(Jonathan Milan Photo Credit: @giroditalia). For trainees see “Cycling Transfers and Rumours for 2023 season”
18 September
Dsm-Firmenich has announced two confirmations in its roster for next season. The Dutch WorldTour team has in fact extended the contracts, which would have expired at the end of 2023, of Dutchman Tim Naberman and Australian Alex Edmondson. The latter, 29, is one of the team’s most experienced riders: for him, an extension has arrived until the end of the 2025 season. The same terms also apply to 24-year-old Naberman, who is looking for his first major results in a pro’ career that began in 2022. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team DSM-Firmenich – IN Warren Barguil (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal-Quick Step), Gijs Leemreize (Jumbo-Visma), Timo Roosen (Jumbo-Visma), Bram Welten (Groupama); OUT Alberto Dainese (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Jonas Iversby Hvideberg (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team), Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Pro Cycling), Marius Mayrhofer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Florian Stork (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), Henri Vandenabeele (Lotto Dstny), Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Dstny), Sam Welsford (Bora-hansgrohe); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Leon Heinschke, Frederik Rodenberg Madsen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Tobias Lund Andresen (25), Romain Bardet (24), Warren Barguil (26), Patrick Bevin (25), Pavel Bittner (24), Marco Brenner (24), Romain Combaud (24), John Degenkolb (24), Matthew Dinham (25), Alex Edmondson (25), Nils Eekhoff (24), Sean Flynn (24), Chris Hamilton (25), Fabio Jakobsen (26), Gijs Leemreize (25), Niklas Markl (24), Lorenzo Milesi (25), Tim Naberman (25), Oscar Onley (27), Max Poole (27), Timo Roosen (26), Martijn Tusveld (24), Casper van Uden (24), Kevin Vermaerke (25), Bram Welten (24). Total 25
A contract renewal at Eolo-Kometa, which will still have Spaniard Alex Martín in its ranks. The 23-year-old climber thus continues his path in a reality that has seen him in action since 2019, when he joined the development team. The new contract will expire at the end of the 2025 season. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Eolo-Kometa – IN Paul Double (Human Powered Health), Francisco Muñoz (EOLO-Kometa U23), Jhonatan Restrepo (GW Shimano); OUT Vincenzo Albanese(Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Lorenzo Fortunato (Astana), Francesco Gavazzi (Retired), Simone Raccani (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Matteo Fabbro (Eolo-Kometa), German Dario Gomez (GW Shimano); OUT Davide Piganzoli (Astana); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Simone Bevilacqua, Alessandro Fancellu, Andrea Garosio, Giovanni Lonardi, David Martín, Samuele Rivi; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Davide Bais (25), Mattia Bais (25), Paul Double (24), Erik Fetter (24), Mirco Maestri (25), Álex Martín (25), Francisco Muñoz (25), Andrea Pietrobon (24), Davide Piganzoli (24), Jhonatan Restrepo (24), Javier Serrano (24), Diego Pablo Sevilla (24), Fernando Tercero (24). Total 13
According to GCN journalist Daniel Benson, David De La Cruz does not yet have a contract for next season. For the Spanish climber, who is expected to leave Astana Qazaqstan, one of the options on the table could be Lidl-Trek.
Niccolò Bonifazio will switch to Corratec-Selle Italia from 1 January 2024. The Italian professional team has in fact announced the signing of the Ligurian rider born in 1993, offering him a one-year contract. Bonifazio thus leaves Intermarché-Circus-Wanty after just one season, in which he achieved one victory, the second stage of the Giro di Sicilia 2023, and some good placings. Twenty-one, on the other hand, were the successes obtained by the Italian sprinter in ten seasons as a professional, with five Grand Tours disputed and 14 Monumental Classics, including ‘his’ Milan-Sanremo, where he managed to take fifth place in 2015. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Team Corratec-Selle Italia – IN: Niccolò Bonifazio (Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux), Andrii Ponomar (Arkéa); OUT ; RUMOURED – IN: ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Matteo Amella, Davide Baldaccini, Antonio Barać, Nicolas Dalla Valle, Stefano Gandin, Alessandro Iacchi, Alexander Konychev, Giulio Masotto, Marco Murgano, Simone Olivero, Charlie Quarterman, Jan Stöckli, Velijko Stojnic, Nicolas Tivani, Karel Vacek, Etienne Van Empel, Attilio Viviani; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Niccolò Bonifazio (24), Valerio Conti (24), Andrii Ponomar (24), Lorenzo Quartucci (24), Samuele Zambelli (24). Total 5
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux – IN Vito Braet (Team Flanders-Baloise), Francesco Busatto (Circus-ReUz-Technord), Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (Circus-ReUz-Technord); OUT Sven Erik Bystrom (Groupama-FDJ), Niccolò Bonifazio (Corratec-Selle Italia), Laurens Huys (Arkea-B&B Hotels); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT: ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Rui Costa, Aimé De Gendt, Julius Johansen, Louis Meintjes, Loic Vliegen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Vito Braet (25), Francesco Busatto (25), Lilian Calmejane (24), Dries De Pooter (24), Biniam Girmay Hailu (26), Kobe Goossens (25), Rune Herregodts (24), Arne Marit (24), Madis Mihkels (24), Hugo Page (25), Tom Paquot (24), Simone Petilli (25), Adrien Petit (25), Baptiste Planckaert (24), Laurenz Rex (27), Lorenzo Rota (24), Dion Smith (24), Rein Taaramae (24), Mike Teunissen (24), Gerbe Thijssens (25), Taco Van Der Hoorn (24), Boy Van Poppel (24), Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (25), Georg Zimmermann (24). Total 24
17 September
Contract renewal for 29-year-old British climber Hugh Carthy who will ride for one more year with the American WTT EF Education-EasyPost. Situation WT team by team (in progress): EF Education – EasyPost – IN Darren Rafferty (HagensBermanAxeon), Jack Rootkin-Gray (Saint Piran), Archie Ryan (Jumbo-Visma Development Team), Michael Valgren (EF Education-NIPPO Development Team), Jardi Christiaan van der Lee (Willebrord Wil Vooruit); OUT Magnus Cort (Uno-X Pro Cycling); RUMOURED: IN Markel Beloki (MMR Cycling Academy), Matteo Fabbro (Bora–hansgrohe), Emil Schandorff Iwersen (Gallina Ecotek Lucchini Colosio), Harry Sweeny (Lotto Dstny); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Andrey Amador, Jonathan Caicedo, Diego Camargo, Owain Doull, Odd Christian Eiking, Jens Keukeleire, Merhawi Kudus, Sean Quinn, Tom Scully, James Shaw, Georg Steinhauser, Julius van den Berg, Marijn Van Den Berg, Łukasz Wiśniowski; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Alberto Bettiol (24), Stefan Bissegger (24), Richard Carapaz (25), Simon Carr (24), Hugh Carthy (24), Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (24), Esteban Chaves (24), Stefan de Bod (24), Ben Healy (25), Mikkel Honoré (24), Mark Padun (24), Andrea Piccolo (24), Neilson Powless (24), Darren Rafferty (25), Jack Rootkin-Gray (25), Archie Ryan (25), Jonas Rutsch (24), Rigoberto Uran (24), Michael Valgren (24), Jardi Christiaan van der Lee (25). Total 20
28 ne Belgian Edward Planckaert extended his contract with Alpecin-Deceuninck for the next two years. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Alpecin-Deceuninck – IN Timo Kielich (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development), Axel Laurance (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development); OUT Alexander Krieger (Tudor Pro Cycling), Stefano Oldani (Cofidis), Lionel Taminiaux (Lotto Dstny), Henri Uhlig (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development); RUMOURED: IN Simon Dehairs (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development); OUT Dries De Bondt (Ag2r Citroen); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Tobias Bayer, Nicola Conci, Dries De Bondt, Silvan Dillier, Michael Gogl, Jimmy Janssens, Senne Leysen, Jakub Mareczko, Oscar Riesebeek, Kristian Sbaragli, Robert Stannard, Fabio Van Den Bossche; Current 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Maurice Ballerstedt (24), Samuel Gaze (24), Robbe Ghys (25), Kaden Groves (24), Quinten Hermans (25), Timo Kielich (25), Soren Kragh Andersen (24), Axel Laurance (24), Xandro Meurisse (25), Jasper Philipsen (24), Edward Planckaert (25), Jensen Plowright (25), Jonas Rickaert (25), Ramon Sinkeldam (24), Henri Uhlig (25), Mathieu Van Der Poel (25), Gianni Vermeersch (25). Total 17
15 September
Three new additions for Dsm-Firmenich next season. The Dutch WorldTour team made official the signings of three riders from the Netherlands, namely Gijs Leemreize, Timo Roosen and Bram Welten. Leemreize is 23 years old, but is already facing his third season as a pro rider, all spent in the Jumbo-Visma jersey. The same is true for Roosen, who is 30 years old but has basically worn the colours of Jumbo (in its various denominations) since the 2013 season. Welten on the other hand is 26 years old and, at the end of 2023, will end the experience that has seen him in the saddle with Groupama-FDJ since the beginning of 2022. Leemreize will be placed in what the team calls a ‘general classification group’ after signing a two-year contract. Roosen, armoured until 2026, will be an integral part of the classics group. Welten, who has signed a one-year contract, will have a clearly defined role here and will be responsible for leading the sprint for Fabio Jakobsen.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team Jumbo – Visma – IN Per Strand Hagenes (Jumbo-Visma Development Team), Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar Team), Johannes Staune-Mittet (Jumbo-Visma Development Team), Ben Tulett (Ineos Grenadiers), Loe Van Belle (Jumbo-Visma Development Team); OUT Rohan Dennis (Retired), Gijs Leemreize (DSM-Firmenich), Sam Oomen (Lidl-Trek), Timo Roosen (DSM-Firmenich), Jos Van Emden (Retired); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Tobias Foss (Bahrain-Victorious, INEOS Grenadiers, Israel Premier-Tech, UAE Team Emirates); END OF CONTRACT 2023 – Tobias Foss; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Edoardo Affini (26), Tiesj Benoot (25), Koen Bouwman (24), Robert Gesink (24), Thomas Gloag (25), Per Strand Hagenes (26), Michel Hessmann (24), Lennard Hofstede (24), Matteo Jorgenson (26), Wilco Kelderman (25), Olav Kooij (25), Steven Kruijswijk (25), Sepp Kuss (24), Christophe Laporte (26), Primoz Roglic (25), Johannes Staune-Mittet (26), Jan Tratnik (24), Ben Tulett (25), Milan Vader (24), Attila Valter (25), Wout Van Aert (26), Dylan Van Baarle (25), Loe Van Belle (26), Tosh Van Der Sande (25), Mick Van Dijke (24), Tim Van Dijke (24), Nathan Van Hooydonck (24), Jonas Vingegaard (24). Total 28
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Groupama – FDJ – IN Sven Erik Bystrøm (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Eddy Le Huitouze (Equipe Continentale Groupama-FDJ), Rémy Rochas (Cofidis), Clément Russo (Arkea- B&B Hotels); OUT Arnaud Démare (Arkea – B&B Hotels), Mathieu Ladagnous (Retired), Thibaut Pinot (Retired), Miles Scotson (Arkea – B&B Hotels), Jake Stewart (Israel-Premier Tech), Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling Team), , Bram Welten (DMS-Firmenich); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Bruno Armirail (Ag2r Citroën), Valentin Madouas (?); END OF CONTRACT 2023: ; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Bruno Armirail (24), Lewis Askey (25), Sven Erik Bystrøm (25), Clément Davy (25), David Gaudu (25), Kevin Geniets (24), Lorenzo Germani (24), Romain Grégoire (24), Stefan Kung (25), Olivier Le Gac (24), Eddy Le Huitouze (25), Fabian Lienhard (24), Ignatas Konovalovas (24), Valentin Madouas (24), Lenny Martinez (24), Rudy Molard (24), Quentin Pacher (25), Enzo Paleni (24), Paul Penhoët (24), Laurence Pithie (24), Rémy Rochas (25), Clément Russo (25), Reuben Thompson (24), Lars van den Berg (24), Sam Watson (24). Total 25
2019 Tour of Flanders winner Alberto Bettiol continues his association with EF Education – EasyPost. The 29-year-old continues his ten-year relationship with the US formation, having turned pro in 2014 with the then Cannondale team, which the following year joined forces with Garmin to form the current team. A choice of continuity for the Tuscan rider. who signed for one year.
Davide Ballerini returns with Astana Qazaqstan after four years with Soudal – QuickStep. The 28-year-old, winner of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2021, finds in the Kazakhstan formation, where he raced in 2019, a team dedicated more to fast men and the classics, which are clearly his big career objectives. He could also be an invaluable element in stage races to support the team sprinters having a few opportunities. In the Northern Classics he will be one of the team leaders. This year, Ballerini, who has 10 victories in his palmaries, was sixth in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and seventh in Dwars door Vlaanderen. He signed for one season. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Astana Qazaqstan Team – IN Davide Ballerini (Soudal-QuickStep), Anthon Charmig (Uno-X Pro), Lorenzo Fortunato (Eolo Kometa), Max Kanter (Movistar), Harold Martín López (Astana Qazaqstan Development Team), Henok Mulubrhan (Green Project Bardiani – CSF Faizanè), Ide Schelling (BORA – hansgrohe), Nicolas Vinokourov (Astana Qazaqstan Development Team); OUT Mark Cavendish (Retired), Fabio Felline (Lidl-Trek), Luis León Sánchez (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Filippo Baroncini (Lidl – Trek), Nairo Quintana (Free), Davide Piganzoli (EOLO Kometa); OUT David de la Cruz (?), Javier Romo (Cofidis); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Leonardo Basso, Manuele Boaro, David de la Cruz, Joe Dombrowski, Yevgeniy Gidich, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Martin Laas, Davide Martinelli, Gianni Moscon, Yuriy Natarov, Antonio Nibali, Nurbergen Nurlykhassym, Vadim Pronskiy, Alexandr Riabushenko, Javier Romo, Christian Scaroni, Harold Tejada, Andrey Zeits; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Davide Ballerini (24), Samuele Battistella (24), Clees Bol (25), Gleb Brussenskiy (24), Anthon Charmig (25), Igor Chzhan (24), Yevgeniy Fedorov (24), Lorenzo Fortunato (25), Gianmarco Garofoli (24), Alexey Lutsenko (24), Max Kanter (25), Harold Martín López (25), Henok Mulubrhan (25), Ide Schelling (25), Gleb Syritsa (24), Simone Velasco (25), Nicolas Vinokourov (25). Total 17
Jordi Warlop is joining the Soudal-QuickStep first team for the next two seasons. The 27-year-old Belgian, who had joined the Wolfpack development squad at the start of the year after being left without a contract due to the closure of B&B Hotels-KTM, highlighted himself with several good placings and performances during this 2023 and therefore convinced the Belgian team management to offer him the chance to make the jump to WorldTour level.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Soudal – Quick Step – IN Ayco Bastiaens (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development),Gil Gelders (Soudal-Quick-Step Devo Team), Antoine Huby (Vendée U), Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing), Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious), William Junior Lecerf (Soudal-Quick-Step Devo Team), Warre Vangheluwe (Soudal-Quick-Step Devo Team), Jordi Warlop (Soudal-Quick-Step Devo Team); OUT Andrea Bagioli (Lidl-Trek), Davide Ballerini (Astana), Dries Devenyns (Retired), Fabio Jakobsen (Team dsm-firmenich), Mauro Schmid (Team Jayco AlUla), Jannik Steimle (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech); RUMOURED: IN Paul Magnier (Trinity Racing); OUT Rémi Cavagna (Movistar,), Michael Mørkøv (Astana), Florian Sénéchal (?); END OF CONTRACT 2023 – Rémi Cavagna, Tim Declercq, James Knox, Michael Morkov, Florian Senechal, Bert Van Lerberghe, Stan Van Tricht; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Julian Alaphilippe (24), Kasper Asgreen (24), Ayco Bastiaens (25), Mattia Cattaneo (25), Josef Černý (25), Remco Evenepoel (26), Gil Gelders (25), Jan Hirt (24), Antoine Huby (25), Yves Lampaert (25), Luke Lamperti (25), Mikel Landa (25), William Junior Lecerf (26), Fausto Masnada (24), Tim Merlier (25), Casper Pedersen (24), Pieter Serry (25), Martin Svrček (24), Ilan Van Wilder (25), Warre Vangheluwe (25), Mauri Vansevenant (26), Louis Vervaeke (25), Jordi Warlop (25). Total 23
14 September
The 24-year-old Belgian Mauri Vansevenant will remain with Soudal-QuickStep until at least the end of the 2026 season. He has been in the formation directed by Patrick Lefevere since the summer of 2020 and the rider have signed a three-year extension to the contract. Vansevenant shone this season in particular at the Tour of Oman 2023, where he won a stage and finished second in the general classification, behind Matteo Jorgenson.
Stefano Oldani will wear the Cofidis jersey from 1 January 2024. The transalpine formation has announced the signing until the end of 2025 of the 25 yo Italian, who leaves Alpecin-Deceuninck after two seasons in which he was able to highlight himself with several placings and, above all, with the success in stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia 2022. A very versatile rider, resistant on short and medium climbs and also endowed with a good fast sprint, the Italian thus reinforces the classics department of the team led by Cedric Vasseur, who thus makes the fifth addition for next year. Oldani also said to be very happy to work with their Sport Director Roberto Damiani, that he knows since is early carrier stages. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Cofidis – IN ; OUT Simone Consonni (Lidl Trek), Nicolas Debeaumarché (Michel-Mavic-Auber93), Jose Herrada (Retired), Nolann Mahoudo (CIC U Nantes Atlantique), , Stefano Oldani (Alpecin), Pierre-Luc Perichon (Retired), Ludovic Robeet (Bingoal WB), Rémy Rochas (Groupama-FDJ), , Max Walscheid (Jayco AlUla); RUMOURED: IN Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Javier Romo (Astana); OUT Alexis Gougeard (Continental VC Rouen 76), Victor Lafay (AG2R Citroën), Jelle Wallays (Retire?); END OF CONTRACT 2023: François Bidard, André Carvalho, Davide Cimolai, Bryan Coquard, Alexandre Delettre, Wesley Kreder, Victor Lafay, Jelle Wallays, Max Walscheid; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Piet Allegaert (25), Thomas Champion (24), Bryan Coquard (25), Nicolas Debeaumarché (25), Ruben Fernandez (24), Eddy Finé (25), Simon Geschke (24), Jésus Herrada (25), Ion Izagirre (24), Jonathan Lastra (24), Nolann Mahoudo (25), Axel Mariault (24), Guillaume Martin (24), Christophe Noppe (24), Stefano Oldani (25), Anthony Perez (25), Alexis Renard (24), Ludovic Robeet (24), Benjamin Thomas (25), Hugo Toumire (25), Harrison Wood (24), Axel Zingle (24). Total 22
Israel-Premier Tech made the arrival of 23-year-old Jake Stewart official. On his way out of Groupama-FDJ, the British rider has signed a two-year contract with the Israeli-Canadian team, with the prospect of a prominent role in one-day races and support as a lead-out in the sprint Pascal Ackermann who has also joined the roster’s team. Stewart has so far won two races in his career, both on the roads of the Tour de l’Ain, between 2022 and 2023, but can also boast second place in a top-level race such as the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, in the 2021 edition. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Israel Start-Premier Tech – IN Pascal Ackermann (UAE Team Emirates), George Bennett (UAE Team Emirates), Hugo Hofstetter (Team Arkéa-Samsic), Oded Kogut (Israel Premier Tech Academy), Riley Pickrell (Israel Cycling Academy), Nadav Raisberg (Israel Premier Tech Academy), , Michael Schwarzmann (Lotto Dstny), Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ), Ethan Vernon (Soudal-QuickStep); OUT Daryl Impey (Retired), Giacomo Nizzolo (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Sep Vanmarcke (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma), Floris Van Tricht (EFC-L&R-Van Mossel); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Sebastien Berwick, Guillaume Boivin, Itamar Einhorn, Chris Froome, Omer Goldstein, Ben Hermans, Reto Hollenstein, Taj Jones, Domenico Pozzovivo, Guy Sagiv, Michael Woods; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Pascal Ackermann (25), George Bennett (25), Simon Clarke (24), Marco Frigo (24), Jakob Fuglsang (24), Derek Gee (28), Hugo Hofstetter (25), Mason Hollyman (24), Hugo Houle (24), Oded Kogut (25), Krists Neilands (26), Riley Pickrell (25), Nadav Raisberg (25), Jens Reynders (24), Matthew Riccitello (25), Nick Schultz (25), Michael Schwarzmann (24), Jake Stewart (25), Corbin Strong (24), Dylan Teuns (24), Tom Van Asbroeck (24), Ethan Vernon (26), Mads Würtz Schmidt (24), Stephen Williams (25), Rick Zabel (24). Total 25
Confirming a rumour reported on 22 August, Britain’s Jack Rootkin-Gray will join the Ef Education-EasyPost team. 20 years old Londoner will leave Continental Saint Piran to make his debut on the highest level of international cycling. Rootkin-Gray recently starred in the U23 road race at the Glasgow 2023 World Championships, finishing in fourth place. Rootkin-Gary signed a 2 years contract.
