I'd expect to see a fair bit of Guatibonza in some of the flatter races, he's got plenty more racing experience than the majority of the others. Filip Novak is the other one I'd think we'll see a decent amount of, he has done a somewhat more varied set of races and was initially rumoured to the main team as well when they signed Pavel, but while the team likes to have its younger riders serve an apprenticeship in the Northern Classics that they don't really pay much heed to, going straight from juniors to 240km+ races might be a bridge too far leaving Guatibonza and maybe Pombo as the only logical picks that could do some of those.
I'd think we're most likely to see them in some of those races the team likes to do over undulating terrain, looking at the team's 2025 calendar, I'm looking at races like the Tour of Belgium, Boucles de la Mayenne, Tour de Wallonie, the May Bréton one-dayers and the autumn Belgian races, especially for Guatibonza who is more of a rouleur. Novák seems from his reputation (that's all I have to go off at this stage I'm afraid), like his brother, to like steep climbs, so might get more of the Spanish domestic calendar or the couple of Portuguese early season races the team does. And the Challenge Mallorca races would be a good option too of course because they can rotate a couple in and out. In previous years they've also done some races like the Tour du Limousin and the Tour of Britain with the main team that some of the academy guys could do, especially if as stagiares.
It will be interesting to see what calendar the academy team does given they can't start races the main squad does, I'd like to see them doing some of the Portuguese races - maybe not A Grandissima, but the GP Beiras, Troféu Joaquim Agostinho or the Volta ao Alentejo would be good - and maybe some major U23 and pro-am (2.2) mountain races like the Giro della Valle d'Aosta and the Tour des Pays de Savoie. The Spanish calendar has lost all of its old 2.2s like, fifteen years ago, where things like the Circuito Montañés and the Vuelta a León would have been good fits - often the races still exist but are pure amateur events now, and a lot of the domestic races will have the main Movistar team at them.
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