The international squad has already started rolling and in October, when the 2024 season closes, we will see which squads have made the right choice with their signings. For now we can only review which figures have decided to change their scene and that is why we bring you an analysis of the five teams that have been in charge of shaking up this last winter market.
Without a doubt, the Bora team has starred in the great bombshell of this winter market. The signing of Primoz Roglic made the German team a contender for everything and the objective will be to try to storm the overall standings of the Tour de France. But Roglic does not arrive alone, Daniel Felipe Martínez also joins the team who will act as a luxury teammate alongside other great climbers such as Jay Hindley or Aleksandr Vlasov.
This season they will be one of the squads with the most potential in the mountains and that usually comes accompanied by success. Be very careful with this new Bora that, under the sponsorship of Red Bull, is called to change the world order of cycling.
New name for the almighty Jumbo that has had a busy market. Roglic’s departure forced them to look for solutions and, as usual, they solved the problem in the best of ways. They found exactly what they were looking for in Bora by hiring Cian Uijtdebroeks, one of the most promising cyclists today, and they were able to snatch the Belgian pearl from them despite having one year left on his contract.
They also add North American talent Matteo Jorgenson direct from Movistar after a very good 2023. Signings that reinforce the squad wonderfully despite losing one of its most important men with the departure of Roglic.
On October 28 we woke up with great news for Colombian cycling: Nairo Quintana returned to the World Tour with the Movistar Team. After a year away from the cycling elite due to a positive result for tramadol during the 2022 Tour, ‘Naironman’ will return to the ranks of the team with which he achieved the best successes of his career.
He returns to the telephone team with more age and possibly a less leading role but he will surely improve Movistar’s options in all the races he competes in. One last opportunity to vindicate himself and close his professional career at the level of a cyclist like him.
If the 2023 QuickStep learned anything, it is that Remco Evenepoel needs a more powerful team in the mountains if they want to win grand tours. For this reason they have chosen to make a major renovation of the squad. Twelve exits and eleven entries, most of them climbers, predict a revolution in the Belgian team with which they will seek to attack the Tour with Remco.
Among the additions, the Basque Mikel Landa stands out, leaving Bahrain to embark on a new challenge: being the luxury gregarious of Evenepoel. He proved capable of taking a backseat during Sky’s golden era and seems highly motivated by his new supporting role at QuickStep.
UAE has kept a low profile this transfer market and has chosen to set its sights on the new generation. Igor Arieta and Isaac del Toro, two climbers with a lot of potential, have been the two future projects in which the Emirates team has trusted to continue nourishing with youth a squad that brims with premature talent.
Other names such as Pavel Sivakov, Antonio Morgado or Nils Politt also arrive with the aim of adding more options with which to involve Tadej Pogacar in his feat of achieving Giro and Tour this 2024.
