Transfers..
by Frinking on Aug 13, 2010 7:21 AM EDT
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PrintI couldn't find a proper transfer list.. So let's make ourself one.. The plan is to update it with all transfers in the PT + Maybe CTT.. So mis something.. ADD in the comments.
AG2R
In:
Steve Houanard < Skill
Mathieu Perget < Caisse d'Epargne
Romain Lemarchand < BigMat
Sebastien Minard < Cofidis
Michael Cherel < Francaise des Jeux
Out:
Tadelj Valjevec > Dope
Vladimir Efimkin > Personal Quits
Rene Mandri > Endura
Astana:
In:
Robert Kiserlovski < Liquigas
Tanel Kangert <
Roman Kreuziger < Liquigas
Fransesco Masciarelli < Acqua et Sapone
Evgueny Petrov < Katushya
Out:
Oscar Pereiro > Quits
Alberto Contador > Team Saxo
Daniel Navarro > Team Saxo
Jesus Hernandez > Team Saxo
Benjamin Noval > Team Saxo
Euskaltel
In:
Mikel Landa Meana < Orbea
Jon Izagirre Insausti < Orbea
Out:
Sergio de Lis > Quits
Benat Intxausti >
Aitor Hernandez >
Francaise des Jeux:
William Bonnet < Bbox
Steve Chainel < Bbox
Arnold Jeanessen < Caisse
Cedric Pineau < Roubaix-Lille Metropole
Arnoud Courteille < UC Nantes Atlantique
Mickael Delage < Omega
Remi Pauriol < Cofidis
Geoffrey Soupe <
Out:
Christophe le Mevel > Garmin
Jussi Veikannen > Omega
Mickael Cherel > AG2R
Garmin-Transistions
In
Christophe le Mevel < Francaise des Jeux
Andrew Talansky < California Giant-Specialised
Alex Howes < Team Holowesko Partners
Ramanus Navardauskus < VC La Pomme
Caleb Fairly < Holowesko
Thor Hushovd < Cervelo Test Team??
Heinrich Haussler < Cervelo Test Team??
Andreas Klier < Cervelo Test Team??
Roger Hammond < Cervelo Test Team??
Out:
Ricardo van der Velde >
Footon-Servetto > Geox
In:
Fabio Duarte < Café de Colombia - Colombia es Pasion
Carlos Sastre < Cervelo
Denis Menchov < Rabobank
Dimitry Kozontschuck < Rabobank
Maurico Ardilla < Rabobank
Marko Kump < Adria Mobil
Matte Pelucchi <
Daniele Ratto < Carmiooro - NGC
Sergio Pardilla < CamiOoro
Out:
Eros Capecchi > Liquigas
Lampre-ISD
In:
Andrey Kasechkin < Ex doper
Michele Scarponi < Androni blabla
Leonardo Bertagnolli < Androni
Luca Celli < Ceramica
Bartosz Huzarski < ISD
Denis Kostyuk < ISD
Ruslan Pidgorny < ISD
Matteo Rabottini <
Vitaly Kondrut < ISD
Alexander Kvachuk < ISD
Out:
Liquigas
In:
Damiano Caruso < De Rosa
Juraj Sagan (brother) <
Eros Capecchi < Footon-Servetto
Paolo Borghini Longho < ISD
Cristiano Salerno < De Rosa
Out:
Frederik Willems > Omega
Robert Kiserlovski> Astana
Fransesco Chicchi > Quick - Step
Alexander Kuchinsky > Katushya
Manuel Quinziato > BMC
Ivan Santamorito < BMC
Roman Kreuziger > Astana
Brian Vandborg < Saxo?
Daniele Bennati < Team Luxemburg
Omega Pharma
In:
Andre Greipel < Team HTC
Frederik Willems < Liguigas
Jurgen van de Walle < Quick -Step
Jussi Veikannen < Francaise des Jeux
Klaas Lodewijck < Topsport
Sven Vandousselare < Jong Vlaanderen
Jens Debusschere < PWS Eijssen Cycling Team
Gert Dockx < Team HTC
David Boucher < Landbouwkrediet
Vincent Reynes < Team HTC
Bart de Clerq < Davo-Lotto
Maarten Neyens < Topsport Vlaanderen
Out:
Greg van Avermaet > BMC
Mickael Delage > Francaise des Jeux
Glenn D'Hollander > Quits
Leif Hoste > Katushya
Dani Moreno > Katushya
Michel Elijzen >
Gerben Lowik >
Quick-Step
In:
Fransesco Chicchi < Liquigas
Marc de Maar < United Healthcare
Guillaume van Keirsbulck < Beveren 2000
Jan Tratnik < Zheroquardo
Julien Vermote < Beveren-2000
Frèdèrique Robert < PWS-Eijssen Cycling Team
Andy Cappelle < Veranda-Willems
Niki Terpstra < Milram
Rob Goris <????
