The ongoing saga of Cian Uijtdebroeks, Team Visma | Lease a Bike and BORA - hansgrohe continues to rumble on. The latest news is that the German-based team are demanding a one million euro buyout sum to part with the young Belgian.
According to reports by Wielerflits, Richard Plugge's Team Visma | Lease a Bike would have offered a year's salary as compensation for Uijtdebroeks' signature however, this fall some way below BORA - hansgrohe's estimation. “However, BORA - hansgrohe now wants to receive almost ten times his annual salary,” reports Wielerflits.
Uijtdebroeks, who was been spotted training in Visma team gear on Sunday, was announced as a new signing for the all-conquering Dutch team on Saturday evening. This announcement was quickly countered however, by a denial from BORA - hansgrohe.
With Primoz Roglic making the switch in the opposite direction earlier in the transfer window in a similar kind of deal as Visma believed they had with Uijtdebroeks, either a buyout of the rider's current contract or an agreement between team and rider is needed to complete the move.
Seemingly this is a saga that could run and run. As always, we'll keep you up to date with all the latest developments in the story.
'The buyout sum the current team wants for the athlete is in the region of one million euros (10x annual salary)' x.com/raykerckhoffs/…
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