{"id":762874,"date":"2026-06-26T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762874\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:17:11","slug":"team-pidcock-wants-to-lure-seixas-with-a-higher-salary-than-pogacars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/762874\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Pidcock Wants to Lure Seixas with a Higher Salary Than Pogacar’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinarello-Q36.5 has joined the long line of teams interested in Paul Seixas.<\/a> The 19-year-old Frenchman from Decathlon CMA CGM still has a one-year contract with his current team and is being offered very large sums of money from all sides.Seixas is without a doubt the most sought-after cycling talent of the moment. The climber came up through the Decathlon CMA CGM youth academy and made the jump to the WorldTour team last year<\/a>. He immediately made a big impression in several races and even won the Tour de l’Avenir in the U23 category.<\/p>\n

In 2026, Seixas took a huge step forward. Although he was still beaten by Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek) in the Tour of the Algarve, he went on to win the Faun-Ard\u00e8che Classic, finished second in Strade Bianche, and dominated the Tour of the Basque Country and the Fl\u00e8che Wallonne in April.<\/p>\n

Although Tadej Pogacar outperformed Seixas in Strade Bianche and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, the Frenchman is already seen as a major threat to the Slovenian rider from UAE Team Emirates-XRG. Decathlon CMA CGM is already planning to have Seixas make his debut in the Tour de France in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Paul Seixas<\/p>\n

Pinarello-Q36.5 wants to pay Seixas a massive salary<\/p>\n

According to many, Decathlon has no choice but to let Seixas make his debut in a Grand Tour, because the entire peloton is vying for his signature. His contract, which runs through the end of 2027, essentially guarantees the French team another season with this top talent, but what happens after that?<\/p>\n

The major teams in the peloton have already been linked to Seixas, including Pogacar\u2019s UAE Team Emirates. But Pinarello-Q36.5 could still be considered a surprising addition to the long list. According to cycling journalist Daniel Benson<\/a>, the Pro Continental team has deep pockets.The team, which currently revolves entirely around Tom Pidcock<\/a>, falls short of its competitors in terms of its WorldTour license, but it hopes to make up for that with a massive salary. Benson mentions an annual salary of 13 million euros, which would be millions more than Pogacar\u2019s salary at UAE.<\/p>\n

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Tadej Pogacar<\/p>\n

Is Seixas leaving Decathlon CMA CGM?<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether Seixas is interested in such a salary. UAE, Visma | Lease a Bike, Netcompany, INEOS, and Lidl-Trek might be able to offer him a much better deal from a sporting perspective, and Decathlon CMA CGM also has ambitions and a large budget to potentially retain Seixas.<\/p>\n

Seixas\u2019s agent has confirmed Pinarello-Q36.5\u2019s interest to Benson, but also emphasized that no decision has yet been made regarding his client\u2019s future. So we don\u2019t yet know whether Seixas might soon become the highest-paid rider in the peloton.<\/p>\n

Pinarello-Q36.5 is funded by Ivan Glasenberg, who, according to Benson, has a net worth<\/a> of 13 to 14 billion. This already partly explained Pidcock\u2019s move to the Swiss cycling team in 2025. So the British all-rounder might just be getting a big-name teammate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pinarello-Q36.5 has joined the long line of teams interested in Paul Seixas. The 19-year-old Frenchman from Decathlon CMA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,137025,141519,82,43201],"class_list":["post-762874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-transfers","tag-paul-seixas","tag-sports","tag-tom-pidcock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}