After weeks of near-silence were broken on Friday by the confirmation of Biniam Girmay's departure from Intermarché-Wanty at the end of the season, quiet but solid progress on the squad's upcoming fusion with Lotto is now also reported to be taking place.
Criticisms of the prolonged uncertainty surrounding the futures of riders affected by the fusion had been made by CPA president Adam Hansen, partly as a result of the dearth of available information, former Lotto team manager Marc Sergeant described it to Dernière Heure as "a fiasco", and retired Lotto rider Thomas de Gendt, writing for Cyclingnews, directly described the ongoing situation surrounding the fusion as "a bit of a shit-show."
