Gilbert to Silence-Lotto
DanielFriebe
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As we suggested might happen a couple of weeks back, Phil Gilbert has signed for Silence-Lotto for 2009. It's a three year contract and his old mentor Dirk De Wolf will join the SL staff as a directeur sportif.
We'll find out more in a Silence Lotto press conference this afternoon.
We'll find out more in a Silence Lotto press conference this afternoon.
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Surprised.
Must be on a good wage packet.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0 -
Silence-Lotto and FDJ apparently made equal offers, but the De Wolf issue may have played a part. Tom Stubbe also switches to Silence Lotto as part of the move.0
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Interesting - Poor old FDJ, at least with Pip you were assurred of some victories.Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.0
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That must free up some nice wiggle room in the FDJ budget. I'm curious to see what they'll do with it. That's their only headliner gone.0
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drenkrom wrote:That must free up some nice wiggle room in the FDJ budget. I'm curious to see what they'll do with it. That's their only headliner gone.
Maybe they'll do the usual French thing and take a reasonably talented young rider, giving him a hugely over-inflated whacking big salary, then sit back and wring their hands when he finishes 71st in the Tour de France.
Step forward Rémy Di Gregorio!0 -
afx237vi wrote:drenkrom wrote:That must free up some nice wiggle room in the FDJ budget. I'm curious to see what they'll do with it. That's their only headliner gone.
Maybe they'll do the usual French thing and take a reasonably talented young rider, giving him a hugely over-inflated whacking big salary, then sit back and wring their hands when he finishes 71st in the Tour de France.
Step forward Rémy Di Gregorio!
Not his fault he broke his elbow in the Tour last year.0 -
How about splashing out a ridiculous salary on Sébastien Chavanel. We'd have a matching pair.
Seriously, I'm very afraid that's what will happen. They got Gilbert young and were lucky he transformed into the rider he did. I don't see them nabbing a higher-echelon name,even though that would give the Madiot's young ones someone to work for,which is the best school there is.
I'm also afraid Gilbert will be lost in the middle of the strong classics men at Lotto. It'll no longer be his show alone, that's for sure. Time shall tell...0 -
sing_for_absolution wrote:afx237vi wrote:drenkrom wrote:That must free up some nice wiggle room in the FDJ budget. I'm curious to see what they'll do with it. That's their only headliner gone.
Maybe they'll do the usual French thing and take a reasonably talented young rider, giving him a hugely over-inflated whacking big salary, then sit back and wring their hands when he finishes 71st in the Tour de France.
Step forward Rémy Di Gregorio!
Not his fault he broke his elbow in the Tour last year.
I know, but he's never going to live up to the French hype is he?0 -
I liked how both the ITV and ES commentators made him out to be a secret contender in the Duffers "...says he tapping the side of his nose" stylee...
But there had already been a big spread about him in Cycle Sport or Procycling before that.0
