Transfers and Rumours 2016 > 2017

[CTQ]

via @inrng: In l'Equipe today: Astana with Argon 18 bikes next year and Jerome Coppel is considering retirement.

 

[May0maniac]

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Making Kelderman useful would be Sky's greatest challenge yet.

But seriously, Rosa? Are they even losing people from their mountain trains?

Maybe Konig & Roche. Rosa would be a good edition to Landa's team and Kelderman is the type of rider they love, great domestique for Froome once Ellingworth & Kerrison are finished with him.

Wilco probably would benefit from riding for a different team.
Someone who went through the youth ranks at Rabo should be able to handle the training volume at Sky, he seems to have a big engine and is good in ITTs, those kind of riders usually do well at Sky.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Kelderman is the type of rider they love, great domestique for Froome once Ellingworth & Kerrison are finished with him.

This post made me vomit

 

[LaFlorecita]

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Pantano to Trek is a good move.

Agree. Nice team for him

 

[Stilletto]

few rumours, apologies if they already have been mentioned.

Wilco Kelderman is also of interest to Giant-Alpecin (along with Sky as discussed)
Jonas Vangenechten IAM to FDJ
Andrea Guardini Astana to Lampre
Carlos Verona Etixx to Orica
Pavel Brutt Tinkoff to Gazprom

Michael Mörkov renewed with Katusha
Iljo Keisse & Yves Lampeart renewed with Etixx
Jan Bakelandts renewed with Ag2r


Bahrain rumour wont go away, Nibali to take Vanotti and Agnoli with him
Boaro(tinkoff, Visconit(movistar and Puccio (sky) are also on the radar

 

[Red Rick]

Kelderman to Sky, feels like the old 'what happens if an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. I'm afraid the universe will explode

 

[Nirvana]

Visconti during the Giro in a "Processo alla tappa" said that he has offers from other teams but 70% will stay at Movistar.

 

[Gloin22]

Diego Rosa reported by Lequipe as having signed for Team Sky. Dear god xd

 

[Insider]

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.........
As for sprint train, methinks OBE is stepping right away from that and WILL NOT be taking full sprint trains to future GTs if the team is going to house both AY & Chaves. They MAY be stuck with the show-boater for another 2 years but hopefully he'll get the message and find a job elsewhere. The only quick men that they will keep are likely to be those who AREN'T overly resource/labour-intensive and thus impeding GC campaigns.
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I was under impression that Bling would replace Degenkolb at Giant-Alpecin. (Maybe this was covered before)

 

[Eyeballs Out]

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Diego Rosa reported by Lequipe as having signed for Team Sky. Dear god xd

More train fodder

 

[HelloDolly]

So is it Kruisj** , Rosa & Kelderman to SKY then ?? These seem to be the rumours

 

[Gloin22]

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So is it Kruisj** , Rosa & Kelderman to SKY then ?? These seem to be the rumours

Nah Kruisjwik rumour was typical ***, he signed extension with Lotto.

 

[Valv.Piti]

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Pantano to Trek is a good move.

Agree. Nice team for him

Aka, a nice team to be slaving for?

Imo, not a good move. Pantano isn't your typical mountain domestique, much more of a finisheur type. But I guess he can be very explosive on the first kms of a climb for Contador

 

[MatParker117]

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Diego Rosa reported by Lequipe as having signed for Team Sky. Dear god xd

More train fodder

Mikel Landa is very happy.

 

[Samamba]

Bak (2018) & De Gendt (2019) renewed with Lotto Soudal

 

[StryderHells]

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Pantano to Trek is a good move.

Agree. Nice team for him

Aka, a nice team to be slaving for?

Imo, not a good move. Pantano isn't your typical mountain domestique, much more of a finisheur type. But I guess he can be very explosive on the first kms of a climb for Contador

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Why does he have to be slaving for anyone? Plenty of races on the calender that he will get chances to ride for himself, the Trek roster isn't very deep afterall and he won't automatically become a Dom for Contador

 

[StryderHells]

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Matt White just anointed A.Yates as the next British GT winner which probably indicates A.Yates is staying at OBE.

No surprise if he's staying, looks pretty happy in that set-up and OBE have given him time to develop without putting to much pressure on him

Not sure I'd be necessarily jumping to that conclusion just on that statement. Wasn't AY also said to have commented that OBE/OGE has wrecked his brother's career with the TUE muck-up ? Not sure how THAT one will play out.

Whilst its certainly far from certain that the twins WILL stay together, AY is certainly going to be fielding some offers with some undoubtedly coming with higher $$$ than OBE. Whilst he'll almost certainly be better off for the present at OBE than at Postal; he's also likely to run up against the interests of Chaves who is almost certainly going to be targetting the Tour next year. If he stays, he'll either have to accept 2nd billing or chose to target the Giro instead.

Why is Chaves almost certain to be going to the Tour next year? In my opinion that would be a mistake as he was good at the Giro but surely another year racing in the Giro/Vuelta would be of more benefit than to send him to the Tour where he will get his head kicked in.

 

[Samamba]

3 Neopros for Etixx in 2017:

- Enric Mas: Spanish climber, won the Tour de Savoie & the Tour d'Alentejo and was 2nd in the Giro Ciclistico della Valle d'Aosta last week.
- Maximilian Schachmann: Time trialist and decent climber, won last week on the Piani di Tavagnasco.
- Remi Cavagna: great time trialist & pretty fast.

