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Just the thought of Sagan at TDE feels weird.Odds for Sagan to go to TDE increased.
Odds for Sagan to go to TDE increased.
That's been a thing? That's a thing?
Direct is a big company, that French oil money...Lmao. That has to use up their entire budget if true.
After Lefevere said it is 5:0 für Bora at the tranfsers "against" him, Bora probably won't resign Sagan and his whole team, because it makes no sense and they don't have the money.
Signing Sagan with Bodnar, Oss, Juri Sagan, his mechanic and his director should be really expensive. Not much teams will have so much space and money.
Yes, and it would mean that he would no longer be Sagmann, but Pierre Lagan instead.
Their roster doesn't look like a big money roster though.Direct is a big company, that French oil money...
Their roster doesn't look like a big money roster though.
But okay, perhaps they will up the budget when they sign Sagan.
They were reportedly interested in Alaphilippe and Kristoff in the past IIRC so obviously they're ready to step up with their budget should an opportunity to sign a really big name arrive.Lmao. That has to use up their entire budget if true.
Last year they poached a lot of decent riders from WT and they have possibly the most depth in their roster out of any PCT team so I would argue they do look like a decently funded team but there's only so much opportunity to sign good riders without a WT licence.Their roster doesn't look like a big money roster though.
Me too.More I think about it, more it makes sense (for Sagan).
Hm, in my eyes they are more a grave for riders and this would be a pure money move.
They can if they have to but who wouldn't like to work with good friends of them if they can make it happen?Never impresses me when a rider moves team but brings a whole entourage with him. Why? Can't they manage on their own?
To be fair, this does sound pretty extreme to insist on bringing a bigger entourage than your average rapper. At the same time, the numbers sound ridiculous but that might be because we're used to just focusing on the fellow riders that a star brings with them, such as Jesús Hernández, Benjamin Noval and (for a while until he branched out on his own) Dani Navarro going everywhere with Contador, or the leadout buddies going with their sprinters. While Sagan's rider entourage is pretty sizable, meaning you'd have to focus almost 1/5 your squad around him alone, and while that may suck for the riders who get squeezed out for weaker riders who came as part of the package deal and are only there to keep Sagan happy, at the same time we don't know if there were sizable staff entourages brought in other major transfers in the past moving with high profile riders, and if you're going to spend the kind of money required to bring a rider like Sagan into the fold, then you're going to have to be prepared to spend the money to keep him happy and make him feel at home at your team and if that means bringing some of his creature comforts from his old team, so be it.They can if they have to but who wouldn't like to work with good friends of them if they can make it happen?
Death, Taxes, Dennis leaves the teamApparently there are rumours Rohan Dennis might not renew with Ineos:
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