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

[Tour de Berghem]

Pozzovivo is still without contract. He says that he wants to race a last Giro to reach Wladimiro Panizza record of Giro partecipations (18).

There were rumors in November with Corratec then nothing.

Maybe a lot depends on when wild card will be anounced

BTW: when wild card will be announced ?

 

[Salvarani]

Pozzovivo is still without contract. He says that he wants to race a last Giro to reach Wladimiro Panizza record of Giro partecipations (18).

There were rumors in November with Corratec then nothing.

Maybe a lot depends on when wild card will be anounced

BTW: when wild card will be announced ?

He will be racing with Corratec as long as they get a wildcard. It is the only hold up.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

He will be racing with Corratec as long as they get a wildcard. It is the only hold up.

But isn't it unlikely that Corratec gets a wild card or can they get ahead of Bardiani or Q36,5?

 

[Salvarani]

But isn't it unlikely that Corratec gets a wild card or can they get ahead of Bardiani or Q36,5?

No idea.

 

[pastronef]

But isn't it unlikely that Corratec gets a wild card or can they get ahead of Bardiani or Q36,5?

18 WT
Tudor will get it and Polti for sure.
Israel has it
so it'll be Corratec vs Bardiani
it's a shame WT teams can't skip a race. I'd have FDJ stay at home

 

[tobydawq]

18 WT
Tudor will get it and Polti for sure.
Israel has it
so it'll be Corratec vs Bardiani
it's a shame WT teams can't skip a race. I'd have FDJ stay at home

Why FDJ? There are plenty of much worse teams on the WT, three of them French.

 

[pastronef]

Why FDJ? There are plenty of much worse teams on the WT, three of them French.

they just put out some of their riders programs, with the pre selection for Tour and Vuelta. as if the Giro didn't exist (and I'm biased against them I admit it, not my fav team at all, can't stand Gaudu, Madiot and the Pinot-Jesus worshippers, sorry)

 

[RedheadDane]

 

[Lexman]

not sure what to think of that, he didn't perform at Total and now in WT working for Bennett?

 

[Faserr]

not sure what to think of that, he didn't perform at Total and now in WT working for Bennett?

Racing sports director.

 

[repre]

they just put out some of their riders programs, with the pre selection for Tour and Vuelta. as if the Giro didn't exist (and I'm biased against them I admit it, not my fav team at all, can't stand Gaudu, Madiot and the Pinot-Jesus worshippers, sorry)

just say the truth that you are hater...it's ok to be honest

 

[pastronef]

just say the truth that you are hater...it's ok to be honest

not a hater. I like the Brits and Aussies there, Konovalovas Molard Madouas. I liked Casar, Elissonde, Guesdon.
I mostly didn't like the Pinot worshippers and some of Madiot's high horse blabbing

 

[Tour de Berghem]

Among french teams Groupama-FDJ is the one that gave more importance to the Giro in last years.
The results of Demare and Pinot at Giro are there to see.

AG2R , Cofidis and Arkea were much more worse.

 

[claude cat]

Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert linked to Bora-Hansgrohe for 2025

German media reports that the Red Bull-owned German team could be on the market to sign both Evenepoel and Van Aert to bolster squad for next season

www.globalcyclingnetwork.com

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Racing sports director.

Yeah, very much so…

He‘s so physically gifted, so experienced, so nice to get along with - I think he would still get WT offers when >40 years old… And he certainly agrees to the lesser paid contracts, nowadays…

 

[StryderHells]

not sure what to think of that, he didn't perform at Total and now in WT working for Bennett?

He also fills a spot for the cobbled classics squad, they don’t have much depth in that area.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Remco Evenepoel and Wout van Aert linked to Bora-Hansgrohe for 2025

German media reports that the Red Bull-owned German team could be on the market to sign both Evenepoel and Van Aert to bolster squad for next season

www.globalcyclingnetwork.com

Now that the Visma-Soudal merger is off the table, there’s talk for the rest of the year about Remco and Wout joining RedBull asap… Both however have contracts still, so probably the next „Cian situation“. Strange.

Of course I‘d like Rog, Wout and Remco in one team, but hopefully only when Wout and Remco are free to change teams. Everything else would be some kind of farce, imho.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Yeah, very much so…

He‘s so physically gifted, so experienced, so nice to get along with - I think he would still get WT offers when >40 years old… And he certainly agrees to the lesser paid contracts, nowadays…

I remember the days when people thought be would win Erik Zabel.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

not a hater. I like the Brits and Aussies there, Konovalovas Molard Madouas. I liked Casar, Elissonde, Guesdon.
I mostly didn't like the Pinot worshippers and some of Madiot's high horse blabbing

Yea, but the sport needs Thibaut Pinots more than it needs Richard Plugges.

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Yea, but the sport needs Thibaut Pinots more than it needs Richard Plugges.

Not so sure about that.

Pinot most of the time didn’t seem very likeable to me (exception: when he cried at the Tour of the Alps).

And I still feel a bit betrayed by him: he always pretended he was going to win the Tour for certain, but never won it. Everyone was certain of a happy end (TdF victory), but that never happened. And as he realized others are stronger than him, he switched to the „entertainment mode“, to remain relevant.

I like Bardet more than Pinot. Bardet is pure class, and a hard, silent worker. And maybe the better racer than Pinot was.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Not so sure about that.

Pinot most of the time didn’t seem very likeable to me (exception: when he cried at the Tour of the Alps).

And I still feel a bit betrayed by him: he always pretended he was going to win the Tour for certain, but never won it. Everyone was certain of a happy end (TdF victory), but that never happened. And as he realized others are stronger than him, he switched to the „entertainment mode“, to remain relevant.

I like Bardet more than Pinot. Bardet is pure class, and a hard, silent worker. And maybe the better racer than Pinot was.

I wasn't comparing Pinot to Bardet, though. I was comparing him to Plugge and his vision of the sport.

The entertainment business can be entertainment without being business, but it can't be business without being entertainment.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

And I still feel a bit betrayed by him: he always pretended he was going to win the Tour for certain, but never won it. Everyone was certain of a happy end (TdF victory), but that never happened. And as he realized others are stronger than him, he switched to the „entertainment mode“, to remain relevant.

Maybe in the next 2 years we could say the same about roglic

 

[Rob5091]

Now that the Visma-Soudal merger is off the table, there’s talk for the rest of the year about Remco and Wout joining RedBull asap… Both however have contracts still, so probably the next „Cian situation“. Strange.

Of course I‘d like Rog, Wout and Remco in one team, but hopefully only when Wout and Remco are free to change teams. Everything else would be some kind of farce, imho.

There's still talk of Lefereve retiring at the end of 2024 so the circus of QS merging or whatever will start up all over again. Did not Roglic take WvA's cocah with him to Bora? So we need to wait and see.

 

[scribers]

This has been quite the bora visma off season

 

[RedheadDane]

And I still feel a bit betrayed by him: he always pretended he was going to win the Tour for certain, but never won it. Everyone was certain of a happy end (TdF victory), but that never happened. And as he realized others are stronger than him, he switched to the „entertainment mode“, to remain relevant.

How much of it was Pinot saying he was gonna win the Tour for certain, and how much was his fans? He frequently said that he wanted to win the Tour, but the only time - that I can recall - he said he'd felt certain that he was gonna win, was in 2019, and it did look quite good before he got injured.
Of course, later he has also said that maybe he didn't actually want to be a TdF winner after all...