With Alexander Kristoff, the star of 2015 so far, out of contract at the end of the season, many teams will be looking to sign him if he can’t extend his deal with Katusha. 

With ten wins in 2015, and a second Monument after taking out the Tour of Flanders, the Norwegian will demand a big contract and Sky DS Gabriel Rasch says he would love to have his compatriot on the team if Katusha cant afford him.

As reported by Procycling.no, Sky’s sporting director Rasch says it would ‘be insanely cool’ if his countryman was to join Sky, something that was music to the ears of Kristoff’s long-term trainer Stein Orn.

“If Alex should have changed teams, is there a better option than Team Sky?” he said. “Sky is definitely the best option.”

Orn says that Sky would need to have him as the leader in the Classics over Geraint Thomas and Ian Stannard, as the 27 year old needs to reach a level where he can win at least one Monument each season.

“The challenge is to get Alexander to another level; it’s to get the whole team to give everything for him,” Orn added.

But Rasch says it may not be such a problem: “Maybe it would have been a conflict in the classics. But cyclists are good at grasping the concept that perhaps someone other than themselves is strongest that day and that they then have to work for him. With Alex in the team we would have more cards to play.”