Bruyneel to head Astana?
From cyclingnews.com:
There are some news agencies speculating that Johan Bruyneel could lead Team Astana for 2008 and beyond. The Belgian will end his duties at the end the year when Discovery Channel ceases as a team, while at Astana there have been rumours of Team Manager Marc Biver leaving. A communication regarding the Swiss is expected September 5.

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There are some news agencies speculating that Johan Bruyneel could lead Team Astana for 2008 and beyond. The Belgian will end his duties at the end the year when Discovery Channel ceases as a team, while at Astana there have been rumours of Team Manager Marc Biver leaving. A communication regarding the Swiss is expected September 5.

It can't be true?
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I await Dave_1s comments on the situation with great interest (and a little trepidation)
may be they should get glaxo- smithkilne to sponser them - cut out the middle man as it were...
- @ddraver
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Langerdan,
I think it is in keeping with Astana track record...hire one of the former top riders of what Alex Zulle went on the record to tell was one of the biggest doping outfits of the 1990s during Zulle´s stay at ONCE...Bruyneel should explain where ONCE went in May every years too-active rest was Saiz´s name for it. Bruyneel´s attitude to doping is to see investigations as an opportunity to get riders while there was confusion and evidence existing of their lack of ethics. This was shown clearly with his bargain hunting through the operation puerto list. He helped wreck the TDF 07 with AC who should not have been on any team given the evidence again him. Cycling needs to be getting rid of the 1990s management
as would have every other newspaper in the world
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Fair enough, I thought the TDF field was mostly clean of Puerto linked riders...but perhaps you are correct...they are so tainted it would be unfair to pick on one...
Hehe.
Now, in the highly hypothetical situation that he is hired by Astana, but kept on a very tight ethical leash, this could be interesting. If the testing program and strict guidelines the team talked about a week or two back are for real, Bruyneel's tactical flair could be a good addition to what was already a tacticallly-savvy team. Of course, it's easier to enact good strategies when you have a bunch of souped-up automatons as riders. I doubt the UCI license comission would share my optimism, though. Especially if Contador makes the same move.
A long weekend helps in being positive, I guess... I'll be back to normal by Friday