The transfer window has been open for almost two weeks now and one of the teams who have a fair amount of work to do is Lampre-Merida. The Italian squad is having to work out what shape it wants its sprinting line-up to take on in the coming years, with most of its fast men out of contract for 2016.
The futures of Sacha Modolo, Niccolo Bonifazio, Roberto Ferrari, and Ariel Richeze are still to be decided and Cyclingnews understands that Modolo and Bonifazio are both considering multiple offers from elsewhere.
"I am in the final year of my contract, and at the moment I am waiting to take a decision. I’d like to remain in this team but I’m also looking around to see if something else can happen," Modolo told Cyclingnews at the Tour de Pologne, where he was fifth on the second stage.
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"I have asked to remain here in this team because this is a team that has given me so much but I have two other interesting propositions. I will take a decision in the near future."
Modolo has enjoyed a great season, triumphing at the Tour of Turkey before taking the two biggest wins of his career so far at the Giro d’Italia. However, despite the scale of those successes – his first in a Grand Tour – the 28-year-old is unhappy not to be nearing the total of eight wins he managed last year, or nine the year before.
"I was delighted with two wins at the Giro, but this year I’ve won only three races and for me it’s not so much," he said. "I’m a rider that needs to win. I want to win much more than that in a season and I hope from now to the end of the season to achieve that satisfaction."
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