When Jose Rujano recently talked about his desire to return to Europe and revealed that he was in negotiations with a team about a possible start in the Giro d'Italia, the focus automatically turned to Androni-Venezuela. The Venezuelan has had a relationship of ups and downs with manager Gianni Savio with whom he achieved his greatest results. However, the pair had a public disagreement in 2012 when Rujano abandoned the Giro.

In an interview with Cafe Roubaix, Savio clarifies the situation.

"After the Vuelta al Tachira, Jose Rujano informed me that he wants to talk to me and I replied that we can do that, but nothing more. At this moment, we are not negotiating with Rujano," he said.

"I am open to talk to him if he wants that, but I repeat, there are no negotiations. I have a good relation now with Rujano. He knows he made a mistake a couple of years ago, but that’s the past, it’s all water under the bridge, so things are ok between us. He won the Vuelta al Tachira and when I was on the podium with Jose Garcia, who took the intermediate sprints classification, I congratulated Rujano for his triumph. We didn’t talk yet, but if he is open to do it, then we will talk, as everything is good between us."