Teams & Riders EF Pro Cycling

[Samamba]

Or some other day. Maybe

tomorrow is probably their best shot with Van den Berg but then you need to have teammates that survive with him so they can bring back attackers after last climb.

 

[Potomac]

PCS say Max Walker is coming EF next year.

Max Walker, Texas Ranger or
Max Walker, Medicine Woman?

 

[Potomac]

2025 EF squad per Procycling Stats

#	ridername	rnk	pnt
1	CARAPAZ Richard	21	1233
2	VAN DEN BERG Marijn	89	616
3	HEALY Ben	93	600
4	POWLESS Neilson	138	453
5	RYAN Archie	159	414
6	NERURKAR Lukas	219	308
7	ASGREEN Kasper	244	272
8	STEINHAUSER Georg	247	267
9	HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich	278	235
10	CARTHY Hugh	339	188
11	RAFFERTY Darren	409	157
12	SWEENY Harry	450	135
13	WALKER Max	481	123
14	QUINN Sean	592	87
15	ROOTKIN-GRAY Jack	918	38
16	BELOKI Markel	1309	17
17	TODOME Yuhi	1334	16
18	VAN DER LEE Jardi Christiaan	1391	15
19	AMADOR Andrey	1906	5

 

[Potomac]

And per PCS these guys have no next season contract

Nr.	Rider	Current team	Age	Points PCS ranking
1	Costa Rui	EF Education - EasyPost	38	274
2	Chaves Esteban	EF Education - EasyPost	34	157
3	Valgren Michael	EF Education - EasyPost	32	264
4	Doull Owain	EF Education - EasyPost	31	117
5	de Bod Stefan	EF Education - EasyPost	27	78
6	Cepeda Jefferson Alexander	EF Education - EasyPost	26	197
7	Shaw James	EF Education - EasyPost	28	58
8	Piccolo Andrea	EF Education - EasyPost	23	52

 

[Breh]

Chaves is 34???

 

[Salvarani]

Chaves is 34???

Yeah, do you feel old yet?

 

[Anderis]

Chaves is 34???

Did you think he was younger or older than that?

He had his best season almost a decade ago.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Chaves is 34???

Maybe 34, but be he will be young forever, still one big win to come.

 

[RedheadDane]

Maybe 34, but be he will be young forever, still one big win to come.

Chaves will always* looks young. Meanwhile, his compatriot, Quintana, has always looked old. Fun fact; Chaves is the older of the two.






*Well, maybe not once he gets a few gray hairs.

 

[Gratemans]

Fun fact; Chaves is the older of the two.

Mind. Blown.

 

[Potomac]

Consider this...

Going into the third and final year of the promotion relegation EF is on 23000 points, and a three year total of 27000 is probably safe.

Could EF's approach be along the lines of "We only need 4000 points, and we have been averaging 11500 points per year previously. We don't need to sign great rider.s"

 

[Potomac]

I just read on the inner ring blog that Albanese is probably signing for EF.

 

[Anderis]

Could EF's approach be along the lines of "We only need 4000 points, and we have been averaging 11500 points per year previously. We don't need to sign great rider.s"

But I think EF's new signings have been fine and on paper they will have a stronger team in 2025 than in 2024.

With Uran and Bissegger having underperformed in 2024, pretty much the only real loss they're going to feel is Bettiol.
Between Asgreen, Battistella, Albanese and Baudin they should be more than capable of scoring more points than Bettiol, even if some of these riders won't have a great season.
And then they're adding Mihkels and Hobbs, which greatly enhances their sprinting options. Should results in additional points over a season since in 2024 their only rider ever remotely capable of doing anything in flat sprints was Van den Berg.
And then they've added a bunch of neo-pros in 2024, so there's a good chance someone like Ryan, Rafferty or Nerukar may have a breakthroguh in 2025, while their only riders in the declining age are Chaves and Costa, who weren't important point scorers in 2024 anyway.
And then someone like Carthy had an abysmal season in 2024 so he can't go worse than that but if he goes back to his old form, it would be like if they signed a good rider.

With all these new transfers they also have a great squad to potentially farm smaller hilly races for points but I don't think that will be necessary to avoid relegation in 2025.

 

[Potomac]

From PCS...

Transfer surplus​

Each year riders leave and come into the team. This statistic shows the number of points that a rider brings or takes from the team. The sum of these points we call the transfer surplus. The list contains riders that have left at the end of 2024 and joined the team at the start of 2025.

