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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    WTF - Cunego renews with Lampre.

    Practically all the big name Italians linked with Sky are going elsewhere.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Iain I know you don't like/think much of charters, but Gert's case was high profile so Shack signing him is not a good PR move IMO. Maybe they want a sprinter - he will get eaten alive. Maybe they want a classics man - he will get crushed.
    Contador is the Greatest
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Iain I know you don't like/think much of charters, but Gert's case was high profile so Shack signing him is not a good PR move IMO. Maybe they want a sprinter - he will get eaten alive. Maybe they want a classics man - he will get crushed.

    Maybe they just want a good strong rouleur to play a team role in the classics / flat GT stages. He only ever seems to ride well when he's doing a team job, and he's kind of Hincapie-esque when you think of it.

    They also had Van Heeswijk for a similar role a few years ago. Vaitkus, too.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Dirk Demol is building a decent classics squad so someone like Gert fits in there.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • Sun Dodger
    Sun Dodger Posts: 393
    According to Belgian TV today, Wiggins is off to Sky...
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Sky details later in the week according to Sky sports team

    http://twitter.com/orlachennaoui

    http://twitter.com/skynewsolympic
  • Airienteer
    Airienteer Posts: 695
    Looking at those links it sounds like a lot of the Sky announcements will be made tomorrow. I wonder who the "big interview" is with??
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    wait for the sprint, not yet wait, no not yet, save your energy, not yet, just a bit longer and you will know when to go.

    Seems to be the same with all this sky sh*t.
    Hype it's called and they told you that much with not playing while the football master class is in operation.
    The other "Hype" master class will be coming from shack attack. !
    Organiser, National Championship 50 mile Time Trial 1972
  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    Airienteer wrote:
    Looking at those links it sounds like a lot of the Sky announcements will be made tomorrow. I wonder who the "big interview" is with??

    "Buying chairs for our big interview tomorrow. Hope you will all watch."

    im guessing multiple riders and management, surely they would only need to buy chairs if they need some extras due to a large number of guests?
  • deal
    deal Posts: 857
    Airienteer wrote:
    Looking at those links it sounds like a lot of the Sky announcements will be made tomorrow. I wonder who the "big interview" is with??

    "Interview done, the Prime Minister has left the building."

    :?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Jens Voigt has signed for another year! How much racing has this guy got in his legs...

    And from another forum.
    Apparently, Astana is having more money problems with a PT license, so they released Contador. He may be going to:

    Garmin
    Caisse d'Epargne
    Liquigas

    The announcement should be made on Sunday or Monday...
    Contador is the Greatest
  • jim one
    jim one Posts: 183
    Baden Cooke to Saxo bank. What a strange signing for Riis unless Cooke is going for budget wages nowdays.
  • bipedal
    bipedal Posts: 466
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Jens Voigt has signed for another year! How much racing has this guy got in his legs...

    And from another forum.
    Apparently, Astana is having more money problems with a PT license, so they released Contador. He may be going to:

    Garmin
    Caisse d'Epargne
    Liquigas

    The announcement should be made on Sunday or Monday...

    Interesting... very interesting! Anymore word on this???
  • richard wants a baum
    richard wants a baum Posts: 744
    jim one wrote:
    Baden Cooke to Saxo bank. What a strange signing for Riis unless Cooke is going for budget wages nowdays.

    Would be a good domestique for the Classics, unfortunately joined some teams that didnt really help him ie UniBet. No doubt McGee being a director at Saxo would have weighed heavily
    Take care of the luxuries and the necessites will take care of themselves.
  • secretsqirrel
    secretsqirrel Posts: 2,042
    frenchfighter wrote:
    And from another forum.
    Apparently, Astana is having more money problems with a PT license, so they released Contador. He may be going to:

    Garmin
    Caisse d'Epargne
    Liquigas

    The announcement should be made on Sunday or Monday...

    Which Sunday or Monday was that?

    He needs to make his mind up what he wants to do and stop dithering.

