Trek has been one of the busiest team sin the transfer market. Theuns, Bonifazio, Hesjedal, Bernard and Stetina all arrive in the American team and Steegmans has retired. Now Bob Jungels looks set to leave the team to join Etixx-QuickStep, where he is seeking a better racing program.

“We went through negotiations but in the end I was told by his agent that he’d accepted a different proposal,” Trek Factory Racing’s Luca Guercilena told Cyclingnews.

“I don’t know for sure but from what I understand he’s going to Etixx. I’m almost sure of this.”

While the team has invested a lot in the Luxembourg Road Race Champ, they say his result this year haven’t been as good as they had hoped, even though he has ridden a great debut Tour de France.

“It’s a shame because we invested a lot in him, since he was in the development team and we’ve sustained his growth for a number of years,” Guercilena told Cyclingnews.

"In the last two years he was on a good contract with us but lets say we were at a point when we didn’t see much results from him for a number of months. I wouldn’t say the return we got back from him was what we expected but we’re sad to see him go. He’s made his choice and we wish him the best of luck.”

Guercilena also took time to explain the signing he has made, including Hesjedal and Stetina, who helped the Canadian win the 2012 Giro.

“This year he (Hesjedal) showed that he’s still up there in the major races and he performs well in May on a consistent basis. It’s difficult to say where he can finish in the Giro next year because a lot depends on the route and the contenders but I think he can carry on aiming for top fives and even higher.”

He is still looking for a climber and Phil Deignan of Sky may be an option. He also wants another hilly sprinter, with Kiel Reijnen of United HealthCare an option.

“We’re still looking for three or four positions and we’re analysing a number of riders, some of which will be climbers. We’re looking at what’s going on at the Vuelta too and will keep an eye on the Canadian races. We have some names but we can’t define the list at the moment. We’ll probably take another strong climber though."

“We’ve talked to [Reijnen's] agent and we’re looking to see if he can fit with our team. In the next few days we might find a proposition and he’s certainly an interesting guy but we need to define the terms of our offer because he’s a rider who isn’t being considered just because of his recent success, although he has been very impressive in the last few months.”

“We’ve had respect for him for some time but at the moment a lot depends on him. Right now it’s maybe 50-50 and we need to finalise an offer and he then needs to accept it.”