World of Cycling: What are Ineos Grenadiers getting wrong in the transfer window?

The transfer window was not so much opened on August 1, but smashed in by the flood of moves that were ready to be announced by teams. To this day, multiple transfers are being revealed every 24 hours and there are many riders still looking for a contract. As such, it was only appropriate for this week's World of Cycling episode to be a transfer special, with a particular eye cast on Tao Geoghegan Hart's departure from Ineos Grenadiers.

Read more:

• Pro cycling transfers – every move for the 2024 season
• Tao Geoghegan Hart signs three-year deal with Lidl-Trek

GCN's Simon Richardson is joined in the World of Cycling studio by journalist and author, Andy McGrath, and former pro, Dani Christmas, to take an in-depth look at the transfer window. How does it work? Should it be changed? What are this year's biggest moves? Our team of experts looks at all this and more, before our resident stat guru swoops in to deliver his usual hot take.

This week, Cillian Kelly is here to convince everyone that Soudal Quick-Step have perfected the art of the transfer window, with Fabio Jakobsen the latest rider to leave Patrick Lefevere's team. The Dutch sprinter has transferred to dsm-firmenich for 2024, but is not the only high-profile rider on the move.

The GCN editorial team feature in this week's episode to deliver an update on Ineos Grenadiers' transfer window to date, which has seen them lose Tao Geoghegan Hart, Dani Martínez, Ben Tulett and Pavel Sivakov. With Geraint Thomas admitting the British team are in a period of transition, we look at what is going wrong with the former pre-eminent team in the peloton.

Read more:

• Geraint Thomas supportive of Rod Ellingworth but would welcome Dave Brailsford return
• Geraint Thomas: Ineos Grenadiers has been in transition for a couple of years
• Ineos Grenadiers ice transfer deals as speculation over Evenepoel and mergers persist

You can discover all that and more in this week's World of Cycling episode, which is out now on GCN+.

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