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

CYCLING 2006 Quick Step Pozzato Bettini

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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.

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