Team Ineos Discussion thread

[Samamba]

So, Storm got moved down to conti level (again), this time the new Ineos academy team. This means that his initial 3-year-contract he signed ahead of last year is essentially void.
It also means that the WT team now have 2 more spots available...

I mean obviously it's not actually "void", he still got paid, basically for rehabilitating 2 years.

But yeah it's been known Storm wasn't actually going to be in the WT team, he just isn't ready (even if we forget his medical problems, he should've never gone to Ineos, ridiculously stupid mistake, one that I still don't understand, and probably never will).

 

[RedheadDane]

I mean obviously it's not actually "void", he still got paid, basically for rehabilitating 2 years.

It's void in the sense that he never got to ride for the team.
Besides, surely he got paid by Kern-Haus this year.

Though, I do wonder what the situation would have looked like if they'd stuck to the original plan: ColoQuick last year, Ineos this year.
And of course, then ColoQuick wouldn't have signed Øxenberg to replace him, and then Øxenberg wouldn't have taken the Coll de Rate record, proving that he exists....

(Just to be clear, I'm not saying you need to have that record to prove your existence.)

 

[Rob5091]

No wonder Sir Jim is looking for another sponsor to burden the costs as the UK government (yes, that's you UK tax payers) is helping him out -
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-up-to-70m-of-uk-state-aid-in-last-four-years

Chemical companies owned by the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe had already been granted as much as £70m in UK state aid in the past four years, before this week’s £50m government bailout for its Grangemouth plant in Scotland.

 

[postmanhat]

More good news as Ineos form a partnership with the new British junior 'superteam', created by the merger of Tofauti, and Fensham Howes-Mas. The latter have seen Pidcock, Brennan, Watson, Poole, Pickering, Nerurkar and Donaldson progress to the WT.

Once the relationship with Trinity seemingly broke down, something like this and the development team were obvious steps forward a few years ago. God knows what the previous management were thinking/focussed on?

Ineos Grenadiers create 'new talent pathway' in deal involving Tom Pidcock's former junior team

Announcement follows recent news of formation of Ineos U23 development squad

www.cyclingnews.com

 

[postmanhat]

It just doesn't work that way anymore when teams naturally attract homegrown talents on to their teams. It's a competitive world out there.

Agreed, but it does massively increase your chances of not having to pay £7m to buy out a rider a few years later