Out:
Stijn Devolder > VacansOleil
Jurgen van de Walle > Omega
Carlos Barredo > Rabobank
Branislau Samailov > Movistar
Rabobank:
In:
Coen Vemelfoort < Rabo CT
Tom Jelte Slagter < Rabo CT
Matti Breschel < Team Saxo
Carlos Barredo < Quick -Step
Luis Leon Sanchez < Caisse d'Epargne/Team Mobistar??
Maarten Wynants < Quick-Step
Out:
Koos Moerenhout > Quits
Denis Menchov > Geox
Nick Nuyens >
Dimitry Kozontschuck > Geox
Maurico Ardilla > Geox
Joost Posthuma > Team Luxemburg
Sky:
In:
Out:
Team HTC:
In:
John Degenkolb < Thüringer Energie Team
Out:
Andre Greipel > Omega
Gert Dockx > Omega
Vincent Reynes > Omega
Adam Hansen > Omega
Maxime Monfort > Team Luxemburg
Team Katushya:
In:
Giampola Caruso < Ceramica
Vladimir Gusev <
Alexander Kuchinsky < Liquigas
Yuriy Trofimov < Bbox
Leif Hoste < Omega
Daniel Moreno < Omega
Out
Evgueny Petrov > Astana
Team Milram
In:
Out:
Servais Knaven > Quits
Roger Kluge > Skill-Shimano
Frohlinger > Skill-Shimano
Niki Terptra > Quick-Step
Linus Gerdemann > Team Luxemburg
Fabian Wegmann > Team Luxemburg
Caisse d'Epargne Team Mobistar
In:
Branislau Samailau < Quick-Step
Michael Kwiatowski <
Jose Ventoso < CamiroOro????
Out:
Cristophe Moreau > Quits
Mathieu Perget > AG2R
Arnold Jeanessen > Francaise des Jeux
Arnaud Coyot > Saur-Sojasun
Mathieu Drujon > Big Mat
Luis Leon Sanchez > Rabobank??
Team RadioShack
In:
Tailor Phinney < Trek-Livestrong
Out:
Fuyu Li > Dopage
Saxo Bank:
In:
Alberto Contador < Team Saxo
Daniel Navarro < Team Saxo
Jesus Hernandez < Team Saxo
Benjamin Noval < Team Saxo
Out:
Frank Schleck > Team Luxemburg
Andy Schleck > Team Luxemburg
Stuart O'Grady > Team Luxemburg
Jakob Fuglsang > Team Luxemburg
Matti Breschel > Rabobank
Anders Lund > Team Luxemburg
Dominic Klemme > Team Luxemburg
Jens Voigt > Team Luxemburg
Team Luxemburg
In:
Frank Schleck < Team Luxemburg
Andy Schleck < Team Luxemburg
Stuart O'Grady < Team Luxemburg
Maxime Montfort < Team HTC
Jakob Fuglsang < Saxo
Jens Voigt < Saxo
Daniele Bennati < Liquigas
Brice Feillu < Vacansoleil
Joost Posthuma < Rabobank
Robert Wagner < Skill-Shimano
Anders Lund < Saxo?
Laurent Didier < Saxo?
Special Thanks to Vlaanderen
ProContinentaal
Cervelo Test Team
In:
Daniel Teklehaimanot <?????
Out:
Carlos Sastre > Geox
Roger Hammond > Garmin??
Andreas Klier > Garmin??
Thor Hushovd > Garmin??
Heinrich Hausler > Garmin??
