Tinkoff to Sign Evans?

blazing_saddles
blazing_saddles Posts: 22,725
edited July 2008 in Pro race
Some odd and interesting bits of news floating around the Tour journos, at the moment. Christophe Brandt was asked about this, at interview and apparently, his reply suggests it's true.
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/1001/Wielr ... vans.dhtml
On the CSC forum it was posted that Silence-Lotto sports director Hendrik Redant will join Katyusha.
Museeuw may also work for the team.
Chelsea comes to cycling? :wink:
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.

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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Definately.

    They've signed Colom from Astana already.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    In my best Steve Irwin voice:"Crikey"

    If it all goes t!ts-up with Tinkoff, Cadel can always take the same position as Wiggins did when he signed for T-Mobile - "There was no mention of a systematic doping programme when I read the original paycheck"
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • Adieu
    Adieu Posts: 83
    What's Tinkoff?
  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    It's one way to get a Tour invite... although I can see teams needing to be either French or having an internal anti-doping scheme to get an invite from now on... Prudhomme is looking pretty hacked off lately
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Adieu wrote:
    What's Tinkoff?

    The coolest team on the block, run by a super rich Russian.

    They're rebranding next year and becoming the uber-mega-we'll-buy-who-we-like team.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    bipedal wrote:
    It's one way to get a Tour invite... although I can see teams needing to be either French or having an internal anti-doping scheme to get an invite from now on... Prudhomme is looking pretty hacked off lately

    When did being the previous winner (possibly) get you an invite?
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    iainf72 wrote:
    bipedal wrote:
    It's one way to get a Tour invite... although I can see teams needing to be either French or having an internal anti-doping scheme to get an invite from now on... Prudhomme is looking pretty hacked off lately

    When did being the previous winner (possibly) get you an invite?

    Fairpoint!
  • Adieu
    Adieu Posts: 83
    iainf72 wrote:
    Adieu wrote:
    What's Tinkoff?

    The coolest team on the block, run by a super rich Russian.

    They're rebranding next year and becoming the uber-mega-we'll-buy-who-we-like team.

    Ah thank you.

    The Chelsea of cycling now makes sense. :P
  • ms_tree
    ms_tree Posts: 1,405
    iainf72 wrote:
    Adieu wrote:
    What's Tinkoff?

    The coolest team on the block, run by a super rich Russian.

    They're rebranding next year and becoming the uber-mega-we'll-buy-who-we-like team.

    Who will be 'the special one'?
    'Google can bring back a hundred thousand answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.'
    Neil Gaiman
  • treize vents
    treize vents Posts: 69
    Also the team invented by Poutine, funded by crooks, and named after a missile. A sad example of what you can do if you have loads of money and no sense or proportion or taste.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    I heard a rumour that Evans was talking to Garmin, but that's probably way off the mark.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Peakraider
    Peakraider Posts: 143
    iainf72 wrote:
    Adieu wrote:
    What's Tinkoff?

    The coolest team on the block, run by a super rich Russian.

    They're rebranding next year and becoming the uber-mega-we'll-buy-who-we-like team.

    And a very good Russian beer and gastro-pub in St Petersburg.
  • Peakraider
    Peakraider Posts: 143
    treize vents wrote:
    Also the team invented by Poutine, funded by crooks, and named after a missile. A sad example of what you can do if you have loads of money and no sense or proportion or taste.


    It's not named after a missile. It's named after Oleg Tinkov, who founded a restaurant chain and microbrewery.
  • suspectdevice
    suspectdevice Posts: 263
    Is Tinkoff some kind of Credit Company?
  • avoidingmyphd
    avoidingmyphd Posts: 1,154
    It is the new name (Katyusha) that comes from a missile (launcher), not the old one!

    +1 Treize Vents, nail on head.
  • treize vents
    treize vents Posts: 69
    Peakraider wrote:
    treize vents wrote:
    Also the team invented by Poutine, funded by crooks, and named after a missile. A sad example of what you can do if you have loads of money and no sense or proportion or taste.


    It's not named after a missile. It's named after Oleg Tinkov, who founded a restaurant chain and microbrewery.

    I am talking about the new team, Katyusha. Named after a missile, pushed by a dictator, funded by crooks.
  • Kléber
    Kléber Posts: 6,842
    Sounds familiar. We've already got Astana. A team funded with petrodollars from an effective one party state, with dodgy "elections" and where leaders of the opposition die in mysterious circumstances.
  • Peakraider
    Peakraider Posts: 143
    treize vents wrote:
    Peakraider wrote:
    treize vents wrote:
    Also the team invented by Poutine, funded by crooks, and named after a missile. A sad example of what you can do if you have loads of money and no sense or proportion or taste.


    It's not named after a missile. It's named after Oleg Tinkov, who founded a restaurant chain and microbrewery.

    I am talking about the new team, Katyusha. Named after a missile, pushed by a dictator, funded by crooks.

    "Dictator"?

    Please.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Peakraider wrote:
    treize vents wrote:
    Peakraider wrote:
    treize vents wrote:
    Also the team invented by Poutine, funded by crooks, and named after a missile. A sad example of what you can do if you have loads of money and no sense or proportion or taste.


    It's not named after a missile. It's named after Oleg Tinkov, who founded a restaurant chain and microbrewery.

    I am talking about the new team, Katyusha. Named after a missile, pushed by a dictator, funded by crooks.

    "Dictator"?

    Please.

    http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/pre ... s-20071128

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