A bit sad to see a fellow German leave Movistar, but a sprinter with 0 professional career wins doesn't exactly scream "irreplacable". Hope he can change his fortunes at Astana, 2023 was a bit of a down year for him (so far, anyway).Max Kanter joins Astana!
Almeida, Ayuso, Morgado, Arrieta, Jan... at what point does Pogacar start feeling the pressure?
so's he...When the others win something big. At the moment, they're just podium material.
Come on, until his crash at Liege, he won every race except E3 and Miland San Remo where he participated this year...so's he...![]()
Max Kanter joins Astana!
Yes.
The Arkea we all know and love is back. Finishing 4th, 5th and 6th in every bunch sprint. #2024Clement Venturini to Arkea. Another sprinter to Arkea.
I get the impression that he does not understand pressure.Almeida, Ayuso, Morgado, Arrieta, Jan... at what point does Pogacar start feeling the pressure?
I usually wait until there's an announcement from the team before I consider it confirmed.
But, I suppose it could have been confirmed in some other way; like Juul-Jensen revealing on live television that he'd extended with Jayco, quite a while before they officially announced it.
It was confirmed on the team's twitter 6 hours before your post - De Pretto was always likely to join after doing a stagiare period in 2023.
still no news about Lotto (they won't ride Ridley anymore)
Bennett is such a bad signing I would call it symptomatic of wtf is wrong with SQS' recruitment.View: https://twitter.com/cirogazzetta/status/1688840373366292480?t=V0Yyq8_MQxzvjjtgWIVgdQ&s=19
I wouldn't waste money on either bennett or landa because i don't see them adding anything to the current team around remco. Lefevere should say to remco, we can sign these two or stick with what you've got now and bump up his wages to €4million + performance bonuses.
Landa who finished top 10 at Tirreno, Catalunya and Itzulia this year and was on thee podium of Lombardia and Giro last year looks done but George Bennett could be helpful. Makes sense.Bennett actually could become decent again. Not as good as he has been at Jumbo of course, but well enough to be helpful for Remco together with Van Wilder.
Landa on the other hand just looks done and past prime to me. Everything this century suggests he's in decline. Apart from 2021 maybe. At least talking about gt climbing.