Davide Appollonio >
Joao Correia >
Philip Deignan >
Stefan Denifl >
Volodymir Gustov >
Edward King >
Ignates Konovalovas >
Brett Lancaster >
Daniel Lloyd >
Joaquin Novoa >
Oscar Pujol >
Gabriel Rasch >
Daniel Teklehaimanot >
Xavier Tondo >
Alexander Wetterhall >
Marcel Wyss >
Bbox - BouguesTelecom
In:
Out:
William Bonnet > La Française des Jeux
Steve Chainel > La Française des Jeux
Yury Trofimov > Team Katusha
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CyclingNews guide to rider transfers makes the claim that they will be up to the minute for the rest of the season. Liars!
Now if we could just get Frinking to repost his list in a week or ten days, then we can rec it and it will still be up on the 1st of September when everybody, teams included, can talk.
I like that blabla part.
Michele Scarponi < Androni blabla
ASTANA - 4 - EVAH! Is classier than SUNGARD- WHATEVAH!
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I try to keep these up to date
ProTour – http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A72781914
ProContinetnal – http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A72781905
(two threads because the BBC has a character limit)
Hey
Barredo to Rabo is confirmed is it?
Oh and Frederique Robert to QS is coming from PWS-Eijssen Cycling Team…just FYI.
Thanks...
I meant “isn’t” confirmed". He’s one of my favorite QS…I guess going to Rabo isn’t so bad.
Too bad Cunego's leaving Lampre now
If he could have teamed up with Scarponi it would have made for some interesting racing between those two.
Astana has really been gutted now
Without that Spanish contingent, and with an aging Vino, there’s not much to like there anymore. I’d opt for Katusha if I were Menchov.
Kinda screwed up with the guys leaving Lampre...most of them are Liquigas riders
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
Also, Rojas isn't confirmed to Garmin...that was really an offer if the team couldn't find a sponsor just like Lulu Sanchez
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 13, 2010 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Caleb Fairly should be confirmed with Garmin...will have a 2 year, neo-pro contract
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 13, 2010 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Also Intxausti has refused the contract from Movistar according to one source
and probably won’t join the team. He has two other offers from RadioShack and Garmin.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
I don't think he refused it...not sure it was there in the first place.
Can I ask where you got that about the Shack and Garmin, cos I’ve only seen it in a rather unsubstantiated tweet.
Nice marmotte
Cyclismactu
Seems to have more detail but again not totally substantiated.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 13, 2010 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Is Cunego confirmed to Geox?
What is the story with this team?
Nope, not confirmed.
The story with the team is that Footon got a huge sponsorship deal with Geox, and now have some cash to spend.
I should have rather asked...
Where do I find an up to date Transferlist… Well.. now it also can be found here
Apparently Geox will be signing Fabio Duarte, the Colombian climbing sensation who was the former U-23 RR World Champ
though he has many offers according to biciciclismo. Wants to ride the Giro for next year on a team that is a lock for it.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
I have a spreadsheet going but it isn't as pretty
Here I published it as a spreadsheet and update it with new stuff from All PT and Pro Conti. Teams along with some conti. Teams. I also included some teams moving up to Pro. Conti next year like NetAPP and Bretagne Schuller
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 13, 2010 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Can we rec this?
so it stays up a bit? PdC needs its own fucking list…good job Frinkywink
"Until you shoot me off my bike I'll keep looking for a contract" - Jens!
Quitter's People United member # 42
Excellent job frinky
So efemkikin retired eh? Did not see that coming.
"To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers."
His wife is sick
http://www.podiumcafe.com/2010/8/13/1621264/vladimir-efimkin-done-in-europe
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
Aha - that stinks
Thanks for the link
"To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers."
does anyone know what is happening with valjevec?
Didn’t the Slovenian olympic committee or cycling federation decline to press charges because they thought the irregularities in blood values were explainable? Does that mean it is up to the UCI to appeal to the CAS if they want him to get suspended and that he has not been officially fired by ag2r? His excuse was that he had a stomach problem and the internal bleeding/other effects caused irregular values, and I read that this same problem could jeopardize his future career. But still, it seems like he could be racing next year for the same team.
He is able to race but he is currently sick or something and hasn't been able to get his form where it needs to be to race
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 14, 2010 8:37 AM EDT up reply actions
Well then...according to the Australian (reputable, correct?), Fly V Australia is expected to announce
a group of partners that will allow them to become a Pro Tour team next year with a base in Belgium. They are shooting for a budget around 10 million euro. They all ready have 5 signed for next year but need to sign about 15-20 more.
