Euskaltel to offer Samu 3-year deal

Samu will be offered a new three-year deal before the Pro Tour season gets underway with the Tour Down Under on the 14th of January. Euskaltel have been keen to tie up Samu on a new deal for some time now, as his present contract expires at the end of the year. It seems both rider and team want the cooperation to continue, but so far they've not managed to come to an agreement on Samu's salary. "We want to have Samu signed up before Down Under", Madariaga and Galdeano told the Diario Vasco. "We hope that he wants to stay on, but the contract proposals he's got from other teams are financially lucrative. We would like him to sign a three-year deal, and we are hopeful we'll reach an agreement". If Samu doesn't put pen to paper now, the negotiations will be put off until the end of the season.