Teams & Riders The Great Big Cycling Transfers, Extensions, and Rumours Thread

[laarsland]

@cirogazzetta and @dnlbenson also make wrong calls and things can also change.

I actually noted a quite good track-record around UAE news from him.
I remember he called Felix Groß to UAE in this forum 3-4 month before it got in the news.
That's not a transfer you just random could have guessed.

Hirschi and Mäder headlining a new team of their nationality with a good longterm plan and financing would be a nice outcome.

Not wanting to take this into further meta territory, but in my eyes Benson and Ciro are woven into a much deeper layer of the pro peloton-fabric than Mole. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t get stuff right and that he has some good sources as you point out with UAE. The betting stuff demeans him in my eyes though.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1666737175428321282

View: https://twitter.com/WielerFlits/status/1666737175428321282

 

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Davide Ballerini also rumored to Tudor

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Don't know if it was already posted but GVA --> Tudor as a DS

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Did Tudor rob one of those Swiss banks? Why are they supposed to sign everyone and their mums?

 

[pastronef]

Don't know if it was already posted but GVA --> Tudor as a DS

helped by BMC

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1667128480952205314

View: https://twitter.com/PCMPTMag/status/1667128480952205314

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1667424349593251843

View: https://twitter.com/WielerFlits/status/1667424349593251843

 

[Ricco']

Landa to Ag2r is as random as a Pro Cycling Manager transfer

 

[Tim Cahill]

Landa X French team are about to drop the hottest mix of the 2024 summer, it's the collab we didn't realise we all needed.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Landa needs a team that'll force him to keep riding the next time he thinks he can just abandon a GT after a crash.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Landa should go to Cofidis if hes going to a French team as they are the French team with strongest Spanish connection.
I think this year will be his last focusing on the Tour, so he should go somewhere they can offer him decent support for the Giro.

 

[Anderis]

Landa to Ag2r is as random as a Pro Cycling Manager transfer

I remember playing PCM 2015 and the transfers weren't random at all.

Top 5 teams always signed all the good riders and Cannondale only ever signed mediocre Italian riders because someone set Italy as their sponsor interest country.

 

[RedheadDane]

Demare is being rumoured to Arkea?
I'm guessing that would mean Bouhanni is definitely on his way out. From what I understand, it was not exactly a happy combo when they were both on FDJ...

 

[gunara]

I remember playing PCM 2015 and the transfers weren't random at all.

Top 5 teams always signed all the good riders and Cannondale only ever signed mediocre Italian riders because someone set Italy as their sponsor interest country.

That's not the norm. In the previous edition, Igor Antón went to Crelan or Landbouwkrediet or whatever they're called at that time. And in 2019 edition he's not retired and rode for Roomport and raced very little in a PCT team with very few riders. That's more normal PCM.

Compared to that Landa to AG2R is very predictable.

 

[Anderis]

In the previous edition, Igor Antón went to Crelan or Landbouwkrediet or whatever they're called at that time.

That's almost as random as Roelandts signing with Movistar.

 

[laarsland]

That's almost as random as Roelandts signing with Movistar.

Zeits to Jayco

 

[laarsland]

I guess you could say he went Zeitseeing

 

[gunara]

Zeits to Jayco

Also, their earlier foreign climber signings always seemed strange to me, until they went all GC with international squads.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

That's almost as random as Roelandts signing with Movistar.

He is, however, already an improvement on pretty much all the DSes they have except Lastras and maybe Sciandri.

 

[RedheadDane]

I guess you could say he went Zeitseeing

That was a terrible pun!
I love it.

 

[tobydawq]

That was a terrible pun!
I love it.

I think it was absolute top tier.

 

[Mayomaniac]

He is, however, already an improvement on pretty much all the DSes they have except Lastras and maybe Sciandri.

I do rate Sciandri, with him in the teamcar they actually played the numbers game right with Carapaz and Landa and ended up winning the 2019 Giro.
The main problem is that he seems to be pretty far down the pecking order and not in charge at their high priority races...

 

[search]

Hirschi has a contract for 2024 (Mader rumoured to not have one). Also why would he know this stuff. He isn't known a someone with this kind of info right?

there's an interview with Mäder in the Neue Zürchter Zeitung today which confirms that his contract with Bahrain expires at the end of this year.

Tudor and Q36.5 are among the teams which have offered him a deal for 2024, but there are others as well. Mäder himself calls the Swiss teams interesting ("Never say never"), but also says that joining a relatively new team now, for the potentially best part of his career, comes with a risk. So it doesn't really sound like he'll end up at either of them.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I'm surprised about the Tao to Trek rumour. First of all he seems to be in a really good position at Ineos right now, second he just suffered a really serious, potentially career altering, injury. I wouldn't throw tons of money at him before seeing him race again.