Hope they aren’t biting off more than they can chew instead of not going Pro Conti. and then PT.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
ProTour, immediately? Out of nowhere?
I’d expect Team Lux to get a spot ahead of them; and Cervélo and BMC if they want one (which they probably do, if the retarded 18-point-plan goes ahead), and Vacansoleil wants one too…
The deadline to apply is at the end of the month and their manager said that he would have an application into the UCI
by then. I don’t see the logic myself but they should be announcing signings in the coming weeks. Since McEwen is riding next year and isn’t under contract at Katusha, could be possible.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 14, 2010 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Wow... that's a nice one. I'm betting Cadel will love that... I sure do.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Source?
Just curious because I haven’t seen anything
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 14, 2010 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions
Knetter is Belgian....so local source?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Paper paper is still the only way to go :)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Listed as a rumor on a couple of different forums, but I can't find anything more substantial than that.
I really do not understand the truth.--Riccardo Ricco (per Google Translate)
They are building quite a classics armada
now all they have to do is deliver
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Tomorrow is the last race for Servais Knaven at the Profwielerronde Etten-Leur
17 years pro…Started with TVM and was one of the main antagonists when they had the huge rivalry with Rabobank. Some Milram teammates, A. Schleck, Basso, Steven De Jongh (in a TVM jersey too), etc. will be racing tomorrow.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
According to Mart Smeets
Kreuziger will move to Astana. He has a contract offer and Smeets judged the big smile one of the Astani managers showed when asked about it to be an indication that is was a done deal. And of course, Mart Smeets can’t be wrong, right?
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
Well.. It seems the most logic option..
Stupid of Liqui to let him go but that is an other thing.. And with that transfer it seems likely that Menchov moves to Katushya..
Be afraid for them now.. And LLS.. Please go to Rabo…
Btw. Ricardo van de Velde doesn’t renew/gets a new contract at Garmin..
Why, for Menshov nor to move to Astana? Ok, they will sign Kreuziger, so what? They have to think about 3 GT.
ASTANA - 4 - EVAH! Is classier than SUNGARD- WHATEVAH!
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It's a done duel says cqranking..
Kreuziger to Astana
Roman Kreuziger (Cze) leaves Liquigas-Doimo, joins Team Astana as of next season (via @AinaraHernando). #cyclingtransfers
Are rumours allowed or is this thread for definites only? ;-)
Alex Dowsett from Trek-Livestrong to Sky, apparently. He’s packing up in Boulder in any case.
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
Sastre to Geox..see Benrazor's fanshot!
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
I don’t get this move!
Carlos practically build Cervelo, no?
ASTANA - 4 - EVAH! Is classier than SUNGARD- WHATEVAH!
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that's what i thought too.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
No contract offer from Cervelo
So moving to Geox makes sense if he wants a job
Just spinning the pedals in the hills of Western Maryland
And what about Rico to VacansOleil rumor?
Is it total bs, or what?
ASTANA - 4 - EVAH! Is classier than SUNGARD- WHATEVAH!
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Ricco likes QS better
Wants to ride a GT pronto! Probably afraid of a new suspension ;-)
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
You just broke holmovka's heart...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
So you had to jump up and down on the shards? Cruel...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Yea! Tell them,my dear friend Seahorse!
VacansOleil will show them all, next year! lol
ASTANA - 4 - EVAH! Is classier than SUNGARD- WHATEVAH!
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I've got your back...don't worry :)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Ricco probably off to VO
Or that’s what I think.. And buying out his contract was a case off..
Never sell the hide before you shoot the bear
We have the same one
it’s just the angelsachians who cling to the inferior “counting chickens before…” proverb.
Not. Clicking. On. That. Link.
I know what lies in that direction, and my eyes are still burning from the last time.
ugh, it wasn't the link that did me in...it was your, "Not. Clicking. On. That. Link." comments...
must. tear. out. my. eyes. and. wash. them.
Yes, I will have an Ultra Liberal MoCo Latte please.
by JustJoshinYa on Aug 19, 2010 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Just think, guys--I could have posted the picture right here in the thread.
I really do not understand the truth.--Riccardo Ricco (per Google Translate)
But what’s with calling it VO and always capitalising VacansOleil? VS / VacanSoleil looks better if you insist on using capitals. They just write Vacansoleil themselves.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
And Wielerland say it is a done deal..
