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  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,555
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LLS may sign a deal with Caja Rural

    ... or not.

    Could it be that the MPCC are the reason that LLS is having trouble finding a contract for 2014?

    http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/is_mpcc_trying_to_prevent_sanchez_from_finding_a_team/
  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    hommelbier wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    LLS may sign a deal with Caja Rural

    ... or not.

    Could it be that the MPCC are the reason that LLS is having trouble finding a contract for 2014?

    http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/is_mpcc_trying_to_prevent_sanchez_from_finding_a_team/

    Is this the same group that Vaughters is heavily involved in?

    Interesting if true, due to the length of bans that were orchestrated for certain riders and how they fit into MPCC rulings ... yet a riders career is being destroyed with no-one willing to back anything up with an actual case or hearing?

    Also interesting to note the number of riders who returned to WT level without a blink of an eye ...

    Is this also what is causing delays with Trek's WT license (Frank Schleck)?
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interesting points.
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,101
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Could it be that the MPCC are the reason that LLS is having trouble finding a contract for 2014?)

    It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on this.

    It's one thing for a team to decide not to employ a rider - but I would presume a different kettle of fish for an organisation to instruct it's members not to employ a rider.
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  • Crankbrother
    Crankbrother Posts: 1,695
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Could it be that the MPCC are the reason that LLS is having trouble finding a contract for 2014?)

    It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on this.

    It's one thing for a team to decide not to employ a rider - but I would presume a different kettle of fish for an organisation to instruct it's members not to employ a rider.

    Costing a rider their place in the peleton ... haven't we been down this star spangled path before?
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,101
    Mikkel Condé v2.0 ‏@mrconde 8m
    Caja Rural DS, Juanma Hernández, tells MARCA that the team has been offered both Horner and LLS. However, they both want too much money...

    Mikkel Condé v2.0 ‏@mrconde 7m
    Hernandez: "If they asked for 70 or 80 % of the price we could talk" - Hey LLS, didn't Belkin buy you out? I mean, you COULD ride for less..
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Horner riding for Caja. What a laugh that would be. LLS should accept pretty much any price imo.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Who is Nys riding for next year?

    The team is not continuing next year.
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gallery ... ouwkrediet
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  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,218
    The team aren't continuing but I believe the sponsors are going to continue to support Nys for this and next season. He's changing bike sponsors on 1st January too, moving to Trek.
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Thanks.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,190
    I'm hearing rumours that the James Murdoch has brought out the cheque book and signed French Fighter as a Sky super fan next year.
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  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    RichN95 wrote:
    I'm hearing rumours that the James Murdoch has brought out the cheque book and signed French Fighter as a Sky super fan next year.

    Getting a translation in first, FF is most likely to say:
    "Guile is more seductive because it offers the possibility of cleverness defeating brute power." - The Economist
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  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,555
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Crankbrother wrote:
    Could it be that the MPCC are the reason that LLS is having trouble finding a contract for 2014?)

    It would be interesting to get a legal opinion on this.

    It's one thing for a team to decide not to employ a rider - but I would presume a different kettle of fish for an organisation to instruct it's members not to employ a rider.

    ...but on the other hand... :roll:

    http://www.cyclingquotes.com/news/mpcc_ ... n_sanchez/
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Interesting quick read:

    http://inrng.com/2013/11/petacchi-looph ... -transfer/

    At the start of the year the rulebook said a rider could not switch teams but there was a loophole: if they were out of contract then they could sign for a new team. It certainly looked like Petacchi “retired” so he could assume an out of contract status the briefest of periods thus allowing him to switch to OPQS. We’ll never know for sure if this was the plan or just happy coincidence, a rider retiring and another team wanting to hire him.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Wesley Sulzberger has signed a contract with Drapac Pro Cycling

    Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15800 ... z2kMHOjmfL
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  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Wesley Sulzberger has signed a contract with Drapac Pro Cycling

    Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15800 ... z2kMHOjmfL
  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Wesley Sulzberger has signed a contract with Drapac Pro Cycling

    Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15800 ... z2kMHOjmfL
    While they ship out Will Walker and Luke Davison to Baku, who were in the market for a sprinter after all but letting go of Anuar Manan. Manan's likely to head to Terengganu, with whom he's got some rather bad blood after some alleged mismanagement prior to SEA games. And all this as John Ebsen signed for Champion Systems for 2014 just before they ended (arseclowns at that team).

