Cycling Transfers: The lay of the land heading into the Tour de France 🇫🇷
News on Red Bull, Lidl-Trek, Decathlon, Jayco, Ineos, the general scene on the market, and Onley will miss the Tour de France
Hi Subscribers,
Today, we have another major transfer update story as we look ahead to how the market might play out in the lead-up to and during the Tour de France.
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We take a look at the squads that have already reached maximum capacity - or are very close to that point - the teams playing the long game in order to strike bargains in the second half of the season, and how the uncertainty around some squads affects the overall pattern and flow of the market.
As ever, there’s a lot to cover as we look at teams including Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Lidl-Trek, Groupama, Netcompany, Decathlon and Jayco AlUla, with specific updates on riders including Felix Gall, Paul Seixas, Primož Roglič, Ben O’Connor, Ben Zwiehoff, and Georg Steinhauser.
But before we get to that, we’ve heard from several sources that Oscar Onley will miss this year’s Tour de France. He crashed out of the Tour Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes earlier this month, and it’s been a race against time to prepare for the Tour. There’s no official news from Netcompany, but Onley posted this on Strava in the last 24 hours, with the caption ‘Road to the tour… of Guangxi’.
Update: Netcompany confirmed the news just after this newsletter was posted.
Let’s dive right in with the transfer news.
And we’ll start with news around Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.
