Transfers and Rumours 2016 > 2017

[Red Rick]

Any rumors on Stef Clement? IAM is folding and he'd be a good pickup for any big team

 

[StryderHells]

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Chilean U23 rider José Luis Rodriguez, aka "El Puma" will join Trek next year.

Allegedly also Degenkob + De Kort, Contador + Hernandez and Pantano to Trek. Besides Cancellara retiring, who will leave?

Well, they started the year with only 25 riders, and Popovych retired after Paris-Roubaix, so with Cancellara also going they're down to 23 for next season. I would have expected more retirements but Rast and Irizar have renewed for next season, and Hesjedal, Zubeldia and Schleck still seem to have something to give.

What exactly does Schleck have to give? At least Hesjedal and Zubeldia have shown something this season but Schleck has done nothing, maybe he saves his season with some late season heroics but I can't see why they would want to re-sign him unless Contador wants him around for some reason

 

[roundabout]

Re: Re:

Chilean U23 rider José Luis Rodriguez, aka "El Puma" will join Trek next year.

Allegedly also Degenkob + De Kort, Contador + Hernandez and Pantano to Trek. Besides Cancellara retiring, who will leave?

Well, they started the year with only 25 riders, and Popovych retired after Paris-Roubaix, so with Cancellara also going they're down to 23 for next season. I would have expected more retirements but Rast and Irizar have renewed for next season, and Hesjedal, Zubeldia and Schleck still seem to have something to give.

What exactly does Schleck have to give? At least Hesjedal and Zubeldia have shown something this season

I stopped reading right about here

http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/rider_palm.asp?riderid=237&year=2016&all=1&current=0

Or did you mean some other Zubeldia?

 

[yaco]

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Moser and Gatto rumoured to Astana. Wellens and Cunego extend with their teams. On Tinkoff, do we have rumours on: Bodnar, Kišerlovski, Majka, or McCarthy? Majka seems like the perfect guy for a pro conti team with GT invitations or a smaller scale WT team (Bora?): he's effective at getting GT top 10s or a jersey. Apart from him, the Italians seem pretty in demand, the Contador bloc seems taken care of, I assume some of the older guys will retire, and I assume Russians will Russian. I don't know about younger guys like Baška, Gogl, and Kolář. I guess they might have to spend a season or two at pro conti.

You would think Bodnar would go as part of a deal with Sagan's new team, only rumours I've heard around Majka are Bora and Bahrain. Surely McCarthy will get a WT contract but where I have no idea, Kišerlovski is a handy mountain Dom and there are a few teams who need a solid guy like that and he wouldn't cost much but again no idea where he goes.

Believe that OGE will have enough crack at McCarthy. He will be a big help in GC.

 

[StryderHells]

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Chilean U23 rider José Luis Rodriguez, aka "El Puma" will join Trek next year.

Allegedly also Degenkob + De Kort, Contador + Hernandez and Pantano to Trek. Besides Cancellara retiring, who will leave?

Well, they started the year with only 25 riders, and Popovych retired after Paris-Roubaix, so with Cancellara also going they're down to 23 for next season. I would have expected more retirements but Rast and Irizar have renewed for next season, and Hesjedal, Zubeldia and Schleck still seem to have something to give.

What exactly does Schleck have to give? At least Hesjedal and Zubeldia have shown something this season

I stopped reading right about here

http://cqranking.com/men/asp/gen/rider_palm.asp?riderid=237&year=2016&all=1&current=0

Or did you mean some other Zubeldia?

I meant in comparison to Schleck, at least Zubeldia has been in some breaks here and there

 

[pablohidalgo7]

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Any rumors on Stef Clement? IAM is folding and he'd be a good pickup for any big team

He can be so useful for Kruijswijk, Lotto should try to sign him.

 

[TMP402]

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Chilean U23 rider José Luis Rodriguez, aka "El Puma" will join Trek next year.

Allegedly also Degenkob + De Kort, Contador + Hernandez and Pantano to Trek. Besides Cancellara retiring, who will leave?

Well, they started the year with only 25 riders, and Popovych retired after Paris-Roubaix, so with Cancellara also going they're down to 23 for next season. I would have expected more retirements but Rast and Irizar have renewed for next season, and Hesjedal, Zubeldia and Schleck still seem to have something to give.

What exactly does Schleck have to give? At least Hesjedal and Zubeldia have shown something this season but Schleck has done nothing, maybe he saves his season with some late season heroics but I can't see why they would want to re-sign him unless Contador wants him around for some reason

How many GT stages did Hesjedal or Zubeldia win in the last 12 months? Fewer than Fränk!

 

[TMP402]

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Any rumors on Stef Clement? IAM is folding and he'd be a good pickup for any big team

He's having a great contract-earning last third of the Tour, but if Coppel is considering retiring because of the lack of interest despite having won a WC ITT medal last season, then it's a tough market.

 

[StryderHells]

Re: Re:

Chilean U23 rider José Luis Rodriguez, aka "El Puma" will join Trek next year.

Allegedly also Degenkob + De Kort, Contador + Hernandez and Pantano to Trek. Besides Cancellara retiring, who will leave?

