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  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Macaloon wrote:
    dsoutar wrote:
    ^ Case ??

    Care to explain ? This one must have passed me by. All I know is that he's signed for OPQS

    Covered in some depth here.

    Ah that !! Thought I'd missed something more serious
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    dsoutar wrote:
    Not sure if a similar site exists in English but this one is pretty decent about seeing all the transfer activity

    http://www.cyclismactu.net/transferts-2014-2015.html

    Cycling Fever always good too:
    http://www.cyclingfever.com/transfers.html
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    More Cult Energy rumours:

    Kim Andersen, Lars Bak, Martin Mortensen, Michael Carbel and Mads Pedersen.

    http://www.wort.lu/en/sport/cycling-lux ... 870805f56e
  • DL1987
    DL1987 Posts: 204
    Blythe back in the big time.....signed for OGE.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    Two year deal too. Good on him.
  • DL1987
    DL1987 Posts: 204
    Unfortunate for NFTO to lose two big names in their first season (D Downing & Blythe) but I'd assume they knew it wouldn't be long before a WT team picked him back up.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Pierrick Fedrigo moving to Bretagne-Seche from FDJ.

    eta: and Jonathan Hivert too, according to cyclismeactu.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Also, Hugh Carthy of Rapha-JLT has signed with Caja Rural.
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    Cycling fever reporting that:

    Poels to Sky is a done deal

    and

    Gerdeman has signed for Cult Energy
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,576
    Farrar to MTN-Qhubeka.
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Haven't read every single page of this thread but no mention of Steegmans to Trek

    http://www.nieuwsblad.be/sportwereld/cn ... _012324444
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    With Farrar, Goss, Bos, Ciolek and EBH all on the same team, it's going to be very tough for other teams to finish between 5th and 10th in any sprint.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,459
    RichN95 wrote:
    With Farrar, Goss, Bos, Ciolek and EBH all on the same team, it's going to be very tough for other teams to finish between 5th and 10th in any sprint.

    Is this an exercise in buying 'cheap' WT points?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    RichN95 wrote:
    With Farrar, Goss, Bos, Ciolek and EBH all on the same team, it's going to be very tough for other teams to finish between 5th and 10th in any sprint.

    :lol:

    Any rumours of any British young guns moving on to bigger things? I'm thinking Tao, Scott Davies and Alex Peters. The latter has impressed me whenever I've watched him - he somehow finishes quite high up in sprints and looks a very capable climber. Worth a pro Conti ride at least surely?
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    andyp wrote:
    Farrar to MTN-Qhubeka.

    Along with Serge Pauwels
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    pinarello001 wrote:
    ^That's put the kibosh on this thread:

    All you need to know:

    Cannondale [out]

    ITA BASSO Ivan (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA BETTIOL Alberto (Cannondale - Garmin)
    POL BODNAR Maciej (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA CARUSO Damiano (BMC Racing Team)
    ITA DE MARCHI Alessandro (BMC Racing Team)
    ITA FORMOLO Davide (Cannondale - Garmin)
    USA KING Edward (Cannondale - Garmin)
    SLO KOREN Kristjan (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA MARANGONI Alan (Cannondale - Garmin)
    SLO MOHORIC Matej (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA MOSER Moreno (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA SABATINI Fabio (Etixx - Quick Step)
    SLK SAGAN Juraj (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    SLK SAGAN Peter (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA VILLELLA Davide ()
    ITA VIVIANI Elia (Cannondale - Garmin)

    Cannondale [in]

    ...

    Lampre are tiny
    Lotto are big.
    All French: Fdj.
    OPQS are huge.
    TS are just as big.
    SKY needs bolstering.

    You don't mention Confidis.
  • The_Boy
    The_Boy Posts: 3,099
    RideOnTime wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    ^That's put the kibosh on this thread:

    All you need to know:

    Cannondale [out]

    ITA BASSO Ivan (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA BETTIOL Alberto (Cannondale - Garmin)
    POL BODNAR Maciej (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA CARUSO Damiano (BMC Racing Team)
    ITA DE MARCHI Alessandro (BMC Racing Team)
    ITA FORMOLO Davide (Cannondale - Garmin)
    USA KING Edward (Cannondale - Garmin)
    SLO KOREN Kristjan (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA MARANGONI Alan (Cannondale - Garmin)
    SLO MOHORIC Matej (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA MOSER Moreno (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA SABATINI Fabio (Etixx - Quick Step)
    SLK SAGAN Juraj (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    SLK SAGAN Peter (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA VILLELLA Davide ()
    ITA VIVIANI Elia (Cannondale - Garmin)

    Cannondale [in]

    ...

    Lampre are tiny
    Lotto are big.
    All French: Fdj.
    OPQS are huge.
    TS are just as big.
    SKY needs bolstering.

    You don't mention Confidis.

    Neither will anyone else if Bouhanni gets injured.
    Team My Man 2018: David gaudu, Pierre Latour, Romain Bardet, Thibaut pinot, Alexandre Geniez, Florian Senechal, Warren Barguil, Benoit Cosnefroy
  • Art Vandelay
    Art Vandelay Posts: 1,982
    RichN95 wrote:
    With Farrar, Goss, Bos, Ciolek and EBH all on the same team, it's going to be very tough for other teams to finish between 5th and 10th in any sprint.