Frenchman Mathieu Burgaudeau is further extending his stay at TotalEnergies. Twenty-four years old, he has already been defending the colours of the transalpine team for four seasons and will do so for another two, given the two-year renewal just signed. Burgaudeau is one of the team’s most valuable riders, as witnessed by the excellent results of his season: the Frenchman was second in a stage at the Tour de France 2023, in a stage of the Tour of Dauphiné 2023 and also at the Bretagne Classic 2023. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): TotalEnergies – IN Lucas Boniface (Vendée U), Baptiste Vadic (Vendée U); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Victor De La Parte (Euskaltel-Euskadi) ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Edvald Boasson Hagen, Maciej Bodnar, Jérémy Cabot, Victor De La Parte, Fabien Doubey, Sandy Dujardin, Valentin Ferron, Alan Jousseaume, Daniel Oss, Julien Simon; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Lucas Boniface (25), Thomas Bonnet (24), Mathieu Burgaudeau (25), Steff Cras (24), Fabien Grellier (24), Emilien Jeanniére (24), Pierre Latour (25), Lorrenzo Manzin (24), Paul Ourselin (24), Peter Sagan (24), Geoffrey Soupe (24), Jason Tesson (24), Anthony Turgis (25), Baptiste Vadic (25), Dries Van Gestel (24), Mattéo Vercher (24), Alexis Vuillermoz (24). Total 17
German Jannik Steimle leaves Soudal-QuickStep and joins the Q36.5 team. The Swiss Professional team has announced the signing of 27-year-old Steimle in an agreement valid until the end of the 2025 season. The German had support duties in the Belgian team and hopes to take some personal satisfaction in the future: “I think I have not yet reached my full potential and I want to start winning races again, as I did in the past. The Q36.5 gives me the perfect opportunity to become that kind of rider in the next couple of years”. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team – IN Xabier Mikel Azparren (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Frederik Frison (Lotto-Dstny), Giacomo Nizzolo (Israel-Premier Tech), Jannik Steimle (Soudal-QuickStep), Rory Townsend (Bolton Equities Black Spoke); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Matteo Badilatti, Jack Bauer, Mark Donovan, Alessandro Fedeli, Kamil Malecki, Matteo Moschetti, Szymon Sajnok; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Negasi Haylu Abreha (24), Xabier Mikel Azparren (24), Gianluca Brambilla (24), Walter Calzoni (24), Marcel Camprubí (24), Fabio Christen (24), Filippo Colombo (24), Filippo Conca (24), Corey Davis (24), Tom Devriendt (24), Frederik Frison (25), Carl Fredik Hagen (24), Damien Howson (24), Tobias Ludvigsson (24), Cyrus Monk (24), Giacomo Nizzolo (25), Nicolò Parisini (24), Antonio Puppio (24), Jannik Steimle (25), Joey Rosskopf (24), Rory Townsend (25), Nickolas Zukowsky (25). Total 22
Several rumours are linking Niccolò Bonifazio to Corratec-Selle Italia. The 29-year-old Italian is expiring his contract with Intermarché-Circus-Wanty and is not expected to renew.
13 September
Kazakhstan’s WorldTour formation Astana Qazaqstan has announced that two riders currently in its development team, Nicolas Vinokourov and Harold Martín López, will turn pro. Both will therefore make the jump at the start of next year and Astana has offered them both a two-year contract. Nicolas Vinokourov, son of team owner Alexandr, is 21 years old, while the Colombian López is 22. Vinokourov junior is a two-time Asian U23 champion and has recently come to the fore in minor races on the UCI calendar. López, on the other hand, has already tasted pro cycling several times, and just a few weeks ago he finished ninth in the general classification of the Vuelta Burgos 2023.
12 September
The 33-year-old New Zealander George Bennett will end his experience with UAE Team Emirates at the end of the season and join the Israeli-Canadian Professional team Israel-Premier Tech. Bennett, who signed a two-year contract, has not won a race since the National Road Championships in the 2021 season and in the current season has not been taken by the team in any of the three Grand Tours on the calendar. Following the jersey change, the rider’s hope is to find more opportunities in the Grand Tours and races with big climbs.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): UAE Team Emirates – IN Igor Arrieta (Equipo Kern Pharma), Filippo Baroncini (Lidl – Trek), Jan Christen (Hagens Berman Axeon), Antonio Morgado (Hagens Berman Axeon), Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe), Pavel Sivakov (INEOSGrenadiers); OUT Pascal Ackermann (Israel Premier-Tech), George Bennett (Israel Premier-Tech), Ryan Gibbons (Lidl Trek), Matteo Trentin (Tudor Pro Cycling); RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma); OUT Davide Formolo (Movistar); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Alvaro Hodeg, Jan Polanc, Michael Vink; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Joao Almeida (27), Igor Arrieta (26), Juan Ayuso (25), Sjoerd Bax (24), Mikkel Bjerg (24), Jan Christen (28), Alessandro Covi (24), Finn Fisher-Black (24), Davide Formolo (24), Felix Groß (24), Felix Großschartner (24), Marc Hirschi (24), Vegard Stake Laengen (25), Rafal Majka (24), Brandon McNulty (27), Juan Sebastián Molano (26), Antonio Morgado (27), Domen Novak (24), Ivo Oliveira (26), Rui Oliveira (26), Tadej Pogacar (27), Nils Politt (26), Pavel Sivakov (26), Marc Soler (25), Diego Ulissi (24), Jay Vine (27), Tim Wellens (24), Adam Yates (25). Total 29
11 September
The US-based Lidl – Trek team has reached an agreement with Sam Oomen, who thus joins the already strengthened team for the Grand Tours, bringing his vast experience accumulated over the years with Jumbo – Visma, with whom he contributed to the successes at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España. The Dutchman has signed a three-year contract that will see him wear the jersey of Luca Guercilena’s team until 2026. Turning professional in 2016 with high expectations after racing in the Rabobank youth ranks, in his first year as a professional he immediately grasped an interesting success by winning the stage and classification at the Tour de l’Ain, but those two victories would end up being his only ones as a professional, just as the interesting ninth place finish at the 2018 Giro d’Italia, as Tom Dumoulin’s last man, would be the only Top10 in a GT of his career, made up of ups and downs, turning mainly into a domestique for the high mountains. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Lidl-Trek – IN Andrea Bagioli (Soudal QuickStep), Simone Consonni (Cofidis), Fabio Felline (Astana-Qazaqstan), Ryan Gibbons (UAE Emirates Team), Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers), Patrick Konrad (Bora-hansgrohe), Jonathan Milan (Bahrain-Victorious), Sam Oomen (Jumbo-Visma), Carlos Verona (Movistar); OUT Jon Aberasturi (Kern Pharma), Filippo Baroncini (UAE Emirates Team), Tony Gallopin (Retired), Markus Hoelgaard (Uno-X Pro Cycling); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Marc Brustenga, Kenny Elissonde, Amanuel Gebreigzabhier, Asbjørn Hellemose, Emils Liepins, Antwan Tolhoek; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Andrea Bagioli (26), Julien Bernard (25), Dario Cataldo (24), Giulio Ciccone (27), Simone Consonni (25), Fabio Felline (24), Ryan Gibbons (25), Tao Geoghegan Hart (26), Daan Hoole (25), Alex Kirsch (25), Juan Pedro Lopez (25), Patrick Konrad (25), Jonathan Milan (26), Bauke Mollema (26), Jacopo Mosca (25), Thibau Nys (24), Sam Oomen (26), Mads Pedersen (25), Quinn Simmons (26), Mattias Skjelmose Jensen (24), Toms Skujiņš (24), Jasper Stuyven (25), Natnael Tesfatsion (24), Edward Theuns (25), Mathias Vacek (25), Otto Vergaerde (25), Carlos Verona (25). Total 27
George Bennett’s farewell to UAE Team Emirates is now official, with the New Zealander announcing on his own social channels that he will not be renewing his contract with the Emirates outfit, which expires at the end of the year. However, the new destination of the 33-year-old, who has also been linked to Soudal-QuickStep in recent months, is not yet known.
According to Marca, it seems almost certain that Gorka Izagirre will sign for a season with Cofidis, as already anticipated in recent weeks: the 35-year-old should therefore join his brother Ion in the French team.
Luis Léon Sánchez will hang up his bike at the end of the season. A decision that had been in the air for some time and that the 39-year-old Spaniard made official today via social media, explaining the reasons that led him to put an end to his long professional career that lasted twenty seasons. He switched to Liberty Seguros in 2004 and in the following years raced with some of the strongest teams in the peloton such as Caisse d’Epargne, Rabobank, Astana and Bahrain Victorious, also spending a season at Caja Rural-Seguros RGA to relaunch himself after a difficult period. Winner in his career of a Paris – Nice, four stages in the Tour de France and two Clasica San Sebastian for a total of 47 successes as a professional, including a Tour Down Under, GP Beghelli and the last one, two years ago, at Prueba Villafranca
Kazakhstan’s 23-year-old Gleb Brussenskiy, the reigning Asian road race champion, has signed a new contract with Astana Qazaqstan, expiring at the end of the 2024 season.
The Belgian formation Intermarché-Circus-Wanty has announced the renewal until the end of 2025 of the 30-year-old Italian rider Simone Petilli, who joined the team at the start of 2020 after racing in the early years of his career with Lampre/UAE. Often at the service of his teammates in both stage races and one-day races, Petilli has also been able to obtain several placings in recent seasons, coming close to his first success as a professional last May in the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia, when he was third at Campo Imperatore after more than 200 kilometres of breakaway.
According to DirectVelo reports, Floris Van Tricht, 22, will turn professional at the start of next season with the Israeli-Canadian team Israel-Premier Tech. Floris, now rider for the amateur EFC-L&R – Van Mossel, will therefore follow in the professional footsteps of his brother Stan, who is currently with Soudal-QuickStep.
The move of Xabier Mikel Azparren from Euskaltel-Euskadi to Q36.5 Pro Cycling has been announced. The 24-year-old Basque, who in recent weeks had also been approached by Movistar, leaves his home team after three years to join the Swiss Professional team for a season, which signs the fourth new rider after those of Giacomo Nizzolo, Frederik Frison and Rory Townsend.
Euskaltel-Euskadi has announced the arrival of Xavier Cañellas, a Spanish rider who has made his mark with Continental Electro Hiper Europe and who has signed a contract expiring at the end of 2024. The 26-year-old Cañellas is a fast rider who can hold his own on short climbs and who could be an important card for a team, the Basque team, which needs more presence in the finishing orders, also in terms of the UCI classification. The Spanish team also announced the renewal of the contract for 22-year-old Xabier Isasa, who signed a new link expiring at the end of 2025. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Euskaltel-Euskadi – IN Jon Aberasturi (Lidl-Trek), Nicolas Alustiza (Laboral Kutxa – Fundación Ciclista Euskadi), Xavier Cañellas (Electro Hiper), Iker Mintegi (Laboral Kutxa – Fundación Ciclista Euskadi), Unai Zubeldia (Laboral Kutxa – Fundación Ciclista Euskadi); OUT Xabier Mikel Azparren (Q36.5 Pro Cycling), Unai Iribar (Kern Pharma), Antonio Soto (Kern Pharma); RUMOURED: IN Victor De la Parte (TotalEnergies); OUT Enekoitz Azparren (Movistar), Carlos Canal (Movistar); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Ibai Azurmendi, Iker Ballarin, Joan Bou, Carlos Canal, Unai Cuadrado, Asier Etxeberria, Peio Goikoetxea, Juan José Lobato, Luis Angel Maté; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Jon Aberasturi (25), Nicolas Alustiza (25), Enekoitz Azparren (24), Xabier Berasategi (24), Mikel Bizkarra (25), Xavier Cañellas (24), Gotzon Martin (24), , Xabier Isasa (25), Mikel Iturria (24), Txomin Juaristi (24), Andoni Lopez de Abetxuko (24), Iker Mintegi (25), Unai Zubeldia (25). Total 13
28-year-old rider Antonio Soto is leaving Euskaltel-Euskadi. Soto does perform well in sprints and in not scared of long-range attempts. For him, there is a two-year contract with Kern Pharma, where he already ride in the green-and-white team’s youth team between 2017 and 2018. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Equipo Kern Pharma – IN Hugo Aznar (Equipo Finisher), Unai Aznar (Equipo Finisher), Jorge Gutiérrez (Equipo Finisher), Unai Iribar (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Antonio Soto (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Diego Uriarte (NeoPro); OUT Roger Adrià (Bora–hansgrohe), Igor Arrieta (UAE), Raúl García Pierna (Arkea-B&B Hotels), Vojtěch Řepa (Retired); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Giovanni Carboni, Héctor Carretero, Iván Cobo, Iñigo Elosegui, Pau Miquel, José Felix Parra, Eugenio Sánchez; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Jon Agirre (24), Hugo Aznar (26), Unai Aznar (25), Urko Berrade (24), Pablo Castrillo (24), Francisco Galván (24), Carlos Garcia Pierna (24), Jorge Gutiérrez (26), Unai Iribar (25), Álex Jaime (24), Jordi Lopez (24), Marti Marquez (24), Mikel Retegi (24), Ibon Ruiz (24), Antonio Soto (25), Diego Uriarte (25), Danny Van Der Tuuk (24). Total 17
Professional French Team TotalEnergies has announced the promotion from Vendée U (their development team) of 22-year-old sprinter Lucas Boniface, who has already worn the jersey of Jean-René Bernaudeau’s team by racing the Tour Poitou-Charentes as a trainee. Boniface signed for two season.
Previously stagiaires with Burgos-BH, David Delgado and Sinuhé Fernández have secured a move to the professional ranks with the Iberian formation after offering good performances at the Tour of Portugal. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Burgos-BH – IN Sergio Chumil (NeoPro), David Delgado (NeoPro), Sinuhé Fernández (NeoPro); OUT Daniel Navarro (Retired); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Miguel Angel Fernández (?), Angel Madrazo (?), Pelayo Sanchez (Movistar); END OF CONTRACT 2023:Antonio Angulo, Mario Aparicio, Andrés Camilo Ardila, Cyril Barthe, Jetse Bol, Jesus Ezquerra, Miguel Angel Fernández, Angel Fuentes, Victor Langellotti, Angel Madrazo, Ander Okamika, Felipe Orts, Óscar Pelegrí, Pelayo Sanchez; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Clement Alleno (24), Rodrigo Alvarez (24), Sergio Chumil (25), David Delgado (25), José Manuel Diaz (25), Eric Fagúndez (24), Sinuhé Fernández (25), Alejandro Franco (24), Manuel Peñalver (24). Total 9
Belgian Simon Dehairs, who has been part of the Alpecin-Deceuninck development team since August 2021, is in line to join the Belgian ‘first team’ squad in 2024. However, Dehairs, 22, has already competed in several pro’ level races with the Alpecin-Deceuninck jersey, especially during the current season.
The Italian rider Mirco Maestri has extended his contract with Eolo-Kometa, due to expire at the end of 2024, for further extension until the end of the 2025 season. Maestri had joined Eolo-Kometa in 2022.
Here the list in progress of the cyclists that have announced their retirement at the end of 2023 season (age, and team in bracket): WTT: Maxime Bouet (37 Arkéa), Mark Cavendish (38 Astana), Mikael Cherel (37 Ag2r Citroen), Rohan Dennis (33 Jumbo-Visma), Dries Devenyns (40 Soudal – QuickStep), Tony Gallopin ( 35 Lidl – Trek), Heinrich Haussler (39 Bahrain – Victorious), Jose Herrada (37 Cofidis), Mathieu Ladagnous (38 Groupama-FDJ), Pierre-Luc Perichon (36 Cofidis), Laurent Pichon (37 Arkéa-Samsic), Thibaut Pinot (33 Groupama-FDJ), Jan Polanc (31 UAE Team Emirates), Luis León Sánchez (39 Astana), Michael Schär (37 Ag2r Citroen), Greg Van Avermaet (38 Ag2r Citroen), Jos Van Emden (38 Jumbo-Visma); PRT: Robbe Ceurens (21 Team Novo Nordisk), Daniel Navarro (40 Burgos-BH), Francesco Gavazzi (39 Eolo-Kometa), Chad Haga (34 Human Powered Health), Kristoffer Halvorsen (27 Uno-X Pro), Daryl Impey (38 Israel Start-Premier Tech), Mattia Petrucci (22 Green Project – Bardiani CSF Faizanè), Simone Raccani (22 Eolo-Kometa), Voijtech Repa (22 Equipo Kern Pharma), Peter Sagan (32 TotalEnergies), Sep Vanmarcke (34 Isreal Premier-Tech).
8 September
Israel-Premier Tech has announced the renewal of British rider Stephen Williams for the next two seasons. Joining the Israeli team this year after several years with Bahrain Victorious, the 27-year-old highlighted himself with some placings and a recent victory in the Arctic Race of Norway.
According to a report by Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio, it would seem likely that Davide Ballerini will return to Astana Qazaqstan, in which he has already raced in 2019, leaving Soudal-QuickStep at the end of 2023.
According to La Dernière Heure, Oliver Naesen, who has reportedly renewed for two years with Ag2r Citroën, should stay with his current team, something his brother Lawrence should not do. Also according to the Belgian newspaper, the future of Jens Keukeleire, who would like to renew with EF Education-EasyPost to race one last season in the pros, is uncertain. Negotiations have begun but, if they fail, the 34-year-old may well decide to hang up his bike at the end of the year.
According to Het Nieuwsblad, Jelle Wallays has not received a proposal to renew from Cofidis, with the 34-year-old fearing he may have to end his career. Also according to the Flemish newspaper, Dries De Bondt could leave Alpecin-Deceuninck to sign with Ag2r Citroën.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Ag2r Citroen – IN ; OUT Mikael Cherel (Retired), Michael Schär (Retired), Greg Van Avermaet (Retired), Clément Venturini (Arkéa-B&B Hotels ); RUMOURED: IN Bruno Armirail (Groupama), Sam Bennett (Bora-hansgrohe), Dries De Bondt (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Victor Lafay (Cofidis); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Geoffrey Bouchard, Paul Lapeira, Lawrence Naesen, Olivier Naesen, Antoine Raugel, Marc Sarreau, Andrea Vendrame, Larry Warbasse; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Alex Baudin (24), Clement Berthet (25), Franck Bonnamour (24), Benoit Cosnefroy (25), Stan Dewulf (24), Félix Gall (25), Pierre Gautherat (24), Dorian Godon (25), Jaakko Hänninen (24), Jordan Labrosse (25), Ben O’Connor (24), Aurélien Paret-Peintre (24), Valentin Paret-Peintre (24), Nans Peters (25), Nicolas Prodhomme (25), Valentin Retailleau (24), Damien Touzé (24), Bastien Tronchon (25). Total 18
Eolo-Kometa continues to build the roster for the 2024 season. The team led by Ivan Basso and Alberto Contador, which next year will see the entry of sponsor Polti, announced the renewal until the end of 2024 of Spaniard Diego Pablo Sevilla. The 27-year-old, who made his debut at this year’s Giro d’Italia, is the team’s longest-serving rider, having been with the team since 2015, when the team was still a youth team called Fundación Contador. The Professional team has also announced its third new addition after Fran Muñoz and Jhonatan Restrepo: it is the British rider Paul Double, who arrived this year in professional racing with Human Powered Health after several years at Continental level between Team Colpack and Mg.K Vis-VPM. The 27yo climber Double, who signed for 1 year, came out on top last year in a stage of the Tour of Bulgaria, also picking up some top-10s in good races such as the Giro della Toscana, Giro dell’Appennino and the Tour of Slovenia last June.