#	Rider	Status	Points
1	BAUDIN Alex	in	694
2	ALBANESE Vincenzo	in	631
3	MIHKELS Madis	in	369
4	ASGREEN Kasper	in	272
5	BATTISTELLA Samuele	in	163
6	WALKER Max	in	123
7	PICCOLO Andrea	out	-52
8	SHAW James	out	-58
9	DE BOD Stefan	out	-78
10	URÁN Rigoberto	out	-82
11	CARR Simon	out	-135
12	CHAVES Esteban	out	-151
13	RUTSCH Jonas	out	-157
14	CEPEDA Jefferson Alexander	out	-197
15	BISSEGGER Stefan	out	-360
16	BETTIOL Alberto	out	-853
	Net Gain/Loss		129

This is all based on the 26 riders listed on PCS.

 

[carolina]

Costa will continue with EF for another year. He had bad luck this season, with a lot of falls and injuries. Let's hope 2025 goes better.

 

[Anderis]

From PCS...

Transfer surplus​

Each year riders leave and come into the team. This statistic shows the number of points that a rider brings or takes from the team. The sum of these points we call the transfer surplus. The list contains riders that have left at the end of 2024 and joined the team at the start of 2025.

#	Rider	Status	Points
1	BAUDIN Alex	in	694
2	ALBANESE Vincenzo	in	631
3	MIHKELS Madis	in	369
4	ASGREEN Kasper	in	272
5	BATTISTELLA Samuele	in	163
6	WALKER Max	in	123
7	PICCOLO Andrea	out	-52
8	SHAW James	out	-58
9	DE BOD Stefan	out	-78
10	URÁN Rigoberto	out	-82
11	CARR Simon	out	-135
12	CHAVES Esteban	out	-151
13	RUTSCH Jonas	out	-157
14	CEPEDA Jefferson Alexander	out	-197
15	BISSEGGER Stefan	out	-360
16	BETTIOL Alberto	out	-853
	Net Gain/Loss		129

This is all based on the 26 riders listed on PCS.

So basically they're already on the surplus, even though the surplus is only going to get bigger as they confirm the final few places on their roster.

 

[Potomac]

The body count is up to 27 now...

#	ridername	age
1	ALBANESE Vincenzo	28
2	AMADOR Andrey	38
3	ASGREEN Kasper	29
4	BATTISTELLA Samuele	26
5	BAUDIN Alex	23
6	BELOKI Markel	19
7	CARAPAZ Richard	31
8	CARTHY Hugh	30
9	COSTA Rui	38
10	DOULL Owain	31
11	HEALY Ben	24
12	HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich	27
13	MACKELLAR Alastair	22
14	MIHKELS Madis	21
15	NERURKAR Lukas	21
16	POWLESS Neilson	28
17	QUINN Sean	24
18	RAFFERTY Darren	21
19	ROOTKIN-GRAY Jack	22
20	RYAN Archie	22
21	STEINHAUSER Georg	23
22	SWEENY Harry	26
23	TODOME Yuhi	22
24	VALGREN Michael	32
25	VAN DEN BERG Marijn	25
26	VAN DER LEE Jardi Christiaan	23
27	WALKER Max	23

 

[Potomac]

I thought that roster looked very young. But is it?
Average team age per PCS....

#	Season	Team	Average age
1	2025	Bahrain - Victorious	25.8
2	2025	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	25.9
3	2025	EF Education - EasyPost	25.9
4	2025	Team dsm-firmenich PostNL	26.0
5	2025	Arkéa - B&B Hotels	26.0
6	2025	Intermarché - Wanty	26.1
7	2025	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	26.4
8	2025	Groupama - FDJ	26.6
9	2025	Alpecin - Deceuninck	26.8
10	2025	Soudal Quick-Step	26.8
11	2025	INEOS Grenadiers	26.9
12	2025	UAE Team Emirates	26.9
13	2025	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	27.1
14	2025	Astana Qazaqstan Team	27.3
15	2025	Movistar Team	27.8
16	2025	Cofidis	27.8
17	2025	Team Jayco AlUla	28.5
18	2025	Lidl - Trek	28.6

 

[Anderis]

Is EF getting Noah Hobbs after all?

Already 27 riders according to PCS and someone on this forum suggested Chaves had already extended, Cepeda and Shaw may do as well and I even found a news that De Bod was negotiating an extension (though it was a few weeks old, I think).

I was looking forward to having more quick guys on the team.

 

[Anderis]

Is EF getting Noah Hobbs after all?

Apparently he will be part of their development team with some other strong names like Joshua Golliker and Colby Simmons.

 

[Potomac]

Amador retires, so now there are only 26 riders on the roster, room for four more.