Ricco to VacansOleil,, Or Vacansoleil… Or whatever the majority I want
http://www.wielerland.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12430&Itemid=36
Thanks for this, great to see it all listed out!
I’d already forgotten some of them so very handy
Venga Caisse d'Epargne!
Ricco to Vacansoleil
It's a website with a good reputation
So I guess we can.
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
Not a bad signing
they needed a GC guy, and had to settle for a less publicly attractive one. i hope they let him run the Tour, at least the Giro (if they’re invited).
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Cancellara is not happy with situation in Saxo
Goes to BMC?
Google translate:
thanks for this. It's unsurprising, although some of the translation is fairly awkward..
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
There's what amounts to a better translation up now at velonation.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Yeah!
Please leave that team now cance, there’s no place for you to shine with Pistolero being riis’ new mancrush.
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Really?
Contador doesn’t inhibit Cancellara’s ambitions any more than the Schlecks did.
There might be other good reasons for Spartacus to find another team, but that’s not a valid reason.
MJB
You're probably right
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Nah, but he doesn't help Bert as much
so (or and) he potentially doesn’t get as much automatic help from Bert and the rest of the team.
What's not to like
They need results and good names or there is no growth. All pro-tour and top-17 regulations make it very hard to grow in any other way.
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
I understand logic says that I shouldn't blame all for the faults of a few (or a Ricco in this case).
I just can’t get around to liking the guy. But, I do understand their choice. If he’s clean, he’s an amazing talent.
Yes, I will have an Ultra Liberal MoCo Latte please.
by JustJoshinYa on Aug 18, 2010 11:48 AM EDT up reply actions
Meersman stay with FDJ...
…and Bonnet from Bbox to FDJ.
Ex-doper Emanuelle Sella...
…to Androni Giacattoli.
Branislau Samoilau to Telefonica - Moviestar in 2011.
Probably Francesco Ventoso too
Said two days ago he was still considering
Had been leaning towards accepting a Lux offer but felt loyalty to Stapleton & Co.
It's not an official statement, and I haven't seen it anywhere else, so I'm not buying it.
Could very well be announced officially later.
but he's been giving unhappy-at-HTC interviews hasn't he?
hard to go back
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
And he sounded keen to join the Schlecks
In an interview earlier this week, saying Luxembourg was very close to home (he’s from Bastogne apparently).
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Aug 20, 2010 3:06 AM EDT up reply actions
I've read some "I'm thinking about it interviews", but not unhappy ones.
I haven’t been entirely up to date this past few weeks though. There’s just been so many wrongly confirmed transfers (Menchov to Katusha! Ricco to QST! Luis Leon to Rabo!), I’m opting to wait for real news. I’m too confused for all this yes-no-yes business :)
Building a strong team so far, those Schlecks are
and Geox appears to be putting some good pieces together too.
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Whoah
Menchov – Ardila – Kozunchuk to Geox. Rabo’s GT potential has dropped drastically.
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
Carmiooro NGC are having a bit of trouble at the moment
because NGC have yet to sign on for next year. Sella has signed up for Andronilongname, while young hopeful Daniele Ratto is trying to go to Geox, but signed a neo-pro contract with Carmiooro just this year, which they are holding him to until the UCI deadline. Ratto is the brother of recent silver medallist in the girls’ Worlds Rossella Ratto, who also rides for Carmiooro-NGC and is presumably equally screwed if NGC don’t sign up again.
Followers of the women’s peloton might also recognise Matteo Pelucchi, the other Geox signing in that first article as being the boyfriend of Marina Romoli. It looks like she might also end up on the Geox books in some capacity, as Geox intend to take over what is the current Safi-Pasta Zara squad and run it as their women’s team.
VN on Cancellara remaining with Saxo
article here
Riis also takes the chance to point out that Cancellara cannot buy himself free of his contract either. In other words, unless Riis somehow makes a complete 180 and decides to release the Flanders/Roubaix double winner, Fabian Cancellara will be racing for Saxo Bank/Sungard in 2011.
This has been sitting in the inbox for a while.
Doesn’t anyone work on Saturday? Cunego will stay at Lampre-ISD.
Bah. I thought he could have benefited from a change of scenery.
