Cycling Transfers: All the latest news, developments and rumours from inside the peloton 🚨
The latest moves and contract extensions from the WorldTour, U23 and junior ranks
Hey Subscribers,Â
It’s Monday morning, and what better way to start your week than with the latest news and developments from the cycling transfer market?Â
Once again, we’ve a stacked newsletter this morning with news on the futures of a long list of riders, including Paula Blasi, Simone Gualdi, Jarno Widar, Sam Watson, Axel Laurance, Connor Swift, Isaac Del Toro, Aleksandr Vlasov, Ben O’Connor, Iván GarcÃa Cortina, Giulio Ciccone, Vlad Van Mechelen, Sergio Higuita, Otto Vergaerde, and team updates for Bahrain Victorious, Lidl-Trek, Netcompany, Movistar, and news on U23 stars such as Mateo RamÃrez, who is on course to join the WorldTour in 2027, but not with who you think, and then a load of updates on a bunch of quality junior riders who are earmarked for WorldTour development programmes at Netcompany and Red Bull.
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Coming up later in the week, we’ll have a deep dive on what’s next for the top ten in the Giro Next Gen, Visma-Lease a Bike take us behind the scenes on how they recruit riders, we analyse more Tour de France short-lists and line-ups, and of course loads more transfer news.
Daniel 🫶
I’m going to save the Blasi segment for a bit later and instead start with Mateo RamÃrez of UAE Team Emirates Gen Z.
He’s just 20, from Ecuador, and he looks like a potential star. He finished second in the Baby Giro behind Lorenzo Finn, a huge result given that he came into the race with just one day of competitive racing this year due to a wrist injury. He finished strongly, taking second, fourth, and fifth on the hardest days of the race. Those results would have drawn a lot of attention, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that he was sixth in Avenir last season and second on GC in the Giro Ciclistico della Valle d’Aosta - Mont Blanc, too.