Situation PRT team by team (in progress and expected closure): Human Powered Health – IN ; OUT Paul Double (Eolo-Kometa), Chad Haga (Ritired – Gravel); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Kristian Aasvold, Alan Banaszkek, Stephen Bassett, Pier-André Coté, Adam De Vos, Matthew Gibson, Cory Greenberg, Gage Hecht, August Jensen, Colin Joyce, Wessel Krul, Barnabás Peák, Benjamin Perry, Sebastian Schönberger; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Stanislaw Aniolkowski (24), Charles-Étienne Chrétien (24), Bart Lemmen (24), Scott McGill (24), Embret Svestad-Bårdseng (24), Gijs Van Hoecke (24), Sasha Weemaes (24). Total 8
A two-year contract for Irishman Rory Townsend, who will be a rider with Q36.5 Pro Cycling from 1 January until the end of 2025. The former national champion will therefore leave Bolton Equities Black Spoke after just one year.
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Bolton Equities Black Spoke – IN ; OUT Rory Townsend (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Ethan Batt, Matthew Bostock, Ryan Christensen, Logan Currie, Mitchel Fitzsimons, James Fouché, Aaron Gate, Regan Gough, Ollie Jones, Josh Kench, Luke Mudgway, Bailey O’Donnel, James Oram, Jacob Scott, Tom Sexton, Mark Stewart; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Josh Burnett (24), George Jackson (24), Paul Wright (24). Total 3
Team Flanders-Baloise announced the signing of 21-year-old Dylan Vandenstorme. Coming from Circus-ReUz-Technord, the development formation of Intermarché-Circus-Wanty, the Belgian will turn professional with the Flemish Professional team after a 2023 of excellent results among the Under-23s, including victory in the first stage of the Giro della Valle d’Aosta. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Team Flanders-Baloise – IN Jasper Dejaegher (Circus – ReUz – Technord), Siebe Deweirdt (Soudal – Quick-Step Devo Team), Dylan Vandenstorme (Circus – ReUz – Technord), Victor Vercouillie (EFC-L&R – Van Mossel) ; OUT Jenno Berckmoes (Lotto-Dstny), Vito Braet (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Ruben Apers, Kamiel Bonneu, Alex Colman, Tuur Dens, Sander De Pestel, Lindsay De Vylder, Gilles De Wilde, Milan Fretin, Jules Hesters, Ward Vanhoof, Aaron Van Poucke, Aaron Verwilst; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Arno Claeys (24), Toon Clynhens (24), Jasper Dejaegher (25), Siebe Deweirdt (25), Vince Gerits (24), Elias Maris (24), Noah Vandenbranden (24), Dylan Vandenstorme (25), Vincent Van Hemelen (24), Victor Vercouillie (25). Total 10
Australian Hamish McKenzie, bronze medallist in the U23 time trial at the World Championships in Glasgow 2023. The class of 2004, who is already gaining his first professional experience at the end of the season by racing as a trainee with Team Jayco AlUla, will ride for Hagens Berman Axeon next year, a team that will be joined by sponsor Jayco from next year.
TDT-Unibet, a Dutch team that is expected to become a Professional Team in 2024. In addition to the young Owen Geleijn, the team would appear to be close to signing Danish rider Andreas Stokbro, as reported by Ekstra Bladet, with the 26-year-old former NTT and Qhubeka thus returning to the professional ranks after two years at Continental level between Team Coop and Leopard TOGT Pro Cycling. According to Wielerflits, on the other hand, TDT-Unibet could also sign Norwegian Cedrik Bakke Christophersen, a former triathlete who is wearing the jersey of Team Coop in this 2023, and Jelle Johannink (ABLOC CT).
The Burgos-BH climber, who turned 40 in July, Daniel Navarro will end his career that has lasted almost 20 years at the end of the Vuelta a España 2023, his 23rd Grand Tour since turning professional in 2005 with Liberty Seguros. The Spanish rider, who has been a valuable domestique to Alberto Contador for so many years, will therefore end his adventure in cycling on Sunday 17 September, at the finish in Madrid. Navarro won 4 times in his career including a stage victory in the 2014 edition of the Vuelta a España.
5 September
US-licensed Lidl-Trek has announced the contract extensions of Jacopo Mosca and Julien Bernard. For both, the new link expires at the end of the 2025 season. The Italian and the Frenchman are now two flag-bearers of the team directed by Luca Guercilena: Mosca has been with the team since 2019, while Bernard has worn the same jersey, through various changes of sponsorship, since the 2016 season.
Contract renewal for the 28yo Benjamin Thomas, who has been with Cofidis since January 2022. Thomas extended his agreement with the transalpine team for another two years, until the end of the 2025 season.
The 26yo French rider Simon Guglielmi has renewed his contract, meaning that he will remain with Arkéa in 2024, the team whose jersey he has worn since the beginning of 2022.
Arkéa-B&B Hotels made official the arrival of Spaniard Raúl García Pierna. A time trial specialist, of which he was national champion 2022 and fourth at the U23 World Championships in Glasgow 2023, the 22-year-old will leave Kern Pharma, the Spanish professional with whom he made the leap into the pro peloton in 2021. García Pierna signed a one-year contract with Arkéa-B&B. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team Arkea-B&B Hotels – IN Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo Kometa), Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), Raúl García Pierna (Equipo Kern Pharma), Laurens Huys (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty), Miles Scotson (Groupama-FDJ), Clément Venturini (Ag2r Citroën); OUT Warren Barguil (Team dsm-firmenich), Maxime Bouet (Retired), Hugo Hofstetter (Israel-Premier Tech), Andrii Ponomar (Corratec), Clement Russo (Groupama-FDJ); RUMOURED: IN Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Nacer Bouhanni, Amaury Capiot, Nicolas Edet, Kevin Ledanois, Laurent Pichon, Michel Ries; Current 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Vincenzo Albanese (24), Louis Barré (24), Jenthe Biermans (25), Clement Champoussin (25), Ewen Costiou (24), David Dekker (24), Anthony Delaplace (24), Arnaud Démare (25), Raúl García Pierna (24), Elie Gesbert (24), Donovan Grondin (24), Thibault Guernalec (24), Simon Guglielmi (24), Laurens Huys (24), Mathis Le Berre (24), Matis Louvel (24), Daniel McLay (24), Luca Mozzato (25), Lukasz Owsian (24), Alan Riou (24), Cristian Rodriguez (24), Miles Scotson (25), Kevin Vauquelin (25), Clément Venturini (25), Alessandro Verre (24). Total 25
34 year-old Basque Jon Aberasturi will end his adventure with Lidl-Trek, which began in 2022, and will move to Euskaltel-Euskadi, a team whose colours he already wore at the start of his career. Aberasturi, who has signed a two-year deal with the Basque team, is a rider who boasts 15 career successes, but the last of these dates back to June 2021.
Spanish professional Caja Rural-Seguros RGA will welcome Samuel Fernández to its 2024 team. The 20-year-old Spaniard will turn professional after spending one season with Caja Rural-Alea, the development team for the Iberian outfit. Fernández signed a contract that will expire at the end of the 2025 season. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Caja Rural-Seguros RGA – IN Samuel Fernandez (Caja Rural-Alea), Jaume Guardeño (Caja Rural-Alea), Gorka Sorarrain (BAI-Sisacal); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Julen Amezqueta, Jon Barrenetxea, Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda, Josu Etxeberria, Jhojan Garcia, David Gonzalez, Mulu Kinfe Hailemichael, Calum Johnston, Iuri Leitão, Sergio Martin, Jokin Murguialday, Yesid Pira, Eduard Prades, Michal Schlegel; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Orluis Aular (24), Daniel Babor (24), Abel Balderstone (24), Fernando Barceló (24), Tomas Barta (24), Samuel Fernandez (25), Jaume Guardeño (25), Joseba Lopez (24), Joel Nicolau (24), Gorka Sorarrain (25). Total 10
Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè has signed the very young Filippo Turconi, who will be 18 years old in October. The Lombardy-born rider, who has been with U.C. Bustese Olonia since last year with excellent results, has signed a four-year contract, until the end of 2027, with the Italian professional formation. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè – IN Federico Biagini (Zalf Euromobil Fior), Mattia Pinazzi (Arvedi Cycling), Vicente Rojas (Supermercados Froiz), Filippo Turconi (U.C. Bustese Olonia); OUT Henok Mulubrhan (AstanaQazaqstan), Mattia Petrucci (Retired); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Henok Mulubrhan (Astana, Soudal); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Iker Bonillo, Luca Colnaghi, Omar El Gouzi, Davide Gabburo, Martin Marcellusi, Alessio Martinelli, Alessio Nieri, Giulio Pellizzari, Luca Rastelli, Alessandro Santaromita, Manuele Tarozzi, Enrico Zanoncello, Samuele Zoccarato; CONFIRMED 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Federico Biagini (27), Lorenzo Conforti (24), Luca Covili (24), Filippo Fiorelli (25), Riccardo Lucca (24), Filippo Magli (24), Luca Paletti (24), Alessandro Pinarello (25), Mattia Pinazzi (25), Vicente Rojas (25), Matteo Scalco (24), Jared Scott (24), Alex Tolio (26), Alessandro Tonelli (24), Filippo Turconi (27). Total 13
4 September
Lidl-Trek announced the signing of Carlos Verona. The Spaniard, who was very close to joining the Ineos Grenadiers in recent months before the British team took a step backwards, has signed a two-year contract with the US team, bidding farewell to Movistar after five years. Winner last year of a stage at the Tour of Dauphiné, his only professional success to date, the 30-year-old will bring his experience to the younger riders in this new adventure, in which he will continue to play the role of domestique for the team captains, while also looking to take a few opportunities to make his mark when the opportunity arises.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Movistar Team – IN ; OUT Matteo Jorgenson (Jumbo-Visma), Max Kanter (Astana Qazaqstan), Carlos Verona (Lidl-Trek); RUMOURED: IN Enekoitz Azparren (Euskaltel – Euskadi), Carlos Canal (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Rémi Cavagna (Soudal QuickStep), Davide Formolo (UAE), Manlio Moro (Zalf Euromobil Fior), Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers), Pelayo Sanchez (Burgos BH); OUT Juri Hollman (?), Gorka Izagirre (Cofidis); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Jorge Arcas, Will Barta, Imanol Erviti, Ivan Garcia Cortina, Fernando Gaviria, Abner Gonzalez, Juri Hollmann, Gorka Izagirre, Johan Jacobs, Lluis Mas, Gregor Muhlberger, Mathias Norsgaard, Nelson Oliveira, Antonio Pedrero, Óscar Rodríguez, José Joaquin Rojas, Iván Romeo, Einer Rubio, Gonzalo Serrano, Ivan Ramiro Sosa, Albert Torres; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Alex Aranburu (24), Ruben Guerreiro (25), , Oier Lazkano (24), Enric Mas (25), Vinicius Rangel (24), Iván Romeo (25), Sergio Samitier (24). Total 7
Kazakhstan’s WorldTour team Astana Qazaqstan has announced the contract extension of reigning Italian champion Simone Velasco with the deal now expiring at the end of the 2025 season. The 27-year-old rider from Bologna (Italy) is enjoying a more than positive season, which has so far seen his highest point in winning the national road race championship.
3 September
According to Ciro Scognamiglio of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Matteo Fabbro is ready for a new adventure: his contract with Bora – Hansgrohe is due to expire and, among the possible destinations for next season, the most accredited seems to be Ivan Basso and Alberto Contador’s Eolo – Kometa.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Bora–hansgrohe – IN Roger Adrià (Equipo Kern Pharma), Alexander Hajek (KTM Cycling Team), Emil Herzog (Hagens Berman Axeon), Daniel Felipe Martinez(Ineos Grenadiers), Matteo Sobrero (Team Jayco AlUla); OUT Patrick Konrad (Lidl-Trek), Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates), Ide Schelling (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Sam Welsford (Team DSM); RUMOURED: IN Marius Mayrhofer (Team Dsm-Firmenich); OUT Sam Bennett (Ag2r Citroen), Matteo Fabbro (Eolo-Kometa); END OF CONTRACT Giovanni Aleotti, Shane Archbold, Cesare Benedetti, Sam Bennett, Matteo Fabbro, Jonas Koch, Patrik Konrad, Victor Koretzky, Ryan Mullen, Anton Palzer, Matthew Walls, Frederik Wandahl; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Roger Adrià (24), Emanuel Buchmann (24), Nico Denz (24), Patrick Gamper (24), Marco Haller (24), Alexander Hajek (25), Emil Herzog (25), Sergio Higuita (24), Jai Hindley (24), Bob Jungels (24), Lennard Kämna (24), Florian Lipowitz (24), Luis-Joe Lührs (24), Daniel Felipe Martinez (24), Jordi Meeus (24), Maximilian Schachmann (24), Matteo Sobrero (24), Cian Uijtdebroeks (24), Danny Van Poppel (27), Aleksandr Vlasov (24), Sam Welsford (25), Ben Zwiehoff (24). Total 22
According to Le Parisien, everything also seems to be done for Victor Lafay‘s move from Cofidis to Ag2r Citröen.
2 September
Arkéa-Samsic, which will become Arkéa-B&B Hotels next year, has renew the contract with Polish rider Łukasz Owsian. The domestique is currently competing in the Vuelta a España. The 33-year-old, who has been with the transalpine formation since January 2020 after spending much of his career with the CCC, has renewed his agreement with the team by one year, taking it to the end of 2024.
1 September
The Spaniard, 22-year-old Carlos Rodríguez, starring in the Tour de France 2023, where he also won a stage, and before that also in the Vuelta a España 2022, was tipped as the leading reinforcement for Movistar. Ineos Grenadiers, Rodríguez’s current team, initially seemed willing to let the rider go, only to retrace their steps. Thus, a tug-of-war ensued, with Movistar executives disclosing the fact of the existence of a pre-contract between their team and Rodríguez. The preliminary agreement between the parties, however, will not be followed up, as the Spanish rider is about to put his signature on a new contract with Ineos Grenadiers. However, this will lead to the Iberian team receiving very significant compensation, compensation that, according to AS, could be even more than one million euros. According to GCN reports, Rodríguez will sign a contract expiring at the end of 2027, thus tying himself very firmly to the British formation. The Spaniard should also have the role of captain guaranteed at the Tour de France.
Nairo Quintana is not losing hope of returning to the peloton in the near future. After the end of his relationship with Team Arkéa-Samsic following his positive reaction to Tramadol at the Tour de France 2022, the Colombian climber has not raced for almost a year now (with the exception of his participation in the national championships in February, where he finished third), having been unable to find a signing for this season. However, the 33-year-old has continued to train during this period to be ready in case the call comes from a team, and has continued to work with his agent, Giuseppe Acquadro, in the hope that, with the start of the new cycle market session, a move to a new team in 2024 may become a reality. ‘One must always dream and hope that it is possible,’ Quintata told GCN. ‘I will continue to fight for what I want and what I was created for. I have done everything in my power. I have trained well all year. Little by little, we will see what is possible. Inside me, I hope. After that, reality will decide,’ reiterated the Colombian, who admitted that there have been some contacts: ‘There have been some talks and I hope they will be fruitful for next year. I’m fighting for the opportunity to return to racing’.
Three new riders will join Cofidis as of 1 January. The transalpine formation, which had so far only announced the addition of Alexis Gougeard, today announced the signing of Belgian 29 yo Ludovic Robeet (1 year contract) and Frenchmen 25 yo Nicolas Debeaumarché (2 years) and Nolann Mahoudo (2 years), who will reinforce the team in several areas. Robeet, who is leaving Bingoal WB after a good seven years, will be an addition mainly for the northern classics, while Debeaumarché, coming from St Michel-Mavic-Auber93, will mainly be employed as an offensive rider or with domestique duties. Mahoudo, the youngest of the three at 20 years of age, is a classics rider who made a name for himself this year by winning a stage at the Tour de Bretagne in the jersey of CIC U Nantes Atlantique.
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Bingoal WB – IN Ludovic Robeet (Cofidis); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Louis Blouwe, Dorian De Maeght, Ceriel Desal, Floris De Tier, Alexis Guerin, Karl Patrick Lauk, Matteo Malucelli, Johan Meens, Remy Mertz, Dimitri Peyskens, Marco Tizza, Guillaume Van Keirsbulck; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Julian Mertens (24), Alexander Salby (24), Lennert Teugels (24), Luca Van Boven (24), Nathan Vandepitte (24), Aaron Van Der Beken (24), Kenneth Van Rooy (24). Total 7
31 August
Sam Welsford will wear the Bora-hansgrohe jersey from 1 January next. The Australian sprinter, already approached by the German team in recent months, has officially signed a contract until the end of the 2025 season with the team led by Ralph Denk, thus leaving Team dsm-firmenich after two seasons. Professional on the road only since 2022 after a successful track career (four world gold medals and two Olympic medals), the 27-year-old has made a name for himself this year by taking four victories, the last of which he achieved just last week at the Renewi Tour, his first success in the WorldTour category.
Davide Bais and Mattia Bais will remain with Eolo-Kometa for the next two seasons. The brothers from Rovereto (Italy) have in fact signed contract renewals with the Italian professional team, thus becoming the first riders to be confirmed in the team for the next season. Both Davide, 25, and 26-year-old Mattia have extended their stay with the team until the end of the 2025 season. This season, Davide Bais won the Campo Imperatore stage of the Giro d’Italia.
30 August
Israel-Premier Tech has announced the signing until the end of 2025 of Hugo Hofstetter. After two years with Team Arkéa-Samsic, the transalpine thus makes his return to the team in which he had already raced in 2020 and 2021, taking a victory in Le Samyn in that period. The 29-year-old is the seventh addition of the season for the Israeli team, which seems intent on focusing heavily on fast riders in 2024, given the already announced signings of Pascal Ackermann and Ethan Vernon and the promotion of young Oded Kogut in their Professional team.
The Iberian PRT Equipo Kern Pharma has announced the signing for the next two seasons of Unai Iribar. The 24-year-old Basque, capable of some good placings this year, therefore leaves Euskaltel-Euskadi after two years, as already anticipated in recent weeks.
29 August
One of the names that has come into the international limelight is that of Mexican Isaac del Toro, who dominated the Tour de l’Avenir 2023, which has just ended, where he won the general classification and all the other standings. The 19 yo is currently riding in the Mexican amateur formation A.R Monex and offers are coming forward with UAE Team Emirates, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA and TDT-Unibet (a continental team that will become professional next season) ready to sign the rider.
19 yo Italian Giulio Pellizzari, second in the Tour de l’Avenir 2023 GC and is currently with Green Project-Bardiani Csf-Faizané, is also expected to stay with his current team in 2024. But beware that many teams are interested in signing him: UAE, Bora-hansgrohe, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Intermarché-Circus-Wanty.
According to Marca, 30 yo Spanish rider Carlos Verona, who has been linked to Ineos Grenadiers and then closed to renew with Movistar, will join Lidl-Trek with a two-year contract ready for him.
The French WorldTour formation Cofidis wants to reinforce its Spanish ‘colony’. Indeed, the signings of Gorka Izagirre (leaving Movistar) and Javier Romo, who could thus leave Astana Qazaqstan, seem certain. Cofidis would thus recompose the pair of Izagirre brothers, who had already been teammates several times in the past. According to Marca, the transfer of Gorka Izagirre ‘is 90 per cent done, that of Romo 70 per cent’.
The 27 yo Belgian Ayco Bastiaens will leave Alpecin-Deceuninck at the end of 2023, where he was racing for their development team and he will join Soudal-QuickStep. Bastiaens has signed a two-year contract with Patrick Lefevere’s team.
28 August
Henok Mulubrhan signs a two-year contract with Astana Qazaqstan. The two-time African champion leaves Green Project Bardiani – CSF Faizanè after just under two seasons in which he was able to make important progresses, including the participation on his first Grand Tour, the Giro d’Italia, a third place at the Giro dell’Appennino and then the win the Tour of Qinghai Lake, reaching six successes this year after the two stages and the Tour du Rwanda classification and his second continental title, after the one he won last year.
25 August
According to Escape Collective, Primoz Roglic could leave Jumbo – Visma to attempt one last assault on the Tour de France. The web magazine has reported of contacts between the rider and Lidl – Trek. The American team has been very active so far, thanks to the budget increase that came along with the new sponsor. The main stumbling block is the contract that currently binds the Slovenian until the end of the 2025 season. But according to Jumbo-Visma Team Manager Merjin Zeeman, Primož Roglič to Lidl-Trek is a ‘complete bullshit story’.
