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

[JRanton]

According to Daniel Benson, Elia Viviani (Lotto) is set to retire.

Viviani has announced his retirement this morning.

 

[JosephD]

Four extensions for IPT:

George Bennett and Guillaume Boivin get one more year, two more years for Hugo Hofstetter and three more years for Nick Schultz.

Going to be interesting to see what else they can bring it with all that is going on.

Gee, Riccitello gone, Woods and Fuglsang retired (and Clarke after TDU), Pickrell heading to the Hincapie team allegedly and Ackermann to Jayco. Plus surely not another contract for Froome.

Only Askey and Gilmore in for now, Pau Marti should follow suit too. Pretty big re-build needed given the calibre of rider leaving

 

[SafeBet]

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Vauquelin to Ineos official.

 

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The former Sapura team plans to go international again. Anyone interested?

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[RedheadDane]

Now for something a bit different. It's official they're leaving, it's not yet know where they're going:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1976687460827415030

 

[JRanton]

Daniel McLay (Visma) retires.

 

[ingsve]

Going to be interesting to see what else they can bring it with all that is going on.

Gee, Riccitello gone, Woods and Fuglsang retired (and Clarke after TDU), Pickrell heading to the Hincapie team allegedly and Ackermann to Jayco. Plus surely not another contract for Froome.

Only Askey and Gilmore in for now, Pau Marti should follow suit too. Pretty big re-build needed given the calibre of rider leaving

It's almost surprising that the UCI doesn't have more to say about a team that will qualify for the WT the next three years suddenly lose all their best riders who got them the promotion in the first place. It is what it is I suppose with the way the system is set up but if you go just by team strength, are they really deserving to become WT again?

 

[search]

It's almost surprising that the UCI doesn't have more to say about a team that will qualify for the WT the next three years suddenly lose all their best riders who got them the promotion in the first place. It is what it is I suppose with the way the system is set up but if you go just by team strength, are they really deserving to become WT again?

it's not ideal, but it was even worse when the rules still were the other way around, and riders got signed for points they scored the year before.

 

[JRanton]

Pieter Serry (Soudal Quick-Step) retires.

Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Wanty) retires.

 

[JRanton]

Pierre Latour (Total Energies) retires.

Tough market for the French peloton with Arkea folding and Total Energies ending their sponsorship next year.

Clement Venturini (Arkea) said today that he doesn’t have a contract for next year. He has the 9th most PCS points this year of the remaining 113 World Tour riders still without a confirmed contract for next year.

 

[steffr222]

Rex to Quickstep would be an absolute high profile transfer and a perfect match for the team and the rider

 

[Cycling111]

Pieter Serry (Soudal Quick-Step) retires.

Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Wanty) retires.

Now who will go st the back of peloton?

 

[ingsve]

Are we seeing more than usual number of riders retiring this year? Makes sense for it to happen when teams are merging and contracts are harder to come by.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Are we seeing more than usual number of riders retiring this year? Makes sense for it to happen when teams are merging and contracts are harder to come by.

I count 2 teams dissapearing: Arkea and Wagner-Bazin (if you count them since they apparently will continue as a conti team).
2 teams merge into 1: Wanty x Lotto
2 new PCT teams enter the groupchat: The Hincapie team & Colpack steps up.

So overall, there will be one less pro-team if I'm not mistaken.

 

[ingsve]

I count 2 teams dissapearing: Arkea and Wagner-Bazin (if you count them since they apparently will continue as a conti team).
2 teams merge into 1: Wanty x Lotto
2 new PCT teams enter the groupchat: The Hincapie team & Colpack steps up.

So overall, there will be one less pro-team if I'm not mistaken.

It's not that simple though. With Arkea, Wagner and the merger there are effectively 3 whole teams worth of riders who are out of job and needs to find a new home. Some of them have already moved to new teams but that also means their new team have gotten rid of someone else so that's a zero sum move.

The new teams moving up to ProTeam level already have at least part of a roster which they bring with them so they won't have room to absorb all the riders that are out of a job from the disappearing ProTeams (or ousted from other WT teams) so that means many riders out of job either have to move down to continental level or think about retirement.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

It's not that simple though. With Arkea, Wagner and the merger there are effectively 3 whole teams worth of riders who are out of job and needs to find a new home. Some of them have already moved to new teams but that also means their new team have gotten rid of someone else so that's a zero sum move.

The new teams moving up to ProTeam level already have at least part of a roster which they bring with them so they won't have room to absorb all the riders that are out of a job from the disappearing ProTeams (or ousted from other WT teams) so that means many riders out of job either have to move down to continental level or think about retirement.

I agree, but overall I was just pointing out that there won't be that many less procyclists next season.

You'll have retiring riders every year and you'll have rookies each year.

 

[hayneplane]

Now who will go st the back of peloton?

Ethan Hayter

 

[ingsve]

I agree, but overall I was just pointing out that there won't be that many less procyclists next season.

You'll have retiring riders every year and you'll have rookies each year.

Ya, but the teams folding and getting replaced by riders already on the new PT teams means that the turnover is much larger than during a normal year. You'll have the normal turnover plus a more saturated market with competition for places on top of it.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Louis Meintjes (Intermarche - Wanty) retires.

Very sad. Forgotten, but not gone.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I count 2 teams dissapearing: Arkea and Wagner-Bazin (if you count them since they apparently will continue as a conti team).
2 teams merge into 1: Wanty x Lotto
2 new PCT teams enter the groupchat: The Hincapie team & Colpack steps up.

So overall, there will be one less pro-team if I'm not mistaken.

Colpack and Hincapie will absolutely not be running WT-sized rosters, probably somewhere around 20 riders (like Wagner). So in practice, you are looking at about 35-40 fewer spots on professional teams, that's a significant hit.

And if Colpack is counted as a new PCT team, then WB should be counted as a disappearing one.

 

[Onizuka999]

Polti hires the argentinian climber Fabricio Crozzolo (2005). The winner of the Tour of Sharjah Josh Kench goes to FDJ.