{"id":608016,"date":"2025-12-02T19:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608016\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:27:20","slug":"i-cant-see-myself-anywhere-else-jonas-vingegaard-firmly-shuts-down-talk-of-team-visma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI can\u2019t see myself anywhere else\u201d \u2013 Jonas Vingegaard firmly shuts down talk of Team Visma"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cNo, I can\u2019t,\u201d the Dane told Ekstra Bladet when asked whether he could imagine riding for another team<\/a>. \u201cFirst and foremost I have\u2026 I can\u2019t even remember how many years I still have\u2026 But whatever the case, I\u2019ve ridden here for so many years that I can\u2019t see myself anywhere else.\u201dTour de France storyline adds fuel to transfer talkSpeculation around Vingegaard\u2019s future intensified during last summer\u2019s Tour de France<\/a>, when interviews given by his wife, Trine, became one of the race\u2019s defining off-bike narratives. Her comments about workload and family balance created a media storm, prompting questions from journalists throughout the opening week and sending transfer rumours into overdrive.<\/p>\n

At the time, some commentators wondered whether the interviews were an attempt to apply pressure on management or a signal to other teams. Others questioned whether the Dane might be considering a switch after years of relentless racing and altitude blocks.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard, however, has reiterated that he never saw it as an issue internally. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the very best timing. But I\u2019m good at putting things aside and not thinking too much about them. As long as I know that it\u2019s not something that affects us internally on the team, then I can put it aside, and it\u2019s not a problem for me at all,\u201d he told Ekstra Bladet.<\/p>\n

Uno-X talk grows \u2014 but Vingegaard unmoved<\/p>\n

Uno-X\u2019s WorldTour promotion for 2026 reignited the discussion in Norway and Denmark. Hushovd, speaking to Dagbladet, downplayed the financial impossibility of signing a rider of Vingegaard\u2019s calibre but acknowledged that any such move would depend entirely on timing.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Vingegaard wouldn\u2019t cost more than our entire budget,\u201d he joked. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t earn that much. If something like that ever happened, it would have to be the right timing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scandinavian team\u2019s structure, identity and long-term ambitions have naturally led to speculation that they might one day attempt to bring the region\u2019s leading Grand Tour rider into yellow and red. But Vingegaard\u2019s latest comments leave little doubt \u2014 a move is neither expected nor being contemplated.<\/p>\n

The Dane now prepares for upcoming December and January training camps with Team Visma | Lease a Bike, continuing a partnership he says he is not looking to end. With contract security and team continuity on his side, his future remains firmly tied to the organisation he has called home for over half a decade.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cNo, I can\u2019t,\u201d the Dane told Ekstra Bladet when asked whether he could imagine riding for another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,31323,79,180916,28509,20680,182814,16,15,190274],"class_list":{"0":"post-608016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-jonas-vingegaard","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike","12":"tag-thor-hushovd","13":"tag-tour-de-france","14":"tag-transfers-negotiations","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-uno-x-mobility"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115651624461107706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}