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

[JRanton]

Four extensions for Picnic PostNL:

Warren Barguil, Tim Naberman and Gijs Leemreize all extend to 2027.

Chris Hamilton gets three more years to 2028.

 

[pastronef]

According to HNB Girmay will probably stay till the end of 2026. But the more interesting thing about it is that his salary is not being paid by Intermarché Belgium (who is technically sponsoring the team), but Intermarché Frane (so the parent company) and they would not invest that money if Girmay leaves.

So Lotto does a merger with another team for their sponsor that doesn't even give a decent amount of money LMFAO this gets worse every day. Still do not understand what the positives for Lotto are.

this is one the greatest fck up I ever saw in cycling teams. I look at the Lotto-Wanty saga and it baffles me. absolutely out of any possible good sense. wow

 

[OlavEH]

I have said it before, them trying to keep Girmay is ruining a lot. Completely neglecting other talented riders while you're begging Girmay to stay when you don't even need him, you have De Lie anyways.

This merged team will be horrible. A team (probably) majority owned by the Lottery led by a *** that has no idea how to run a cycling team, a CEO that only seems to care about Girmay and that put his previous team into debt and deep financial trouble, a budget that isn't even mediocre and in a year probably no real talent left.

Wont the merger lead to an increased budget?

 

[Samamba]

Wont the merger lead to an increased budget?

Higher than what they both had yes (not hard), but not by that much and still the least out of any WT team so pathetic and absolutely not worth ruining your team over it. At least that's what the rumors are right now. These morons probably thought like "hey, 13+16=29M", not realizing that half of these sponsors are not compatible (like Cube and Orbea, shirt sponsors, Lotto and Circus, Wanty wanted to reduce its investment, ...) and thus not all of them would join the project. And then there is the fact that Intermarché had some serious debt.

 

[OlavEH]

Higher than what they both had yes (not hard), but not by that much and still the least out of any WT team so pathetic and absolutely not worth ruining your team over it. At least that's what the rumors are right now. These morons probably thought like "hey, 13+16=29M", not realizing that half of these sponsors are not compatible (like Cube and Orbea, shirt sponsors, Lotto and Circus, Wanty wanted to reduce its investment, ...) and thus not all of them would join the project. And then there is the fact that Intermarché had some serious debt.

Okay. That's really a shame. I was hoping for a more competitive team enabling them to keep the best riders in both Lotto and Intermache, and even signing a couple of more of same quality. But if your are right, that won't be the case.

 

[search]

Does anyone have any information about Jannis Peter and which team he will be going to?

no official confirmation yet, but he will apparently join Tietema

https://twitter.com/x/status/1978507276911509889

View: https://x.com/jauzy19/status/1978507276911509889