"I want to address, once and for all, what happened last September" - Juan Ayuso buries the hatchet with UAE

Juan Ayuso left UAE Team Emirates - XRG on very bad terms, especially during the Vuelta a Espana, where there was an ugly exchange of statements.

Now, at the presentation with his new team, Lidl-Trek, he has wanted to apologize to his former squad and especially to Mauro Gianetti. CyclingUpToDate were present and these were his words before giving his regular press conference announcing that he would be going to the 2026 Tour de France:

UAE made public during the Vuelta that Ayuso was going to leave the team, and this did not sit well with the Valencian, who went so far as to label Matxin and Gianetti’s squad a 'dictatorship':

"I think my relationship with my teammates, including Almeida no matter what people say, is good, and he deserves all the support I can give him. Also, all the work of the other six members besides Almeida deserves that I contribute what I can, and that’s what I’ll try to do. I would have liked to finish well with the team; that’s what we tried with the negotiation before the Vuelta, to leave on good terms, but it seems that sometimes you can’t, when it’s more like a dictatorship and a unilateral exercise of power over you."

Now, at last, it seems this chapter is closed.