Dylan van Baarle is set to leave the Cannondale-Drapac team at the end of the season, Cyclingnews understands.
In mid-August the American team announced that the 25-year-old Dutch classics rider, who finished fourth at this year’s Tour of Flanders, had re-signed for two more years.
However, Van Baarle’s agent told Cyclingnews on Friday that pen was never put to paper, with Van Baarle himself confirming the agreement was only verbal.
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The future of the team, run by Jonathan Vaughters, has been in doubt for the last couple of weeks after a planned sponsor for 2018 fell through and left them with a budget shortfall. Riders were released from their contracts and told they were free to start looking for work elsewhere, while the management searched for fresh investment.
In Van Baarle’s case, there was no shortage of interest, with his agent saying he’d received calls “from almost every WorldTour team”. Several of those avenues resulted in concrete offers.
On Thursday, Cannondale-Drapac riders were informed via email that the team would continue in 2018, and that contracts would be enforced. Despite communications to the contrary, Van Baarle never had a binding agreement, and he is essentially on the market like the rest of the riders whose contracts were set to expire at the end of 2017.
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