Jakob Fuglsang and the rest of the Astana team have not been paid yet this year. But can it be worse?
the cycling team from Kazakhstan seems to answer yes to the question. For now, the Danish cyclist also go down in salary. That is, the salary that Fuglsang should really be getting paid each month, but have not yet come in 2020.
in Astana, according to Spanish AS chosen to put all riders on the team a 30 percent down in salary in at least the next three months – maybe more. It happens as a result of the corona-crisis that also has hit the stage and put a stop to the vast majority of races.
It is then enough hardly Jakob Fuglsang utmost concern for the Danish cykelstjerne waiting, as mentioned, still getting his salary for the year’s first months.
Astana has not yet paid its employees, and it is due according to the team itself, a slow administrative process to approve a sum from the state-owned storsponsor Samruk Kazyna.
“In the last week received our teams the official confirmation that the problem will be resolved this week, and we will have the funds to cover the salaries for February and march,” said Vinokourov earlier on the moon with a positive view..
“We have confidence that the problems will be resolved after this week.”
About the problems with receiving money from storsponsoren is resolved, is not yet known. But if that falls money in the coming months, it is almost a third less than Jakob Fuglsang and the other riders had anticipated.
