when yesterday, a platoon name professional cyclist It monopolizes all the spotlights, fills media pages and also social networks. Now, everyone is talking about him after a controversial issue which was discovered recently.
The main person in this story is Maxim Van Gils. According to Belgian media Het Laatste Nieuws, the still running of Lotto Dstny He will consider terminating his contract that was renewed in March until 2026 and thus leaving the team. The motivation for his forced migration was due to economic reasons.
The structure, category UCI ProTeam (one below the WorldTour), Dstny will be gone as a sponsor next season. According to the economic newspaper flamenco From Tijd, the technology company, in addition which appears in the team name, is responsible for approx third of your total budget. Lotto has yet to find a way to replace it and, therefore, will be left without a large portion of the income.
And this is where Van Gils comes in, the rider born in Brasschaat is one of those more UCI points added for the team, with a total of three wins to his name this season. His good performance, especially in the classics and one-day races, he did the market value increased. On the issue of loss of sponsorship and, therefore, money on Lotto’s part, this I will not have the ability to raise his salary in Belgium.
So, it will be Van Gils looking for a way out of the group where he is from 2021 (not counting the three years he spent in his subsidiary) to go to a team that willing to pay more. At the moment there is nothing official and, in fact, Lotto and the Belgian representation company issued a statement explaining that both parties are “conversing” with the goal of “deciding their (Van Gils) future together.”
The rest of the squads already echoed the situation and they started to be interested down the corridor. So far, the Belgian suitors of note are the Astana Qazaqstan Team, the INEOS Grenadiers and the UAE Team Emirates. On guard is also the Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe which, at the moment, is the strongest sound to be the next destination of Van Gils, according to Sporza.
He Movistar team the case would also have been pending, but, as he explained comfort, when contacting the telephone group They quietly denied their interest by Van Gils. In this way, we have to wait to see how this case will be resolved, which, of course, will be one of the most interesting in the international cycling scene.
Source: La Verdad
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