The 22 yo German sprinter Henri Uhlig, last year’s winner of the GP Liberazione, will make the leap into the WorldTour next season with the jersey of Alpecin-Deceuninck for the next two season and after two years in the Belgian team’s development squad.
Starting next 1 January will be 25-year-old Spaniard Roger Adrià, who, as already anticipated in recent months, will leave Equipo Kern Pharma to move to Bora-hansgrohe. Adrià signed for one season.
The Middle Eastern formation has Bahrain Victorious confirmed today that 20 yo Briton Finlay Pickering (Trinity Racing) will join the team after signing a 3 year contract. Situation WT team by team (in progress): Bahrain Victorious – IN Alberto Bruttomesso (Cycling Team Friuli ASD), Finlay Pickering (Trinity Racing); OUT Mikel Landa (Soudal-Quick Step), Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek); RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma), Torstein Træen (Uno-X Pro Cycling); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Yukiya Arashiro, Santiago Buitrago, Filip Maciejuk, Ahmed Madan, Hermann Pernsteiner, Johan Price-Pejtersen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Nikias Arndt (24), Phil Bauhaus (24), Pello Bilbao (26), Alberto Bruttomesso (26), Nicolò Buratti (25), Damiano Caruso (24), Matevž Govecar (24), Kamil Gradek (24), Jack Haig (25), Rainer Kepplinger (25), Fran Miholjević (24), Matej Mohoric (25), Andrea Pasqualon (24), Finlay Pickering (26), Wout Poels (24), Dusan Rajovic (24), Cameron Scott (24), Jasha Sütterlin (24), Antonio Tiberi (25), Sergio Tu (24) , Alfred Wright (25), Edoardo Zambanini (24). Total 23
After 2 years as a a stagiaire, 22 yo Francisco Muñoz have signed for a two-year contract with Eolo – Kometa. A member of the youth U23 Eolo-Kometa team, the Spanish rider will make the leap into the professional ranks next year. Winner of the Spanish Cup, as well as winning the GP Primavera de Ontur, Muñoz was third in the Spanish championships.
Uno-X Pro Cycling officialises seven riders who will leave the team at the end of the season. They are: Jonas Gregaard, who ‘received two three-year offers from us in the last twelve months, both better paid than the current one’, but no agreement was reached, Torstein Træen, who is leaving the team after seven years, Lasse Norman Leth, a two-time world champion on the track looking to focus on track-cycling for the Olympics in Paris 2024, Niklas Eg and Jacob Hindsgaul, who have both had a season below the team expectation. Their new team have not yet officially known. Finally, the former U23 world champion Kristoffer Halvorsen announced he will retire at the end of the current season.
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Uno-X Pro Cycling Team – IN Carl-Frederik Bévort (Uno-X Dare Development Team), Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education-EasyPost), Markus Hoelgaard (Lidl-Trek), Jonas Iversby Hvideberg (Team DSM-firmenich), Sakarias Koller Løland (Uno-X Dare Development Team), Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM-firmenich), Rasmus Bøgh Wallin (Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras); OUT Anthon Charmig (Astana), Niklas Eg (?), Jonas Gregaard (?), Kristoffer Halvorsen (Retired), Lasse Norman Hansen (?), Jacob Hindsgaul (?), Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious?); RUMOURED: IN Sven Erik Bystrom (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Niklas Larsen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Jonas Abrahamsen (26), Idar Andersen (24), Louis Bendixen (24), Carl-Frederik Bévort (25), Erlend Blikra (25), William Blume Levy (24), Magnus Cort Nielsen (26), Fredrik Dversnes (26), Stian Fredheim (25), Tord Gudmestad (24), Markus Hoelgaard (24), Ådne Holter (25), Jonas Iversby Hvideberg (26), Anders Halland Johannessen (24), Tobias Halland Johannessen (24),Alexander Kristoff (25), Magnus Kulset (24), Sindre Kulset (24), Andreas Leknessund (26), Sakarias Koller Løland (25), Erik Nordsæter Resell (26), Marcus Sander Hansen (24), Anders Skaarseth (25), Rasmus Tiller (24), Martin Urianstad (25), Rasmus Bøgh Wallin (25), Søren Wærenskjold (26). Total 27
24 August
The 20-year-old Eddy Le Huitouze has been promoted to the WorldTour line-up of Groupama-FDJ. The young Frenchman, a time-trial specialist, will therefore make the leap to the WorldTour after having growth-up in the Groupama-FDJ development team. Le Huitouze has signed for 2 years.
The Professional Spanish team, Euskaltel-Euskadi have announced the renewal of Gotzon Martín‘s contract. A 27-year-old Basque, the rider has signed a new one-year deal with the team, whose outfit he has defended since 2018.
21 yo Spanish Climber Jorge Gutiérrez will leave the youth team Equipo Finisher and turn professional with the jersey of Kern Pharma for the next 3 years.
23 August
Lotto Dstny have extended the contract with 21-year-old Arnaud De Lie until 2026, extending the existing contract valid until the end of next season. The Belgian team announced the extension for a further two years of the agreement with the Belgian, who has been able to take seven successes this year and a total of 16 victories since his switch to professional racing last year. A fast and resilient rider with still plenty of room for growth, especially in the northern classics, the Belgian has quickly become one of the leading men of the Professional team, a team with which he hopes to win a major classic in the coming years. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Lotto-Dstny – IN Jenno Berckmoes (Team Flanders-Baloise), Tijl De Decker (Lotto Dstny Development Team), Lionel Taminiaux (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Henri Vandenabeele (Team DSM-firmenich), Harm Vanhoucke (Team dsm-firmenich); OUT Frederik Frison (Q36.5), Michael Schwarzmann (Israel – Premier Tech); RUMOURED: IN Jarno Widar (Crabbe Toirures – CC Chevigny U19); OUT Harry Sweeny (EF Education EasyPost) ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Rudiger Selig, Eduardo Sepulveda, Harry Sweeny; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Johannes Adamietz (24), Jenno Berckmoes (25), Cedric Beullens (25), Victor Campenaerts (24), Jasper De Buyst (24), Tijl De Decker (25), Thomas De Gendt (24), Arnaud De Lie (26), Jarrad Drizners (25), Pascal Eenkhoorn (24), Caleb Ewan (24), Sebastien Grignard (24), Jacopo Guarnieri (24), Andreas Kron (24), Arjen Livyns (24), Milan Menten (24), Sylvan Moniquet (24), Mathijs Paasschens (24), Alec Segaert ((25), Liam Slock (24), Lionel Taminiaux (25), Jarne Van De Paar (25), Lennert Van Eetvelt (24),Maxim Van Gils (24), Brent Van Moer (25), Henri Vandenabeele (25), Harm Vanhoucke (24), Florian Vermeersch (24). Total 28
22 August
According to GCN journalist Daniel Benson, 20-year-old Briton Jack Rootkin-Gray (Saint Piran), fourth in the road race at the recent U23 World Championships, has reportedly attracted the interest of EF Education-EasyPost.
21 August
US-based Lidl-Trek has announced the signing of Ryan Gibbons until 2025. The South African will thus leave the UAE Team Emirates after three seasons. The 29 yo, a former national and continental road and time trial champion, won the Tour of Langkawi in 2017. So far he boasts eight successes as a pro rider also including the Trofeo Calvia of the Challenge Mallorca in 2021.
The Kazakhstan-based WorldTour formation Astana Qazaqstan will add the Italian climber Lorenzo Fortunato to its roster as of 1 January 2024. The 27-year-old will therefore leave Eolo-Kometa after three seasons, having signed a two-year contract with the formation led by Alexandr Vinokourov. In the current season, Fortunato won a stage and the general classification of the Vuelta Asturias 2023; his most important success, however, remains the stage with finish on Monte Zoncolan at the Giro d’Italia 2021.
Jhonatan Restrepo is Eolo – Kometa’s first addition for next season after signing a one year contract. The Colombian rider arrives from Gianni Savio’s GW Shimano – Sidermec, with whom he has raced for the past four years. Last April’s winner of the Giro della Città Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria, he is currently in Colombia to recover from the injury he suffered at the last Vuelta a Colombia and to prepare in the best possible way for his return to Europe. the 28 yo also won 6 stages to the Tour du Rwanda and was 2nd in a stage at the Vuelta a España in 2018.
19 August
According to a report by Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio, the British outfit Ineos Grenadiers seems close to confirming some of its elements: Salvatore Puccio, Jonathan Castroviejo, Omar Fraile and Brandon Rivera are reportedly close to renewing their contracts with the team. Also according to Ciro Scognamiglio, another Italian rider is also about to extend his contract with his current team: Italian champion Simone Velasco, who should therefore ride in the Astana Qazaqstan jersey, the formation he joined at the start of 2022, again next season.
18 August
Fabio Felline is returning to Lidl-Trek. The 33 Italian rider will join the US team at the start of 2024, after having defended its jersey from 2014 to 2019, with the team having different names at that time. Felline then spent a four-year stint at Astana Qazaqstan, which he will leave at the end of the current season. Felline has signed a contract expiring at the end of 2024.
The Swiss-licensed professional team Q36.5 has confirmed the signing of Belgian Frederik Frison, whose contract was expiring with Lotto-Dstny. Frison, 31, will join Q36.5 on 1 January 2024 and remain there until the end of the 2025 season. The Swiss team thus continues its renewal campaign, which had been inaugurated with the signing of Italian Giacomo Nizzolo. This season Frison was part of the Belgium national team for the Glasgow 2023 road race and finished fourth at Gent-Wevelgem 2023.
17 August
The Jumbo-Visma team, which has been shaken by the positive doping test result of German Michel Heßmann in recent hours, has announced the arrival of young Briton Ben Tulett, whose contract with Ineos Grenadiers expires at the end of the current season. This season Tulett won a stage and the general classification at the Tour of Norway and also has a stage at the Settimana Coppi&Bartali 2022. The 21 yo signed a 2 years contract.
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team Ineos Grenadiers – IN ; OUT Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl – Trek), Daniel Felipe Martinez (Bora-hansgrohe), Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates), Ben Tulett (Jumbo-Visma); RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma), Emil Schandorff Iwersen (Gallina Ecotek Lucchini Colosio); OUT Carlos Rodriguez (Movistar Team); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Jonathan Castroviejo, Laurens De Plus, Omar Fraile, Kim Heiduk, Salvatore Puccio, Brandon Rivera, Carlos Rodriguez, Luke Rowe, Ben Swift, Geraint Thomas, Cameron Wurf; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Thymen Arensman (24), Egan Bernal (26), Filippo Ganna (27), Ethan Hayter (24), Leo Hayter (25), Michal Kwiatkowski (25), Michael Leonard (25), Jhonatan Narvaez (24), Tom Pidcock (27), Luke Plapp (24), Magnus Sheffield (24), Connor Swift (24), Joshua Tarling (25), Ben Turner (26), Elia Viviani (24). Total 15
The Israeli Professional team Israel-Premier Tech announced the signings of Germans Pascal Ackermann and Michael Schwarzmann for next season. The 29-year-old Ackermann signed a two-year contract with Israel-Premier Tech, while Schwarzmann, 32, signed a one-year deal. Ackermann will therefore leave UAE Team Emirates at the end of the 2022-2023 two-year period. Schwarzmann will instead move to Israel-Premier Tech from Lotto-Dstny.
Just hours after winning his first professional race, at the Tour du Limousin 2023, the 25 yo Italian sprinter Luca Mozzato has extended his contract with Arkéa-B&B Hotels. The French WorldTour team and the Italian rider have reached an agreement to bring the expiry date of their union to the end of the 2025 season, thus extending by two years.
The 37 yo Lithuanian Ignatas Konovalovas has renewed his contract with Groupama-FDJ for one season, which will be the last in the peloton for him: the winner of the final time trial of the 2009 Giro d’Italia has in fact announced that he will hang up his bike at the end of 2024.
According to a report by Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio, details are also missing for the signing of Stefano Oldani with Cofidis. For the Italian, winner of stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia 2022, it would be a new adventure abroad after spending the last two years at Alpecin-Deceuninck and the previous two at Lotto Soudal.
16 August
The German team Bora-hansgrohe has announced the signing for next season of Colombian Daniel Felipe Martinez, who will leave the Ineos Grenadiers after three years to reinforce the team directed by Ralph Denk for the Grand Tours. So far the 27 yo Martinez has obtained 12 wins including a stage at the Tour de France (20), a Critérium du Dauphiné (20), and a Itzulia Basque Country (22), the 27-year-old has signed for one year.
Mikel Landa will be a Soudal-QuickStep rider as of 1 January 2024. The Basque climber will therefore leave Bahrain Victorious at the end of the current season and will joinPatrick Lefevere’s team. The parties have agreed on a two-year contract, thus expiring at the end of 2025. Landa will be 34 years old in December and, according to what has filtered through in recent weeks, he will be included in the Belgian team as a support man for Evenepoel in the Grand Tours climbs. In the current year the Spaniard was second in the Tour of the Basque Country 2023 but then was unable to perform well during the Tour de France 2023.
Simone Consonni will be a Lidl-Trek rider from 1 January 2024. The Bergamo rider will leave Cofidis when his current contract expires and join the US-licensed formation. Consonni joins two more Italian new team riders, Jonathan Milan and Andrea Bagioli, and is expected to be the leadout man for the team fast wheels riders but also to have his opportunities. The 28-year-old from Lombardy has signed a two-year contract, expiring at the end of 2025.
The Australian WorldTour Team Jayco-AlUla has made official the arrival of Max Walscheid on 1 January. The German, 30 years old, leaves Cofidis after two years and joins the ranks of Jayco-AlUla team signing a two-year contract. Walscheid, a good sprinter, won 12 times in his career, and is a became a reliable rider for the Flemish Classics. Situation WT team by team: Team Jayco AlUla – IN Anders Foldager (Biesse – Carrera), Mauro Schmid (Soudal – Quick Step), Max Walscheid (Cofidis); OUT Matteo Sobrero (Bora-hansgrohe); RUMOURED: IN Davide De Pretto (Zalf Euromobil Désirée Fior); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023 – Alexandre Balmer, Kevin Colleoni, Lawson Craddock, Alessandro De Marchi, Tsgabu Grmay, Michael Hepburn, Amund Grondahl Jansen, Chris Juul-Jensen, Kelland O’Brien, Jesus David Peña, Campbell Stewart, Zdeněk Štybar; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Welay Hagos Berhe (25), Eddie Dunbar (25), Luke Durbridge (24), Felix Engelhardt (24), Anders Foldager (25), Dylan Groenewegen (24), Lucas Hamilton (24), Chris Harper (24), Jan Maas (24), Michael Matthews (25), Luka Mezgec (24), Rudy Porter (24), Lukas Pöstlberger (24), Blake Quick (24), Elmar Reinders (24), Callum Scotson (24), Mauro Schmid (26), Simon Yates (24), Max Walscheid (25), Filippo Zana (25). Total 19
15 August
The news had already been in the air for weeks, but now it is official: Matteo Jorgenson will join Jumbo-Visma with the start of the 2024 season. The American rider has signed three-year contract and is ending his adventure in the Movistar jersey. This year the 24 yo, Jorgenson has excelled in both one-day races, he was fourth at the E3 Saxo Classic 2023 and ninth at the Tour of Flanders 2023, and short stage races, winning the Tour of Oman and placing second at the Tour of Romandie.
Lidl-Trek‘s strengthening efforts for next year continue. After announcing the additions of Jonathan Milan, Tao Geoghegan Hart and Andrea Bagioli, the US team also made official the signing for 2 years of Patrick Konrad, who after nine seasons leaves Bora-hansgrohe, the team with which he turned professional in 2015. A rather solid and consistent rider, the 31 yo Austrian is one of the best domestique in Grand Tour races, but he also managed to achieve three wins in his career, winning two national road titles and, most importantly, a stage at the Tour de France 2021.
Harm Vanhoucke is no longer a Team dsm-firmenich rider. The Dutch team revealed that it had agreed to release the Belgian rider from his contract so that he could sign elsewhere. Differences in ambitions and objectives are at the root of this separation, which comes just eight and a half months after the 26-year-old climber joined the team. At the time, he had left Lotto Dstny, a team he will be returning to. He has signed up until 31 December 2024 and is a Lotto Dstny with immediate effect.
Next year, Vincenzo Albanese will race with Arkéa-B&B Hotels. The French formation has announced the signing of the 26 yo Italian, from Eolo-Kometa. Albanese, who have signed for one year, will therefore make his debut in the WorldTour from next January 1st after seven seasons at Professional level, four with Bardiani and three with the formation led by Ivan Basso and Alberto Contador, with whom he was able to achieve numerous placings, some of which at the Giro d’Italia, and a stage victory at last year’s Tour du Limousin.
Colombian German Dario Gomez, who finished fourth at the last Giro Next Gen: The 22-year-old, currently at GW Shimano-Sidermec, is expected to race with Eolo-Kometa next year.
Anthon Charmig have joined for the next season the WorldTour team Astana Qazaqstan. The 25-year-old Dane, who in the last two years (his first as a professional) has raced with the jersey of the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team, has signed a two-year contract with the Kazakh team that will start on 1 January. A climber, Charmig was vice-European Under-23 champion in 2020 and, among the professionals, took a stage victory at the Tour of Oman 2022. Most recently, Charmig raced and completed his first Grand Tour (the Tour de France).
The Norwegian professional team Uno-X has taken on board Rasmus Bøgh Wallin, a 27-year-old Dane who had already raced in the past in Professional teams and in the current season with Continental Restaurant Suri-Carl Ras. This year Wallin won the general classification of the Tour of Estonia and the Arno Wallaard Memorial, a one-day race held in the Netherlands. Wallin signed for 2 seasons.
After twelve years, 34 yo USA rider Chad Haga (Human Powered Health) will leave road cycling at the end of this season. Haga began his career in 2012 in the US Continental Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies and then raced for many years in the WorldTour with Giant-Alpecin/Team Sunweb. The winner of the final time trial of the 2019 Giro d’Italia has announced on his social channels his intention to end his road career and switch to gravel.
14 August
The 24 yo Italian Andrea Bagioli will join Lidl-Trek as of 1 January. Bagioli has signed a three-year contract with the US team, confirming the rumours that have emerged in recent weeks. After turning professional and racing for four seasons with Soudal-QuickStep, a team with which he has so far archived five victories and several placings in races on the WorldTour calendar, feels that in the new team he will have more opportunities to compete in races that suit his characteristics, hoping to win soon a classic in the Ardennes and a stage in the Grand Tours.
Soudal-QuickStep continues to bet heavily on young talent for the 2024 season. After announcing in recent days the signings of Luke Lamperti, Gil Gelders, William Junior Lecerf and Warre Vangheluwe, the Belgian team also made official the arrival of French neo-pro Antoine Huby. Currently racing for the Vendée U, the 22 yo won the Course de la Paix Grand Prix Jeseníky and was second at Liège-Bastogne-Liège U23 and at Flèche du Sud, races where he was able to show his characteristics as a rider suited to the Ardennes Classic and short stage races. Hubby signed for two seasons.
31 yo French climber Warren Barguil returns to Team dsm-firmenich, after six years with Arkéa-Samsic. Barguil has already raced with the Dutch team, under the name Team Giant-Alpecin, from 2013, the year he turned professional, until 2017. He has signed a three year contract with the team directed by Iwan Spekenbrink. The former French Champion has in his palmares also 2 stage wins at the Tour de France 2017, when he also won the Maillot à Pois and two stage wins at the 2013 Vuelta a España.
The 26 yo Italian rider Matteo Sobrero will leave Jayco-AlUla at the end of the current season to join Bora-hansgrohe. Sobrero will end his two-year experience with the Australian formation, but will remain with a WorldTour category team after signing with Bora for one year. With the jersey of Jayco-Alula (at that time was BikeExchange), the Italian won the final time trial of the Giro d’Italia 2022 and this year, a stage of the Tour of Austria, which took place just a few weeks ago.
Movistar Team is interested in the 22 yo rider Carlos Canal, currently with Professional Euskaltel-Euskadi. The young climber has recently participating in the U23 road race of the Glasgow 2023 World Championships, which he finished in 11th place.
According to Marca, the professional team Euskaltel-Euskadi is looking to sign Victor De la Parte and Xavier Cañellas. The 37-year-old climber De la Parte is currently with TotalEnergies and has a long career behind him, spent between CCC, Movistar and Caja Rural, among others. Cañellas, a 26 years old racing with the jersey of Spanish Continental team Electro Hiper Europa, is also performing in national track races.
