Weekly Transfer Analysis: UAE & RedBull-Bora-hansgrohe

Breaking down the transfer market performance of two teams that will be fighting it out for the sport's biggest victories in 2025

To continue our in-depth transfer analysis of every top team entering the 2025 season, I’ve selected two WorldTour teams that, at least in terms of PCS points in/out, have had polar opposite transfer market performances while both aspiring to the same lofty goals in the 2025 season: UAE Team Emirates and RedBull-BORA-hansgrohe.

RedBull-Bora-hansgrohe

• Highlighted New Signings: Maxim Van Gils (Lotto), Laurence Pithie (Groupama-FDJ), Jan Tratnik (Visma-Lease a Bike), Finn Fisher-Black (UAE), Oier Lazkano (Movistar)

• Highlighted Departing Riders: Maximilian Schachmann (Soudal-QuickStep), Sergio Higuita (XDS-Astana), Emanuel Buchmann (Cofidis), Bob Jungels (Ineos), Lennard Kämna (Lidl-Trek)

• Notable unsigned riders: N/A

• Total Riders In: 9

• Total Riders Out: 9

• 2025 Roster Spots Remaining: 1 (neopro only)

• 2024 UCI Team Rankings: 5th

• 2024 UCI Team Rankings Increase/Decrease: +5

• Pro Cycling Stats Points In/Out: +2,871

Nearly twelve months after team founder/manager Ralph Denk brought on RedBull as a strategic partner by selling 51% of the team, the German side's trendline keeps ticking up. Between 2023 and 2024, they went from 10th to 5th in the UCI Team Rankings, and their recruitment of Primož Roglič paid off, as they became only the third team in the last two seasons to win a Grand Tour. And, to keep things rolling, they have continued to quietly but methodically strengthen the squad over the recent months.