The 2024 season is already over. It is therefore logical that all eyes are already on a 2025 that is gradually taking shape in all aspects. This also applies to the contracts of the World Tour's main stars.
In recent weeks, there have been moves such as the renewal of Tadej Pogacar with UAE Team Emirates, or the continuity of Remco Evenepoel at Soudal - Quick-Step, despite the fact that the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe had offered him what would have been a record breaking contract.
For this reason, our Spanish sister channel Ciclismoaldia have decided to make a review among the most prominent names in the World Tour, such as Jonas Vingegaard, Mathieu van der Poel, Chris Froome, Wout van Aert, Jasper Philipsen..., in addition to those already mentioned, to make a list with the 3 UCI World Tour highest reported contracts for 2025.
The list is interesting. There is one name that very few can expect to have slipped into the Top 3. Moreover, if Evenepoel had accepted Red Bull - BORA's offer and left for the German team, he would top the 2025 list right now with a salary of €10 million! On the contrary, the Belgian will earn half that in 2025: 5 million. Will it be enough for him to make the list? See for yourself down below!
1. Tadej Pogacar
- Reported salary for 2025: 8 million euros.
The world's greatest cycling star could not occupy any other position. Based on the data offered by UAE after announcing Pogacar's renewal, the Slovenian will earn in 2025 a total of 8 million euros, approximately. A figure at the height of a cyclist who has just completed the best individual year of all time, winning: Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, World Championship, 2 monuments (Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Il Lombardia), Strade Bianche, GP de Montréal and more!
2. Chris Froome
- Reported salary for 2025: 5.5 million euros.
Chris Froome's position may cause a huge surprise. Despite being one of the greatest legends of the peloton, the Brit has been in a sharp decline for several seasons now. Israel - Premier Tech may well still be weighed down by their decision to offer Froome that kind of money, despite being who he is. The fact that he will be the 2nd highest paid cyclist in the peloton in 2025, which may also be the last year of his career, is a very surprising fact.
3. Primoz Roglic
- Reported salary for 2025: 5.5 million euros.
The last place in the ranking is occupied by the current winner of the Vuelta a España. The Slovenian came to Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe at the beginning of 2024 to become the big star of the German team and look to win the Tour de France. Although a crash sidelined him, he responded outstandingly in La Vuelta. By 2025, he will arrive with his confidence sky-high to try to pull off the feat of beating Pogacar and Vingegaard in the Grande Boucle - what better motivation than 5.5 million euros to do so!
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- Froome is less than 2 millions now since his team is no more in WT. All sources for Roglic say it is between 4 and 4.5 millions, not 5.5. Evenepoel is now 5 millions, so more than these two. Poor researches here.Acapulco08-11-2024
- wow, you’re like a REALLY angry little fella, aren’t you? these discussions are supposed to be FUN, brother. if you find them this upsetting you should MAYYYYBE go for a walk, or get some tropical fish to look at or something. beyond my concern for your emotional well being, i gotta say i don’t understand a few things you tried to say. your point about van der poel at liege? i don’t get it. and exactly who are the “you people” who are persecuting you over pogacar’s walk-over at the giro. anyway, good luck with everything.OCexile08-11-2024
- Lefevere is such a clown.Sweep08-11-2024
- You're spewing nonsense. MVDP was at Liege too. Jonas did his best ever numbers in the Tour, as did Evenepoel. In the worlds, MVDP wasn't the only one chasing and a large part of the route was flat. Oh, did you forget that Pogi soloed 80 ks? What about the 80ks at Strade Bianche? The training ride at the Lombardia? And man, I can't stand how dismissive you people are of his Giro dominance. "There wasn't anyone around to challenge him" yeah well whenever a cyclist wins it's because there was no one else around who would be good enough. I'm sick of this imaginary opponents argument. Who was supposed to be there to challenge him anyways? Do you think Roglic or Evenepoel could do anything? Or Vingegaard, who always trains to peak for the Tour?Ayrton08-11-2024
- What a great ride that day, and what a great young rider. I am really looking forward to what he'll do next, and his attitude about racing is great. Let's hope he keeps that.RidesHills08-11-2024
- everyone should TRY to remember that just a year ago it was pascal the couldn’t remotely hang with vingegaard at the tour. the explanation for that was that pog had injured his wrist and that had interfered with his preparation. compare what a damaged wrist would do to your prep vs. what happened to vingegaard. i think a 100% healthy pogacar vs. a 100% healthy vingegaard at the tour is just about even money. hopefully that’s what we’ll get.OCexile08-11-2024
- i still believe that a thoroughly healthy jonas is at least a match for pogačar. i think some of tadej’s new aura of crushing invincibility comes from a year when everything lined up for him just right. to be clear, i’m NOT saying he’s not the most gifted rider on the planet! he IS! but… liége is made for him; there was NOBODY at the giro to challenge; jonas, for all his spirit, was broken and a shell of his true self at the tour. the Worlds course was a perfect fit for this year for pog, where slimmed down but still MUCH bigger van der poel still kept the gap under a minute in a course that REALLY didn’t suit HIM. my point is that i actually don’t think tadej suddenly launched himself to a level of ability far, far above where he’d been before. he’s a great rider that had an historically great year, but i don’t believe he’s become something NEW, and UNBEATABLE. if he’s fully healthy, i really expect jonas to be as much of a handful for pog as pog is for him.OCexile08-11-2024
- seriously, ESPECIALLY when paired with each other. when they put bob with phil, it’s like bob KNOWS he needs to tighten everything up because phil (god bless him) is losing his marbles. bob is actually pretty GOOD when he’s on phil duty. and when they took vande velde OUT of the booth with bob an put him on the back of a motorcycle, he was suddenly smart and edgy again. put those two guys TOGETHER though, and bob suddenly becomes the dumbest, sloppiest, most ill-informed pogacar and van aert fanboy on the planet, unleashing a constant stream of dim-witted, chuckling hyperbole, and christian is his enabling toady. yuk. after GCN folded i had to listen to wayyyy to much of their “dumb and dumber” show. they must be separated forever.OCexile08-11-2024
- Good news. Cycling world at least doesn't have rampant racism. But, I think it is partly because it is hard to dislike Biniam. He seems like a jolly good person even though he's a sprinter. Some sprinters are very aggressive/cocky.
KerisVroom08-11-2024 - Good news. Cycling world at least doesn't have rampant racism. But, I think it is partly because it is hard to dislike Biniam. He seems like a jolly good person even though he's a sprinter. Some sprinters are very aggressive/cocky.KerisVroom08-11-2024