    Astana wants at least £2.5 mil euros to release him, he wants another team to buy him out but none can afford it.
    So he either buys himself out, or decides to stay and make the best of it for another year.
    In the mean time there are probably others who have their lives on hold waiting to make the decision whether to leave, or join Astana based on what Contador is doing.
    Astana want to build a team around him but are going to have few options left if he doesn't decide soon.
    If he decides to go, then Astana get on rebuilding without him. The extra cash will come in handy.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    It's like the deal in Formula 1. Everyone is waiting until Fernando Alonso is announced for Ferrari before they do their deals, eg. Renault want Kovalainen, Mclaren want Rosberg Williams want.....

    In this case, Sky want Wiggins, so they want Garmin to buy Contador out so that they can buy Wiggins out....
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Theo Bos is leaving Rabobank: http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrenn ... t_rabobank
    They couldn't agree over the conditions of a transfer from the Continental to the Protour team.
    Now what was that new British team again that didn't have a sprinter on its roster yet?
  • calvjones
    calvjones Posts: 3,850
    FJS wrote:
    Theo Bos is leaving Rabobank: http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrenn ... t_rabobank
    They couldn't agree over the conditions of a transfer from the Continental to the Protour team.
    Now what was that new British team again that didn't have a sprinter on its roster yet?

    If the Paras don't get him first....
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  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    Henderson can finish things off, maybe not GT level consistently but for a jumping off point they could do much worse
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Lots of reports Wiggins is going to Sky

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/se ... s-team-sky

    If he has, he's clearly not bothered about having any grand tour support, eh? :wink:
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    Skil-Shimano have dropped their ProTour application.(reported on cycling news) Now 7 teams chasing 7 licences. Sky & Shack assured of a protour licence now? Would appear so.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Vaughters has said there is no truth to the story.
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,481
    Hands up all those who believe him.

    Of course there is an element of truth to it, we know the stated ambition of Team Sky and Wiggins is currently the only strong candidate with a chance of achieving this. Vaughters continued pursuit of Contador is hardly likely to please Wiggins either.
  • LangerDan
    LangerDan Posts: 6,132
    So lets see. Bradley will have ridden for Linda McCartney Racing Team, Française des Jeux, Crédit Agricole, Cofidis, Team High Road, Garmin–Slipstream and Sky in less than a decade.

    Wot a tart!
    'This week I 'ave been mostly been climbing like Basso - Shirley Basso.'
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,812
    Wasn't Team Sky's stated ambition to have a British Tour winner in four to five years? So it doesn't matter if they have Wiggo this year, I thought it was more about building up the likes of Kennaugh and Froome and then building a team in a couple of years.

    Obvioulsy would be great to get him, and Vaughters is lying if he says there's no truth to it, because obviously Wiggins would want to be back with the people that gave him his success in the first place.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    TakeTheHighRoad wrote:
    Obvioulsy would be great to get him, and Vaughters is lying if he says there's no truth to it, because obviously Wiggins would want to be back with the people that gave him his success in the first place.

    Wiggins has also said he's very happy where he is and that a lot of the press are going to be disappointed.

    Might I also add, he was toilet on the road until he joined Father Vaughters merry mob....
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,711
    iainf72 wrote:
    Vaughters has said there is no truth to the story.
    Sorry, I don't know how I missed this. Must be blind. Didn't want to duplicate, but, I'm sure as the rumour mill hots up, once again, the individual thread has some mileage.

    It's a bit like a cabinet re-shuffle!
    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • yourpaceormine
    yourpaceormine Posts: 1,245
    iainf72 wrote:

    Might I also add, he was toilet on the road until he joined Father Vaughters merry mob....

    But wasn't the change in road ability due to backroom boys at BC saying...'here look your power output is dead good, you could be really good on the road if you do x,y, z" Nothing to do with Vaughters and the Garmin setup. Garmin setup relaxed enough to let BW do his own thing hence

    atmosphere + BC advice/plan = success story.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    Father Vaughters : No
    Brailsford : No

    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... m-sky.html
    Fckin' Quintana … that creep can roll, man.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,481
    Brailsford didn't say "No" to the story, rather he denied that anyone involved in Team Sky had leaked it.

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