Belgium's troubled former star Frank Vandenbroucke could be making his return to the professional peloton with the new Cinelli-Endeka squad where his friend Nico Mattan is directeur s🎐portif. The pair met Friday with the team leadership, and could be close to inking a deal.

"We will know more on Monday," Vandenbroucke said, according to Belga. VDB, as he is known, was signed to the Mitsꦅubishi-Jartazi team for the 2008 season, but was from his contract after being nam𒁏ed as a of a Belgian drug gang. That charge wasn't the only difficulty of the season as one month previous, the UCI made the team's wild card status contingent on Vandenbroucke any ProTour events.

After going through eight teams in as many years, two drugs busts, a published and an suicide, VDB said that he is serious about making his comeback. "I am currently doing every✨thing to be a racer💫 again."