Fernando Alonso. Photo: AP
Kiko Garcia has expressed concern that the process of negotiating the switch of ownership of the Euskaltel-Euskadi squad for 2014 – when it will be taken over by Fernando Alonso – is not proceeding as quickly as he would like.
“The documents are all there, but the final agreement has not been signed,” Garcia, who is widely expected to take the role of team manager, told Cylingnews.
“I don’t doubt the huge goodwill on all sides, and I’m sure it will all be fine. And it’s the same when you buy a car; you want to be really sure of everything.”
“But the process is taking quite a while, a little more than I would like, above all because of the deadlines” – with September 30 the first deadline for ProTour teams to confirm their continuation into 2014.
Garcia refused to comment on a lengthy article in Catalan newspaper El Periodico which claimed that a sponsor deal has already been reached, with car manufacturers FIAT, that Vuelta winner Chris Horner had been contacted about a contract for 2014 and that Cervelo were in the running to provide the squad with bikes.
El Periodico also claimed that Jose Luis Rubiera, an Asturian ex-pro, would be the team’s new director.
“I can’t comment about any of that because it would be disrespectful both to Fernando Alonso and to the team’s current sponsors, Euskaltel-Euskadi.
“I’m not going to start discussing those questions when first we have to resolve the question of the agreement (to buy the team’s ProTour licence) itself,” Garcia told Cyclingnews. – Cyclingnews
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