Cunego staying at Lampre?
it’s kind of anti-transfer news, isn’t it? (It’s also in the Lampre-ISD merger thread.)
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
File it in the could have been news, but because it's not news it is news.
Who says, no news is good news?
Dudette....
It was a rumour Rabo was interested.. Not the actual signing!
(So this was sooo not making your point about Monfort…. Just saying)
I'm not trying to make a point.
Just trying to explain my – perhaps unfounded – suspicion. It has nothing to do with you, it’s just I who can’t keep up unless I stick to things that are for sure. Otherwise I get too confused.
Niki Terpstra to QS
Funny. Belgian champ signed for a Dutch team. Dutch champ for a Belgian team…
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
Anders Lund to leave saxo bank
probably heading for the new luxembourg team, but not official yet
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lund-leaving-saxo-bank
May this be a trend?
But on the plus side, if more riders leave, that leaves more room for conta’s friends to join him.
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Telegraaf..
Wynants to Rabo… Wow… Didn’t see that coming…
AD
Joost Posthuma to the Schlecks
Found that more understandable.
I think that means Lulu will go to Geox
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Aug 23, 2010 6:28 AM EDT up reply actions
Posthuma
I think that is a good move by him. Good for Dutch cycling too. The team can’t contain all Dutch talent and therefore some should move on to other teams. Younger guys can than fill their places. Rabo gets to keep the supertalents hopefully.
Robert Gesink on the difference between football and cycling: "For us it's a lot harder to get yellow"
Matteo Peluchi deserves all the good fortune he can get.
He’s the fiancé of cyclist Marina Romoli who was involved in a terrible car crash this year. He was with her when it happened and spent months by her side:
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5230/Marina-Romoli-trying-to-put-near-fatal-crash-behind-her.aspx
knew that name rang a bell
good luck to him
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
the annual reshuffle of French riders on French riders makes me smile
"I was just trying to keep warm" - Ian Stannard on finishing third in KBK
Degenkolb, the most talented German since Martin, is going to HTC...that will be some good fun there
Posthuma should be headed to the Schlecks
Brian Vandborg will be leaving Liquigas and unless something big happens, he will be going back to Saxo/Sunguard
Ivan Santaromita is leaving Liquigas with Quinziato for BMC…BMC now has a monopoly on men with Santa in their name
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also, Bennati is leaving Liquigas. He is most likely headed to the Schleck's team but nothing is certain.
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 23, 2010 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Cofidis has also signed 4 youngsters for next year
Florent Barle, Nicolas Edet, Adrien Petit and Yoann Bagot. All were amatuers but the latter 3 were stagiaires for Cofidis this year but have all ready gotten contracts for next year
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 23, 2010 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm looking forward to seeing him at the PT level
great move for him, of course first year=Cav lead-out train(hell everybody has that role).
"Until you shoot me off my bike I'll keep looking for a contract" - Jens!
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Ruslan Pidgornny, Vitaly Kondrut, Denys Kostyuk, Dmitry Krivtsov and Alexander Kvachuk from ISD-Neri to Lampre-ISD
plus Huzarski too, all the others are Ukranian though so thats probably why he was not with that list
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 23, 2010 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Have we mentioned yet two more signings for Lotto?
Maarten Neyens from TSV and Bart de Clerq from their development squad. Which makes Lotto’s quite productive transfer season:
IN
Klaas Lodewijck (from TSV)
André Greipel (from THR)
Jussi Veikkanen (from FDJ)
Jurgen Vandewalle (from QST)
Sven Vandousselare (neo)
Jens Debusschere (neo)
Gert Dockx (from THR)
Vincente Reynes (from THR)
David Boucher (from LAN)
Bart De Clercq (neo)
Maarten Neyens (from TSV)
OUT
Leif Hoste (to KAT)
Greg Van Avermaet (to BMC)
Mickael Delage (to FDJ)
Dani Moreno (to KAT)
Don't forget Glenn D'Hollander frink, he is retiring at the end of the year
They must be getting rid of a boat-load of people…I’m curious when/if Adam Hansen will be confirmed because many places have him as down but I haven’t seen anything confirmed
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 23, 2010 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh and Frederik Willems didn't re-sign with Liquigas and seems to be going to Lotto too
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 23, 2010 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Well its seems past that stage but I get what you mean.
