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

[Bakkie]

NOT INEOS PLS

 

[BlueRoads]

UAE?

 

[tobydawq]

Everybody is yelling INEOS on Twitter just because it's their favourite swear word.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

If yelling helps.... INTERMARCHEEEEEEEEE
INTERMARCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
INTERMARCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Part of me now wonders what the deal is with that team, losing your strongest riders after 2-3 years...

 

[BlueRoads]

Let's be real: The only plausible explanation is him seeing the Androni kit and being smitten with passion, so badly he did not think of goals or money anymore.

 

[Bonimenier]

Very likely he won't find a new team after his disappointing season.

 

[tobydawq]

Maybe he just thought the silence on the Cyclingnews Forum was too sad so he had to light it up.

 

[Anderis]

Part of me now wonders what the deal is with that team, losing your strongest riders after 2-3 years...

It's not losing your strongerst riders after 2-3 years that's puzzling, as it would be pretty normal for a relatively low budget team to lose the bidding war for the best riders.

What's puzzling here is that the valid contracts are getting terminated so often in weird circumstances as for high profile riders.

 

[tobydawq]

Kittel, Barguil, Dumoulin, Matthews, Hirschi, Cyclingnews says, have all departed from the team prematurely (I hadn't forgotten about Kittel).

But not like this!

 

[RedheadDane]

Very likely he won't find a new team after his disappointing season.

Indeed. Hasn't won one single race this entire season!

 

[Landeirovic]

Well i think Ineos or Uae.

When i look. Uae 29 riders in selection. Ayuso come in augustus and Ulissi some months injury.

So Uae 27 riders.
maybe they gave Hirschi a big contract to fill Ulissi's place. This way Hirschi can do his thing in the Ardennes classics.

 

[tobydawq]

Well i think Ineos or Uae.

When i look. Uae 29 riders in selection. Ayuso come in augustus and Ulissi some months injury.

So Uae 27 riders.
maybe they gave Hirschi a big contract to fill Ulissi's place. This way Hirschi can do his thing in the Ardennes classics.

Good hypothesis, I didn't think of Ulissi but it would make sense.

 

[Earns1985]

Well i think Ineos or Uae.

When i look. Uae 29 riders in selection. Ayuso come in augustus and Ulissi some months injury.

So Uae 27 riders.
maybe they gave Hirschi a big contract to fill Ulissi's place. This way Hirschi can do his thing in the Ardennes classics.

Hirschi wants to get vaccinated against the coronavirus already in January, for this reason he decided spontaneously to switch the team..

 

[carolina]

If Jumbo-Visma still has free spots it might be an option. He must have sold a lot of cervelo bikes during the Tour.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Will DSM ever figure out why it's one of their riders literally the majority of the time something like this happens with a world-class rider?

 

[Bonimenier]

If Jumbo-Visma still has free spots it might be an option. He must have sold a lot of cervelo bikes during the Tour.

Great plan. Let Hirschi and Van Aert be domestiques and get 2nd again with Roglic.

 

[Jungle Cycle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346500978045038594

View: https://twitter.com/ViniZabuProTeam/status/1346500978045038594

 

[Landeirovic]

Israel?

 

[Jungle Cycle]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346504327582593032

View: https://twitter.com/cirogazzetta/status/1346504327582593032

 

[RedheadDane]

Israel?

Already full. And didn't you just suggest UAE?

 

[tobydawq]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346500978045038594

View: https://twitter.com/ViniZabuProTeam/status/1346500978045038594

I love that Twitter account.

 

[Landeirovic]

Already full. And didn't you just suggest UAE?

Right! But surely we can look at several ways of thinking?

 

[RedheadDane]

Right! But surely we can look at several ways of thinking?

True.

 

[BlueRoads]

Israel no just don't see that. UAE is the only team that makes sense to me.

 

[RedheadDane]

Israel no just don't see that. UAE is the only team that makes sense to me.

Of course not. As mentioned above; it's impossible, they're full... unless... they're making a rider-swap with DSM?! Except of course there has been no announcement about a rider on Israel...