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

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Lotto won't have a team left if it keeps going like this. De Lie must be regretting his extension already.
Meh, Beullens is evolving into the second coming of Frederik Frison and De Buyst is one of the best lead-outs there is. If they extend guys like Slock, Livyns and Currie that's a very decent team they can built around him for the classics. Of course it's no QS or UAE but hey, they have half the budget (if it's even that)
 
not significant of course but what significant role did play Campenaerts and Eenkhoorn?

They are able to do more racedays if necessary (and it will be when Lotto is a WT team), they were the only 2 guys left with Van Gils after Cipressa, Campenaerts even tho he was disappointing in the classics was still around 30th in Flanders, if he had a leader he would be useful (there's a reason why Visma wants him ofcourse). It wasn't really significant this year cause both leaders were out but obviously you can expect more from them than from some neopros there.

Losing them isn't really a problem, not being able to replace them cause you can't do transfers is.
 
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Rota rumoured to have extended.

Apart from that only one big name that has circulated, and that's Guillaume Martin. But I don't know how believable that rumour is/was. Arkea is being named for him too.
Martin should go to Arkea so he can dom for Vauquelin. He's fallen off a bit in recent years, maybe from racing too many days or just age. Not sure he and Meintjes move the needle for Intermarche.
 
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Martin should go to Arkea so he can dom for Vauquelin. He's fallen off a bit in recent years, maybe from racing too many days or just age. Not sure he and Meintjes move the needle for Intermarche.

I think this is the only year he has slightly regressed, but no one is really performing in Cofidis apart from Zingle. That team is a complete mess.

He will move the needle if he is able to bring in +1,000 UCI points. If anything, they should consider the opportunity cost.
 
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