The Unibet.com team is confident that they will be granted a ProTour license for 2007. Team manager Hilaire Van der Schueren was quoted on sporza.be as saying, "We have met all three of the UCI's conditions, so the chance that we will get a license is 100%. We even received a written confirmation from the UCI that we will get the license".
They've met the financial conditions required for the ProTour license, and have signed contracts with the required 25 riders. The team is, however, lacking an important feature, a team leader. Rumors had linked the Kazakh rider Andrej Kashechkin as a possible addition for Unibet.com. Jacques Hanegraaf told sporza.be "We don't need any more neo-pros, we need a team leader. Kashechkin is a logical candidate, but other teams will be thinking this way". Kashechkin is still officially under contract with Manolo Saiz's Astana team.
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