Mark Cavendish is coming to the end of his contract with Team HTC and has predictably received many offers from almost all the teams, presumably. He has not really made it clear where he wants to go, but it looks quite likely he will leave seeing as Team HTC are looking and and at the moment failing to find a new sponsor.
Where do I think he will go? After his interview on BBC 5 Live band what he said, I'm going to say quite surprisingly, Quickstep. Quickstep itself is going through some sponsor type turmoil at the moment also, as they are trying to link up with Omega Pharma Lotto, the team of Phillipe Gilbert.
But what makes me say Quickstep is the fact that Cavendish said that "there was one more ingredient". That ingredient could of course be many things, but I think it's Peter and Martin Velits, who have joined Quickstep from HTC and formed and important part of Cavendish's lead out train.
It would also make sense: they have no real top sprinters but have lots of lead out men. Ciolek and Steegmans, for example. Boonen is now a classics rider. He now longer has the style of a sprinter. But who knows, he could just stay on at HTC if they find a sponsor or go elsewhere. Or go to team Sky: that would also make sense, with a view to the 2012 Olympics.
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