Transfers and Rumours 2017 > 2018

[May0maniac]

Coledan signs with wilier Triestina.
http://www.cicloweb.it/2017/10/24/ciclomercato-marco-coledan-wilier-triestina-selle-italia/
A good rider for the harder sprint stages and a good addition to Mareczko's potential sprint train, if he resigns with them.
Many guys on DD still don't have a contract, all the Eritreans and Morton would be interesting for some teams.
Morton would be a good leader for the US stage races for Trek, let him race those and some spanish races, maybe the Vuelta, the guy's great at climbing in the heat, but hates bad weather, a US PCT team would also be a good fit for him.
Kudus, Berhane, Debesay and Teklehaimanot would be great singings for many teams, atm Bahrain only have 21 riders signed for 2018 and Copeland actually seems to care about African cycling, I could see them picking up 2 or 3 of them.

 

[Frankschleck]

Where is Dani Moreno going next year? Anyone heard anything?

 

[Ruudz0r]

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Where is Dani Moreno going next year? Anyone heard anything?

THere were rumours that he was going to Cannondale

 

[Anderis]

Re: Re:

Where is Dani Moreno going next year? Anyone heard anything?

THere were rumours that he was going to Cannondale

There were also reports that he was going to retire.

 

[Frankschleck]

Re: Re:

Where is Dani Moreno going next year? Anyone heard anything?

THere were rumours that he was going to Cannondale

There were also reports that he was going to retire.

oh, i hope he continues one year more.

 

[pastronef]

super news, Nathan Earle sig with Israel Cycling Academy. nice to see him back after the Sky and Drapac years where he had dire fortunes
I hope his fellow Aussie countryman Zak Dempster continues there too

 

[42x16ss]

super news, Nathan Earle sig with Israel Cycling Academy. nice to see him back after the Sky and Drapac years where he had dire fortunes
I hope his fellow Aussie countryman Zak Dempster continues there too

Good to hear. I'm not sure he's a WT level rider but definitely Pro Conti. Israel Cycling Academy will have a nice squad next year.

 

[yaco]

I am confident that Earle is WT standard and comfortably so.

 

[pastronef]

yeppa!

Moscon re-ups with SKY for 2 years

https://twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/923103802374414336

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Breschel returns to Cannondale

 

[Lexman]

Cibel-Cebon signs Roy Jans en Dieter Bouvry.

What's happening with Jans, a year ago he rode for Wanty, signed with WB this year so stayed at PCT and now descends to CT at only 27?

 

[Anderis]

Jans was struggling to find a contract for some reason:
https://twitter.com/TourDeJose/status/915586010523807744

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

I don't get it, the guy is one of Belgiums fastest sprinters, which again illustrates how much we care about anything else but the cobbles.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Spanish rider Joan Bou (currently Polartec-Fundación Contador team) has signed for Nippo-Vini Fantini

https://twitter.com/NIPPO_Fantini/status/922808062423060481

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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I don't get it, the guy is one of Belgiums fastest sprinters, which again illustrates how much we care about anything else but the cobbles.

In the last two and a half years he has one pro win (and one .2). It's all very well being one of Belgium's fastest sprinters, but pro races have international fields and the WT and PCT ranks are full of guys who are much faster. If he was picking up four or so small sprint wins a year, the Belgian PCT teams would be climbing over each other to sign him.

It's a pity. I've like the guy since his An Post days. But it's a cold, hard world out there for sprinters who don't win particularly in the present period when the sprinting field is so deep.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Despite his boasts of multiple World Tour offers, Mythical Raúl Alarcón stays at W52.

 

[mikii4567]

Looks like Maciej Paterski's leaving CCC, team confirmed roster today and he's not in it

 

[Laplaz]

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Looks like Maciej Paterski's leaving CCC, team confirmed roster today and he's not in it

A team like Bahrain should try to sign him. Decent rider and at least as good as the teammates Vinenzo had this year in Giro and Vuelta...

 

[Anderis]

Cannondale's roster for next year lacks puncheurs with decent finish like him. But Paterski himself said that he was surprised to find out that he wouldn't get an extension so it looks like he will be lucky to find a team above conti level this late in the transfer season. Many of the WT and PCT teams have announced their full rosters already.

 

[Marcus135]

Has anyone heard any talk of what Yonathan Monsalve is doing next year? He was pretty dominant in the Tour of Qinghai Lake this year and has had a string of good results since stepping down from 5 years at Pro Conti level teams. Is the Qinghai win enough to get him back into the pros?

 

[May0maniac]

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Has anyone heard any talk of what Yonathan Monsalve is doing next year? He was pretty dominant in the Tour of Qinghai Lake this year and has had a string of good results since stepping down from 5 years at Pro Conti level teams. Is the Qinghai win enough to get him back into the pros?

Him stepping down from PCT/Southeast not resigning him was a joke, he was one of their best riders, able to get good results in Europe (3rd on La Spezia the Giro stage when Astana went crazy) and still rather young at the time, but we're talking abbout the team that didn't resign him and Finetto, but a few guys who had agreed to bring their own sponsors...
Him not signing with another pct team or even with a team like Astana or Lampre was a bit of a surprise for me, he's a great rider and deserves to ride for a good team, maybe one of the Spanish PCT teams will try to sign him.
If that's not an option he could always try his luck in Portugal, I wouldn't be too happy about that, but they seem to pay their riders rather well.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

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Cannondale's roster for next year lacks puncheurs with decent finish like him. But Paterski himself said that he was surprised to find out that he wouldn't get an extension so it looks like he will be lucky to find a team above conti level this late in the transfer season. Many of the WT and PCT teams have announced their full rosters already.

Could be a real blessing for Movistar, they are lacking in rouleurs and for a guy like Paterski to become available at probably a cut price would certainly be tempting, just not sure if they would have enough money to spare even so unless a fair bit of time goes by and Paterski is still struggling for a team.

 

[Hakkie2]

Trofimov tries his luck in Portugal. Radio Popular Boavista is his new team.

So he will be reunited with his drinking buddy Egor Silin.

 

[Roku]

I don't think Paterski has WT level anymore. He had a great year with CCC (think it was 2015) but was unable to replicate that kind of form on the following years. This year he was quite dominant in Polish races but subpar on international races. He would be a good addition to some italians PCT teams (Willier/Nippo).

I'm surprised Floris Gerts wasn't renewed by BMC. Maybe Roompot takes him, he is a good rider. He would also be a good fit for Wanty and other belgium PCT teams.

Some other interesting riders who have yet to be confirmed by some team are Barta, Grivko (both would be a great addition to Movistar, especially the former, good TT and flat engines who could replace some of the riders leaving the team), Chernetckii...

 

[pastronef]

Boivin + Dempster + Van Winden renew with Israel Cycling Academy