Transfers and Rumours 2016 > 2017

[hrotha]

What this season showed was that König missed most of it. Of course losing him weakens Sky. He's not irreplaceable or anything but no one's claiming that either.

 

[GP Blanco]

According to Gazet van Antwerpen Lotto-Jumbo has a verbal agreement with Gijs Van Hoecke. He will be a nice addition to their classics department/sprint train.

http://www.pressreader.com/belgium/gazet-van-antwerpen-kempen/20160920/281827168236503

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

And according to Het Nieuwsblad Vanspeybrouck is on his way to Wanty

 

[DNP-Old]

Jhon Rodriguez to Etixx in 2018.

 

[StryderHells]

UnitedHealthCare sign Ex Drapac riders Lachlan Norris, Gavin Mannion, ex Jamis riders Lucas Sebastion Haedo, Janier Acevedo and ex Holowesko Travis McCabe
They also confirmed that Brajkovic, Busche and Canola are leaving the team.

 

[BigMac]

Good signing in McCabe. Should get them a few crit wins and luckily stages in one of the big races.

 

[Jancouver]

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Good signing in McCabe. Should get them a few crit wins and luckily stages in one of the big races.

In 2017, they will no longer focus on US crits but instead, they will now be more focusing on one-week international stage racing.

BTW finally they got rid of Brajko. As per hiring Haedo ... why? he is not any better than McCabe and they already have a Henderson for the lead-out

 

[StryderHells]

Re: Re:

Good signing in McCabe. Should get them a few crit wins and luckily stages in one of the big races.

In 2017, they will no longer focus on US crits but instead, they will now be more focusing on one-week international stage racing.

BTW finally they got rid of Brajko. As per hiring Haedo ... why? he is not any better than McCabe and they already have a Henderson for the lead-out

Yeah Haedo and Henderson does look a bit odd as they basically would be fulfilling the same role.
They also extended with Jaramillo, Alzate, Putt, Clarke, Eaton, Jones, Summerhill, Keough, Hegyvary with Bradley White retiring and Karl Menzies also leaves the team which makes sense if they are stepping away from the US Crit focus.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

New news of Ion Izagirre and Ion Ander Insausti to Bahrain-Merida. That will leave a hole in Movistar, who've been very quiet in the transfer period, but having already lost Visconti, now losing Ion as well will be a body blow due to his versatility.

 

[GP Blanco]

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New news of Ion Izagirre and Ion Ander Insausti to Bahrain-Merida. That will leave a hole in Movistar, who've been very quiet in the transfer period, but having already lost Visconti, now losing Ion as well will be a body blow due to his versatility.

Plus I don't like it when cyclists are 'bought' as in this case. It will make the rich teams only stronger.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

Re: Re:

Good signing in McCabe. Should get them a few crit wins and luckily stages in one of the big races.

In 2017, they will no longer focus on US crits but instead, they will now be more focusing on one-week international stage racing.

BTW finally they got rid of Brajko. As per hiring Haedo ... why? he is not any better than McCabe and they already have a Henderson for the lead-out

haedo will be their main sprinter of course. he's one of the fastest guy in us and on top of that outclimbs all other sprinters as well

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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New news of Ion Izagirre and Ion Ander Insausti to Bahrain-Merida. That will leave a hole in Movistar, who've been very quiet in the transfer period, but having already lost Visconti, now losing Ion as well will be a body blow due to his versatility.

I hope this forces movistar into getting some more colombians

 

[Valv.Piti]

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New news of Ion Izagirre and Ion Ander Insausti to Bahrain-Merida. That will leave a hole in Movistar, who've been very quiet in the transfer period, but having already lost Visconti, now losing Ion as well will be a body blow due to his versatility.

Nooooo. One of my favs at Movistar.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

farewell dimension data in the wt. good riddance

 

[mariposa]

Re: Re:

New news of Ion Izagirre and Ion Ander Insausti to Bahrain-Merida. That will leave a hole in Movistar, who've been very quiet in the transfer period, but having already lost Visconti, now losing Ion as well will be a body blow due to his versatility.

