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

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The interesting thing is he rides for Jayco's new feeder team Haegens ,and Jayco had no interest in signing him. His results as a first year Under 23 have been underwhelming.
He wasn't crazy good as a junior either, but definitely showed some potential. He's a second year U23 now, and his first seemed to have been riddled with some problems judging by a string of DNFs in the second half of the year after a somewhat decent start. This year he has finished all his races, but without any results of note except the U23 American TT championship. Though he seems to have done mostly mountainous races, so he could maybe be somewhat excused by that.
 
He wasn't crazy good as a junior either, but definitely showed some potential. He's a second year U23 now, and his first seemed to have been riddled with some problems judging by a string of DNFs in the second half of the year after a somewhat decent start. This year he has finished all his races, but without any results of note except the U23 American TT championship. Though he seems to have done mostly mountainous races, so he could maybe be somewhat excused by that.

Gotta say that the 2024 Hageans squad could be the weakest in the teams existence
 
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I'm a passionate Cofidis fan and I'm very concerned about the relegation battle right now, and the transfers doesen't ease my concern at all.

Zingle confirmed to Visma LAB and Guillaume to FDJ is a disaster.

The transfers in are very questionable imo.
Carr is a good rider but very inconsistent - not a points man.
Teuns have a high peak and a fairly low average level - not a points man.
Moniquet can be good on a soft hilly calender maybe... If he rides for GC in WT races i'll cry.

I hear rumours of Emu Buchmann - That would be the final nail in the coffin for me. He is terrible as a leader and worse as a teammate. He averages about 400 points a season, and he is very expensive. Please God, no.

Does anyone have good news??
 
I'm a passionate Cofidis fan and I'm very concerned about the relegation battle right now, and the transfers doesen't ease my concern at all.

Zingle confirmed to Visma LAB and Guillaume to FDJ is a disaster.

The transfers in are very questionable imo.
Carr is a good rider but very inconsistent - not a points man.
Teuns have a high peak and a fairly low average level - not a points man.
Moniquet can be good on a soft hilly calender maybe... If he rides for GC in WT races i'll cry.

I hear rumours of Emu Buchmann - That would be the final nail in the coffin for me. He is terrible as a leader and worse as a teammate. He averages about 400 points a season, and he is very expensive. Please God, no.

Does anyone have good news??

Aranburu is your good news. Cofidis will be fine with these transfers, given that Arkea doesn't seem to be doing anything major.
 
Yeah it's been quite so far.. Maybe something bigger is on it's way..
Don't think there's bigger things happening at Visma at least. They don't have tons of money and Yates and Zingle are probably semi-expensive. They also don't have many important riders leaving, and have signed a heap of very promising talents from their U23 team in addition to the ones they already have. Blobloblo chief among them, and probably on some very decent money also.

It's somewhat similar at UAE (minus the money problems), with lots of developing young guys. I just think it's gonna be an overall quiet transfer season considering most of the important riders have contracts running through to next year. The only ones I can see making some kind of splash would be Bora with all the Red Bull money.
 
Aranburu is your good news. Cofidis will be fine with these transfers, given that Arkea doesn't seem to be doing anything major.
Really?? Aranburu would be such a gift!!!

Possibly better than Zingle even. But do you think he would accept to farm points on the french 1.1 calender? I fear a lot of WT stage races with little points but maybe a big WT stage win. but it kinda doesent help enough points wise. Is it confirmed btw??
 
Really?? Aranburu would be such a gift!!!

Possibly better than Zingle even. But do you think he would accept to farm points on the french 1.1 calender? I fear a lot of WT stage races with little points but maybe a big WT stage win. but it kinda doesent help enough points wise. Is it confirmed btw??
News articles saying it's 'virtually confirmed' or words to that effect.
 
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Don't think there's bigger things happening at Visma at least. They don't have tons of money and Yates and Zingle are probably semi-expensive. They also don't have many important riders leaving, and have signed a heap of very promising talents from their U23 team in addition to the ones they already have. Blobloblo chief among them, and probably on some very decent money also.

It's somewhat similar at UAE (minus the money problems), with lots of developing young guys. I just think it's gonna be an overall quiet transfer season considering most of the important riders have contracts running through to next year. The only ones I can see making some kind of splash would be Bora with all the Red Bull money.
I was expecting more moves from UAE to increase their climbing level but maybe Del Toro will step up next year and there weren't a lot of climbers in the market. Visma took the best one and a great rider for them.
 
Unbelievable! Must say I don't see the upside for Aranburu. He already gets full leadership in most races for Movistar and they are definitely not getting relegated. Risky move?
Aren't Cofidis known for paying somewhat unreasonably high salaries for their big signings?

I think you're right about there being more promise at Arkea. In addition to Demare and Vauquelin, they have Louvel, Costiou and Garcia Pierna who are developing very nicely. Cofidis really only have Fretin as a somewhat promising points farmer.
 
Aren't Cofidis known for paying somewhat unreasonably high salaries for their big signings?

I think you're right about there being more promise at Arkea. In addition to Demare and Vauquelin, they have Louvel, Costiou and Garcia Pierna who are developing very nicely. Cofidis really only have Fretin as a somewhat promising points farmer.

Yes, they pay quite well at the top but the distribution is very uneven. More uneven than most other teams as i have learned. They tend to pay a lot for the 3-4 best guys (Martin, Izaguirre, Coquard, and Viviani in the past), but the medium to low ranked riders are not payed well. They all seem to leave immidiately after some success. Unwise strategy for points.
I completely agree with you. Fretin is good!!

Also Mozzato is a very good rider for Arkea and Albanese has huge points potential imo.
 
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Unbelievable! Must say I don't see the upside for Aranburu. He already gets full leadership in most races for Movistar and they are definitely not getting relegated. Risky move?

Money. Cofidis is paying a lot (budget is going up and money from Martin and Zingle of course). They hijacked Aranburu's transfer to Arkea. Good move, otherwise staying in wouldve been really problematic yes.

As long as they use Aranburu the right way (like you said, one day races, not a lot of stage races) he can easily score 2000+ points. Way better than Zingle imo, as he struggles in WT races, Aranburu doesn't.
 
I'm a passionate Cofidis fan and I'm very concerned about the relegation battle right now, and the transfers doesen't ease my concern at all.

Zingle confirmed to Visma LAB and Guillaume to FDJ is a disaster.

The transfers in are very questionable imo.
Carr is a good rider but very inconsistent - not a points man.
Teuns have a high peak and a fairly low average level - not a points man.
Moniquet can be good on a soft hilly calender maybe... If he rides for GC in WT races i'll cry.

I hear rumours of Emu Buchmann - That would be the final nail in the coffin for me. He is terrible as a leader and worse as a teammate. He averages about 400 points a season, and he is very expensive. Please God, no.

Does anyone have good news??
It wouldn’t be terrible if Cofidis were relegated providing they keep the sponsorship dollars, they would still get the invites to the WT races they want to do and with some luck it would force a change to the management structure at the team.