12 August
There are several rumours around the future of Remco Evenepoel. Although the new time trial world champion himself has recently dismissed any rumors of a team change, defining these rumors as “all b*****s” and thus also denying the words of his father Patrick, the indiscretions that see the Belgian talent already leave the Soudal-QuickStep at the end of this year are still numerous. This time it was Alberto Contador, today an analyst and commentator for Eurosport, who during the live television of the elite men’s time trial declared that the 23-year-old will race with the Ineos Grenadiers jersey in 2024. “It is an open secret that Evenepoel will ride for Ineos Grenadiers next year. And he will also bring some of his current teammates with him,” said the former Spanish rider. It is certainly no secret that Evenepoel is interested in the British training but, in addition to the person concerned, the general manager of Soudal-QuickStep Patrick Lefevere has repeatedly rejected the hypothesis of a team change for the talented Belgian whom contract will expire at the end of 2026. Just Lefevere, through the column he keeps on Het Nieuwsblad, wanted to respond directly to Contador: “I heard that Alberto Contador, in all his wisdom, thought it appropriate to declare on TV that Remco will race for Ineos next year. He won’t waste any more words on this story, but I point out that Remco became world time trial champion as a Soudal-QuickStep rider. If our team truly lacked scientific know-how, he certainly would not have succeeded. The time trial is not a discipline that can be won by improvising”.
The renewal of Carlos Verona‘s contract with Movistar seems closer. The 30-year-old has been raiding with the Spanish WorldTour since 2019, but initially seemed headed for the Ineos Grenadiers and Soudal-QuickStep. According to the Spanish sport newspaper Marca, however, the scenario seems to have changed and Verona could remain with the Movistar team also for next season.
According to Marca, the 22-year-old Iberian Raúl García Pierna (Equipo Kern Pharma) initially associated with Movistar, seems to be moving to Arkéa-B&B Hotels.
24 yo Xabier Mikel Azparren and his brother 21 yo Enekoitz Azparren (with an expiring contract in 2024) both currently riding for Euskaltel – Euskadi has been contacted by Movistar and at least one more WorldTour team.
11 August
IIt’s official, Fabio Jakobsen will be a rider for the dsm-firmenich Team starting next January 1st. The 26 yo sprinter, current European road champion, leaves Soudal-QuickStep after six seasons to join the Dutch team, with whom he signed a three-year contract expiring at the end of 2026. Capable so far of obtaining 43 successes in his career, including including a stage in the Tour de France and five in the Vuelta a España, where he also took the points classification in 2021.
Gil Gelders, William Junior Lecerf and Warre Vangheluwe will turn pro with the Wolfpack in 2024. Soudal Quick-Step will reinforce its ranks with three of the most promising young Belgian riders on the U23 circuit, all of whom will be making the step to the World Tour after a solid season in the ranks of the team development squad. 20 yo Gelders, who signed for 2 years, won the youth Gent-Wevelgem and a stage at GiroNextGen and was the runner-up in Paris-Roubaix. 20yo Lecerf, who signed up to the end of 2026, is a climber that won the hilly Course de Côte Herbeumont, was third overall at the Tour du Rwanda, finish fourth at the Tour Alsace and eighth in the U23 Giro d’Italia. The 22 yo Vangheluwe signed until the end of 2025 and this year won the Youngster Coast Challenge
The first two official signing for next season for Bora-hansgrohe are the two young neo-professionals: Austrian Alexander Hajek and the German Emil Herzog. Both grew up in the youth setup affiliated with the German WorldTour team, Team AutoEder. 20 yo Hajek is currently racing for Tirol KTM Cycling Team and 18 yo Herzog is defending the Hagens Berman Axeon colours. Both signed for two season until the end of 2025.
25 yo Canadian Nickolas Zukowsky has extended until 2025 with Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. He won the National Championships Canada – Road Race this year.
Jos Van Emden will hang up his bike at the end of this season. The Dutch rider announced his retirement from the sport after a career that lasted 16 years, all spent in the ranks of the same team. The 38-year-old had in fact turned pro in September 2008 with the then Rabobank after riding for two and a half years in the development squad, and has followed the team through its various name changes (Blanco Pro Cycling Team, Belkin and LottoNL-Jumbo) until to the current Jumbo-Visma. Fourteen victories obtained in his career by Van Emden, almost all time trials, among which the last stage of the 2017 edition of the Giro d’Italia stands out (a race in which he participated eleven times) and three national titles, the last of which conquered last June.
10 August
One of the biggest transfers news of the year so far. After 8 years with Ineos Grenadiers (along all is pro career), Tao Geoghegan Hart has signed a three-year contract with Lidl-Trek. The 28 yo British rider, currently on the road back from injury, was the Giro d’Italia winner in 2020 and will represent Lidl-Trek through 2026. After crashing out on the way to a potential top result at the 2023 Giro d’Italia, he went through a long rehabilitation period.
Astana Qazaqstan Team has announces the arrival for the next two seasons of the 25yo Dutch rider Ide Schelling (BORA – hansgrohe). Ide Schelling turned pro in 2020 and he scored wins and good placings. Among his best results so far the win GP of Canton of Aargau, the 2nd place in the Tour of Norway, the 4th in the De Brabantse Pijl and the 5th in the Baloise Belgium Tour all in 2021. But the current season has been his most successful so far with stage wins at the Itzulia Basque Country and at the Tour of Slovenia.
28 yo Markus Hoelgaard (Lidl-Trek) have signed with Uno-X for the next season. For the two-time stage winner in Artic Race Norwegian is a return home after two years spent with the American Trek team.
Promising 20yo Andrii Ponomar has joined with immediate effect PRT Team Corratec-Selle Italia signing up to the end of 2024. The Ukrainian rode the first part of the season with Team Arkea without any significant result.
It is now official the farewell of Laurens Huys to the Intermarché – Circus – Wanty. The 24-year-old climber, who joined the team at the beginning of 2022 from Bingoal WB, has failed to make his mark with the Belgian team in these two seasons, however, he was able to finishing the 2023 Giro d’Italia in 27th place, at his first attempt to a Grand Tour of his career).The 24-year-old has found a team, having signed for 2024 with Arkéa-B&B Hotels.
Contract extensions for 31 yo Quentin Pacher with Groupama-FDJ, with the Frenchman signing until 2025 with the Madiot’s team, which he joined in January 2022.
According to Ciro Scognamiglio (Gazzetta.it), although the official announcement will arrive later in August or early September, the move of Sam Bennett (now Bora-hansgrohe) to Ag2R-Citroen from 2024 is a done deal.
31 yo Spanish rider Mikel Iturria, who will continue the adventure with Euskaltel-Euskadi for another year. Iturria won a stage at La Vuelta in 2019.
The 37-year-old French rider Mikaël Cherel announced his retirement at the end of the current season. The Ag2r-Citroën rider will be competing in the 2023 Vuelta a España and, once that race is over, he will end his career. For him, the Spanish one, which begins on Saturday 26 August, will be the 19th Grand Tour. An efficient domestique, Cherel raced for the Francaise des Jeux from 2007 to 2010, then moving on to Ag2R, where he remained for all the following seasons.
9 August
The first signing of Soudal-QuickStep for the 2024 season is Luke Lamperti. Confirming the rumors of the last few months, the Belgian team has in fact announced the signing of the promising 20 yo Luke Lamperti, currently riding for Trinity Racing. In the last two seasons, he has obtaining some victories and placements in professional races (a stage at the 2022 Tour de Taiwan and three stages at the 2023 Tour of Japan) or semi-professional , also winning the third stage of the last Giro Next Gen. Lamperti is considered a potential top rider for the Northern Classics and has signed a contract with the Wolfpack valid for the next two years.
Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team has announced the signing of Italian Sprinter Giacomo Nizzolo (Israel – Premier Tech) for the upcoming 2024 season, on a two-year deal. The 34-year-old brings a palmares that includes a total of 30 victories as a professional career, including the Italian National Road Champion title, stages at the Giro d’Italia, where he won the green points jersey twice, and the European Championship.
Israel – Premier Tech has officially announced today the arrival of the 22-year-old Ethan Vernon. The British rider, who has just become the World Champion on the track in the Elimination, raced his first two seasons as a professional with the Soudal – QuickStep, with which he obtained seven victories, including stages in Volta a Catalunya and the Tour of Romandie. Vernon has signed a three-year contract.
Belgian team Intermarché-Circus-Wanty has announced the arrival of the 22 yo Vito Braet, coming from Team Flanders-Baloise. The Belgian, who has signed a two-year contract, stood out this year by obtaining three top-10s in three Northern semi-classics such as Le Samyn, the GP Monseré and the Ronde van Drenthe, highlighting the characteristics of a rider suitable for these type of races. This year Braet was also third in the second stage of the Tour of Hungary behind Fabio Jakobsen and Phil Bauhaus.
Already a professional for a couple of seasons, the Ukrainian Andrii Ponomar recently separated from Arkéa-Samsic to return to Italy, where his career should continue. According to Daniel Benson (GCN), in fact, the 20 yo could join the Corratec-Selle Italia Team.
The journalist of the Gazzetta dello Sport Ciro Scognamiglio confirmed that now only the official passage of Davide Formolo from UAE Team Emirates to Movistar is missing. The former Italian champion will sign a two-year contract, therefore valid for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
Simone Raccani has decided to hang up his bike. Turned professional at the beginning of the season with Eolo-Kometa, the 22-year-old announced the immediate termination of his career for personal reasons after only eight months among the pros. As an Under-23, a category in which he raced with the shirts of Beltrami TSA and Zalf Euromobil Fior, the Venetian had achieved several good results, winning the GP Capodarco 2021 and finishing the Giro della Valle d’Aosta 2022 in third place.
Laurent Pichon‘s cycling career will end at the end of the year. The 37-year-old of Team Arkéa-Samsic has announced that at the end of the 2023 season he will hang up his bike after 14 years among the pro peloton, most of which spent in the ranks of the Breton team. Apart from a parenthesis from 2013 to 2016 with the FDJ, the transalpine has in fact always raced for the team directed by Emmanuel Hubert, who in 2010, at the time of his transition to professional cycling, was called Bretagne Schuller. Pichon had his best year in 2017, when within two weeks, in March of that year, he won his first and only three wins of his careet: the Classique Loire Atlantique, a stage at the Settimana Coppi and Bartali and the Ruote Adélie de Vitré.
8 August
As expected, Jonathan Milan will be a Lidl-Trek rider starting from 1 January 2024. The tranfer of the Friulian rider from Bahrain Victorious to the US team was made official today. Already an Olympic, world and European champion on the track with the team pursuit quartet, the 22 yo also impressed on the road this year by winning a stage at the Saudi Tour but, above all, the second stage of the Giro d’Italia, a race in which he came close to winning on four other occasions, taking home the Ciclamino Jersey of the points classification. Milan has signed a three-year contract with Lid-Trek, therefore valid until the end of 2026.
UAE Team Emirates had announced the contract renewal/extention of McNulty, Soler, Laengen and Oliveira twins. Brandon McNulty, 25, has extended his deal to stay in the Emirati colours until 2027. The American joined UAE in 2020 and has taken several important victories in that time and been part of many team success. Marc Soler, 29, has extended his current contract until 2025, with the Catalan rider bringing his distinctive style of racing to the team. Both Rui and Ivo Oliveira, 26, have penned deals through to the end of 2026, with both riders establishing themselves in important team roles. Vegard Stake Laengen, 34, extends until 2025. The big Norwegian has been in the team since its inception in 2017 and has been part of two Tour de France winning teams.
Triple announcement for Groupama-FDJ, which formalized the first reinforcements for the 2024 season. Joining the Franch team, all three with a two-year contract, are the Norwegian Sven Erik Bystrøm and the French Rémy Rochas and Clément Russo. Under-23 world champion in 2014, the 31-year-old Bystrøm leaves Intermarché-Circus-Wanty after only two seasons in which he often made himself available to his teammates, a role he will also cover in the new team by making his experience available to young talents of the team. A supporting role will also be played by 28-year-old Russo, from Arkéa-Samsic, and 27-year-old Rochas, who has raced for Cofidis in recent years.
Clément Venturini, who at the end of this season will leave Ag2r Citroën after six years, as anticipated in recent weeks. The 29 yo, several times national champion in cyclo-cross, will remain in France by moving to Arkéa-B&B Hotels, with which he has signed a contract valid until the end of 2025.
Although still not official, Italian Manlio Moro, who conquest the Silver medal in the team pursuit quartet at the Glasgow 2023 World Championship, has signed for Team Movistar. The 21-year-old from Zalf Euromobil Fior confirmed to Relevo that he had signed for Movistar, who had offered him a three-year contract after inviting and evaluating him at their training camp last December.
Euskaltel-Euskadi announced the two-year renewal of one of his pillars, the almost 34-year-old Mikel Bizkarra, who will thus extend his adventure with the Professional Spanish team.
New Zealander George Bennett seems destined to leave the UAE Team Emirates: according to what reported by the journalist of the Gazzetta dello Sport Ciro Scognamiglio, the 33-year-old could join Soudal-Quickstep.
The historic US Professional team Human Powered Health is at risk of closure. Born in 2007 as Kelly Benefit Strategies / Medifast, racing at the continental level, the American team has progressively evolved until it landed in the Professional category in 2018 with the name of Rally Cycling. Last year the new change of sponsor, who had signed an at least three-year contract, but now everything seems destined to end, at least for the men team. “The team will stop. This is what we know, and it seems like the usual struggle to find sponsors,” a source very close to the dossier told GCN after the French portal Velo-Club.net broke the news this morning, following a videoconference that the management reached out to the riders and staff to inform them of the situation and communicate that they were free to find new solutions for next year. At the moment the team management is still trying to save the situation, even if currently the chances of finding a new sponsorship seem very slim.
20 yo Italian Federico Biagini (Zalf Euromobil Fior) have joined the Italian Professional Team Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè. Biagini signed until 2027.
7 August
Max Kanter is Astana Qazaqstan‘s first addition for the 2024 season. The 25-year-old German has signed a two-year contract with the Kazakh team, which after the extension of Cees Bol and after also offering Mark Cavendish a renewal more oriented towards sprints. A good sprinter but also capable of making himself available to his teammates, Kanter will leave Movistar after two seasons, with whom he took several placings but did not obtain any successes.
The Lidl-Trek formation announced the extension of 5 of the following riders at the end of the contract: Otto Vergaerde, Edward Theuns, Alex Kirsch and Daan Hoole until 2025 and Quinn Simmons until 2026. With these five signings, Luca Guercilena’s team is ensuring continuity, especially in the Classics, where these five men are very important elements around Mads Pedersen.
6 August
New incoming coup for UAE Team Emirates, which has secured the talented Antonio Morgado. The 19-year-old Portuguese will therefore turn professional on 1 January with the Emirate team, with whom he signed a four-year contract, valid until the end of the 2027 season. He stood out last year in the junior category with victory in the Giro di Lunigiana and second places in the Corsa della Pace and in the junior road race of the Wollongong World Championships. Morgado has also achieved good results in this 2023, who is racing with the Hagens Berman Axeon jersey, winning the time trial of the national championships U23 and in the final classification of the Tour of Rhodes, category 2.2 race.
5 August
After the signings of Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers), Nils Politt (BORA-hansgrohe) and Filippo Baroncini (Lidl-Trek), the UAE Team Emirates squad has announced the arrival of a fourth rider in its ranks for the 2024 season, it is Igor Arrieta. The 20-year-old Spaniard evolves within the ProTeam Equipo Kern Pharma and will therefore join the Emirati team for 3 years, until 2026.
Mikel Landa, whose farewell to the Bahrain Victorious at the end of the season is practically certain, should join Soudal-QuickStep with an offer for the next two years. Patrick Lefevere, general manager of the Wolfpack, who confirmed at Het Nieuwsblad that the signing of the Spaniard is almost done. The Belgian manager himself admitted that in recent months he had also tried to sign Pavel Sivakov, Carlos Verona and Laurens De Plus: the first, as known, has signed for UAE Team Emirates, the second would have found an agreement with a another team (which Lefevere did not reveal) already last February, while the third would have chosen to renew with Ineos Grenadiers.
The return of Fabio Felline (Astana-Qazaqstan) to Lidl-Trek is very probable. Anticipated in recent weeks by the Gazzetta dello Sport, this transfer is also practically confirmed by the news collected by the GCN journalist Daniel Benson.
Benson (GCN) reports that Australian Harry Sweeny will leave Lotto Dstny at the end of the season, with the 25-year-old likely to ride in the EF Education-EasyPost jersey next year.
According to La Depeche, Bruno Armirail also seems destined to leave his current team, Groupama-FDJ, despite a contract with the transalpine team expiring at the end of 2024. An early farewell, therefore, that of the former national time trial champion, who according to the journalist of the Gazzetta dello Sport Ciro Scognamiglio could join Ag2r Citroën.
4 August
Filippo Baroncini will be a new rider for UAE Team Emirates starting next January 1st. The Emirate team has in fact formalized the arrival of the former Under-23 world champion, coming from Lidl-Trek, who has signed a two-year contract, therefore valid until the end of 2025. Born in 2000, the native of Massa Lombarda was not very lucky in his first two years as a professional, having had to deal with some falls and injuries that did not allow him to show his qualities continuously. Despite this, there was no shortage of placements and good performances, thanks to which he also earned a call-up for the upcoming Glasgow World Cup.
Double renewal at Soudal-QuickStep. The Belgian team has in fact announced the extension until the end of 2025 of the contracts of Ilan Van Wilder and Louis Vervaeke, both of whom joined the Wolfpack in January 2022. A very promising rider, Van Wilder mainly performed support duties in his first seasons with the team, racing alongside Remco Evenepoel in last year’s Vuelta a España conquered by his teammate, but was also able to obtain good results himself, closing the last Giro d’Italia in twelfth place. Vervaeke, born in 1993, has also often proved to be a precious element for his captains, and he too was part of the selection that joined Evenepoel at the 2022 Vuelta.
Equipo Kern Pharma has announced the signing of Hugo Aznar for next year. Current intern with the Spanish team, the class of 2003 signed until 2026, thus joining his older brother Unai.
The 32-year-old ex Burgos-BH Diego Rubio, who has now been out for more than a year after breaking his arm during the 2022 Tour of Estonia. A fracture operated badly and which did not allow him to recover 100% of the mobility of the limb, thus forcing him to end his career prematurely.
As reported by the Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio and the GCN journalist Daniel Benson, there are rumours about the future of three riders whose contracts expire at the end of the year. The first is Sam Bennett, who should leave Bora-hansgrohe and should be very close to signing with Ag2r Citroën. The second is Louis Meintjes, who should renew for two seasons with the Intermarché-Circus-Wanty, thus confirming what was already rumored a month ago, while the third is Filip Maciejuk, who according to what was reported by the commentator Eurosport’s Karol Dziambor will not renew with Bahrain Victorious, who had only offered him a one-year contract, but will switch to Bora-hansgrohe, who instead offered him a two-year contract.
3 August
Nils Politt will wear the colours of UAE Team Emirates from next year. The Emirates formation has in fact announced the signing until the end of 2026 of the strong German sprinter, confirming the rumours that have emerged in recent weeks. Current national time trial champion and former road champion, the 29-year-old is thus leaving after three seasons with Bora-hansgrohe, the team with which he won a stage at the Tour de France 2021 and the final classification of the Tour of Germany that year.
Lotto Dstny made official the signing of three new riders for the 2024 season. Joining the Belgian team are Jenno Berckmoes, Lionel Taminiaux and Henri Vandenabeele, who have all signed two-year contracts, valid until the end of 2025. 22yo Berckmoes arrives from Team Flanders-Baloise, where he achieved some interesting placings in the last two years, also participating in three Monument Classics. Taminiaux, the most experienced of the three at 27 years of age, leaves Alpecin-Deceuninck after three seasons and two victories, while 23-year-old Vandenabeele, who made a name for himself in 2020 and 2021 with a double podium finish at the Giro d’Italia U23, will make his return to the Belgian outfit (where he was a development team rider) after three years at Team DSM.
New signing for the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team, who announced the arrival of Jonas Iversby Hvideberg. After the signings of Magnus Cort and Andreas Leknessund, the Norwegian team announced the inclusion in the 2024 squad of the rider currently racing for Team dsm-firmenich. For the Norwegian, European Under-23 champion in 2020, it is a return home: Hvideberg had already raced with the development team of the Scandinavian outfit in 2018 and 2019 and with the first team in 2020 and 2021. The 24-year-old, who has not yet managed to raise his arms in the pros, has signed a three-year contract, which will expire at the end of the 2026 season.