Nooooo. One of my favs at Movistar.

I like Ion as well. I hope the move works well for him even if I would have prefered for him to have stayed with Movistar. I haven't liked Sky buying up talent in the past and I am probably not going to like the Bahrain Merida team for the same reason going forward. I can understand the riders taking the money though.
I agree Movistar now have a bit of a hole. Perhaps it will mean more opportunities for the younger riders although he will be a difficult act to follow and no one rider sticks out at the moment as being able to do so.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

movistar have some young talents coming up. in 2 years time richard carapaz alone will be one of the carriers of the team I think

 

[BigMac]

Bahrein building a very nice squad to be fair. More and more likely that DD will be the ones left out.

 

[GuyIncognito]

I like Navardauskas, but Bahrain's announcement is funny. He's the most inconsistent rider, with the longest spells of disappearance, and they choose his consistency as the quality to highlight

 

[Bye Bye Bicycle]

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Bahrein building a very nice squad to be fair. More and more likely that DD will be the ones left out.

There's nothing nice about this team. It's a random selection of mercenaries. DD is a classical team of FDJ-like proportions by comparison. B-Merida just makes me puke. The sooner this junk folds, the better.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

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Bahrein building a very nice squad to be fair. More and more likely that DD will be the ones left out.

There's nothing nice about this team. It's a random selection of mercenaries. DD is a classical team of FDJ-like proportions by comparison. B-Merida just makes me puke. The sooner this junk folds, the better.

dimension data is a laughable team, without any line in it, of which half it's riders don't even deserve to be in wt. good riddance of that pile of **** claiming to be "african" but buying a ****load of worthless non-african riders like goss, eisel, renshaw, farrar, theo bos, igor anton, cameron meyer, matthew brammeier, andreas stauff. etc

 

[staubsauger]

Re: Re:

Bahrein building a very nice squad to be fair. More and more likely that DD will be the ones left out.

There's nothing nice about this team. It's a random selection of mercenaries. DD is a classical team of FDJ-like proportions by comparison. B-Merida just makes me puke. The sooner this junk folds, the better.

dimension data is a laughable team, without any line in it, of which half it's riders don't even deserve to be in wt. good riddance of that pile of **** claiming to be "african" but buying a ****load of worthless non-african riders like goss, eisel, renshaw, farrar, theo bos, igor anton, cameron meyer, matthew brammeier, andreas stauff. etc

They're Barloworld 2.0. You're damn spot on!

 

[Brullnux]

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New news of Ion Izagirre and Ion Ander Insausti to Bahrain-Merida. That will leave a hole in Movistar, who've been very quiet in the transfer period, but having already lost Visconti, now losing Ion as well will be a body blow due to his versatility.

Plus I don't like it when cyclists are 'bought' as in this case. It will make the rich teams only stronger.

I think he wanted to leave, according to the article on cn.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Re: Re:

Bahrein building a very nice squad to be fair. More and more likely that DD will be the ones left out.

There's nothing nice about this team. It's a random selection of mercenaries. DD is a classical team of FDJ-like proportions by comparison. B-Merida just makes me puke. The sooner this junk folds, the better.

dimension data is a laughable team, without any line in it, of which half it's riders don't even deserve to be in wt. good riddance of that pile of **** claiming to be "african" but buying a ****load of worthless non-african riders like goss, eisel, renshaw, farrar, theo bos, igor anton, cameron meyer, matthew brammeier, andreas stauff. etc

They're Barloworld 2.0. You're damn spot on!

Jacques J. van Rensburg for the TdF 2019

 

[roadbiker]

Gogl (aka Google ©Peter Sagan) from Tinkoff to Trek-Segafredo for two years.

 

[Rollthedice]

Viviani to stay with Sky.