The other rumour was Santander Bank to fund a totally newestablished team which would have Contador in it. I don't think that Santander Bank ever wanted to bring the cash in Saxo Bank. I'm not sure, though.
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I must have misunderstood your requests for the thread to be closed.LaFlorecita said:I don't want it to die. Why would I?
LaFlorecita said:No. This is not fair. Now everyone can post their Alberto hate in this thread.
Susan told me I could start my own I Love Alberto thread. So that I would post my Alberto nonsense or silliness in it. Now I will continue to spread it across the forum until the thread title will be back to normal. I do not like this at all. Actually I'm extremely angry and I'm almost never angry. Finally there was one thread with only Alberto love without Alberto hate and now you ruined it.
ElChingon said:LaFlorecita's thread was a whole different thread and you even inspired it and asked for it. If you could not see the difference then well better not post that....
pedaling squares said:I must have misunderstood your requests for the thread to be closed.
Angliru said:There is a bit of conflict in what one mod/admin instructs of the forum and what ultimately happened. I can understand your dilemma and that of the admin's. Was this your the first thread you ever started?
LaFlorecita said:Parrulo or Susan please close this thread now.
LaFlorecita said:No it isn't the first but that isn't the problem. If Susan thinks this sort of useless threads don't belong here she shouldn't have told me to start one.
LaFlorecita said:No it isn't the first but that isn't the problem. If Susan thinks this sort of useless threads don't belong here she shouldn't have told me to start one.
Parrulo said:anyway maybe saxo will stop being a sponsor full stop? they only have a one year contract so at the end of the year the riis sportive organization is free to sign a major sponsor contract with santander which is indeed a gigantic company and would have no problems creating an super strong team around contador and still giving riis the money for him to keep developing young talent from Denmark and all over the world and to have a great classics team like riis always had on his team.
DominicDecoco said:You know a forum is in pieces when this nonsene keeps getting debated.
Jesus f****** christ.
Froome19 said:If they are a Spanish bank primarily and even though they are international as well ,why would they tolerate such a focus on Denmark when it is probably meaningless to them?
Parrulo said:you seriously need to calm down, this thread won't be closed.
also thank you people for already putting this thread on it's right path.
anyway maybe saxo will stop being a sponsor full stop? they only have a one year contract so at the end of the year the riis sportive organization is free to sign a major sponsor contract with santander which is indeed a gigantic company and would have no problems creating an super strong team around contador and still giving riis the money for him to keep developing young talent from Denmark and all over the world and to have a great classics team like riis always had on his team.
Froome19 said:If they are a Spanish bank primarily and even though they are international as well ,why would they tolerate such a focus on Denmark when it is probably meaningless to them?
jilbiker said:My advice to AC is to forget Saxo. I think he has been ill-treated there despite what he thinks. AC is too nice a guy to admit somethings. I did say that he should have left Astana in 2009 after Bruyneel and company left. I remember last TDF, I felt he was abandoned by his team. I still remember when he fell off the bike, his teammates rode past him! They did not come back when they heard he had an issue, I was baffled! This is your team leader! Chris AnkerS was shouting at him one time, RickyP of course had his own agenda. the greatness of this guy AC is that I can hardly recall a time he had a team wholly committed to him and him alone. The 2011 Giro he won on him on and the 2009 and 2010 TDF he won inspite of him team, 2010 Vino had his own agenda and off course we all know about 2009.
AC, this is business, forget sentiment, forget Saxo. I doubt that all the team is keen on you. Plus look at the team this year. Its a B class team! Why would you go there?? If he goes back to Saxo I will be disappointed.
Parrulo said:i don't seem to recall that.
if contador went to movistar like it has been mentioned before he would have the strongest team in world for GT's working for him.
Machu Picchu said:Any new team with Contador would still face the UCI points ruling so they'd either have to bring in the necessary riders with points (could be difficult and expensive) or challenge the ruling which could be risky for the basis of a new team/venture.
Angliru said:Dekker-Tifosi=DT