Well, they started the year with only 25 riders, and Popovych retired after Paris-Roubaix, so with Cancellara also going they're down to 23 for next season. I would have expected more retirements but Rast and Irizar have renewed for next season, and Hesjedal, Zubeldia and Schleck still seem to have something to give.

What exactly does Schleck have to give? At least Hesjedal and Zubeldia have shown something this season but Schleck has done nothing, maybe he saves his season with some late season heroics but I can't see why they would want to re-sign him unless Contador wants him around for some reason

How many GT stages did Hesjedal or Zubeldia win in the last 12 months? Fewer than Fränk!

Well if we are going to go off last years results then Hesjedal finished 5th in the Giro which does kind of eclipse Franks Vuelta stage win. I am looking at this years results and you can't say he's done anything to say he deserves another contract at the age of 36 (37 next April), personally I don't think any of the 3 should get a contract for next season but if I had to give one of them a contract it would be Hesjedal

 

[Oliwright]

ITV saying Pantano has already signed a contract.

 

[Geraint Too Fast]

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Any rumors on Stef Clement? IAM is folding and he'd be a good pickup for any big team

He's having a great contract-earning last third of the Tour, but if Coppel is considering retiring because of the lack of interest despite having won a WC ITT medal last season, then it's a tough market.

Clement needs to be a bit more selfish. His results don't really reflect the incredible condition he is in at the moment.

 

[HelloDolly]

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Any rumors on Stef Clement? IAM is folding and he'd be a good pickup for any big team

He's having a great contract-earning last third of the Tour, but if Coppel is considering retiring because of the lack of interest despite having won a WC ITT medal last season, then it's a tough market.

Clement needs to be a bit more selfish. His results don't really reflect the incredible condition he is in at the moment.

I don't think Coppel & Clement should panic just yet ...I know its a buyers market with 2 teams folding but its only july and alot of teams may not get their first choice ...remember Sammy Sanchez waited till January and that turned out well

maybe dropping to Pro Conti could do for a year

Teams want mountian doms now esp with so many teams turning GC like OBE, GIANT, etc

 

[staubsauger]

Clement should get hired by LottoNL as a domestique for Kruijswijk!

Either that or Sunweb gets him on board to strengthen their climbing squad.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Sagan to Bora confirmed by Oleg

 

[gooner]

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Sagan to Bora confirmed by Oleg

Talking exclusively to ITV reporter Daniel Friebe after Stage 11 of this year’s Tour de France (Carcassonne to Montpellier), Tinkov said: “I believe he [Sagan] is the best cyclist now in the peloton … It makes my decision [to close the team] even harder, but I think Peter is good.

"I understand he signed with Bora [Bora-Argon 18] … I will gladly follow Peter on TV, or over the net, and if I come some time to the race when Peter comes out of the Bora bus, he will not hesitate to take a photo with me.”

Asked by ITV reporter Daniel Friebe about Sagan’s current salary at Tinkoff Team - rumoured to be in the region of €5million a year, he said: “According to my information Bora paid him even more … I mean that’s the market. I know for definite he got more. I’m not going to disclose the number, I know even the number. But he signed for much more money than I paid him. That’s a fact.”

http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/in-depth-interview-with-oleg-tinkov-part-2-i-regret-not-helping-sagan-last-year

 

[luckyboy]

I thought we already heard that at the start of the month? And Tony Martin possibly

 

[May0maniac]

I find it hard to believe that Contador wouldn't take Bennati with him, on the flat stages he's a one man army that can keep him out of trouble.

 

[LaFlorecita]

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I find it hard to believe that Contador wouldn't take Bennati with him, on the flat stages he's a one man army that can keep him out of trouble.

Bennati to Bahrain is the rumor.
Contador can't just take riders with him, they are not bound to him

 

[Red Rick]

Makes no matter, as long as Benna is in the right breakaway at the right time. I think Paolo Tiralongo will agree.

 

[Tugboat]

Jesse Sergent (AG2R-La Mondiale) retires after struggling to get back to form following being hit by a neutral spares car at last year's Tour of Flanders.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/82365940/nz-road-cyclist-jesse-sergent-calls-it-a-day-after-a-torrid-12-months

 

[TMP402]

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Jesse Sergent (AG2R-La Mondiale) retires after struggling to get back to form following being hit by a neutral spares car at last year's Tour of Flanders.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/82365940/nz-road-cyclist-jesse-sergent-calls-it-a-day-after-a-torrid-12-months

He should sue for loss of earnings and set a precedent.

 

[dusty red roads]

And sue the docs too for botched surgery. Poor guy.

 

[Oliwright]

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And sue the docs too for botched surgery. Poor guy.

Not sure what contry u live in but u can't legally in the UK, so doubt u can where ever he was treated.

Also he would have to prove they made a mistake.

 

[staubsauger]

Migels and Leclercq say Tinkoff wanted to go on and build the team around Sagan and Majka. But Sagan goz a bigger offer from Bora and uses his exemption.

Any truth in this rumor?

 

[TMP402]

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Migels and Leclercq say Tinkoff wanted to go on and build the team around Sagan and Majka. But Sagan goz a bigger offer from Bora and uses his exemption.

Any truth in this rumor?

Tinkov and the truth are uneasy friends.