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Israel resigns local lads....
Guy Niv
Guy Sagiv
Omer Goldstein
Itamar Goldstein
to assist Frroome for 2021 season
Still a very poor WorldTour Team. Alpecin are much better.Circus Wanty Gobert is evolving into a fully fledged team, especially for the stage races. Not the absolute top riders, but strong in width. Zimmermann, Hirt and now Meintjes. The latter in particular is a potential top ten rider. And having Zimmermann, Hirt and Bakelants in support..... A pity is that Meurisse is leaving the team.
Israel resigns local lads....
Guy Niv
Guy Sagiv
Omer Goldstein
Itamar Goldstein
to assist Frroome for 2021 season
Circus and Qhubeka look like horrible teams lol. Good that they are saved but they both look a lot weaker than even Cofidis or Israel Startup Nation
Circus and Qhubeka look like horrible teams lol. Good that they are saved but they both look a lot weaker than even Cofidis or Israel Startup Nation
Are any of these guys remotely WT level?
Lutsenko will sign in Uae
Are any of these guys remotely WT level?
Arkea and Alpecin are both stronger. Alpecin are still stronger without Van der Poel, and even Arkea may still be without QuintanaCircus and Qhubeka look like horrible teams lol. Good that they are saved but they both look a lot weaker than even Cofidis or Israel Startup Nation
Well, apart from Itamar Einhorn (not Goldstein, there's a mistake in the list), they have all been national champions. And that's in a country with several other WT riders
I think Wanty is doing a good job in the transfer department all things considered. They got some competent WT riders and a few specialists for the one day races they will mostly target. Yes, they are missing a poster guy but I'd give them a couple of years before calling them horrible.
we all know why we are slating these teams for not being WT strong enough but surely is it not the bigger teams and the fact that there is no cap on how much rider budgets should be.
Teams like INEOS, JUMBO, Decuenick stockpiling GC contenders and the strongest talents, paying them the biggest wages and whispering sweet leadership words.
Imagine a Kruijswijk at Wanty, Alaphilipe at Cofidis, etc etc...
Lutsenko will sign in Uae
I wonder if you are an insider of some sort.
You didn't add a source and i can't find any source anywhere supporting this claim or even a far-fetched rumor.
I'm interested in Lutsenko as a rider so I was just a bit curious.
Of course you are right on the one hand. Smaller teams cannot offer the same amount of money to domestiques, that's the major problem. If a very good rider goes to a team with no support and no plan b, he usually fails there. But then Quickstep for instance, as far as I know, does not have a really huge budget. I think Movistar does not have the worst budget, yet they did terribly this year - of course this was a very weird year and it's been a season of change for them.
I don't want to deny the heavy impact that the disparity of team budget has, but it's not like there is a direct and inevitable correlation between budget and performance. If you are a smaller team, you can still do good work. And if you offer younger guys a chance for learning experiences and leadership, you have a chance. If you have a relatively small budget and put it all into one or two older star riders, well, I think that's a very risky strategy, although the sponsors may like it at first. But the (new) Sunweb strategy is way better than CCC's or Israel's, I think.
Those two old British guys are kind of random for Eolo Kometa aren't they? Is that just Sean Yates getting to pick some riders or what