2022 Transfers: Rumours & Facts

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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,040
    ddraver said:

    Is the trident formation going to work on a wet tuesday night in Stoke..?

    Well they are known as the red devils, and the trident is part of their crest, so.......
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    RichN95. said:

    ddraver said:

    It's more that the cyclists just rock up and pull out these super fast times innit?

    As in They've got no specific running training or skill but still post mega times


    Are they mega times though? Others have said they are decent club times. Put Mo Farah on a bike and he'll knock out a good quality 10 mile TT time.
    His less than stellar performance on the bike in 'Superstars' in 2012 suggests otherwise. I think he was beaten uphill by the 'mountain goat' that is Anthony Joshua.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Who's on penalties boss?
    Ronaldo, Rashford and Fernandes are all on penalties. The pitch will decide.
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    RichN95. said:

    Who's on penalties boss?
    Ronaldo, Rashford and Fernandes are all on penalties. The pitch will decide.

    Pogb-er goes on a magnificent solo run and is clean through on goal, but is called on to pass it back into midfield.
  • Mad_Malx
    Mad_Malx Posts: 5,183
    edited November 2021
    What’s going on with Deceuninck ?
    Going to co-sponsor Alpecin Fenix next year , DQS become Lotto QS?

  • arnuf
    arnuf Posts: 98
    edited November 2021
    Mad_Malx said:

    What’s going on with Deceuninck ?
    Going to co-sponsor Alpecin Fenix next year , DQS become Lotto QS?

    It is Soudal, not Lotto, who join Quickstep (in '23).

    To me it is still a mystery how Lefevre found a budget for extending both Alaphilippe and Evenepoel, however.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    arnuf said:

    Mad_Malx said:

    What’s going on with Deceuninck ?
    Going to co-sponsor Alpecin Fenix next year , DQS become Lotto QS?

    It is Soudal, not Lotto, who join Quickstep (in '23).

    To me it is still a mystery how Lefevre found a budget for extending both Alaphilippe and Evenepoel, however.
    Bakala, presumably.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Quick step have a sugar daddy
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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    That video is truly cringe.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Interesting that the CN article suggest one of the factors in Deceuninck moving is that the Roodhooft brothers can offer a women's team while Lefevre has said he has no interest.

    The trend definitely seems to be for a sponsor to back both these days...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Mikel Nieve has joined Caja Rural
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  • arnuf
    arnuf Posts: 98
    andyp said:

    arnuf said:

    Mad_Malx said:

    What’s going on with Deceuninck ?
    Going to co-sponsor Alpecin Fenix next year , DQS become Lotto QS?

    It is Soudal, not Lotto, who join Quickstep (in '23).

    To me it is still a mystery how Lefevre found a budget for extending both Alaphilippe and Evenepoel, however.
    Bakala, presumably.
    But he's been around for a little longer. In the past they were never able to maintain two top tier riders for such a period (not even counting Asgreen).
    Maybe they think this tactic will help them attract high profile sponsors.
  • bm5
    bm5 Posts: 599
    RichN95. said:

    Mikel Nieve has joined Caja Rural

    Hope it works out for him. One of my favourites. Bike Exchange always seemed like an odd team for him but he presumably was happy as he stayed so long.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    dish_dash said:

    Interesting that the CN article suggest one of the factors in Deceuninck moving is that the Roodhooft brothers can offer a women's team while Lefevre has said he has no interest.

    The trend definitely seems to be for a sponsor to back both these days...

    Public companies (like Deceuninck) need to disclose ESG information every year and things like gender equality get picked up in that.

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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    It would be a stretch to say that sponsoring a womens sports team can be incorporated into your own gender equality employment stats.

    But I agree it looks good, if the above stats are bad.
  • andyp
    andyp Posts: 10,575
    edited December 2021
    dish_dash said:

    Interesting that the CN article suggest one of the factors in Deceuninck moving is that the Roodhooft brothers can offer a women's team while Lefevre has said he has no interest.

    The trend definitely seems to be for a sponsor to back both these days...

    The Roodhooft women's team, Pura-Plantur, is basically a way of them getting a road race calendar for their cyclocross roster. Maybe they'll invest more in it now, but as they already have those riders under contract for the winter, it's nothing more than a training vehicle.

    Hopefully Deceuninck will press for more focus to be placed on it and for the team to recruit some top tier road riders.
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    Ineos no longer using Castelli, the later saying they'll announce their new team on 01/01 to respect contract.

    Wonder who they'll use?
  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    Turns out they're going to Bioracer. Kit revealed tomorrow.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,040
    Yep that was announced a little while back I thought, or maybe leaked.
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  • amrushton
    amrushton Posts: 1,313
    edited December 2021
    teams have flirted with Bioracer for a while. Any of those speedsuits that had the vertical lines on them were Bioracer. Froome, Dumoulin, Wiggins all used them

    https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/new-bioracer-speed-suit-dominates-in-world-championships-time-trials/
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    Tiejs Benoot has been paroled a year early from his two year sentence at DSM
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  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,040
    Cav has extended for one more year with Quickstep.
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  • 50x11
    50x11 Posts: 408
    daniel_b said:

    Cav has extended for one more year with Quickstep.

    Great news I would love him to get the record.
  • daniel_b
    daniel_b Posts: 12,040
    edited December 2021
    50x11 said:

    daniel_b said:

    Cav has extended for one more year with Quickstep.

    Great news I would love him to get the record.
    Yes awesome news I agree - and yes I would live him to also, but I wonder if he will get selected, no guarantees, but that would be a magical way to cap off a phenomenal career blighted with illness in the latter stages.
    Hopefully if he did get selected and not as the defacto main sprinter, he could lead out for the chosen sprinter, and then be given a couple of chances along the way.
    We live in hope.

    A quick scan would suggest 7 sprint stages, 3 quite early on in proceedings.
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,692
    RichN95. said:

    Tiejs Benoot has been paroled a year early from his two year sentence at DSM

    Straight into rehabilitation at Jumbo-Visma
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    RichN95. said:

    Tiejs Benoot has been paroled a year early from his two year sentence at DSM

    Straight into rehabilitation at Jumbo-Visma
    Following a well worn path.
  • roscoe
    roscoe Posts: 532
    No_Ta_Doctor said:

    RichN95. said:

    Tiejs Benoot has been paroled a year early from his two year sentence at DSM

    Straight into rehabilitation at Jumbo-Visma
    That’s a great signing for Jumbo.
  • dish_dash
    dish_dash Posts: 5,647
    Sounds like Jumbo-Visma are really giving their classics team a boost. Be interesting if they can improve their results with it...

    I wonder if the issue with DSM is that they just don't pay very much but demand a lot...
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    DSM sound like they're so focused on the "team" that riders use them to get up the curve to bag a contract elsewhere. Sort of like KPMG grad schemes.
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  • DeadCalm
    DeadCalm Posts: 4,249
    edited December 2021
    dish_dash said:

    I wonder if the issue with DSM is that they just don't pay very much

    This.

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    dish_dash said:

    but demand a lot...

    Not this.

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