Gerry Ryan, owner of the Orica-GreenEDGE team, will meet with "potential co-sponsors" in Europe next week armed with a blueprint for how they hope to develop into a team that can support an overall contender for the three-week grand tours.

Ryan, who left for Europe on Friday, said he met with Orica-GreenEDGE manager Shayne Bannan, head sports director Matt White and sports director Neil Stephens at the recent Giro d'Italia to talk about the team's future.

European trip: Gerry Ryan. Credit:Jesse Marlow

Ryan said they looked at: "Succession planning – who is coming off contract, where we want to be in 2017. We are planning for the next three years.

"If we want to be there in 2016, we probably have got to try and recruit next year a GC [general classification] rider, or we have sit it out and hopefully one of the young kids are going to step up.