Odd denial over “100% false” Fermin Aldeguer rumour from Honda's Alberto Puig as rider search goes on
Moto2 teenage talent Aldeguer emerged as a shock possibility to inherit the bike that Marc Marquez will vac🎉ate when he goes to Gresini Ducati in 2024.
Aldeguer himself fanned the fla♈mes of this rumour at the Malaysian Mot💝oGP this weekend.
But Puig, the Repsol Honda te🦄am manager, has now said to DAZN: "No, I don't know where that came from. It's 100% false.
“Yesterday I spoke to Aldeguer’s manager and I as💖ked him w📖here it came from and he didn't know what to say.”
Aldeguer had previously 🐎insisted: “The call was there but I don’t have anything on the tabl𝓰e…”
, the DAZN journalist who broke the news, reacted: “Well now Alberto Puig flatly denies any contact with Fermin Aldeguer, when both the rider himself and his manager have confirmed through various channels that there was interest on the part of Honda.“Wow, I don't know who is lying and who isn't!! Frankly surprisiꦏﷺng!!
“I know 🐎why that reaction! But I'm notꦑ going to explain it.
“It is not the first time they haveꩲ denied news, nor will it probably be the last. It is normal! There are always lea🥃ks!”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sp𓂃orts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
