TeamSkyFans said:
Rumour I heard earlier in the week was he was definately leaving leaky.. My gut is he will go to astana.. An italian on a spanish team seems a little odd.
There were seven Italians on Spanish ProTour teams in 2010.
Marzio Bruseghin at Caisse d'Epargne
Eros Capecchi, Ermano Capelli, Fabio Felline, Giampaolo Cheula, Marco Corti and Michele Merlo at Footon
However, I don't think there were any at the lower level.
As regards Spaniards on Italian ProTour teams in 2010, there were none whatsoever.
However, on the ProConti teams you have:
Didac Ortega at Acqua e Sapone
Luís Ángel Mate at Androni Giocattoli (soon to be joined by Ángel Vicioso, right?)
Sérgio Pardilla and Francisco Ventoso at CarmioOro (both soon to return to Spain with Movistar)
On the other hand, Movistar have a stacked lineup but no real leader... lots of people who can get in the 6th-20th area but not really anybody who can get top 5 without a bit of tactical brilliance allied to a bit of luck...