 

[dirkprovin]

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Matt White just anointed A.Yates as the next British GT winner which probably indicates A.Yates is staying at OBE.

No surprise if he's staying, looks pretty happy in that set-up and OBE have given him time to develop without putting to much pressure on him

Not sure I'd be necessarily jumping to that conclusion just on that statement. Wasn't AY also said to have commented that OBE/OGE has wrecked his brother's career with the TUE muck-up ? Not sure how THAT one will play out.

Whilst its certainly far from certain that the twins WILL stay together, AY is certainly going to be fielding some offers with some undoubtedly coming with higher $$$ than OBE. Whilst he'll almost certainly be better off for the present at OBE than at Postal; he's also likely to run up against the interests of Chaves who is almost certainly going to be targetting the Tour next year. If he stays, he'll either have to accept 2nd billing or chose to target the Giro instead.

Why is Chaves almost certain to be going to the Tour next year? In my opinion that would be a mistake as he was good at the Giro but surely another year racing in the Giro/Vuelta would be of more benefit than to send him to the Tour where he will get his head kicked in.

Whilst I may personally agree with what you're saying; I'm only going off what he and OBE hierarchy have said. Having said that, they're unlikely to "lock anything in" until they know the routes for any of next year's GTs.

 

[TMP402]

If I could attempt a bit of roundup of rumours I know.

AG2R
In: Mads Pederson (Stölting), Oliver Naesen (IAM), Stijn van den Bergh (Etixx)
Out: Johan van Summeren (retiring)
Renewed: Bakelants

Astana
In: Jesper Hansen (Tinkoff), Michael Valgran (Tinkoff)
Out: Lars Boom (LottoNL), Andrea Guardini (Lampre), Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain), Diego Rosa (Sky)
Renewed: Kangert, Lopez, Scarponi, de Vreese

Bahrain
In: Manuele Boaro (Tinkoff), Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani), Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Salvatore Puccio (Sky), Giovanni Visconti (Movistar)

BMC
Out: Philippe Gilbert (Etixx)
Renewed: Bookwalter, Caruso, Moinard, Dennis, Oss, Quinziato, Schar, Teuns, van Avermaet, Wyss

Bora
In: Tony Martin (Etixx), Peter Sagan (Tinkoff)

Cannondale-Drapac
In: Brendan Canty (Drapac)
Renewed: Dombrowski, Talansky

Cofidis
In: Dimitri Claeys (Wanty)
Renewed: Anthony Turgis

Dimension Data
In: Sondre Holst Enger (IAM)
Out: Cameron Meyer (?)
Renewed: Boasson Hagan

Etixx
In: Philippe Gilbert (BMC)
Out: Carlos Verona (Orica)
Renewed: Keisse, Lampaert

FDJ
In: Jonas van Genechten (IAM), David Gaudu (Côtes d'Armor-Marie Morin - as a stagiaire)
Renewed: Demare, le Gac, Pinot, Sarreau

Fortuneo–Vital Concept
Out: Pierrick Fédrigo (retiring)

IAM:
Out: Jonas van Genechten (FDJ), Oliver Naesen (AG2R), Sondre Holst Enger (Dimension Data), Jarlinson Pantano (Trek)

Lampre:
In: Andrea Guardini (Astana)

Lotto Soudal:
Renewed: Bak, de Gendt

Movistar:
Out: Visconti (Bahrain)

Orica
In: Carlos Verona (Etixx)
Out: Michael Matthews (Sunweb/Giant)

Sunweb/Giant
In: Chris Hamilton (Avanti IsoWhey Sports), Lennard Kämna (Stölting), Michael Matthews (Orica), Lennard Hofstede (Rabobank Development Team)
Out: Koen de Kort (Trek), John Degenkolb (Trek), Caleb Fairly (retiring), Carter Jones (retiring)
Renewed: Waeytens

Team Katusha
In: Mads Würtz Schmidt (Team TreFor–Blue Water)
Out: Joaquim Rodríguez (retiring)
Renewed: Mørkøv, van den Broeck

Team LottoNL
In: Lars Boom (Astana)
Renewed: Gesink, Roosen, Wagner, Kruijswijk

Team Sky
In: Owain Doull (WIGGINS), Diego Rosa (Astana), Mathieu van der Poel (BKCP–Corendon)
Out: Salvatore Puccio (Bahrain)
Renewed: Rowe

Tinkoff
Out: Manuele Boaro (Bahrain), Alberto Contador (Trek), Jesus Hernandez (Trek), Jesper Hansen (Astana), Michael Valgren (Astana), Peter Sagan (Bora), Pavel Brutt (Gazprom)

Trek
In: Alberto Contador (Tinkoff), Jesus Hernandez (Tinkoff), Jarlinson Pantano (IAM), Koen de Kort (Giant-Alpecin), John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin)
Renewed: Rast, Stuyven, Nizzolo, Mollema, Irizar

 

[StryderHells]

Can Bahrain sign Colbrelli if he already has a contract for next season?

 

[TMP402]

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Can Bahrain sign Colbrelli if he already has a contract for next season?

Wiggins signed for Sky despite his Garmin contract.

 

[Samamba]

Sondre Holst Enger to AG2R is also a rumour.

 

[StryderHells]

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Sondre Holst Enger to AG2R is also a rumour.

Here's an article about this rumour http://www.nettavisen.no/sport/sykling/holst-enger-aktuell-for-ag2r/3423244739.html apparently it's between Dimension Data and AG2r

 

[Hakkapelit]

Is this legit?

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