    /Transfers & Rumours that nobody will give a shit about
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Anyone know what Wiggins gets a year? Just read it is over 4m euro / yr.

    http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/11/ ... ive_309061
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  • hommelbier
    hommelbier Posts: 1,555
    Could Samuel Sanchez be heading east by riding next year for Skydive Dubai (joining Francisco Mancebo?)
  • Ed-tron
    Ed-tron Posts: 165
    Cycling Weekly ‏@cyclingweekly 1m
    Hannah Barnes and Sharon Laws to ride for United Healthcare in 2014. Former GB international Rachel Heal is team director.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Ed-tron wrote:
    Cycling Weekly ‏@cyclingweekly 1m
    Hannah Barnes and Sharon Laws to ride for United Healthcare in 2014. Former GB international Rachel Heal is team director.


    That's great news. Barnes gets her big break - and gets to ride for a US team like her beau, young Tao Geoghegan Hart
  • Wiggo Warrior
    Wiggo Warrior Posts: 11
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Anyone know what Wiggins gets a year? Just read it is over 4m euro / yr.

    http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/11/ ... ive_309061

    I read that too, but seems to be incorrect (unless the exchange rate has really crashed while I haven't been looking). £1.5 mil seems to be the current figure, up from £1 mil on signing in 2010.
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Wiggo Warrior wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Anyone know what Wiggins gets a year? Just read it is over 4m euro / yr.

    http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/11/ ... ive_309061

    I read that too, but seems to be incorrect (unless the exchange rate has really crashed while I haven't been looking). £1.5 mil seems to be the current figure, up from £1 mil on signing in 2010.


    It was 1.5m until he won the Tour, then it was renegotiated...um... considerably
  • Wiggo Warrior
    Wiggo Warrior Posts: 11
    Richmond Racer wrote:
    Wiggo Warrior wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Anyone know what Wiggins gets a year? Just read it is over 4m euro / yr.

    http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/11/ ... ive_309061

    I read that too, but seems to be incorrect (unless the exchange rate has really crashed while I haven't been looking). £1.5 mil seems to be the current figure, up from £1 mil on signing in 2010.


    It was 1.5m until he won the Tour, then it was renegotiated...um... considerably

    Interesting, I understood he was originally on £4 mil for 4 years 2010-2013 but assumed the renegotiation to £1.5 mil covered his extension to 2014 from post tour. Half a mil sounds fairly considerable to me but then I'm not a pro-cyclist far less a Tour winner. :)
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    Seeldraeyers and Mirko Selvaggi to Wanty.
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  • rayjay
    rayjay Posts: 1,384
    Mr Tumbles to Astana .
  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    “I want to keep racing, the contract I signed with Euskaltel through to 2015 demonstrates that. I will be a professional up to that point, unless they rescind my contract at the end of the year or my future has not been resolved in any other way. If that turns out to be case, I will no longer be a professional.”
    -Sanchez

    Is he getting paid? Or he just means in principle?

    ---

    UHC came out and publicly denied rumours of Horner signing.
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  • frenchfighter
    frenchfighter Posts: 30,642
    George Bennett to Cannondale for 1 year.
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  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    http://www.sigmasport.co.uk/resources/P ... cement.pdf No more IG-Sigma Sport!
  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    Crampeur wrote:
    http://www.sigmasport.co.uk/resources/Press-Release-Team-Announcement.pdf No more IG-Sigma Sport!


    and there's murmurings about Node4 Giordana

    Bad times for the domestic scene here

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