Controversy and budget changes in Movistar amidst possible new sponsor

Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 11:30

Great shot in the world of Spanish cycling. The Repsol oil company, according to the Onda Cero colleagues, would join Movistar as the main sponsor of Eusebio Unzué's team, which would double the budget of the current Movistar Team and would bring it closer in spending to teams such as INEOS Granediers, Jumbo-Visma or Quick-Step.

Thus, always according to Onda Cero, Repsol would be one hundred percent committed to taking the step to professional cycling by sharing sponsorship with Movistar in a team that could be called Solar 360 (a company that Repsol and Movistar started last year 50% and that is specialized in solar panels).

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The withdrawal of Alejandro Valverde and the difficulties that the telephone team has gone through this year to save the category (although they have come up in the last third of the season to finish twelfth) suggested that a change in the team was necessary, but what Suddenly doubling the budget with the arrival of a company as powerful as Repsol was something that no one could expect. Incredible what Abarca Sports can achieve by 2023.

The idea, in principle, is that 2023 would be a year of transition with Fernando Gaviria, with Spanish champion Carlos Rodríguez being heavily hinted towards the team for the 2024 season.

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