Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Friday January 10, 2025 at 3:57 p.m.
New recruit from Tudor, a second-tier Swiss team, Julian Alaphilippe will receive a slightly lower salary than at Quick-Step.
After ten years at Quick-Step, Julian Alaphilippe started his new life within the Tudor Racing team. If he dreams of participating in the Tour de France after missing two of the last three editions, Berrichon is not sure of it, since the Swiss formation of ProTeam, the second division, must still wait for the invitation from the organizers of the Grande Boucle, in which the 18 World Tour teams participate.
And at 32, the double world champion will receive (slightly) lower emoluments than in Belgium. While he received between 2.2 and 2.3 million euros per year at Quick-Steph, “Alaph” will now collect 2 million per year in salary, according to Time. Which, however, remains far from the leaders of the peloton, starting with Tadej Pogacar, the highest paid cyclist with an annual salary of 6 million euros within the UAE Team Emirates.
-“A challenge for me”
Today he says he is “very happy” to have made this choice. “It’s a challenge for me too, it was my instinct that decided, I’m very happy with my decision. They know where they want to go, that motivated me really well,” he explained to the AFP, on the sidelines of the presentation of its new team.
“I liked the project from the first discussions we had with Ricardo (Scheidecker, the sporting director, editor’s note), “Raphi” (Raphael Meyer, the general director, editor’s note) and Fabian (Cancellara, the owner, editor’s note “I immediately fell in love with the idea of being part of this young team, but with a lot of character and ambition,” he said.
He also left good memories in his former team, as explained by Jürgen Foré, former general director of Soudal Quick-Step and who succeeded the iconic Patrick Lefevere at the head of the Belgian team. “He wears another jersey but he will always be a child of the team, a Wolf,” he admits to L’Equipe. “Everyone loves him.” The French public too…
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