    Alternatively, Ciolek vanishes with 40km to go, Goss nowhere to be seen in the last 5km, EBH loses position in the final 2km and Farrar crashes on the last corner.

    Serge Pauwels possibly to MTN as well.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    RideOnTime wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    ^That's put the kibosh on this thread:

    All you need to know:

    Cannondale [out]

    ITA BASSO Ivan (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA BETTIOL Alberto (Cannondale - Garmin)
    POL BODNAR Maciej (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA CARUSO Damiano (BMC Racing Team)
    ITA DE MARCHI Alessandro (BMC Racing Team)
    ITA FORMOLO Davide (Cannondale - Garmin)
    USA KING Edward (Cannondale - Garmin)
    SLO KOREN Kristjan (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA MARANGONI Alan (Cannondale - Garmin)
    SLO MOHORIC Matej (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA MOSER Moreno (Cannondale - Garmin)
    ITA SABATINI Fabio (Etixx - Quick Step)
    SLK SAGAN Juraj (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    SLK SAGAN Peter (Tinkoff-Saxo)
    ITA VILLELLA Davide ()
    ITA VIVIANI Elia (Cannondale - Garmin)

    Cannondale [in]

    ...

    Lampre are tiny
    Lotto are big.
    All French: Fdj.
    OPQS are huge.
    TS are just as big.
    SKY needs bolstering.

    You don't mention Confidis.

    ...or Paul Sherwen or that Cruz bloke for that matter.
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  • josame
    josame Posts: 1,162
    Linus to leave MTN Qhubeka and join newly pro continental danish team Cult Energy

    paraphrased leaving comment MTN Q: 'seem to be interested more in sprinters'

    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/gerdema ... gy-in-2015
    'Do not compare your bike to others, for always there will be greater and lesser bikes'
  • dsoutar
    dsoutar Posts: 1,746
    Not really the place but doesn't deserve it's own thread

    Specialized cycles brand will continue its partnership with Saxo-Tinkoff team beyond the 2014 season The Russian team announced this information on its website on Tuesday. The two sides have extended their collaboration, which began early in the 2009 season for "indefinite period."
  • type:epyt
    type:epyt Posts: 766
    I think uncle Oleg was hoping Cannondale would hand over their entire pro team budget to have AC and Sagan representing their brand but they found a cheaper and likely more sensible way to keep the brand in the top level.
    Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it.
  • smokey_bacon
    smokey_bacon Posts: 1,639
    Italians via Inner Ring reporting that Viviani is going to SKY.
  • mr_poll
    mr_poll Posts: 1,547
    Nordhaug, Roche and Konig off to Sky apparently
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    I see a lot of amateur pundits moaning about Konig going to Sky because he won't get chances for himself. They've clearly not been paying attention.

    Sky have been sniffing around up and coming contenders for a while - Aru, Barguil, Pinot - because they need a GT leader other than Froome and they don't trust Porte's reliability.

    Konig will be leader or co-leader at the Giro. And he'll have strong support.

    (And Roche and Nordhaug will bolster a lousy Ardennes squad)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • mm1
    mm1 Posts: 1,063
    Great to see Nico attacking and trying to pull something off in the ToB. Hope he gets the support and wins his aggressive riding warrants when he's at Sky.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    Aru is has huge potential given his climbing efforts in the Giro and now the Vuelta. He must be on the big teams' radar.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Aru is has huge potential given his climbing efforts in the Giro and now the Vuelta. He must be on the big teams' radar.

    Aren't Astana classed as a big team? :?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,511
    Pross wrote:
    pinarello001 wrote:
    Aru is has huge potential given his climbing efforts in the Giro and now the Vuelta. He must be on the big teams' radar.

    Aren't Astana classed as a big team? :?

    I definitely need to get out more.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,597
    RichN95 wrote:
    I see a lot of amateur pundits moaning about Konig going to Sky because he won't get chances for himself. They've clearly not been paying attention.

    Sky have been sniffing around up and coming contenders for a while - Aru, Barguil, Pinot - because they need a GT leader other than Froome and they don't trust Porte's reliability.

    Konig will be leader or co-leader at the Giro. And he'll have strong support.

    (And Roche and Nordhaug will bolster a lousy Ardennes squad)

    If only they'd had a proven GT contender they could have used as their number 2 :wink:

    On paper they should have a reasonable Ardennes squad with Henao (Sergio), Dombro, Boswell, Edmondson, Froome, Porte and possibly Kennaugh (plus Cataldo and Deignan maybe). Their problem seems to be they keep breaking most of these riders.

    I'm a big fan of Nordhaug though and hope he gets chances in that role again rather than becoming mountain train fodder.

    Also, Konig is going to be number 2 at best in virtually any of the World Tour teams at present so it's not a bad move for him. I've been trying to think where he could be the main man and Katusha is the only one I could think of or possibly Lotto but I think it's probably better to be number two with stronger support.

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