Ag2R strength in depth

specialgueststar

That is bloody impressive for their budget

Dauphine

BARDET Romain
BONNAFOND Guillaume
BOUET Maxime
CHEREL Mikael
GASTAUER Ben
GOUGEARD Alexis
KADRI Blel
PERAUD Jean-Christophe

Suisse
51.BETANCUR Carlos [new]
52.APPOLLONIO Davide [new]
53.DUPONT Hubert [new]
54.GRETSCH Patrick [new]
55.MINARD Sébastien [new]
56.MONDORY Lloyd [new]
57.POZZOVIVO Domenico [new]
58.RIBLON Christophe [new]

without Alexis Vuillermoz, Sébastien Turgot Yauheni Hutarovich etc

Richmond Racer

madasahattersley wrote:

Any idea what their budget actually is? It may be quicker than their results in previous years might lead you to believe...

Given that in 2011 they offered Froome 1.2m euros....

Higher than Garmin, lower than BMC - thats all I know.

squired

All they have done is wisely spent the money freed up by the departure of Nicolas Roche and maybe spent a little more on top.

Macaloon

:oops: Wrong thread and everything.

Richmond Racer

Macaloon wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

madasahattersley wrote:

Any idea what their budget actually is? It may be quicker than their results in previous years might lead you to believe...

Given that in 2011 they offered Froome 1.2m euros....

Higher than Garmin, lower than BMC - thats all I know.

How do you keep a straight face when increasing your offer by a factor of 20, from 60k to 1.2m? Must hurt.

You mean Brailsford? Yeah - increasing from 60k to 1.1m - the Vuelta effect. Big ouch. Alex Carera was going kerrrrrrrching.

Vaughters was interested in Froome but by stage 4 he'd been priced out of the market

Richmond Racer

madasahattersley wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

Vaughters was interested in Froome but by stage 4 he'd been priced out of the market

Word has it Vaughters was interested in paying over 300k for jonEthan tiePnan-lOcke before Sky outbid him, must hve been at the same time :?:

Tbh dont know whether it was his '11 ToB KOM win that first attracted Garmin's attention, or whether it was Haut Var / Tour Med...