Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere: I won’t let losers with zero followers get to me

Published 14/02/2022 at 17:08 GMT

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere has once again not wasted a word as he previews the upcoming season, likening his team to a 'wolfpack', saying all the other teams should be afraid of his, and that he is no longer bothered by people hating on him online. Lefevere is certainly bullish and believes the likes of Kasper Asgreen can deliver success for him in 2022.

Patrick Lefevere has been on typically candid form as the 2022 season gets underway.

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Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere says he is scaling back his time on social media as the 2022 season begins to ramp up.

Lefevere has been nothing but candid on his various accounts in recent times, but faced criticism last year for from Quick-Step to Bora-Hansgrohe.

But though he has been reducing his time online, he is still airing his forthright views on other channels.

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Speaking to Het Nieuwsblad, Lefevere said: "I’m not going to do that anymore [social media]. Twitter, Facebook: I’ve stopped. I am only on Instagram, with 55,000 followers.

"But I haven’t missed Twitter for a moment. I won’t let losers with zero followers get to me. I’m not going to put any more energy into it, but whoever wants to can continue to hate me.”

Lefevere talks a good game off the road and he hopes his riders can back him up this season, despite fierce competition from rival teams such as Jumbo Visma, who can boast the likes of Primoz Roglic, Wout van Aert and Tom Dumoulin among their star-studded squad.

“When I hear the competition, we shouldn’t even start anymore,” Lefevere said.

“But the race has yet to be run. We have seen the training values of Kasper Asgreen, he has become even stronger. He looks like an iron, but ask Mathieu van der Poel if he can sprint. In addition, we have Ballerini, Sénéchal, Stybar and Lampaert who are driving well. You can go to war with that.