Posted on: June 9th, 2021 Wout van Aert as a Veranda’s Willems-Crelan rider in 2018. But now his abrupt departure from that team almost three years ago looks set to cost him a lot of money Wout van Aert has been ordered by a court in Belgium to pay his former manager a sum of €662,000 in a severance payment after a near three-year legal action. Nick Nuyens owned Sniper Cycling when Van Aert broke his contract with the team in September, 2018. Nuyens said at the time Van Aert was acting without the team’s consent, adding the matter was in the hands of his lawyers.