Transfers and Rumours 2014 > 2015

[Armchair Cyclist]

Eduardo Estrada has signed a biennial contract with Lampre.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/02-11-2014/mercato-lampre-eduardo-estrada-colombiano-90920981190.shtml

He has 24 months to recover after each ride?

 

[Flamin]

Movistar is full for 2015. 27 riders, like last year.

In: Anacona (Lampre-Merida), Rubén Fernández (Caja Rural-RGA), Soler (Lizarte amateur) y Sutherland (Tinkoff-Saxo).

Out: Iván Gutiérrez, Plaza (Lampre-Merida), Szmyd y Ventoso

 

[MatParker117]

Think this is Sky's Final Roster:

BOSWELL, Ian
DEIGNAN, Philip
EARLE, Nathan
EISEL, Bernhard
FENN, Andrew
FROOME, Christopher
HENAO, Sebastian
HENAO, Sergio Luis
KENNAUGH, Peter
KIRYIENKA, Vasil
KNEES, Christian
KöNIG, Leopold
LOPEZ, David
NIEVE, Mikel
NORDHAUG, Lars Petter
PATE, Danny
POELS, Wout
PORTE, Richie
PUCCIO, Salvatore
ROCHE, Nicolas
ROWE, Luke
SIUTSOU, Kanstantsin
STANNARD, Ian
SUTTON, Chris
SWIFT, Ben
THOMAS, Geraint
VIVIANI, Elia
WIGGINS, Bradley
ZANDIO, Xabier

 

[b.broadhurst]

Think this is Sky's Final Roster:

BOSWELL, Ian
DEIGNAN, Philip
EARLE, Nathan
EISEL, Bernhard
FENN, Andrew
FROOME, Christopher
HENAO, Sebastian
HENAO, Sergio Luis
KENNAUGH, Peter
KIRYIENKA, Vasil
KNEES, Christian
KöNIG, Leopold
LOPEZ, David
NIEVE, Mikel
NORDHAUG, Lars Petter
PATE, Danny
POELS, Wout
PORTE, Richie
PUCCIO, Salvatore
ROCHE, Nicolas
ROWE, Luke
SIUTSOU, Kanstantsin
STANNARD, Ian
SUTTON, Chris
SWIFT, Ben
THOMAS, Geraint
VIVIANI, Elia
WIGGINS, Bradley
ZANDIO, Xabier

Team Sky are in talks with one more Italian

 

[MatParker117]

Team Sky are in talks with one more Italian

Gavazzi, Gasparotto?

 

[amih77]

Team Sky are in talks with one more Italian

Zandio is said to be retired.

 

[Susan Westemeyer]

Alex Pliuschin to Synergy Baku for 2015.

 

[MatParker117]

IAM are going world tour and need three new riders.

 

[pastronef]

IAM are going world tour and need three new riders.

send them Baden Cooke's cell-phone number...

 

[Arnout]

IAM are going world tour and need three new riders.

I presume UCI will pay for them though.

 

[janraaskalt]

I presume UCI will pay for them though.

All the other teams would want that for the next year as well. So I presume they won't pay that. Seventeen WT teams would have been great, 16 even better. More wildcards, therefore more local teams in races and better economics for them and the race organisers.

 

[jens_attacks]

so horner to iam then. samu sanchez too i hope

 

[roadbiker]

so horner to iam then. samu sanchez too i hope

Horner to IAM?
Samu, possibly but I doubt.

I'd say Dekker is a hot tip.

 

[Gloin22]

Horner to IAM?
Samu, possibly but I doubt.

I'd say Dekker is a hot tip.

Dekker? Don't think so, they got plenty of good domestiques in the team already plus in their transfers so far ( Coppel, Clement, Deveyns, Pantano, Degand, Van Geneechten ). They need a rider that can score a decent result, and Dekker isn't that lets be fair

 

[roadbiker]

Dekker? Don't think so, they got plenty of good domestiques in the team already plus in their transfers so far ( Coppel, Clement, Deveyns, Pantano, Degand, Van Geneechten ). They need a rider that can score a decent result, and Dekker isn't that lets be fair

Right, but which "scorer" is available now?
I guess they will "simply" fill up their roster for 2015 and rebuild their squad for 2016 next year.

 

[janraaskalt]

I guess they will "simply" fill up their roster for 2015 and rebuild their squad for 2016 next year.

Let's first see IAM will continue sponsoring the team in 2016.

 

[MatParker117]

Right, but which "scorer" is available now?
I guess they will "simply" fill up their roster for 2015 and rebuild their squad for 2016 next year.

Bring in Van Hoff to lead out Pelucchi along with Samu for stage races and maybe someone like Bauer as well.

 

[Wallenquist]

CCC's DS Piotr Wadecki said that Horner, Kesiakoff and Gasparotto all wanted to ride in CCC Polsat in 2015. Horner didnt even expect high salary, just good racing calendar but all of them probably wont ride for CCC since they have 25 riders already and they dont have much space left but he has also confirmed that some youngesters from Czech and Italy will join them anyway.

 

[Netserk]

Let's hope for a GT invite!

Rebellin and Horner, what a combo

 

[Christian]

CCC's DS Piotr Wadecki said that Horner, Kesiakoff and Gasparotto all wanted to ride in CCC Polsat in 2015. Horner didnt even expect high salary, just good racing calendar but all of them probably wont ride for CCC since they have 25 riders already and they dont have much space left but he has also confirmed that some youngesters from Czech and Italy will join them anyway.

Maybe Jan Hirt?

 

[Christian]

Alex Pliuschin to Synergy Baku for 2015.

Thanks Susan - glad to see Alex find a home, few riders got screwed over like he did a few years ago, never quite managed to make it back

 

[Wallenquist]

Maybe Jan Hirt?

Bingo! Pretty much likely it wil be him

 

[Christian]

Bingo! Pretty much likely it wil be him

That would be nice - he looks like a rider of that rare breed "pure climber". I'm surprised OPS hasn't signed more czech riders yet... I thought the purpose of the Etixx feeder team was to eventually get czech riders to the WT squad. Now they had a really good one with Hnik but didn't sign him. Maybe Bakala doesn't care that much about more czech riders on OPS

 

[42x16ss]

Bring in Van Hoff to lead out Pelucchi along with Samu for stage races and maybe someone like Bauer as well.

Von Hoff and Bauer would be two good value signings.

 

[Akuryo]

That would be nice - he looks like a rider of that rare breed "pure climber". I'm surprised OPS hasn't signed more czech riders yet... I thought the purpose of the Etixx feeder team was to eventually get czech riders to the WT squad. Now they had a really good one with Hnik but didn't sign him. Maybe Bakala doesn't care that much about more czech riders on OPS

Problem is, they had 30 riders in 2014 and Lefevere wanted to cut it down to 27 in anticipating the rule changes to 26 in 2016 and 22 riders in 2017. So three guys were leaving already. And they had so many good riders (nearly 20 of these 30 won at least one race) that they only had one spot left for an Etixx-rider: Wisniowski. I would've loved to see Hirt, Hnik and/or Spokes with OPQS in 2015, but unfortunately all places were already filled with pretty good veteran riders.