts," Guercilena said.

The arrival of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Segafredo as co-sponsor at the beginning of this season - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:another new sponsor, CA Technologies, was announced on Friday evening - seemed to strengthen the likelihood of Nibali signing for Trek, and in January, Guercilena conf♚i🐭rmed his team's interest in signing the 2014 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France winner.

In an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport earlier this month, however, Nibali appeared to pour cold water on the prospect o꧂f moving to Trek-Segafredo, saying: "I don't know how much interes൩t they really have in me."

Nibali has already stated that he would look to bring a group of riders, as well as trainer 𝄹Paolo Slongo and soigneur Michele Pallini, with him from Astana to any new team.

"We had a clear deadline and once that time passed, we moved in other directions," Guercilena said on Friday. "It's clear tha⛄t an athlete of his level was interesting to us, and with Segafredo joining Trek as a sponsor, we could have created something interesting, b⛄oth in Italy and internationally.

"Trek had already offered him a chance to ride last season whe𓆏n it looked as though Astana might lose their WorldTour licence. We showed our interest ♏in Nibali then, we've shown it again this year. We made our offer with a clear deadline and the response didn't come, so we're moving in other directions."

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Trek-Segafredo's interest in Nibali was inspired in no small part by the desire to replace 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabian Cancellara, who retires at the end of 2016, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:with a star name of similar status. Guercilena said that the team was still looking to bring in a high calibre rider for 2017, and the pursuit of Nibali was proof that the team is not necessarily seeking a like-for-like replacement for Cancellara.