2 August
Pavel Sivakov joins the UAE Team Emirates. The Franch-Russian rider has signed a three-year contract with the Emirates formation, leaving Ineos Grenadiers, with whom he had turned professional in 2018, when he was called Sky. Considered to be among the most promising cyclists of his generation, the 26 year-old had arrived at pro level after successes at the Giro U23 and the 2017 Giro della Valle d’Aosta, thus presenting himself as one of the great promises for stage racing. Locked in a team of the highest level, also slowed down by numerous injuries, he has not yet managed to explode at the highest level, nevertheless achieving prestigious successes (including in 2019 the Tour of Poland and the Tour of Alps and in 2022 the Volta at Burgos) and often standing out as one of the most valuable domestiques for his teammates.
Team Jayco – AlUla opens its market with the arrival of Mauro Schmid. After two seasons at Soudal – QuickStep in which he failed to establish himself at a high level, despite achieving good results such as the successes at the Tour of Belgium and the Settimana Coppi e Bartali and a stage at the Giro d’Italia in 2021, the 23 yo Swiss rider will try to relaunch himself with the Australian team, in which he will seek more space on a personal level for the next 3 years.
While waiting to hear Mark Cavendish’s decision regarding his future, Astana Qazaqstan confirms the 28 yo Dutch Cees Bol, arrived last year as the Briton’s leadout. The Kazakhstani team has extended his contract with a two-year term, therefore expiring in 2025.
The Tudor Pro Cycling Team is starting the 2023/2024 transfer market with a bang! The Swiss team led by former four-time world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara has just announced its first recruits for next season seven arrivals. The Swiss ProTeam has set its sights on reaching the WorldTour by 2026 and is giving itself the means to achieve its ambitions. The newcomers include a wide range of profiles and well known riders, such as climber Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ) – winner of the Tour de l’Ain and two stages of the Vuelta in 2021 – as well as the Italian sprinter Alberto Dainese (Team dsm-firmenich) – twice stage winner in the Giro d’Italia – and his experienced compatriot Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates) – a former European Champion, winner of three stages in the Tour de France and four in the Tour of Spain. The remains riders are four Germans, the versatile young sprinter Marius Mayrhofer (Team dsm-firmenich), winner of this year’s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, Florian Stork (Team dsm-firmenich), Alexander Krieger (Alpecin-Deceuninck), fifth in stage 21 of the Giro d’Italia 2023 and finally and with immediate effect Hannes Wilksch, a 21-year-old German talent – 3rd in the Giro U23, 7th in the Tour de l’Avenir 2022 – from the Tudor Pro Cycling Team U23. All have signed three-year contracts – until 2026 – with the exception of Alberto Dainese, Alexander Krieger and Hannes Wilksch, who have only signed until 2025. Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Tudor Pro Cycling – IN Alberto Dainese (Team dsm-firmenich), Alexander Krieger (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Marius Mayrhofer (Team dsm-firmenich), Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ), Florian Stork (Team dsm-firmenich), Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates), Hannes Wilksch (Tudor Pro Cycling Team U23); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: ; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Tom Bohli (24), Nils Brun (24), Sebastian Changizi (24), Aloïs Charrin (24), Alberto Dainese (25), Arvid De Kleijn (24), Jacob Eriksson (24), Lucas Eriksson (24), Robin Froidevaux (24), Mika Heming (24), Alexander Kamp (24), Petr Kelemen (24), Arthur Kluckers (24), Alexander Krieger (25), Marius Mayrhofer (26), Simon Pellaud (24), Rick Pluimers (26), Sebastien Reichenbach (24), Michael Storer (26), Florian Stork (26), Joel Suter (24), Roland Thalmann (24), Matteo Trentin (26), Yannis Voisard (26), Hannes Wilksch (25), Luc Wirtgen (24), Maikel Zijlaard (26). Total 27
TotalEnergies have announced its first signing for next season. He is Baptiste Vadic, a rider belonging to Vendée U, the Vendée team’s historical breeding ground with which he has been racing for three seasons. A versatile, fast and durable rider, the 21-year-old transalpine has signed a two-year contract with Jean-René Bernaudeau’s formation, where he will find an environment familiar to him given the presence of many of his former teammates.
As reported by Daniel Benson (GCN), the 32 yo Michael Schwarzmann, an experienced German rider, who after a long militancy at NetApp / Bora-hansgrohe last year switched to Lotto Soudal, now Lotto Dstny, should change teams. With just one success in his career, at the 2016 Tour of Azerbaijan, he is a solid domestique rider for northern classics able to help the captains on flat terrains. For him there is much interest by Israel – Premier Tech.
1 August
The first official signing for the 2024 season is from Uno-X Pro Cycling. Confirming rumours that have emerged in recent months, the Norwegian professional team has announced the signing of Danish rider Magnus Cort, who will join the team on 1 January until the end of the 2026 season. The 30-year-old, who will therefore leave EF Education-EasyPost after four years, has so far claimed 26 career victories, including stages in all three Grand Tours, and will bring his experience and quality to the ambitious Scandinavian team, which recently participated in the Tour de France for the first time.
After announcing this morning the arrival of Magnus Cort until 2026, the Norwegian professional Uno-X Pro Cycling Team also made official this morning the agreement with Andreas Leknessund until the end of 2026, who had been much talked about in recent weeks. Two important strikes then from the ambitious Scandinavian formation, which thus continues to strengthen itself for a continuous growth in recent years, preserving its strong Danish and Norwegian identity, like the two riders signed. Leknessund obtained so far 5 pro wins and was 8th at this year Giro d’Italia, where he held the pink jersey for 5 days.
According to the L’Equipe, the 31-year-old Warren Barguil, with an expiring with Team Arkéa-Samsic, where he has been riding since January 2018, will almost certainly not renew with the Breton-based team. For the winner of the Maglia a Pois of the 2017 Tour de France, the doors seem to be opening for Team dsm-firmenich, a team in which he has already raced from 2013 to 2017 under the names Argos-Shimano, Giant-Alpecin and Sunweb. Ouest-France wrote the he has already agreed a three-year contract.
Arnaud Démare is a new Team Arkéa-Samsic rider. As anticipated yesterday by Le Parisien, the transalpine sprinter joins the Breton formation immediately, thus ending his contract (already expiring at the end of the year) with Groupama-FDJ in advance. It was a divorce that had been in the air for some time and which had essentially been anticipated by the exclusion of the rider from selection for the Tour de France, thus putting an end to a relationship that had lasted twelve seasons, since Démare turned professional at the start of 2012. Now, therefore, a new adventure begins for the most successful French rider in activity, which will last two years, the 31-year-old having signed until the end of 2025 with the team that from next season will take the name Arkéa-B&B Hotels. His first race in his new jersey will be the Tour of Leuven, scheduled for Tuesday 15 August, which will be followed by the Hamburg Classic on Sunday 20 August, his first major international success 11 years ago. He will then be at the start of the Benelux Tour, 22-27 August.
Arkéa – Samsic, after announcing the arrival with immediate effect of Arnaud Démare, has also signed with Miles Scotson. However, the 29 yo Australian will only complete his contract with Groupama – FDJ, thus only returning to his sprinter’s side at the end of the season, as the team’s current roster is closed (so much so that Ponomar had to be let go to make room for the winner of the 2016 Milan-San Remo). For Scotson a 2 year contract.
26 yo Dutch Bram Welten, who will leave the French team Groupama – FDJ at the end of the season, as admitted to WielerFlits, but, while he has not revealed the name of his new team.
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA has announced the signing with immediate effect of Gorka Sorarrain. The 27-year-old Spaniard leaves the Angolan Continental formation BAI – Sisacal – Petro de Luanda, with which he raced in the first part of the season, to join the Iberian team until the end of 2025, with which he will make his debut at the upcoming Tour of Portugal. Sorarrain, a tough and also quite fast rider, is now turning professional after a particular sporting trajectory: until a few years ago, the Basque played basketball in the lower leagues of the Spanish league, and only last year did he begin his cycling career, playing in a Basque amateur team.
Three options had emerged over the past few days for Torstein Træen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team), Ag2r Citroën, Bora-hansgrohe and Bahrain Victorious, and according to Landevei, the 28-year-old Norwegian has chosen the Middle Eastern formation to continue his career next year.
According to reports in Quotidiano Nazionale, Giovanni Aleotti has been confirmed by Bora-hansgrohe for next season, thus extending an adventure that began in 2021 and that has seen the 24 yo rider achieve five successes so far.
31 July
The Belgian WT team Soudal-QuickStep has announced the extension of Pieter Serry contract, who signed for another two years, until the end of 2025, when he will be 37 years old and will have spent 13 seasons in the Wolfpack.
Cofidis has announced several renewals in recent weeks, but the French formation is working on some new additions for 2024. Frenchman Nolann Mahoudo (20yo from CIC U Nantes Atlantique), who won a stage in this year’s Tour de Bretagne, and 29-year-old Belgian Ludovic Robeet, a classics rider currently at Bingoal WB, are said to be on the team’s radar.
29 July
Source Ciro Scognamiglio @Gazzetta.it – The Israeli-Canadian team Israel-Premier Tech, which will still be Professional in 2024, has its eye on Ethan Vernon (Soudal-QuickStep). The Briton, 22 years old, with his contract expiring at the end of the season, could be soon an Israel-Premier Tech rider.
Source Daniel Benson (GCN) – Ef Education-EasyPost is expected to signing Markel Beloki. The Spaniard, son of former rider Joseba, recently turned 18 and has been offered a 3 year deal.
The US team Ef Education-EasyPost added two young riders, both 21 years old, to its roster for the 2024 season, and announced the arrivals of Irish climber Archie Ryan (Jumbo-Visma Development Team) and Dutch powerhouse Jardi Christiaan van der Lee (neo-pro). Both have signed for two years until the end of the 2025 season.
25 July
Contract renewal for the 30-year-old Josef Černý. The rider from the Czech Republic who had joined the Belgian team at the beginning of 2021, signed an agreement that will expire at the end of 2025, remaining at Soudal-QuickStep for another two years.
Source GCN journalist Daniel Benson – Stefano Oldani has an expiring contract with Alpecin-Deceuninck. Alpecin is probably not renewing with him and the Milan rider and has three options for next year.
24 July
Two-year renewal for Mattia Cattaneo with Soudal-QuickStep. Due to expire at the end of the season, the 32 year-old has extended his agreement with the Belgian team, in which he has been active since January 2020, until the end of 2025. In the last three and a half years with the Wolfpack, Cattaneo from Bergamo has often distinguished himself as a valuable aid to his teammates, especially on the climbs, but he has also been able to achieve results himself, winning a stage at the Tour of Luxembourg 2021 and coming close to one at the Tour de France in the same year. He has also shown excellent improvements in time trials, as demonstrated by the three consecutive podiums (a third and two second places) he has achieved in the last three years in the time trials at the Italian Championships.
As reported by DirectVelo, the two 20 year old Belgian talents, Gil Gelders and William Junior Lecerf are expected to join the WTT Soudal-QuickStep after both racing with the Belgian team’s development squad this season after obtain this year so far several top 10 placing.
The 27-year-old Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen, who was the protagonist of several breakaways during the last Tour de France, has extended his contract with Uno-X Pro Cycling until the end of the 2026 season.
As reported by French newspaper Le Progrès, Clément Venturini (Ag2r Citroen) will almost certainly change jersey next year.
23 July
Source GCN journalist Daniel Benson – After two years at Cofidis, Max Walscheid will be moving on at the end of the season. Jayco AlUla is his most probable destination.
18 July
José Manuel Diaz will continue his adventure with Burgos – BH. The Iberian rider joined the team in the middle of last season after the closure of Gazprom – RusVelo and convinced the sports directors to keep him with the team. During the season he won a stage at the GP Torres Vedras, as well as being fourth in a stage of the Vuelta Asturias, which ended in 11th position in the general classification. Today the team announced that the Jaén native’s contract has been extended for a further two seasons: the 28yo rider will therefore wear this jersey until at least 2025.
17 July
It is now official, Darren Rafferty will turn professional with Ef Education-EasyPost from the start of the 2024 season. The 20yo Irishman in recent weeks won the general classification at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta 2023, while at the Giro Next Gen 2023 he finished second overall. Rafferty has raced since 2022 with Hagens Berman Axeon, a Continental team focused on talented young riders.
Source Daniel Benson (GCN) – Ryan Gibbons, who was confirmed by GCN to be leaving UAE Team Emirates has been strongly linked to Lidl Trek. Nothing signed yet.
Intermarché-Circus-Wanty made official the contract extensions for two of the team’s veterans, Estonian Rein Taaramäe and Dutchman Boy Van Poppel. Both expiring at the end of the season, the two have renewed for one year, until the end of 2024.
Two contract renewals for Ag2r Citroën. The French WorldTour team has announced that it has extended the contracts of Frenchmen Benoît Cosnefroy and Nans Peters. Both riders had their contracts expiring at the end of the current season and both have signed a new agreement to remain with Ag2r-Citroën until the end of the 2025 season. Both Cosnefroy and Peters are currently competing in the Tour de France 2023. 27yo Cosnefroy, has been with the same team since 2017 and has achieved a number of important successes in those colours, including the Bretagne Ouest Classic 2021 and the Gp Québec 2022. 29 yo Peters won this year the Trofeo Laigueglia.
According to Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio, the 23-year-old Swiss rider Mauro Schmid, winner of a stage at the Giro d’Italia 2021, is not expected to renew with his current team Soudal-QuickStep. Rumours are suggesting Team Jayco AlUla as his next team.
21 yo Spaniard Diego Uriarte, riding this year with the jersey of Equipo Finisher, the development team of Equipo Kern Pharm have signed for one year with the PRT squad.
15 July
Starting on 1 January 2024, Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk and Jasper Dejaegher will became pro riders. Both are currently with Circus-ReUz-Technord, the development team of Intermarché-Circus-Wanty, but only Van Sintmaartensdijk, a 22-year-old Dutchman and winner of a stage at the Tour de Bretagne this year, will make the leap into the peloton with the WorldTour team, with whom he has signed a two-year contract. Dejaegher, a 22 yo Belgian, author of seven victories in the season (between races on the national calendar and in the .2 category), has instead signed for the next two years with the Professional Team Flanders-Baloise.
In an interview with AST, the Spaniard David De La Cruz said that he had been contacted by several teams for next year and that he did not received any offer from his current team, Astana Qazaqstan, which is therefore not expected to renew the contract of the 34-year-old climber.
14 July
Source Source Daniel Benson (GCN): After two years at Groupama-FDJ it sounds as though the 26yo Australian Michael Storer (2 stage wins at Vuelta) will be moving on at the end of the season.
13 July
Source Source Daniel Benson (GCN): 25yo Dutch Ide Schelling is set to leave Bora-Hansgrohe at the end of the season.
12 July
33yo Spanish Pello Bilbao gets a two year contract extension at Bahrain.
Israel Premier Tech announce that Krists Neilands has signed a three-year contract extension.
According to reports in La Voix du Nord, Alexis Gougeard is ready to return to professional cycling that counts. Left stranded after the closure of B&B Hotels, the transalpine had settled in with the Continental VC Rouen 76, however, a two-year contract with Cofidis is ready for the 30yo Frenchman1993, which could bring him back after two seasons in the WorldTour.
After two years in their development team, Euskaltel – Euskadi team announced the signing of 20 yo Spaniard Nicolás Alustiza for the next two seasons.
11 July
According to Spanish journalist Carlos de Andres, UAE Team Emirates has signed the 20 year-old Igor Arrieta, a promising climber from Equipo Kern Pharma, also 6th in this year GC in O Gran Camiño.
Source Wielerflits: another Dutch rider seems ready to leave Jumbo-Visma at the end of the year. Gijs Leemreize is closed to signing with Team DSM-Firmenich, tighter with compatriot and teammate Timo Roosen.
Source Source Daniel Benson (GCN): 31 yo Austrian Patrick Konrad is set to leave Bora-Hansgrohe at the end of the season. Several teams in the hunt.
Source Het Laatste Nieuws: Soudal-QuickStep has a strong interest in 27 yo Belgian Ayco Bastiaens, currently with Alpecin-Deceuninck Development.
10 July
Team dsm-firmenich have extended their contract with the 20yo British Max Poole (he was already under contract up to the end of 2024) until at least the end of the 2027 season. Joining the Development program in 2022, Poole settled in well finishing sixth overall on the challenging Giro Ciclistico della Valle d’Aosta – Mont Blanc race, and then, he took a brilliant seventh at Arctic Race of Norway. 2023 saw Poole became a WorldTour level pro with Team dsm-firmenich. The start of the year saw him ride strongly at Tour des Alpes Maritimes et du Var before he suffered a crash at Faun Drôme Classic, then he returned to racing with a good 11th place at the Tour of the Alps, where he also won the best young riders jersey. Poole also claimed his first WorldTour level top five at the Tour de Romandie, fourth place at the Tour de Hongrie and two fifth place stage finishes at the Critérium du Dauphiné and a 13th overall.
Source Source Daniel Benson (GCN): The 27yo Frenchman Rémi Cavagna will leave Soudal QuickStep at the end of the season. The Spanish sport newspaper Marca added that Movistar is interested in the French cyclist.
On his social media, Tony Gallopin have announced that he will hang up his bike at the end of the season. The 35-year-old transalpine announced in person his retirement at the end of what will be his 16th year as a professional, near all of it in the WorldTour. After a two-year stint with Auber 93 at continental level and two more years at Cofidis, then Professional, the French rider landed at RadioShack, then raced with Lotto Soudal, Ag2r La Mondiale and Trek – Segafredo, which became Lidl – Trek this month. Full profile here.
9 July
Mark Cavendish has outlined his intention to retire from cycling at the end of this season, but his Astana Qazaqstan team want the Briton to continue in 2024; Cavendish is out of this year’s Tour de France after crashing and breaking his collarbone on Saturday. Injured Mark Cavendish could get another opportunity to break the record for Tour de France stage wins after being offered a contract extension by Astana Qazaqstan. The British cyclist’s hopes of surpassing the record of 34 victories, which he currently shares with Belgian legend Eddy Merckx, appeared at an end when he crashed out of this year’s race and suffered a broken collarbone on Saturday.
According to L’ Equipe, Movistar team have decided to bet on a young Spanish rider Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) to revamp their fortune and aim again at the grand tours. Currently fourth in the general classification of the Tour de France at 4’22” from Vingegaard, the 22-year-old Iberian will be the new captain of Movistar and should have alongside him among others Davide Formolo arriving from UAE and the 23-year-old Pelayo Sanchez from Burgos BH, winner of the final stage of the Vuelta Asturias. Many more movements are expected in the Spanish team, as 23 riders are at the end of their contracts. Among the departures will be Matteo Jorgenson, who should join Jumbo Visma and Carlos Verona, who could join Ineos-Grenadiers or Soudal Quick Step.
Source Renaud Breban (Velofute): the 22 yo Antoine Huby is expected to turn professional next season with the jersey of Soudal – QuickStep. The young Frenchman is currently in the Vendée U team and was second at this year’s Liège – Bastogne – Liège Under 23 and won the Peace Race.
7 July
Sep Vanmarcke (Isreal Premier-Tech) retires from professional cycling due to medical reasons. During his 14 year long career, the 34 yo Belgian won 9 races. Full profile here.
6 July
Edoardo Affini will wear the colours of Jumbo-Visma for at least another three years. The Italian from Mantova, who joined the Dutch team at the start of 2021, has signed a new contract with the team that includes Primoz Roglic, Jonas Vingegaard and Wout Van Aert until the end of the 2026 season.
5 July
Source Ciro Scognamiglio (Gazzetta_it): Fabio Felline (Astana) should join Lidl-Trek in 2024.
34 yo Norwegian Vegard Stake Laengen have extended his contract with UAE Team Emirates up to the end of 2025.
Source Daniel Benson (GCN): 22 yo German Marius Mayrhofer (Team Dsm-Firmenich), who won the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race this year, looks set to leave his current team with Bora-hansgrohe in pole position to sign him.
Source Daniel Benson (GCN): 21 yo Archie Ryan (Jumbo-Visma Development Team), who is fighting back from a knee injury, has been strongly linked with a move to EF-Education for next year.
4 July
Source Ciro Scognamiglio (Gazzetta_it): after Jonathan Milan, two others Italian riders are ready to move with Lidl-Trek. Simone Consonni (Cofidis) and Andrea Bagioli (Soudal QuickStep).
