Spartacus to Team Schleck?

[craig1985]

I heard a rumour to today that Spartacus will leave Saxo and join the Schleck team for 2011. They'll pay Riis the 3m euro to get him out of his contract.

My sources, why check out these two links:

Here

and;

Here

 

[El Pistolero]

Lol, I wouldn't want to pay 3million dollars/euros/whatever the Swiss use these days for Cancellara

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

schlecks team had 13 million budget so I doubt it

 

[hrotha]

Where did they get such a large budget if they haven't even confirmed their sponsors yet. This doesn't make sense. Hello Le Groupement.

 

[roundabout]

They have Radioshack.

 

[hrotha]

They have Radioshack.

Don't give me nightmares, will ya.

 

[Cobblestoned]

I don't think so.
Still no support at the classics - no step forward.

 

[Fourier]

They have Radioshack.

If that happens I'll eat my carbon frame with some beans and a nice chianti.

 

[icefire]

They have Radioshack.

Do they plan to rebrand it as Radioschleck?

 

[Spare Tyre]

Do they plan to rebrand it as Radioschleck?

Do you mean Radioschlock?

 

[Willy_Voet]

I heard he was talking to Sky.

 

[Vonn Brinkman]

Spartacus won't go. He'll do his contract, and move next year to the Schlecks or BMC. Nobody except me would pay 3 million euros to get Cancellara on a team And sadly I don't have that money or a pro cycling team

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Do they plan to rebrand it as Radioschleck?

That's funny stuff right there.

 

[la.margna]

RadioSchmucks

 

[Old School]

He should go to HTC...it's his style of team...RadioSchleck isn't going to be built like a one day type team.

 

[blaxland]

Spartacus won't go. He'll do his contract, and move next year to the Schlecks or BMC. Nobody except me would pay 3 million euros to get Cancellara on a team And sadly I don't have that money or a pro cycling team

Great quote Vonn Brinkman,you seem like you could handle the role of DS quite well....Next year i think he will join Bmc...I hope..

 

[Christian]

Where did they get such a large budget if they haven't even confirmed their sponsors yet. This doesn't make sense. Hello Le Groupement.

Check out this pretty good article from velonation:

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/5...rigins-of-the-new-team-out-of-Luxembourg.aspx

The money behind the team is reported to be coming from extremely successful Luxembourg businessman, Flavio Becca. Becca made his fortune in real estate and is now looking to make a splash on the professional cycling scene.

Nygaard contends that he was up in the air as to what to do, but it's difficult to believe, as the team is reported to be working with a nearly 20 million dollar budget. After a closer look at the contract that was sent to him, he was all in on the project.

While Nygaard and Andersen will steer the boat of the new Luxembourg team and Becca will stand in the background as the deep pocketed mastermind, the big question is who will take up title sponsorship of the team in 2011.

L'Equipe hypothesized on July 30th that the fast food chain, Quick, might do the honors as the title sponsor. Supermarket chain, Auchan, has also been linked with the team, but a press statement from the business has denied any involvement with the new outfit. Becca's close relationship with the Auchan boss would suggest the likelihood of such an arrangement, but the press statement seems to put paid to the idea.

So this article speaks of roughly 15 million € budget if my calculations are correct. In my opinion most of the money comes from this investor guy, whatever the sponsor is, they won't chip in all that much. But it is kind of weird that they still haven't announced one, which makes me wonder whether it'll be an Astana-type team.

I'd say that's the most likely, because it has been rumored in the press that the name will likely be "Team Luxembourg", and not the name of any sponsor. I was considering Luxair and Cargolux for a while (since they'd already been a minor sponsor for Saxo Bank), but I don't know if their current economic situation permits them such a big step-up.

As to Cancellara, I think he must have some really, really good offers from other teams, that Riis can't compete with. Which is kind of understandable because Contador and Cancellara's salaries together must be more than AG2R, Cofidis and FDJ's budgets together. I'd say he definitely wants to leave, just doesn't really know where to yet and is still working out how to get rid of Riis. I could very well imagine Flavio Becca paying the 3 millions for Cancellara, if he does only nearly as good as this season, you got your money back in no time.

 

[hrotha]

Thanks for the info, Christian. So a multimillionaire it is. Another way cycling is becoming more like football?

 

[Christian]

Another way cycling is becoming more like football?

Sadly, I'd say yes!

 

[taiwan]

My sources, why check out these two links:

Here...

So that's what Sergei Ivanov was doing when he still had hair.

 

[craig1985]

You guys and girls do know I made this up, right?

 

[Christian]

Well, it could happen though IMO. It's unlikely but why not.

Anyways, looks like the Schlecks got a decent mountain crew lined up: Monfort, Feillu, Fuglsang so far. Maybe they should now focus on finding people for the TTT

 

[taiwan]

You guys and girls do know I made this up, right?

The same thing happened in the "Greame Brown for the Worlds" thread.

 

[badboyberty]

I'm just glad my hopelessly slow broadband (does ADSL1 count as broadband anymore?) connection saved me from being RickRolled.

If they'd hurried up and finished the NBN fibre roll-out around here I wouldn't have had a chance.

 

[craig1985]

I'm just glad my hopelessly slow broadband (does ADSL1 count as broadband anymore?) connection saved me from being RickRolled.

If they'd hurried up and finished the NBN fibre roll-out around here I wouldn't have had a chance.

Just move to a Scandinavian country FFS.