Questioned by several former runners in an article in the Team, the manager of the Cofidis Cédric Vasseur team defended himself on Eurosport, saying that they were lies.
Cédric Vasseur offered himself a right of reply. On March 19, the manager of the Cofidis team was the subject of an article in the newspaper The teamwhich titled “the methods of Vasseur Crispent”. In this article, some former runners criticized the way of making the manager, qualified as lunatic, changing the program of runners as he pleases, which can humiliate a runner because he did not bring enough UCI points, and even capable of removing the snack for a few weeks last season following the bad results of his team. This Monday, Cédric Vasseur was invited to “bistro bike” on
EurosportAnd he was obviously questioned about this. The former Crédit Agricole, US Postal or even Quick Step completely denied, saying that you should not listen to the words of runners who left the team, like Nacer Bouhanni (who reacted to the show by posting a “liar” emoticon on X), Axel Zingle or Alexis Gougeard.
“I don’t want to enter the controversy. To question the runners who are no longer part of the team because we have not renewed their contract is easy. It is better to ask those who left and with whom it went well, as Simon Geschke or Guillaume Martin. When you have people who are only looking for combat, there is no discussion. The runners who are part of the team are happy, we laugh at Cofidis. There is not this hate campaign. I found the article shameful. We are completely out of step with reality. I can understand the frustration of Alexis or runners who have not been kept. It is always a heartbreak to announce to a runner that his contract will not be renewed. All the runners who left the Cofidis team were warned, their agent too, all that are lies, words in the air. »»
Vasseur: “I don’t do the briefings”
Built to describe what type of manager he is, Cédric Vasseur believes to be “a manager who is close to his runners, who wants to push them to get the best of themselves. “I don’t make the briefings,” he continues. I have eight sports directors and they are the ones who do it on the bus in the morning. I assist there when I am present. My job is time of time, to take stock with the runner and his agent, if he wants to continue the adventure with us. Cédric Vasseur considers himself the victim of a “destabilization campaign”.
A campaign that does not work so badly, because the northern team has already won almost as many victories in three months (4) as throughout the 2025 season (5).
