Patrick Lefevere has adressed that he wanted to leave the sport, but I never believed he'd do so at the cost of riders and staff. Bakala has 80% of SQS ownership, Lefevere 20%, so Lefevere probably didn't have much say in the merger discussion I would guess.
According to this report Patrick Lefevere is working on a team that would absorb riders and staff not making the move to the merger team hln.be/wielrennen/nie…
