Renewal of Marco Frapporti. Vini Zabu trolling the cycling world
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Renewal of Marco Frapporti. Vini Zabu trolling the cycling world
Renewal of Marco Frapporti. Vini Zabu trolling the cycling world
300 IQ move, get fined for acting like that on TV instead of getting fined for giving a bottle to your rider or him getting a time penalty.
Frankiny, Clarke and Clayes signs for Assossssss
There is one big reason why he wouldn't get re-signed when it would make sense to re-sign him and that is if his agent is Aquadro. Unless Marc Soler changes agents before next year he won't be staying at Movistar after 2021.
Part of me wonders if this is something akin to a Marcus Pettersson deal (he was signed to a 1-year low-level deal to help the team out of a salary crunch, being 'made whole' by renewing at an inflated amount for the following 5 years, and when the two contracts were added together, they made a perfectly reasonable price for a six year deal for him) based on balancing the budget in a post-Corona world. MAL is coming off an injury, and Valverde's current contract is up at the end of 2021. There may be a carrot being dangled at the end of the year, as with Valverde's salary likely coming off the rider payroll or being re-upped at a lower level, there will be more money available to extend MAL if he lives up to expectations, but as he's coming off injury the extension offer will be performance-based? Effectively "we want you for X number of years, we offer you this for year 1, but what we offer you beyond that will be based on how things go" - and MAL may be happy enough to accept that that because he won't necessarily be an unquestioned leader in the team, so he wants the out clause to be able to go somewhere else immediately if the team and him are not a fit - or it may be that because teams' budgets are being hit, the kind of salary offer he's seeing in the marketplace is not what he'd ideally be looking for, so Movistar offering him a short term deal that means he has maximum freedom to renegotiate when times are less hard up?MAL announced to Movistar
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Miguel Ángel López reinforces 2021 Movistar Team roster | Movistar Team
Colombian - winner of the 2020 TDF's Queen stage and GC podium finisher in the Giro and La Vuelta - becomes Telefónica-backed squad's fifth addition to its men's lineup for next year.movistarteam.com
A 1year deal. Seems odd for a GC contender.
I don't know who most riders agents are.
Thanks. Then I don't know why they wouldn't be re-signing him.Prades is not represented by Acquadro.
Part of me wonders if this is something akin to a Marcus Pettersson deal (he was signed to a 1-year low-level deal to help the team out of a salary crunch, being 'made whole' by renewing at an inflated amount for the following 5 years, and when the two contracts were added together, they made a perfectly reasonable price for a six year deal for him) based on balancing the budget in a post-Corona world. MAL is coming off an injury, and Valverde's current contract is up at the end of 2021. There may be a carrot being dangled at the end of the year, as with Valverde's salary likely coming off the rider payroll or being re-upped at a lower level, there will be more money available to extend MAL if he lives up to expectations, but as he's coming off injury the extension offer will be performance-based? Effectively "we want you for X number of years, we offer you this for year 1, but what we offer you beyond that will be based on how things go" - and MAL may be happy enough to accept that that because he won't necessarily be an unquestioned leader in the team, so he wants the out clause to be able to go somewhere else immediately if the team and him are not a fit - or it may be that because teams' budgets are being hit, the kind of salary offer he's seeing in the marketplace is not what he'd ideally be looking for, so Movistar offering him a short term deal that means he has maximum freedom to renegotiate when times are less hard up?
I'm not sure if you are joking or not. Lopez will be at worst number 2 behind Mas.You're forgetting Valverde has a 5 year contract and can choose to continue racing if he wishes. Lopez at best would be the 4th leader on the team behind the 3 Spaniards. I would not be surprised if he was signed because of the sponsorship with Movistar wanting 3 Colombians on the team. Still don't understand how he fits in. Movistar is one of the few teams without the budget issues most of the teams dealt with in 2020, plus they had some money to work with after Quintana and Landa left and they didn't spend all that money in salaries last year with all the young kids they've been signing. So they had two higher priced riders leave last year. What they signed Lopez to for 1 year and whatever they do next year doesn't have anything to do with Valverde's salary. Also Movistar has done 1 year contracts many times.
Koronin, come on, put your feet on the ground.
Do you think Lopez will go to Movistar for 1 year to be the 4th leader. "Hey, sign here and you will be warrantied that you will be our fourth leader in the pecking order!!"
Weird signing for 1 year. Not sure what's behind all this.
I'm not sure if you are joking or not. Lopez will be at worst number 2 behind Mas.
He's going to be behind Valverde and Mas and at best equal to Soler.
Lol, no, in what world are you living?
Lol, no, in what world are you living?
Soler has finished 1 WT race in top10 overall in the last 2.5 years.
Lopez' worst ever GT finishing place is better than Soler's best ever GT finishing place.
Enough said.Nobody in the cycling world is crazy enough to back Soler over Lopez for stage races leadership.