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<\/p>\nThe reported deal would eclipse Poga\u010dar’s salary and signal just how far teams are willing to go to sign cycling’s brightest young star.<\/p>\n
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Paul Seixas is at the center of a new mega-transfer rumor reportedly worth $13 million per season. (Photo: (Photo: Maarten Straetemans \/ Begla Mag via AFP))<\/p>\n
Updated June 26, 2026 01:41PM<\/p>\n
Paul Seixas<\/a> hasn\u2019t even started his first Tour de France<\/a>, and he\u2019s already at the center of what could become the wildest transfer deal in modern cycling.<\/p>\n Pinarello-Q36.5<\/a> has contacted Seixas\u2019 representatives about a possible move after his Decathlon-CMA CGM<\/a> contract expires at the end of 2027, Daniel Benson reported Friday on Daniel Benson\u2019s Cycling Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n The number Benson reported is jaw-dropping at around \u20ac13 million per season.<\/p>\n If accurate, it would make the 19-year-old Frenchman the highest-paid rider in the peloton and blow the doors off cycling\u2019s salary market.<\/p>\n That would put him above Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s widely reported UAE Emirates-XRG base salary, estimated between \u20ac8 million and \u20ac10 million per season.<\/p>\n No deal is signed, but Benson reported that Seixas\u2019 agent confirmed Pinarello-Q36.5\u2019s interest.<\/p>\n Pinarello-Q36.5 officials did not comment when Velo reached out to team officials.<\/p>\n The deal would make Seixas cycling\u2019s highest-paid rider<\/p>\n Still, the numbers are staggering for a rider who\u2019s yet to win a grand tour or even start the Tour de France.<\/p>\n Pinarello-Q36.5 has the checkbook to make this happen. The second-tier team is backed by billionaire Ivan Glasenberg and the team has already been making major moves.<\/p>\n The Swiss-based squad signed Tom Pidcock ahead of 2025 and added nearly a dozen riders for 2026 before its Tour de France debut next month.<\/p>\n The massive offer for Seixas \u2014 still unconfirmed \u2014 reveals just how crazy the elite men\u2019s peloton is going over the 19-year-old French phenom.<\/p>\n Benson and other media have linked Seixas to cycling\u2019s richest teams, including UAE Emirates-XRG, Visma-Lease a Bike, Lidl-Trek and Netcompany-Ineos.<\/p>\n Decathlon is expected to fight hard to keep the jewel of its system. Sources told Velo the French team is working to sweeten its offer beyond 2027.<\/p>\n Seixas is touted as being the first young rider capable of challenging Poga\u010dar and Jonas Vingegaard for the Tour de France.<\/p>\n If \u20ac13 million per year is truly on the table, cycling\u2019s transfer market just entered a new world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reported deal would eclipse Poga\u010dar’s salary and signal just how far teams are willing to go to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[168574,49,48,635,54263,82,238600,90610,78014,54266,62999,54267],"class_list":["post-763269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-audio-true","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-decathlon-cma-cgm","tag-tag-paul-seixas","tag-tag-q36-5-pro-cycling","tag-tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-tag-tom-pidcock","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763269","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=763269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}