3 July
Italians Alessandro Pinarello (19 yo) and Alex Tolio (23 yo) have extended with Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè respectively until the end of 2025 and 2026.
2 July
Source WielerFlits.nl: Sam Oomen will leave Jumbo-Visma at the end of the season and is about to sign a contract with Lidl-Trek. Several sources have confirmed this to WielerFlits. The 27-year-old rider Sam Oomen was an important force for Primoz Roglic in the last Giro d’Italia. After his ninth place in the 2018 Giro d’Italia (where he rode for Tom Dumoulin, who finished second behind Chris Froome), Oomen was seen as a future tour rider. Due to a broken hip and a narrowed femoral artery in the following year, his development stagnated. Then came the corona stop, which made the impact of two years not at level prices significant. Oomen made the switch from Team Sunweb to Jumbo-Visma a year later than his buddy Tom Dumoulin, but he was also unable to reach the level with the Dutch team that was in line with expectations. The eighth place in the Tour de Suisse 2021, tenth place in the Tour of Catalonia 2022 and a twentieth place in the Giro d’Italia 2022 were his best results. Still only 27 years old, there was interest in Oomen from several teams, such as Team DSM-firmenich and Intermarché-Circus-Wanty. The rider decided to opt for Lidl-Trek because he also gets the guarantee here to regularly ride for his own chances.
Cofidis Team has announced the extension of Bryan Coquard‘s contract for the next two season up to the end of 2025. The 31 yo French sprinter has so far obtained 51 victories, with the last three this season: two at the Région Pays de la Loire Tour and one at the start of the year on the Tour Down Under. This first victory in 2023 is Coquard first UCI World Tour race success.
1 July
Source tuttobiciweb.it: Astana has approached the 33-year-old Colombian Nairo Quintana hoping to sign him for the Vuelta. Talks are in progress, and the previous negotiation between Quintana and Soudal -Quick Step is now over.
According to tuttobiciweb.it, UAE Emirates Team is interested in Filippo Baroncini (Lidl – Trek). However, the 22-year-old Italian has also been linked to Astana.
Source tuttobiciweb.it: Matteo Fabbro should leave Bora at the end of the season. The 28 yo Italian could end up at Soudal, as well as EF Education and Lidl Trek.
Source tuttobiciweb.it: 24 yo Italian Andrea Bagioli (Soudal – Quick Step) seems to be heading towards Arkea.
30 June
According to Gazzetta.it Ciro Scognamiglio’s sources, the former Italian and European champion Giacomo Nizzolo (Israel-Premier Tech) will leave his team at the end of the season. For the 34 yo, the Swiss PRT team Q36.5 Pro Cycling seems to be the most likely option.
29 June
According to landevei.no, one of its most interesting riders of the Norwegian PRT team Uno-X Pro Cycling could also lose one of its most interesting riders. In fact, the 27 yo Norwegian Torstein Træen, who was eighth at the recent Tour of the Dauphiné, has attracted the interest of three WorldTour teams: Ag2r Citroen, Bahrain Victorious and Bora-hansgrohe.
28 June
The French WorldTour team Arkéa-B&B Hotels has announced that it has extended the contract of Jenthe Biermans. The 27-year-old Belgian had joined Arkéa-Samsic at the start of the current season and will remain there until the end of the 2025 season. Biermans won his first career victory in February, imposing himself at the Muscat Classic 2023.
27 June
29-year-old Dutchman Danny Van Poppel, who will be starting his fifth Tour de France, has just had his contract with BORA-hansgrohe extended until 2027! Considered on elf the best leadout man in the peloton, Van Poppel accepted the offer of a long-term contract by the German team.
The Italian Professional team Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè have announced made official today the signing of the 22-year-old Italian Mattia Pinazzi. Pinazzi is the team’s second addition for next season after that of Chilean Vicente Rojas (see 30 May) and is coming from Arvedi Cycling. Also a good pistard, Pirazzi, who have signed up to the end of 2025, has achieved several victories among the Under-23s category, including the 1.2 Circuito del Porto on 1 May.
According to Daniel Benson (GCN), the 28 from South Africa Ryan Gibbons will leave UAE Team Emirates at the end of the season. No confirmation on his future team are yet available.
26 June
According to GCN journalist Daniel Benson, Daniel Felipe Martinez, whose contract with Ineos Grenadiers is expiring at the end of the season, could be signed by Bora-hansgrohe. The 27 yo Colombian climber, previously linked to Movistar, should sign with the German team a four-year contract.
25 June
According to Ciro Scognamiglio (Gazzetta.it) sources, Alberto Dainese (TeamDSM) is likely to change team in 2024 and in pole position there is Cancellara’s TudorProCycling. The 25 yo Italian is an excellent sprinter and a winner of 2 stages at Giro d’Italia (23, 22).
25 June (news so far – general recap)
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Ag2r Citroen – IN ; OUT Michael Schär (Retired), Greg Van Avermaet (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious), Victor Lafay (Cofidis); OUT Benoît Cosnefroy (Arkéa-B&B Hotels); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Geoffrey Bouchard, Mikael Cherel, Benoit Cosnefroy, Paul Lapeira, Lawrence Naesen, Olivier Naesen, Nans Peters, Antoine Raugel, Marc Sarreau, Andrea Vendrame, Clément Venturini, Larry Warbasse; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Alex Baudin (24), Clement Berthet (25), Franck Bonnamour (24), Stan Dewulf (24), Félix Gall (25), Pierre Gautherat (24), Dorian Godon (25), Jaakko Hänninen (24), Jordan Labrosse (25), Ben O’Connor (24), Aurélien Paret-Peintre (24), Valentin Paret-Peintre (24) Nicolas Prodhomme (25), Valentin Retailleau (24), Damien Touzé (24), Bastien Tronchon (25). Tot 16
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Alpecin-Deceuninck – IN Timo Kielich (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development), Axel Laurance (Alpecin-Deceuninck Development); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Tobias Bayer, Nicola Conci, Dries De Bondt, Silvan Dillier, Michael Gogl, Jimmy Janssens, Alexander Krieger, Senne Leysen, Jakub Mareczko, Stefano Oldani, Edward Planckaert, Oscar Riesebeek, Kristian Sbaragli, Robert Stannard, Lionel Taminiaux, Fabio Van Den Bossche; Current 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Maurice Ballerstedt (24), Samuel Gaze (24), Robbe Ghys (25), Kaden Groves (24), Quinten Hermans (25), Timo Kielich (25), Soren Kragh Andersen (24), Axel Laurance (24), Xandro Meurisse (25), Jasper Philipsen (24), Jensen Plowright (25), Jonas Rickaert (25), Ramon Sinkeldam (24), Mathieu Van Der Poel (25), Gianni Vermeersch (25). Total 15
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team Arkea-B&B Hotels – IN Pierre Thierry (Morbihan Fybolia GOA); OUT Maxime Bouet (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Vincenzo Albanese (Eolo Kometa), Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën), Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), Victor Lafay (Cofidis); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Warren Barguil, Jenthe Biermans, Nacer Bouhanni, Amaury Capiot, Nicolas Edet, Simon Guglielmi, Hugo Hofstetter, Kevin Ledanois, Luca Mozzato, Lukasz Owsian, Laurent Pichon, Andrii Ponomar, Michel Ries, Clement Russo; Current 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Louis Barré (24), Clement Champoussin (25), Ewen Costiou (24), David Dekker (24), Anthony Delaplace (24), Elie Gesbert (24), Donovan Grondin (24), Thibault Guernalec (24), Mathis Le Berre (24), Matis Louvel (24), Daniel McLay (24), Alan Riou (24), Cristian Rodriguez (24), Pierre Thierry (25), Kevin Vauquelin (25), Alessandro Verre (24). Total 16
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Astana Qazaqstan Team – IN ; OUT Mark Cavendish (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Lorenzo Fortunato (Eolo Kometa), Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious), Henok Mulubrhan (Green Project-Bardiani), Davide Piganzoli (EOLO Kometa), Jake Stewart (Groupama – FDJ); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Leonardo Basso, Manuele Boaro, Clees Bol, Gleb Brussenskiy, David de la Cruz, Joe Dombrowski, Fabio Felline, Yevgeniy Gidich, Dmitriy Gruzdev, Martin Laas, Davide Martinelli, Gianni Moscon, Yuriy Natarov, Antonio Nibali, Nurbergen Nurlykhassym, Vadim Pronskiy, Alexandr Riabushenko, Javier Romo, Luis León Sánchez, Christian Scaroni, Harold Tejada, Simone Velasco, Andrey Zeits; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Samuele Battistella (24), Igor Chzhan (24), Yevgeniy Fedorov (24), Gianmarco Garofoli (24), Alexey Lutsenko (24), Gleb Syritsa (24). Total 6
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Bahrain Victorious – IN Alberto Bruttomesso (Cycling Team Friuli ASD); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma); OUT Mikel Landa (Astana, Lidl-Trek, AG2 Citroen), Jonathan Milan (Trek – Segafredo); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Yukiya Arashiro, Santiago Buitrago, Jonathan Milan, Mikel Landa, Filip Maciejuk, Ahmed Madan, Hermann Pernsteiner, Johan Price-Pejtersen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Nikias Arndt (24), Phil Bauhaus (24), Pello Bilbao (24), Alberto Bruttomesso (26), Nicolò Buratti (25), Damiano Caruso (24), Matevž Govecar (24), Kamil Gradek (24), Jack Haig (25), Rainer Kepplinger (25), Fran Miholjević (24), Matej Mohoric (25), Andrea Pasqualon (24), Wout Poels (24), Dusan Rajovic (24), Cameron Scott (24), Jasha Sütterlin (24), Antonio Tiberi (25), Sergio Tu (24) , Alfred Wright (25), Edoardo Zambanini (24). Total 21
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Bora–hansgrohe – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Roger Adrià (Equipo Kern Pharma), Matteo Sobrero (Team Jayco AlUla), Sam Welsford (Team DSM); OUT Sam Bennett (Team Human Powered Health), Patrick Konrad (Lidl-Trek), Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates); END OF CONTRACT Giovanni Aleotti, Shane Archbold, Cesare Benedetti, Sam Bennett, Matteo Fabbro, Jonas Koch, Patrik Konrad, Victor Koretzky, Ryan Mullen, Anton Palzer, Nils Politt, Ide Schelling, Danny Van Poppel, Matthew Walls, Frederik Wandahl; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Emanuel Buchmann (24), Nico Denz (24), Patrick Gamper (24), Marco Haller (24), Sergio Higuita (24), Jai Hindley (24), Bob Jungels (24), Lennard Kämna (24), Florian Lipowitz (24), Luis-Joe Lührs (24), Jordi Meeus (24), Maximilian Schachmann (24), Cian Uijtdebroeks (24), Aleksandr Vlasov (24), Ben Zwiehoff (24). Total 15
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Cofidis – IN ; OUT Jose Herrada (Retired), Pierre-Luc Perichon (Retired) ; RUMOURED: IN Roger Adria (Kern Pharma), Sven Erik Bystrom (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty); OUT Bryan Coquard (Team Arkéa Samsic), Victor Lafay (AG2R Citroën, INEOS Grenadiers, Arkéa-B&B Hotels), Jelle Wallays (?); END OF CONTRACT 2023: François Bidard, André Carvalho, Davide Cimolai, Simone Consonni, Bryan Coquard, Alexandre Delettre, Wesley Kreder, Victor Lafay, Rémy Rochas, Benjamin Thomas, Hugo Toumire, Jelle Wallays, Max Walscheid; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Piet Allegaert (25), Thomas Champion (24), Ruben Fernandez (24), Eddy Finé (25), Simon Geschke (24), Jésus Herrada (25), Ion Izagirre (24), Jonathan Lastra (24), Axel Mariault (24), Guillaume Martin (24), Christophe Noppe (24), Anthony Perez (25), Alexis Renard (24), Hugo Toumire (25), Harrison Wood (24), Axel Zingle (24). Total 16
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team DSM-Firmenich – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal-Quick Step); OUT Alberto Dainese (?), Jonas Iversby Hvideberg (Uno-X Pro Cycling), Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Pro Cycling), Sam Welsford (Bora-hansgrohe) ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Alberto Dainese, Alex Edmondson, Leon Heinschke, Jonas Iversby Hvideberg, Andreas Leknessund, Marius Mayrhofer, Tim Naberman, Frederik Rodenberg Madsen, Florian Stork, Henri Vandenabeele, Sam Welsford; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Tobias Lund Andresen (25), Romain Bardet (24), Patrick Bevin (25), Pavel Bittner (24), Marco Brenner (24), Romain Combaud (24), John Degenkolb (24), Matthew Dinham (25), Nils Eekhoff (24), Sean Flynn (24), Chris Hamilton (25), Niklas Markl (24), Lorenzo Milesi (25), Oscar Onley (27), Max Poole (24), Martijn Tusveld (24), Casper van Uden (24), Harm Vanhoucke (24), Kevin Vermaerke (25). Total 19
Situation WT team by team (in progress): EF Education – EasyPost – IN Michael Valgren (EF Education-NIPPO Development Team); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Vincenzo Albanese (EOLO-Kometa), Darren Rafferty (HagensBermanAxeon), Emil Schandorff Iwersen (Gallina Ecotek Lucchini Colosio); OUT Magnus Cort (Uno-X Pro Cycling); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Andrey Amador, Alberto Bettiol, Jonathan Caicedo, Diego Camargo, Hugh Carthy, Owain Doull, Odd Christian Eiking, Jens Keukeleire, Merhawi Kudus, Sean Quinn, Tom Scully, James Shaw, Georg Steinhauser, Julius van den Berg, Marijn Van Den Berg, Łukasz Wiśniowski; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Stefan Bissegger (24), Richard Carapaz (25), Simon Carr (24), Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (24), Esteban Chaves (24), Stefan de Bod (24), Ben Healy (25), Mikkel Honoré (24), Mark Padun (24), Andrea Piccolo (24), Neilson Powless (24), Jonas Rutsch (24), Rigoberto Uran (24), Michael Valgren (24). Total 14
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Groupama – FDJ – IN ; OUT Mathieu Ladagnous (Retired), Thibaut Pinot (Retired); RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Arnaud Démare (Arkea – B&B Hotels), Valentin Madouas (?), Jake Stewart (Astana); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Arnaud Démare, Ignatas Konovalovas, Quentin Pacher, Miles Scotson, Michael Storer, Bram Welten; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Bruno Armirail (24), Lewis Askey (25), Clément Davy (25), David Gaudu (25), Kevin Geniets (24), Lorenzo Germani (24), Romain Grégoire (24), Stefan Kung (25), Olivier Le Gac (24), Fabian Lienhard (24), Valentin Madouas (24), Lenny Martinez (24), Rudy Molard (24), Enzo Paleni (24), Paul Penhoët (24), Laurence Pithie (24), Jake Stewart (24), Reuben Thompson (24), Lars van den Berg (24), Sam Watson (24). Total 20
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team Ineos Grenadiers – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma), Victor Lafay (Cofidis), Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious), Emil Schandorff Iwersen (Gallina Ecotek Lucchini Colosio), Carlos Verona (Movistar Team); OUT Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl – Trek), Carlos Rodriguez (Movistar Team), Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates), Ben Tulett (Jumbo-Visma); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Jonathan Castroviejo, Laurens De Plus, Omar Fraile, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Kim Heiduk, Daniel Martinez, Salvatore Puccio, Brandon Rivera, Carlos Rodriguez, Luke Rowe, Pavel Sivakov, Ben Swift, Geraint Thomas, Ben Tulett, Cameron Wurf; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Thymen Arensman (24), Egan Bernal (26), Filippo Ganna (27), Ethan Hayter (24), Leo Hayter (25), Michal Kwiatkowski (25), Michael Leonard (25), Jhonatan Narvaez (24), Tom Pidcock (27), Luke Plapp (24), Magnus Sheffield (24), Connor Swift (24), Joshua Tarling (25), Ben Turner (26), Elia Viviani (24). Total 15
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux – IN Francesco Busatto (Circus-ReUz-Technord); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT Sven Erik Bystrom (Cofidis, Uno-X Pro Cycling); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Niccolò Bonifazio, Sven Erik Bystrøm, Rui Costa, Aimé De Gendt, Laurens Huys, Julius Johansen, Louis Meintjes, Simone Petilli, Rein Taaramae, Boy Van Poppel, Loic Vliegen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Francesco Busatto (25), Lilian Calmejane (24), Dries De Pooter (24), Biniam Girmay Hailu (26), Kobe Goossens (25), Rune Herregodts (24), Arne Marit (24), Madis Mihkels (24), Hugo Page (25), Tom Paquot (24), Adrien Petit (25), Baptiste Planckaert (24), Laurenz Rex (27), Lorenzo Rota (24), Dion Smith (24), Mike Teunissen (24), Gerbe Thijssens (25), Taco Van Der Hoorn (24), Georg Zimmermann (24). Total 19
Situation WT team by team: Team Jayco AlUla – IN Anders Foldager (Biesse – Carrera); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Davide De Pretto (Zalf Euromobil Désirée Fior); OUT Matteo Sobrero (Bora-hansgrohe); END OF CONTRACT 2023 – Alexandre Balmer, Kevin Colleoni, Lawson Craddock, Alessandro De Marchi, Tsgabu Grmay, Michael Hepburn, Amund Grondahl Jansen, Chris Juul-Jensen, Kelland O’Brien, Jesus David Peña, Matteo Sobrero, Campbell Stewart, Zdeněk Štybar, Simon Yates (24), Filippo Zana (25); CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Welay Hagos Berhe (25), Eddie Dunbar (25), Luke Durbridge (24), Felix Engelhardt (24), Anders Foldager (25), Dylan Groenewegen (24), Lucas Hamilton (24), Chris Harper (24), Jan Maas (24), Michael Matthews (25), Luka Mezgec (24), Rudy Porter (24), Lukas Pöstlberger (24), Blake Quick (24), Elmar Reinders (24), Callum Scotson (24), Simon Yates (24), Filippo Zana (25). Total 18
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Team Jumbo – Visma – IN Per Strand Hagenes (Jumbo-Visma Development Team), Johannes Staune-Mittet (Jumbo-Visma Development Team), Loe van Belle (Jumbo-Visma Development Team); OUT Rohan Dennis (Retire); RUMOURED: IN Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar Team), Ben Tulett (Ineos Grenadiers); OUT Tobias Foss (Bahrain-Victorious, INEOS Grenadiers, Israel Premier-Tech, UAE Team Emirates); END OF CONTRACT 2023-Edoardo Affini, Tobias Foss, Gijs Leemreize, Sam Oomen, Timo Roosen, Jos Van Emden; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Tiesj Benoot (25), Koen Bouwman (24), Robert Gesink (24), Thomas Gloag (25), Per Strand Hagenes (26), Michel Hessmann (24), Lennard Hofstede (24), Wilco Kelderman (25), Olav Kooij (25), Steven Kruijswijk (25), Sepp Kuss (24), Christophe Laporte (26), Primoz Roglic (25), Johannes Staune-Mittet (26), Jan Tratnik (24), Milan Vader (24), Attila Valter (25), Wout Van Aert (26), Dylan Van Baarle (25), Loe van Belle (26), Tosh Van Der Sande (25), Mick Van Dijke (24), Tim Van Dijke (24), Nathan Van Hooydonck (24), Jonas Vingegaard (24). Total 24
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Movistar Team – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Raul Garcia Pierna (Kern Pharma), Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers); OUT Juri Hollman (?), Matteo Jorgenson (Jumbo-Visma), Carlos Verona (INEOS Grenadiers, Soudal Quick-Step); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Jorge Arcas, Will Barta, Imanol Erviti, Ivan Garcia Cortina, Fernando Gaviria, Abner Gonzalez, Juri Hollmann, Gorka Izagirre, Johan Jacobs, Matteo Jorgenson, Max Kanter, Lluis Mas, Gregor Muhlberger, Mathias Norsgaard, Nelson Oliveira, Antonio Pedrero, Óscar Rodríguez, José Joaquin Rojas, Iván Romeo, Einer Rubio, Gonzalo Serrano, Ivan Ramiro Sosa, Albert Torres, Carlos Verona; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Alex Aranburu (24), Ruben Guerreiro (25), , Oier Lazkano (24), Enric Mas (25), Vinicius Rangel (24), Iván Romeo (25), Sergio Samitier (24). Total 7
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Soudal – Quick Step – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: In Luke Lamperti (Trinity Racing), Paul Magnier (Trinity Racing), Nairo Quintana (Arkea), Carlos Verona (Movistar Team); OUT Davide Ballerini (Tudor Pro Cyling), Fabio Jakobsen (Team DSM), Florian Sénéchal (?); END OF CONTRACT 2023 – Andrea Bagioli, Davide Ballerini, Mattia Cattaneo, Rémi Cavagna, Josef Cerny, Tim Declercq, Dries Devenyns, Fabio Jakobsen, James Knox, Michael Morkov, Mauro Schmid, Florian Senechal, Pieter Serry, Jannik Steimle, Bert Van Lerberghe, Stan Van Tricht, Ilan Van Wilder, Mauri Vansevenant, Ethan Vernon, Louis Vervaeke; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Julian Alaphilippe (24), Kasper Asgreen (24), Remco Evenepoel (26), Jan Hirt (24), Yves Lampaert (25), Fausto Masnada (24), Tim Merlier (25), Casper Pedersen (24), Martin Svrček (24). Total 9