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 23, 2010 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Two more signings for Astana according to VeloLive, russian website
Evgueny Petrov (Katusha) and Francesco Masciarelli (Acqua & Sapone). Petrov signed a two year deal though probably should be confirmed by Astana
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Masciarelli leaving Masciarelli
didn’t Nostradamus warn against that
Astana confirms the signings
of Petrov, Kiserlovski, Masciarelli, and Kangert
http://astana.lu/news_x.php?ID_news=137
Bici reporting Team Schleck half-complete:
(don’t look, tgsgirl, it also admits there’s no official confirmation)
Thirteen cyclists Jakob Fuglsang, Dominic Klemme, Stuart O’Grady, Andy Schleck, Frank Schleck, Jens Voigt (Saxo Bank), Linus Gerdemann, Fabian Wegmann (Team Milram), Daniele Bennati (Liquigas-Doimo), Brice Feillu (Vacansoleil) Maxime Monfort (HTC-Columbia), Joost Posthuma (Rabobank), Robert Wagner (Skil-Shimano). And likely they are: Anders Lund and Laurent Didier, also of Saxo Bank.
I really do not understand the truth.--Riccardo Ricco (per Google Translate)
Seems all good there...nobody surprising.
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 24, 2010 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Didier a bit
since he was under contract, no? I suppose Riis would be ok with a buyout but you have to figure he would want to fuck with them a little for basically poaching a third of his team. Didier may have been brought on Saxo at the request of the Schlecks but he has been pretty solid and useful this year. How many quality riders can Riis realistically find to replace all these guys?
Riis has a history of letting riders leave their contracts
Kolobnev pressured him to do it just last year, and he’s alot better than Didier at this point, so this isn’t that surprising to me.
"You know if there's any contact at all Cristiano Ronaldo's gonna go down...maybe even just a puff of wind"
Well he has worked wonders before on resurrecting careers...he can grab a couple of Milram guys, he probably has a few more that haven't been mentioned
but it isn’t going to be the same team, that’s for sure.
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 24, 2010 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Ha. Thanks for the warning.
It sounds like an ok team, albeit all people who are fairly devoid of personality/PR appeal (Jens! is awesome, of course).
Hm? I don't find any of them to be on the anonymous side of the spectrum...
They are long on clean-cut boyscout appeal, with a dose of metrosexual politeness, rather than a pack of raging bad boys. But surely that’s not the same as an absence of personality?
I was talking in marketing terms, though I perhaps didn't make that clear.
The boyscout usually doesn’t sell that well.
Has worked pretty well for Garmin.
I really do not understand the truth.--Riccardo Ricco (per Google Translate)
guess it depends where you are being marketed to, and for what.
Being in the US it’s possible I should have no opinion on this at all [grin].
But at least here, they seem to have a solid fan base.
Also depends whether you are talking “selling the races” or “selling the product.”
For product? Whether guys want to be Frank or Andy in their secret dreams, that I can’t say. And whether that’s what really drives bike sales, I also can’t say. Ditto whether guys who want to be Contador are more likely to shell out the big money than guys who want to be Andy. I’d hazard a guess that the Napoleon Dynamite cohort would identify with the understated heros/antiheros (and older straight talkers) of team Schleck big time, and go for “gear that does not suck.” They may not have the sort of egos and credulousness that make someone put an extra $100 into shoes or an extra $1000 into a frame in the expectation that it will make them “like” a Contador, though. So you might have to sell twice the product to make the same profit.
When it comes to selling races, all the same riders are still there, just mixed and matched, so the races should sell themselves just as well!
My dad watches RVV - religiously - the other big classics and the really good stages of TdF.
And I just don’t see anyone there who’d make him go “oh, he’s part of team Lux?”. But that’s just a detail, really.
Rob Goris to Quick Step
and Uran is deciding between SKY and Movistar for next year
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Where did you get the Goris news from?
They ought to market the crap out of that transfer. Only three years on the bike, second season racing, former hockey player. Sounds like a story the papers would like.
Crap...I jumped the gun and mistranslated. These foreign sites are infuriating me...
