The 2027 cycling transfer market is effectively on hold while Primoz Roglic works out whether he still wants to race at all.

Roglic’s deal at Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe ran out after Il Lombardia on 10 October, and the five-time Grand Tour winner is yet to sign anywhere. He himself has hinted that the Italian Monument could turn out to be his last race.

“You never know when is the last one, like everything in life, so it can be a bit emotional,” he told reporters at Il Lombardia, according to Domestique Cycling.

A deadline that has quietly slipped

Roglic’s agent Mattia Galli put a clock on the decision in late October. Any transfer would still require a proper build-up, new equipment and the first team camps of winter, and Galli said the rider had “a week or two at most” to settle it. That window has now closed, with no public signing to show for it.

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Rosters for next season are closing around him. Pinarello-Q36.5, one of the teams linked for weeks, has already signed 11 riders for 2027 and ended talks with Roglic, Domestique Cycling reported. Visma-Lease a Bike, where Roglic spent most of his career before his move to Red Bull-BORA, briefly reappeared in the rumour mill before opting against a reunion.

The teams still in the frame

A short, thinning list of options remains in recent reporting.

• Lotto-Intermarché: made an offer that Roglic rejected, per Cyclingnews.
• Tudor Pro Cycling: heavily linked through the autumn, but the team itself has played down the prospect.
• Unibet Rose Rockets: the ProTeam held initial discussions with Roglic ahead of the Vuelta.

None of the names on that list is the kind of WorldTour home a rider of Roglic’s record would normally be expected to land in, and that is the gap the market is waiting for him to close one way or the other.

Form is not the problem

Roglic is not stepping away because he cannot keep up. He finished second at the 2026 Vuelta a España and won the European time trial title on home roads in Slovenia in October. On his day, he remains a direct threat to Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard at a Grand Tour.

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He sounded, in Slovenia, like a rider who had not completely let go: pulling on the European jersey, he said he hoped it would not stay only at home but turn up on the bike next season too, as reported by Cycling Up To Date.

Roglic is reported to be travelling to Taiwan on 9 November for the Taiwan Masters Ride event, where Domestique Cycling suggested his 2027 future may finally be decided.

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