Soudal QuickStep CEO Patrick Lefevere pictured during the Kristallen Fiets Crystal Bike Soudal-QuickStep CEO Partrick Lefevere has raised the idea of implementing a football-style transfer system in cycling Velo de Cristal award ceremony for the best cyclists of the 2023 cycling season organized by Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws Tuesday 10 October 2023 in Kruisem BELGA PHOTO JASPER JACOBS Photo by JASPER JACOBS BELGA MAG Belga via AFP Photo by JASPER JACOBSBELGA MAGAFP via Getty Images.
In the wake of the Cian Uijtdebroeks contract saga, Soudal-QuickStep CEO Patrick Lefevere has raised the idea of professional cycling implementing a rider transfer system akin to that used in European football.
20-year-old Uijtdebroeks has made the headlines since Saturday, when Jumbo-Visma claimed to have signed him on a four-year deal before his current squad Bora-Hansgrohe countered with a claim that he remains under contract until December 2024.
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