Transfers and Rumours 2012 > 2013

[IlCobraFan]

Team Sporting Value up to date after Tour of Beijing.

Lampre out of trouble with all the last signings.
Euskaltel has still a lot of work in order to get back at 15th place :

1 Sky 1957
2 BMC 1130
3 Omega Pharma Quickstep 1087
4 RadioShack 976
5 Katusha 921
6 Green Edge 875
7 Astana 840
8 Movistar 803
9 Rabobank 787
10 Liquigas 793
11 Garmin 773
12 Lampre 738
13 Vacansoleil 730
14 Ag2r 659
15 Argos Oil – Shimano 627
16 FDJ 593
17 Lotto – Belisol 589
18 Euskaltel 496
19 Saxo Bank 483
20 Europcar 424
21 Saur - Sojasun 203
22 Colnago - CSF 195
23 Androni Giocattoli – Venezuela 188
24 Farnese Vini 183
25 Cofidis 163
26 NetApp 117

http://nicosix.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/classement-uci-pour-2013/

Looks like no World Tour for Euskaltel - as it should be. Only Argos - Shimano outside top 15 can change that.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

euskaltel deserve to be world tour far more than argos

 

[hoerpi]

Looks like no World Tour for Euskaltel - as it should be. Only Argos - Shimano outside top 15 can change that.

Argos is the last team that need to be in Wt, Euskaltel can at least compete in three GTs every year.

 

[Pentacycle]

Argos is the last team that need to be in Wt, Euskaltel can at least compete in three GTs every year.

This year Euskaltel hasn't really been competing in GC. They have two top tens but have they really impacted the fight for the podium? I think not. They also lack a proper spring classics rider or sprinter.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

This year Euskaltel hasn't really been competing in GC. They have two top tens but have they really impacted the fight for the podium? I think not. They also lack a proper spring classics rider or sprinter.

That's only cos Samu crashed out of the Tour.

They've managed 2nd in Catalunya (+1 stage), 1st in País Vasco (+2 stages), a stage of the Giro, 5th in the Tour de Suisse with some good stage placements, 7th in the Tour de Pologne, some top 5s of mountain stages at the Tour and Giro, 2nd in a Dauphiné stage, the top 10 of Amstel Gold and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the podium of Giro di Lombardia, the top 15 of Gent-Wevelgem (!)

They're actually a lot more all-round than people give them credit for, and certainly with Mikel Landa and Ion Izagirre there are some bright prospects for the future (Izagirre in particular is more of an all-rounder than Euskaltel typically produce, thanks partly to his cyclocross background). They've really suffered from the reductions to the Spanish calendar though, as they continue to have good results in that, but there are ever fewer races for them to pick up the non-WT sporting criteria points.

 

[hoerpi]

This year Euskaltel hasn't really been competing in GC. They have two top tens but have they really impacted the fight for the podium? I think not. They also lack a proper spring classics rider or sprinter.

Argos lacks GC contenders in every race with a climb in it basically. By spring classics you mean the cobbeled classics since they can compete in the ardennes. I agree with Anton having a ****ty year but I think that he can still do more uphill than anyone in Argos. Argos is the best example of what's wrong with the UCI point system: it's all about wins and the majority of races are flat enough for a sprinter to win. Libertine Seguros think that it wuld be horrible to see Stapleton back and I agree, but Argos is just a worse version of HTC.

 

[Maaaaaaaarten]

Argos is the last team that need to be in Wt, Euskaltel can at least compete in three GTs every year.

Meh, Argos adds sprinters to every stage race, both for pan flat stages and for more difficult stages, Euskaltel adds climbers to every stage race.

Euskaltel have Samu and Anton who could do well in hilly classics but don't really seem to target them, Argos have Degenkolb who has demonstrated doing well on cobbles, MSR, etc.

Both teams have some good talents....

I'd say they add about the same to the WT, but since Argos have way more points, it's pretty fair that they should be picked over Euskaltel. I'd rather have it the other way around as well, but Euskaltel, through bad luck, and sucking just didn't get enough points this year so they don't get to be WT. Not much to complain about.

 

[Arnout]

Euskaltel isn't done on transfer market though.

 

[janraaskalt]

Euskaltel isn't done on transfer market though.

Deadline for contracts counting for the rider values is soon: October 21st?

 

[Arnout]

I expect at least 200 more points between now and that date. Let's see.

 

[IlCobraFan]

Euskaltel isn't done on transfer market though.

Same with Argos...

 

[ILovecycling]

19 Saxo Bank 483

Its not looking good with Saxo.Im not worried about them but how Bjarne could figure it out?

 

[CraZyCaLL]

Kolobnev with Katusha until 2015

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Its not looking good with Saxo.Im not worried about them but how Bjarne could figure it out?

it hardly matters. they will get invited to whatever gt contador will ride

 

[Sophistic]

it hardly matters. they will get invited to whatever gt contador will ride

it wont matter for Contador, but it will matter for their "b-squad".

 

[greenedge]

Euskaltel isn't done on transfer market though.

Possible bid for Cav and WT points?

I would laugh so much if it somehow became right.

 

[gerundium]

Possible bid for Cav and WT points?

I would laugh so much if it somehow became right.

cav as a carrot? what would the english cycling media say! Great imagery this.

it would be hilarious.

 

[The Hitch]

it hardly matters. they will get invited to whatever gt contador will ride

With Contadors history and the **** that could yet come up in the Armstrong scandal, Contador would be stupid to assume he has a 100% guaranteed spot at the Tour for 2013.

 

[CraZyCaLL]

Kozontchuk, Kuznetsov and Chernetskiy singed with Katusha

 

[pdluz7]

Possible bid for Cav and WT points?

I would laugh so much if it somehow became right.

CAV in SBTB was that Tinkoff wanted in July, according to the "great" commentator, here.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

euskaltel deserve to be world tour far more than argos

neither should be.
WT teams should be balanced across the board.

 

[nobilis]

Arroyo and Txurruka to Caja Rural.
Txurruka was a bit expected. As for Arroyo, I thought he was going to Saxo.


http://www.biciciclismo.com/cas/site/noticias-ficha.asp?id=56416

 

[Marcuccio]

Pozzato to Lampre-Merida for three years

 

[luckyboy]

Some nice transfers for Caja Rural there, horrible by Lampre

 

[Cimber]

With Contadors history and the **** that could yet come up in the Armstrong scandal, Contador would be stupid to assume he has a 100% guaranteed spot at the Tour for 2013.

Europcar doesnt want a WT spot (economic issues) so I reckon SBTB will be pretty safe in regard to a WT spot even if not endning in top 15