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Several reports that Simon Yates to Team Visma | Lease a Bike is confirmed for 2025
CyclingSunday, 23 June 2024 at 10:02
The transfer market only opens in early August but behind the scenes the negotiations are buzzing. Team Visma | Lease a Bike are losing Jan Tratnik, the van Dijke twins and Koen Bouwman at the very least... But several sources report that Simon Yates is a done deal for 2025.
This is set to be one of the main transfers of the winter. Yates, leader of Team Jayco AlUla at the upcoming Tour de France, was fourth in the last edition and this season has ridden to victory at the AlUla Tour. Ever since he's had a spring under the radar, and has not raced since the Tour de Romandie. However, this formula worked to perfection last year.
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The Briton is still displaying the same climbing numbers that he had in the late 2010's, where he also managed to win the Vuelta a España in 2018 - months after a superb Giro d'Italia where he was set for victory before dramatically cracking on the Col du Finèstre. A stage winner on all three Grand Tours, he also finished on the podium of the 2021 Giro d'Italia.
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Visma lost Primoz Roglic last winter and whilst the signing of Cian Uijtdebroeks may prove very successful for future years, the Belgian has thus far not yet brought the big results the team hoped for and was forced to abandon the Giro d'Italia earlier this spring. Matteo Jorgenson on the other hand has won Paris-Nice, finished second at the Criterium du Daupiné and will be a key support rider for Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour de France - but doesn't yet have any experience fighting for the overall classification of a Grand Tour.
The signing of Yates will further boost the team's climbing ranks against an ever-growing UAE Team Emirates. He will join compatriots Ben Tulett, Tom Gloag and Matthew Brennan in the Dutch team.
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- yeah, that’s a more fair assessment. “reaching mathieu’s level” doesn’t mean you’re planning to replicate his whole career. the former IS doable, potentially. it’s just the latter that likely is not.OCexile25-12-2024
- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024
- well, del grosso is 21 right now. when mathieu was a year younger than that, he was already winning elite level world championships, not U23. i think del grosso will be a very good pro for years, but if he was really going to be the next van der poel someday, he’d already have to be at that level right NOW. van der poel was showing signs of true greatness when he was 15-16. THAT’S what generational talent looks like.OCexile25-12-2024
- Yeah.... gear 😅.mikolajjj24-12-2024
- It shouldn’t be about expectations in the first place should it? Besides, if you look at everyone’s calculations as a whole they don’t add up in the first place. There’ll be 2-3 riders with a 50% chance, a dozen with 10 or 20% and dozens more with a 5% so we’re expecting at least 2 if not 3 winners. Remind me again who won before her? Says it all about using data to decide on participation.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- Ok, happy I’m not too interested in this team coz’ the account of what happened is really hard to follow.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- The UCI is worse than USA CyclingVeganpotter24-12-2024
- It's not like they wanted her to not win😅 She had an outstanding Olympics. But there's a reason why she wasn't expected to win the road race and that's ok. Things like this happen and it's great...better than seeing expected winners win.Veganpotter24-12-2024
- Bruyneel ? The man with a lifetime ban from cycling...why do you keep giving him and his doper mate, Armstrong, a platform?DJ24-12-2024
- yeah, agree. on the subject of being a “complete rider,” i do think that’s getting more interesting. mathieu seems to have decided he wants to get much better at climbing the the high mountain passes. he appears to be looking for new challenges, which should be interesting to watch. in most cases you’d dismiss a goal like that at age 30, but it’s mvdp. he’s never going to climb with the real climbers, but if he can improve enough it could open up stage wins when the parcours isnt just purely toothy and punchy.OCexile24-12-2024