Situation WT team by team (in progress): Lidl-Trek – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Roger Adria (Kern Pharma), Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers), Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorous), Patrick Konrad (Bora-hansgrohe), Jonathan Milan (Bahrain-Victorious), Matteo Trentin (UAE Team); OUT Markus Hoelgaard (Uno-X Pro Cycling); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Jon Aberasturi, Filippo Baroncini, Julien Bernard, Marc Brustenga, Kenny Elissonde, Tony Gallopin, Amanuel Gebreigzabhier, Asbjørn Hellemose, Markus Hoelgaard, Daan Hoole, Alex Kirsch, Emils Liepins, Jacopo Mosca, Quinn Simmons, Edward Theuns, Antwan Tolhoek, Otto Vergaerde; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Dario Cataldo (24), Giulio Ciccone (27), Juan Pedro Lopez (25), Bauke Mollema (26), Thibau Nys (24), Mads Pedersen (25), Mattias Skjelmose Jensen (24), Toms Skujiņš (24), Jasper Stuyven (25), Natnael Tesfatsion (24), Mathias Vacek (25). Total 11
Situation WT team by team (in progress): UAE Team Emirates – IN Jan Christen (Hagens Berman Axeon); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma), Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe), Pavel Sivakov (INEOSGrenadiers); OUT Pascal Ackermann (Israel Premier-Tech), Matteo Trentin (Tudor Pro Cycling & Lidl Trek)); END OF CONTRACT 2023: Pascal Ackermann, George Bennett, Ryan Gibbons, Alvaro Hodeg, Vegard Stake Laengen, Ivo Oliveira, Rui Oliveira, Jan Polanc, Matteo Trentin, Michael Vink; CONFIRMED 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Joao Almeida (27), Juan Ayuso (25), Sjoerd Bax (24), Mikkel Bjerg (24), Jan Christen (27), Alessandro Covi (24), Finn Fisher-Black (24), Davide Formolo (24), Felix Groß (24), Felix Großschartner (24), Marc Hirschi (24), Rafal Majka (24), Brandon McNulty (24), Juan Sebastián Molano (26), Domen Novak (24), Tadej Pogacar (27), Marc Soler (24), Diego Ulissi (24), Jay Vine (27), Tim Wellens (24), Adam Yates (25). Total 21
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Israel Start-Premier Tech – IN Riley Pickrell (Israel Cycling Academy), Nadav Raisberg (Israel Premier Tech Academy); OUT Daryl Impey (Retired); RUMOURED: IN Pascal Ackermann (UAE Team Emirates), Tobias Foss (Jumbo-Visma); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Sebastien Berwick, Guillaume Boivin, Itamar Einhorn, Chris Froome, Omer Goldstein, Ben Hermans, Reto Hollenstein, Taj Jones, Krists Neilands, Giacomo Nizzolo, Domenico Pozzovivo, Guy Sagiv, Sep Vanmarcke, Stephen Williams, Michael Woods; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Simon Clarke (24),Marco Frigo (24), Jakob Fuglsang (24), Derek Gee (28), Mason Hollyman (24), Hugo Houle (24), Riley Pickrell (25), Nadav Raisberg (25), Jens Reynders (24), Matthew Riccitello (25), Nick Schultz (25), Corbin Strong (24), Dylan Teuns (24), Tom Van Asbroeck (24), Mads Würtz Schmidt (24), Rick Zabel (24). Total 14
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Lotto-Dstny – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Jarno Widar (Crabbe Toirures – CC Chevigny U19); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Cedric Beullens, Jarrad Drizners, Frederik Frison, Michael Schwarzmann, Rudiger Selig, Eduardo Sepulveda, Harry Sweeny, Brent Van Moer; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Johannes Adamietz (24), Victor Campenaerts (24), Jasper De Buyst (24), Thomas De Gendt (24), Arnaud De Lie (24), Pascal Eenkhoorn (24), Caleb Ewan (24), Sebastien Grignard (24), Jacopo Guarnieri (24), Andreas Kron (24), Arjen Livyns (24), Milan Menten (24), Sylvan Moniquet (24), Mathijs Paasschens (24), Alec Segaert ((25), Liam Slock (24), Jarne Van De Paar (25), Lennert Van Eetvelt (24), Maxim Van Gils (24), Florian Vermeersch (24). Total 20
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): TotalEnergies – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN ; OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Edvald Boasson Hagen, Maciej Bodnar, Mathieu Burgaudeau, Jérémy Cabot, Victor De La Parte, Fabien Doubey, Sandy Dujardin, Valentin Ferron, Alan Jousseaume, Daniel Oss, Julien Simon; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Thomas Bonnet (24), Steff Cras (24), Fabien Grellier (24), Emilien Jeanniére (24), Pierre Latour (25), Lorrenzo Manzin (24), Paul Ourselin (24), Peter Sagan (24), Geoffrey Soupe (24), Jason Tesson (24), Anthony Turgis (25), Dries Van Gestel (24), Mattéo Vercher (24), Alexis Vuillermoz (24). Total 14
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Tudor Pro Cycling – IN ; OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Davide Ballerini (Soudal Quick-Step), Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: ; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Tom Bohli (24), Nils Brun (24), Sebastian Changizi (24), Aloïs Charrin (24), Arvid De Kleijn (24), Jacob Eriksson (24), Lucas Eriksson (24), Robin Froidevaux (24), Mika Heming (24), Alexander Kamp (24), Petr Kelemen (24), Arthur Kluckers (24), Simon Pellaud (24), Rick Pluimers (24), Sebastien Reichenbach (24), Joel Suter (24), Roland Thalmann (24), Yannis Voisard (24), Luc Wirtgen (24), Maikel Zijlaard (24). Total 20
Situation PRT team by team (in progress): Uno-X Pro Cycling Team – IN Carl-Frederik Bévort (Uno-X Dare Development Team), Sakarias Koller Løland (Uno-X Dare Development Team); OUT ; RUMOURED: IN Sven Erik Bystrom (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF Education-EasyPost), Markus Hoelgaard (Trek-Segafredo), Jonas Iversby Hvideberg (Team DSM-firmenich), Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM-firmenich); OUT ; END OF CONTRACT 2023: Anthon Charmig, Niklas Eg, Jonas Gregaard, Kristoffer Halvorsen, Lasse Norman Hansen, Jacob Hindsgaul, Niklas Larsen, Torstein Træen; CURRENT 2024 ROSTER (Year of end contract) – Jonas Abrahamsen (24), Idar Andersen (24), Louis Bendixen (24), Carl-Frederik Bévort (25), Erlend Blikra (25), William Blume Levy (24), Fredrik Dversnes (26), Stian Fredheim (25), Tord Gudmestad (24), Ådne Holter (25), Anders Halland Johannessen (24), Tobias Halland Johannessen (24), Alexander Kristoff (25), Magnus Kulset (24), Sindre Kulset (24), Sakarias Koller Løland (25), Erik Nordsæter Resell (26), Marcus Sander Hansen (24), Anders Skaarseth (25), Rasmus Tiller (24), Martin Urianstad (25), Søren Wærenskjold (26). Total 15
24 June
According to Ciro Scognamiglio (Gazzetta_it) sources, there is a strong interest from TeamEmiratesUAE for Pavel Sivakov (INEOSGrenadiers) and Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) both with expiring contract at the end of the 2023 season.
23 June
According to Daniel Benson (Editor in Chief – Global Cycling Network), the 26 yo Italian Matteo Sobrero (Team Jayco AlUla), ITT National Champion in ’21, is ready to change Jersey and looks on his way to Bora-hansgrohe.
22 June
As for Wielerflits report, 26 yo Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal Quick Step), ruled out after expected to sign for Bora-hansgrohe , seems on his way to Team DSM-Firmenich.
According to Wielerflits, the 21 yo Briton Ben Tulett (Ineos Grenadiers), approached in recent days by Jumbo-Visma, seems to have already signed with the Dutch team.
Already during the Giro d’Italia 2023 there was talk of a possible switch of Tao Geoghegan Hart from Ineos Grenadiers to Lidl – Trek and, according to the Daniel Benson (Editor in Chief – Global Cycling Network), the agreement seems to have been reached for the next three seasons.
According to WielerFlits, the 27 yo Australian sprinter Sam Welsford seems to be about to leave Team DSM. Welsford is expected to move to Bora-Hansgorhe, who are looking for a sprinter to replace Sam Bennett that will not be confirmed at the end of the season.
According to Daniel Benson (Editor in Chief – Global Cycling Network), 19yo Irish Darren Rafferty (Hagens Berman Axeon), second overall at the recent Baby Giro is linked with a move to EF-Education EasyPost for next season.
According to Eurosport Norway, the 30 yo Danish Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost) has already signed with the with Norwegian formation Uno-X Pro Cycling.
According to Daniel Benson (Editor in Chief – Global Cycling Network), the 21 yo Italian Davide De Pretto (Zalf Euromobil Désirée Fior), winner of the Baby Giro points jersey, looks likely to move to Team Jayco AlUla for next year.
According to Wielerflits.nl, 32 yo Irish Sam Bennett (BORA – hansgrohe) rumoured to a move with USA Professional Team Human Powered Health
21 June
Olav Kooij renews with Team Jumbo-Visma until the end of 2025. The WorldTour team announced that the Dutchman has signed a new agreement for the next two seasons. The 21-year-old, homegrown sprinter aims to develop further and participate in the spring classics and has decided to stay despite proposals from other WT teams. To date, for Kooij 21 victories, including two at WorldTour level, a stage at the Tour of Poland 2022 and a stage at this year Paris-Nice.
The Basque professional team Euskaltel-Euskadi has announced today the signing of neo-pro Unai Zubeldia, who will join the team from 1 January 2024. The 19yo Spanish rider, who won 3 races so far this year, has been a member of the team’s development squad, Laboral Kutxa, and signed for two seasons up of the end of 2025 season.
Maxime Bouet‘s career will come to an end at the end of this season. The French rider, 37 years old in November, has announced his intention to hang up his bike at the end of the year, when his current contract with Team Arkéa-Samsic, the team he has been with since 2017, expires. Turned professional in 2008 with Agritubel, Bouet also raced for Ag2r La Mondiale and with Etixx-Quick Step, taking five professional victories in 16 years of activity: a stage and the final classification at the 2009 Volta ao Alentejo, the 2009 Boucles de l’Aulne, a stage at the 2010 Tour de l’Ain and one at the 2013 Giro del Trentino.
20 June
The 22 yo Irish rider Ben Healy has extended is contract with EF Education – EasyPost. One of the surprising protagonist of this first part of the year, Healy has been able to achieve a stage victory at the Giro d’Italia 2023. Healy will ride with is current team at least untile the end of the 2025 season.
19 June
Also according to the Gazzetta sources, the 21-year-old Briton Ben Tulett could move at the end of the 2023 season. Tulett has an expiring contract with Ineos Grenadiers, and has been linked with UAE Emirates Team, but they strongly deny an interest in the rider and to Jumbo-Visma. Tulett won a stage and the general classification at the Tour of Norway 2023.
According to Ciro Scognamiglio ( Gazzetta.it) sources, the 20 yo American Luke Lamperti, winner of a stage at the recent Giro Next Gen 2023, is under the Soudal-QuickStep radar. Lamperti is currently riding with the British Continental team Trinity Racing.
22 yo Nadav Raisberg (Israel Premier Tech Academy) has signed a two-year contract with Israel – Premier Tech, becoming the first Israeli cyclist to join the professional team in four years.
18 June
Jesús Herrada have signed for two more years with Cofidis. Already with the team since 2018, the Spanish rider has so far achieved twenty victories, including two stages on the roads of the Vuelta (in 2019 and 2022), the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge (2019) and the Classic Grand Besançon Doubs (2022). The 32 yo climbers has also raised his arms twice this year, first on the roads of the Tour of Oman in February (stage 2) and then at the Tour du Doubs in April.
16 June
15 June
Robert Gesink renews for another year with Jumbo – Visma. The experienced Dutch rider will therefore race until the end of 2024. Gesink has also announced that this will be his last year as a professional. The 37-year-old spent a total of 18 seasons in the professional ranks.
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team announced the promotion in their pro team of 19 yo Carl-Frederik Bevort until 2025. The Danish is currently riding with Uno-X Dare Development Team and he recently won the Fyen Rundt – Tour of Funen in Denmark.
14 June
Giulio Ciccone has extended his contract with Trek – Segafredo, that will soon begin to be called Lidl – Trek, until 2027 and confirming what he himself anticipated after his success at the Tour of Dauphiné. Ciccone has been riding with the US formation in 2019, after three years with Bardiani – CSF with whom he had won his first race at the Giro d’Italia as a neo-professional in 2016. Once in the new team, the Abruzzese climber won again a stage at the Corsa Rosa, also winning the Maglia Azzurra as best climber. In 2019, he also wore the yellow jersey of the Tour de France. After winning the Trofeo Laigueglia in 2020, he returned to victory with a stage again at the Giro d’Italia, in May last year. This year is been the most successful so far with stage wins at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Volta a Catalunya and recently at The Tour of Dauphiné.
13 June
The Norwegian professional Uno-X Pro Cycling has announced contract extensions for Martin Urianstad, Erlend Blikra and Ådne Holter, respectively 24, 25 and 22 years old & all Norwegians, until 2025.
9 June
His contract is due to expire and after four seasons at Bahrain Victorous Mikel Landa and according to Tuttobiciweb.it, the Basque rider is ready to change team. Lidl Trek and Ag2r Citröen seems the two most interesting options for him.
Groupama Fdj is 31-year-old Arnaud Demare has an expiring contract and, in addition to several previous rumours, also according tuttobiciweb.it, he could end up at Arkea – B&B Hotels (that’s what it will be called in 2024) on Bianchi bikes.
If the Italians Lorenzo Fortunato (Astana?) and Vincenzo Albanese (Arkea?) are mostly sure to leave Eolo Kometa, two Colombians should arrive in the team of Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso. One is 28-year-old Jhonatan Restrepo, two years at Katusha, one at Manzana, two at Androni, one at Drone Hopper and this year at GW Shimano Sidermec, with whom he won the Giro della Città Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria this year. The other, still from GW Shimano Sidermec, should be the 20 yo Santiago Umba. Umba will ride from Sunday at the Giro Next Gen (formerly Giro Ciclistico d’Italia U23) with the jersey of the team led by Gianni Savio.
8 June
French WorldTour outfit Ag2r Citroën Team has extended the contracts of Clément Berthet and Felix Gall until the end of the 2025 season. Gall, a 25-year-old Austrian climber, finished tenth in the Tour of the Basque Country 2023 and ninth in the Tour of the Alps 2023. He was also recently second at the Mercan’Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes 2023, behind only Richard Carapaz. Frenchman Berthet. 25 years old, a very regular rider, is still looking for his first victory as a professional.
According to Ciro Scognamiglio (La Gazzetta dello Sport), Matteo Trentin is likely to leave UAE Team Emirates at the end of 2023 when his contract will end. (contract ends). According to Scognamiglio sources, Trentin seems close to joining Fabian Cancellara’s Tudor Pro Cycling, where he may join the Italian Sports Director Matteo Tosatto, who, after six years, is expected to leave Ineos Grenadiers. Trentin seems to have received an important offer also by Lidl-Trek.
From Gazzetta.it (Ciro Scognamiglio), Lorenzo Fortunato, whose contract with the Eolo – Kometa team is expiring, seems ready to join next year Astana Qazaqstan. The Kazakh team also appears to be ready to renewal for further 2 year with Cees Bol and has approached Jake Stewart, currently with Groupama – FDJ, and of Henok Mulubrhan from Green Project-Bardiani-CSF-Faizané.
6 June
After an excellent Giro d’Italia, Israel-Premier Tech, which currently has a Professional licence, has decided to extend the contract of 25-year-old Canadian Derek Gee. The new contract will expire at the end of the 2028 season. “We knew Derek had a great engine,” said the owner of the Israeli-Canadian team, Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams. “But, at this year’s Giro, Derek proved that he has race smarts, and the ability to perform with the best riders in the pro peloton. It was a real coming-out party for Derek, along with the young teammates who accompanied him on our Giro squad. Accordingly, we decided to reward Derek by ripping up his neo-pro contract and signing him to a new six-year deal, that will ensure his future.”
5 June
According to Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Ciro Scognamiglio, 31 yo Patrick Konrad is not expected to renew with the German Bora-hansgrohe at the end of this season. The Austrian rider, capable of winning a stage at the 2021 Tour de France and twice in the top-10 at the Giro d’Italia (2018 and 2020), is could join Lidl-Trek, from 30 June the new name of the current Trek-Segafredo. In recent weeks the names of Jonathan Milan and Tao Geoghegan Hart have also been linked to the American WWT team.
2 June
21yo Canadian Riley Pickrell has been promoted from their development team and next season will join Israel Premier Tech. Pickrell has signed for 2 years until the end of 2025.
1 June
According to Marca, Roger Adrià is receiving several recruitment offers for the next season. The most interesting of which would be the one made by Bora-hansgrohe. The 25-year-old Spaniard, currently with Equipo Kern Pharma, started racing in 2016 with the development structure of the Iberian Professional team where he still races today. The Catalan rider is a good climber and has a good sprinter skills. So far in his palmares there is only one victory, at the Route d’Occitaine 2022, but in the current season he has often proven himself such in the Gp Indurain 2023, which he finished in fifth place.
30 May
Green Project Bardiani-CSF Faizanè announces its first signing for next season. He is the 21 yo climber Chilean Vicente Rojas, who has signed a two-year contract with the Italian professional formation, with which he will ride as a trainee from next August 23, thus taking his first steps in his new team. He currently rides for the Spanish youth team G.D. Supermercados Froiz, and is the current Pan American U23 champion after his success last April. This year he raced the Vuelta a San Juan with his national team, finishing in 16th place overall, third best young rider and was second in the Argentinian Giro del Sol San Juan.
29 May
The recent winner of the cyclamen jersey for the point classification at the Giro d’Italia, Jonathan Milan, who is expected to leave Bahrain-Victorious. Hot on his trail is Trek-Segafredo, which has given up on Fabio Jakobsen’s superingage and is looking for a hardy sprinter to join Mads Pedersen.
25 May
With two months to go before August 1, the date when all professional teams can make their signings official, there are many rumours leaking out about major transfers.
After six seasons at Soudal-Quick Step, 26 yo Fabio Jakobsen is ready for new challenges. Among the reasons for this choice is probably the internal competition with Tim Merlier, who joined this year the Wolfpack and is tied to the Belgian team until 2025. Merlier’s profile is far better suited to the northern classics than Jakobsen’s. Several World Tour teams are interested in the Dutchman, including Team DSM, Trek-Segafredo, and especially BORA-hansgrohe. The German team is in pole position to secure Jakobsen’s services.
21 yo Olav Kooij will most likely leave Jumbo-Visma, the team that launched him into top-level cycling. The Dutch rider is an excellent sprinter and is considered a potential northern classics winner, and is therefore an attractive profile for many WT teams. Among them, Team DSM, soon to be orphaned of Sam Welsford and Alberto Dainese, both with expiring contracts and ready to change jerseys, has shown strong interest.
Also Team Arkéa Samsic, from which Nacer Bouhanni is expected to exiting, had expressed interest in Olav Kooij, but it seems that their budget is limited compared to the rider’s demands: hence the profiles of Arnaud Démare and Bryan Coquard, both with expiring contract with their respective teams and certainly less onerous than the 21-year-old Dutchman, have been approached by the French team.
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