Netcompany INEOS 2027 will undoubtedly be one of the benchmark teams for Spanish cycling. The signings of Markel Beloki and Benjamín Noval are exciting, while Carlos Rodríguez’s continued presence gives the team a strong Spanish core. Now that core looks set to grow stronger with Óscar Rodríguez’s renewal.
According to Marca, the versatile domestique has reached an agreement to stay with the British team for another year. His three-year contract was due to expire this season, but he looks set to continue for at least one more year. It is a challenging transfer market for a team that has lost many riders.
Óscar Rodríguez’s career has been defined by his ability to excel in the mountains, claim prestigious victories and contend for top places in stage races. One of the defining moments of the Navarrese rider’s career came in 2018, when he rode for Euskadi-Murias and won a memorable stage at the Vuelta a España.
That victory marked a step forward and established him as one of the Spanish riders to watch in the mountain stages.
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He continued to progress in 2019, again showing his ability in stage races. Rodríguez finished second overall at the Vuelta a Burgos and also took second place on stage three. At that year’s Vuelta a España, he came close to a top finish on stage 15, placing fourth.
In 2021, riding for Astana-Premier Tech, he delivered another strong performance by finishing second at the Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge, a particularly demanding race for climbers. That same year, he placed third overall at La Route d'Occitanie and also took third on a stage.
Óscar Rodríguez appears set to renew with Netcompany INEOS
Domestique duties at INEOS
The 2022 season brought further notable results with Movistar Team. He finished second overall at the Tour de Hongrie and placed third on one of the Hungarian race’s stages. He also took second place on a stage of the Tour de Suisse, confirming his competitiveness across different types of mountain terrain.
In 2023, Rodríguez continued to achieve strong results with the Spanish team, including second place on stage three of the Tour du Limousin-Périgord-Nouvelle Aquitaine. A year later, he finished sixth overall at the Tour of Norway. At INEOS, he has focused more on domestique duties than on pursuing personal results.
The only Grand Tour he has taken part of was the 2024 Vuelta a España, as the 31-year old took a more supporting role for the team's riders throughout the entire season.
A fractured hip suffered during a training crash this past January saw Rodríguez lose months of his season, only being able to kick it off in early May.
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- Pissing out?? Who is forcing them? They can follow Ayuso's example. And they can be leaders on another team. Ayuso's example again. :)MajorPayne12-10-2026
- Hmm it's an interesting take with certain disclaimers e.g. comparing them at the same age (Pogi wasn't given chances so early in his career so we will never know), the level of the competitors in the race or tour (really hard to compare, as you would be looking at multiple competitors, let alone comparing just Seixas vs Pogi). In any case, Seixas' future certainly looks very bright, especially as he has the advantage of youth, access to new scientific knowledge/methods that weren't around when Pogi started, and most importantly has Pogi as an extremely good example to aspire to (e.g. copying training methods, nutrition, tactics, race craft, etc., to list just a few...).Pogboom12-10-2026
- > He’s so much better than Pogacar was at 20 years old It does not mean NOTHING. What is important how long you can be at the top. Most of the best riders are (really) good for 4-5 years (Alaphilippe, Sagan), of course outside this window you can win stages etc. but forget about GC winner in main tours. Talents like Pogacar (in case of GC) or MvdP (monuments or CX - 15 years being on top!!!) are rarity. It might be that if you start being good fast, you end up being good still young.averagecyclist12-10-2026
- Winning Il Lombardia would surely mean much more to Remco than to Seixas, after his crash there and then second places where he was far ahead of the rest but still far behind Pog, and had to blink away tears at the finish. Wonder if he will ever have such a good chance again.Hills3312-10-2026
- Yeah him, Del Toro for sure - not that they all pan out, but then how can you tell what someone was going to be capable of if they never got to be an out-and-out leader? Either way, their squad has a lot of riders who could be leaders at other teams but they are safely inside the tent now, pissing out.wrsty12-10-2026
- "removing any barriers to their golden goose" What barriers? Ayuso maybe? :) :) :)MajorPayne12-10-2026
- And let's not forget, Tadej Pogačar won his first Tour de France eating pizza, drinking beer and playing Playstation. This kept goinig on for another two years and when he lost the Tour 2X to Jonas, things dramaticaly changed. Today Pogi is a "killing machine." In 2024, in the Tours rest day, Pogi said: "If I compare the year 2019 to what we're doing today, we were real amatuers." ... That is the difference between Pogi and Seixas. Seixas immediately got professional help and advice, he knows exactly what he wants and is already at a very high level. So, the paths of Pogi and Seixas weren't the same.PogiSloFans12-10-2026
- Paul Seixas took off from the WC to Lombardia - smart move it seems. Although Remco at least got the Euro jersey.mij12-10-2026
- Why on EARTH would a rider capable of leading races, leading an entire squad in any race he wishes to go and be (yet another) second fiddle rider to his main competition? Especially when his career is in the ascendant, holding the hope of a nation. You want to be the best - then you want to race against the best. I wish UAE as a team all the best for the most part, but I really dislike their approach of removing any barriers to their golden goose by warehousing them on their squad until they get sufficiently bored and/or pissed off and leave.wrsty12-10-2026
- the manner of victory is not Pogi since 2024, Pogi is 50+ k attack, this was last hill/mountain attack, the std attack.abstractengineer12-10-2026
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