Downsizing at Quick Step
ByEurosport
Published 09/06/2006 at 10:09 GMT
Quick Step clearly stating that they would not have the means to keep all three - world champion Tom Boonen, Olympic champion Paolo Bettini AND Milan-Sanremo winner Filippo Pozzato, transfer rumours are alight in Belgium. Boonen and Bettini will lead Quic
Next season, the Boonen/Pozzato/Bettini trio cannot stay together at Quick-Step. I don't have the financial means for that," team director Patrick Lefevere recently told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.
While the Belgian press rife with word of a 2-million euro move by Paolo Bettini to T-Mobile, the latest talk concerns an eventual Pozzato transfer either to Rudy Pevenage's team or to French outfit Cofidis.
2005 Tour of Britain winner Nick Nuyens recently confirmed that he too was looking.
"Three candidates remain: Davitamon-Lotto, Quick-Step and Cofidis. The Liquigas also expressed interest, but there's nothing serious," he said recently.
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Quick Step line-up for Tour of Switzerland:
Paolo Bettini, Tom Boonen, Steven De Jongh, Nick Nuyens, Hubert Schwab, Bram Tankink, Matteo Tosatto, Geert Verheyen.
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