Team Sky/Ineos

[MichaelW2]

How many kids are expecting a full Team Sky cycling strip under the tree this Christmas?

 

[Rusty Nails]

Sky have grown to be a very successful team due to the money invested in them. Unless they get a similar level of sponsorship it is inevitable that they will become just another team. The only question then will be how long it will take for their best riders, and support team, to leave and for the results to fall off.

I doubt there will be many people on the European mainland upset by this news.

 

[Drago]

I guess the cost of jiffy bags has driven them out of the game.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Sponsors in cycling are only ever temporary, once they've reached the limit of brand exposure they pull out.

Apparently McLaren are looking to come into cycling, so that could get interesting.

 

[tom73]

Business come and go in all sports any team given the money can be top of the tree football as good example is full of them.
How much the money needed and it's worth in terms of profile. Is quite another i don't know enough about pro cycling to know the money need to to have even a 1/2 decent team and for that to translate into profile to make it worth it.

How much can a 1/2 decent team be had for to make it worth the money from a business case?

Who ever takes it on if they can't match the money the party is over if they can match it they maybe onto a good thing if they can keep the cycle side of the brand from going toxic. If not it maybe a costly mess companies live and die by a brand once it get's toxic and it don't take much it's game over.

 

[Milkfloat]

Apparently McLaren are looking to come into cycling, so that could get interesting.

McLaren are coming in with Bahrain Merida, I suspect kicking and screaming because they are being forced into it. It will be interesting to see how much effort they put in and what new technologies can do to shake up the peloton.

 

[Beebo]

Apparently McLaren are looking to come into cycling, so that could get interesting.

Will they bring their innovative folding buggy technology with integrated rain hood into the peloton?


I know its a different company

 

[Fab Foodie]

Will they bring their innovative folding buggy technology with integrated rain hood into the peloton?

Nah... the UCI will ban such innovation....

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Now aponsored by GSK.

 

[Stonechat]

Clearly it’s become to toxic a brand to be seen with. No surprise they pulled the plug. If it’s to carry on as is who ever wants it will need deep pockets

No it's more to do with Sky being under new ownership

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I guess the cost of jiffy bags has driven them out of the game.

Office supplies are doing a special Team Sky pack complete with a pen that does not work for the recird keeping.

 

[Hacienda71]

Team SportsDirect ......They can all ride Muddy Foxes.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Froome has a contract with Sky until end of 2020 how well he stand as they are pulling out at the end of 2019 could they put him on garden leave for a year?

 

[nickyboy]

Froome has a contract with Sky until end of 2020 how well he stand as they are pulling out at the end of 2019 could they put him on garden leave for a year?

What would be the point of that? His contract is with Sky Cycling (or whatever the corporate entity is that "owns" the team). Sky TV is a sponsor that is pulling out. Sky Cycling still has a contractual obligation to pay Froome according to his contract. Whether they can afford to pay it or not is another matter. But if they can, he'll race. If they can't, they're in breach and Froome could go elsewhere

 

[NorthernDave]

Sly and the Family Stone are entering a bid.... then we can have the aptly named Team Sly....

Or Pukka....Team Pie