He apparently has interest from QS after winning the elite w/o a contract Belgian Championship. I should just wait for teams to confirm but it’s only “interest”. Sorry…but it would be a marketable story
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by Vlaanderen90 on Aug 24, 2010 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Sergio Pardilla from CamiOoro to Geox...CamiOoro is apparently having financial issues
Rene Mandri is going from AG2R to Endura, probably to give Blain some French company there.
Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!, Tommeke!
Maarten Wynants to Rabobank
must…not…write…Rabo cobbles preview… yet…
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by Chris Fontecchio on Aug 24, 2010 5:10 PM EDT reply actions
Get a move on--
Het Nieuwsblad is in just 187 days!
I really do not understand the truth.--Riccardo Ricco (per Google Translate)
My cobbles fantasy involves Contador wanting to be Merckx.
And being at a team that will humor him in going for it.
ai yi yi
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Nygaard says he has 20 riders signed to Team Lux
Funding is in place and the real team name will be announced within the next month. No names given. Link here.
I really do not understand the truth.--Riccardo Ricco (per Google Translate)
Petrov, from Katusha to Astana. Interesting move.
Now I know what He was yelling, wining the stage in this year Giro! " Hey, Vino, Are you watching? Its going to cost you more rubles to sign me up!" lol
I used to be a big fan of the Racer Formerly Known as Bert! But then again, I used to believe in Santa ,Tooth Fairy and innocence of Floyd!
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K A Arvesen from Sky
says to Norsk TV2 that he is considering retiring after this season, which made Sky offer a DS job as an alternative to the one year left on his contract. At the same time Arvesen points out that he has a similar offer from the new Team Lux: Come join us as a rider or DS from 2011. It would appear Nygaard learned quickly from his small stint at Team Sky.
Rubens Bertogliati to Team Type 1 from Androni
Gives them some firepower for possible moving up to Pro. Conti level…hopefully they don’t make the riders pay for travel and races next year like they did this year that weren’t on their “schedule”
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Thor Hushovd, Heinrich Haussler, Andreas Klier en Roger Hammond to Garmin..
Confirmed here.. (Not official tgsgirl) http://www.nusport.nl/wielrennen/2319912/cervelo-zegt-peloton-vaarwel.html
Lowik doesn’t get a new contract.. Elijzen probably not
Cance could do with a couple of Classics heroes at Saxo...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Riis should go really hard for Haussler imo
as a replacement for Brecshel and as a add-on to the Australian camp.
I agree! Not that there's any Australians at saxo aside from Porte after 2010
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
yes he is... I was thinking of current riders. My bad :(
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Yes,
and they need to build something around that little group imo. If Riis can’t get Haussler, he should go after two other aussies.
i like that idea... providing that Contador and his climbers aren't so dominant that it's like having two teams.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
I do not understand your worries in this respect. How would Contador be different than the Schlecks?
by LittleOldLady on Aug 26, 2010 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions
The thing that worries me is the language divide...
The Schlecks, Cancellara, Breschel et al, are multilingual and that has made communication in the team one of its strengths. Contador has a long way to go, and he will have enough Spanish speakers around to cushion him.
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Contador's language problems can be solved.
In the past many spanish sports people ignored English totally, but the likes of Nadal, Alonso etc are now recognizing the importance for their career to speak the official business language better. Contador will try and jump on that bandwagon too.
I want to believe you...
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Don't worri
When Jalabert, Sastre, Basso came to the team they did not speak one word of english, and they too had friends coming to the team.
Contador does speak english, when he was in Denmark he spoke english at the press conference (but spanish too, and there was a translator).
Riis also said that Contador would work on his english. (and imo he has enough money to buy the best teachers :-) )
I think that some of his spanish friends speak english, at least I think that one of them is on twitter in english.
by LittleOldLady on Aug 26, 2010 9:39 AM EDT up reply actions
i hope you are right because I want to still be a Saxo fan, and Contador
is a brilliant rider, but probably because so little is translated, I don’t have any strong sense of him. No matter what happens, I’ll still be supporting Richie :)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
Yes, Porte is a little gem
Just think about the prospects of having Porte working as a lieutenant together with Contador. None of the Contador climbers can take on that role, as their TT skils are too poor.
Now that's a rather tantalising prospect :)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
"insure"? do you mran "unsure"?
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
BMC Sucks.
It’s a nice time to cherry pick and cheaply a few good riders, even with Gerdemann off the board already.
And then what will this team do?
Does this relate to anything?
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
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