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

[Netserk]

Because . . . They’ve ironed out their difficulties??

It's the first search result on google for me: https://www.google.com/search?q=battistella

 

[search]

Jaakko Hänninen (Ag2R) joins Nice Métropole. One year deal, confirmed by himself.

Jaakko Hännisen pyöräilyura jatkuu Ranskassa - TWD

Kansainvälisen maantiepyöräilyn suomalainen kasvattajaseura TWD-Länken

www.twd.fi

 

[pastronef]

Pogacar signs until 2030

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849465109480898904

View: https://x.com/ladystarblade/status/1849465109480898904

 

[Squire]

Now this is a transfer that actually makes sense. Contrary to the Cavagna announcement of last year.

 

[staubsauger]

Jaakko Hänninen (Ag2R) joins Nice Métropole. One year deal, confirmed by himself.

Jaakko Hännisen pyöräilyura jatkuu Ranskassa - TWD

Kansainvälisen maantiepyöräilyn suomalainen kasvattajaseura TWD-Länken

www.twd.fi

Pretty harsh that Hänninen can't get a contract at a team like Corratec even!

I guess he's going to ride his bike as some sort of payed hobby and not fully professional anymore in the future.

Hänninen's career never took flight sadly. Stalled completely during his time at AG2R.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Pretty harsh that Hänninen can't get a contract at a team like Corratec even!

I guess he's going to ride his bike as some sort of payed hobby and not fully professional anymore in the future.

Hänninen's career never took flight sadly. Stalled completely during his time at AG2R.

Yeah, strange because they and Cofidis have been the most international French teams for a long time and they have been doing well during the last few years.

 

[memyselfandI]

Yeah, strange because they and Cofidis have been the most international French teams for a long time and they have been doing well during the last few years.

Talking about mildly different paths after that 2018 podium in Worlds when comparing Hirschi, Lambrecht and Hanninen.

Aiming back to the high market 2026?

 

[laarsland]

Perhaps a season riding more of the regional French races he grinded as a prospect is a better way of finding his feet again than some more uncertain PCT.

 

[search]

I'd think so too. He probably can't afford to get stuck at that level for more than a year or two, but he lives in Nice, so it's his local team, and usually the French CT teams have quite a good calendar.

 

[RedheadDane]

Talking about mildly different paths after that 2018 podium in Worlds when comparing Hirschi, Lambrecht and Hanninen.

Not mildly.
Wildly.

Of course, we'll never know what could have been.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Widar is set to stay with Lotto for another year due to a combination of money and out of fear of a media frenzy.

 

[MLKarlos]

Widar is set to stay with Lotto for another year due to a combination of money and out of fear of a media frenzy.

any source? or is it speculation?

 

[Berniece]

Widar is set to stay with Lotto for another year due to a combination of money and out of fear of a media frenzy.

I don't see how that's a good solution for both parties. And he really should ignore the media, and don't let it influence your decision.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Ivan Sosa, the former 'next bernal', has been given a contract for 2025 by kern pharma

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849717487375368259

View: https://x.com/EqKernPharma/status/1849717487375368259?t=K1sxlTb5JMJJo0n-RjW6DA&s=19

 

[YavorD]

Ivan Sosa, the former 'next bernal', has been given a contract for 2025 by kern pharma

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849717487375368259

View: https://x.com/EqKernPharma/status/1849717487375368259?t=K1sxlTb5JMJJo0n-RjW6DA&s=19

Given how crazy (kern) Pharma were at the Vuelta, I won't be surprised to see him winning 2 stages in the Vuelta next year.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Given how crazy (kern) Pharma were at the Vuelta, I won't be surprised to see him winning 2 stages in the Vuelta next year.

This assumes that Unipublic won't do their usual spiel of rotating through the Spanish PCTs with zero regard for sporting merit.

 

[Samamba]

Widar is set to stay with Lotto for another year due to a combination of money and out of fear of a media frenzy.

Not money, just not wanting the legal throuble even tho he would always win a court case (which was only thing that could keep Widar and/or Van Gils at Lotto, them not wanting to go through the proper legal stuff as it could take time and is annoying). Not really sure why Lotto just doesn't let him go if he's about to leave at the end of 2025 anyways. What is even the point.

 

[Netserk]

It's an iterated game. You are not getting well-compensated for a rider leaving early the next time around if you let the biggest talent you have go for free.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Given how crazy (kern) Pharma were at the Vuelta, I won't be surprised to see him winning 2 stages in the Vuelta next year.

Plus Ivan Ramiro Sosa can score them a decent amount of points in Asian stage races that are usually decided by a big unipuerto stage (Langkawi or the Chinese stage races). Even without those races he'd have been a top 5 points scorer for them this year.

 

[ingsve]

Not money, just not wanting the legal throuble even tho he would always win a court case (which was only thing that could keep Widar and/or Van Gils at Lotto, them not wanting to go through the proper legal stuff as it could take time and is annoying). Not really sure why Lotto just doesn't let him go if he's about to leave at the end of 2025 anyways. What is even the point.

Until he leaves and has actually signed a contract with someone else there is always an outside chance they would get him to stay.

Other than that I guess the only real point would be to get the publicity from his wins for another year,

 

[pastronef]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849831231959204133

View: https://x.com/larrywarbasse/status/1849831231959204133

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Uno-X confirms a new contract for Magnus Kulset. They might be a bit low on money, but atleast the nepotism still is going strong.

 

[Anderis]

but atleast the nepotism still is going strong.

What's up with the Kulsets? Are they family to someone in the Uno-X leadership or are they just all hired on the basis of being brothers to each ohter?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What's up with the Kulsets? Are they family to someone in the Uno-X leadership or are they just all hired on the basis of being brothers to each ohter?

They are sons of the CEO of Uno-X, Vegar Kulset. But a lot of other signings across their men's and women's teams have been somewhat based on relations between them and other riders/staff

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Ivan Sosa, the former 'next bernal', has been given a contract for 2025 by kern pharma

https://twitter.com/x/status/1849717487375368259

View: https://x.com/EqKernPharma/status/1849717487375368259?t=K1sxlTb5JMJJo0n-RjW6DA&s=19

Good ol' fashioned Movistar relationships with the neighbours.

Sign their young promising riders, give them your offcuts.

Sosa is still a pretty capable rider and a good rider for a team like Kern Pharma to have, but he is what he is at this point. He will have a lot more freedom at Kern Pharma than he would have at Movistar, and his lack of durability limits his effectiveness as a domestique, so he's an ideal kind of rider for a ProTeam to target smaller races (especially the Unipuerto types as that's the kind of thing that suits him best), and stagehunt and target mountains jerseys at the bigger ones.