Transfers and Rumours 2017 > 2018

[PedroMonteiro]

A good team for Coquard is ORICA because Ewan goes to GIRO and VUELTA to sprint and Coquard was the sprint leader on the TOUR!

 

[PedroMonteiro]

There is news that Bahrain has an interest in having Domenico Pozzovivo, Davide Formolo, Mikel Landa, Gorka Izaguirre, Damiano Caruso, are not they good cyclists any more ??

Bahrain team for 2018, if you hire the above names:
Nibali, Landa, I. Izaguirre, Pozzovivo, Formolo, Caruso, Pelizotti, G. Izaguirre, Siutsou, Visconti, Grmay, Moreno, Gasparotto, Agnoli, Cink, Navardauskas, Colbrelli and many more gregarious!

 

[wouterkaas]

If they're bringing in Pozzovivo, I don't see Landa going there. I guess Landa wants to go a team that can garantuee him leadership on a GT.

 

[Anderis]

Pozzovivo will be 35 next year and he has never finished a GT higher than on a 5th place. I don't think he is the one who will be backed over Landa for GC.

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Re:

If they're bringing in Pozzovivo, I don't see Landa going there. I guess Landa wants to go a team that can garantuee him leadership on a GT.

To be the leader you will have to go to UAE or Cannondale because even in Movistar you will not be the leader of the team ....

 

[yaco]

No way Coquard will end up at Orica who have enough trouble balancing a sprinter and GC riders.

 

[PedroMonteiro]

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Pozzovivo will be 35 next year and he has never finished a GT higher than on a 5th place. I don't think he is the one who will be backed over Landa for GC.

If everything they want happens, in my opinion Nibali will go to Giro with Pozzovivo/Formolo/Caruso/Pelizotti/ Siutsou as gregarious, Landa and Izagirre for the Tour.

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Re:

No way Coquard will end up at Orica who have enough trouble balancing a sprinter and GC riders.

I also find it difficult, I just said it was an option where he would lead the tour!

 

[Bakkie]

Gilbert stays with Quick-step (Vive le Velo). Not confirmed, but the interview says enough.

http://sporza.be/cm/sporza/wielrennen/Tour/1.3017830

 

[Urbi27]

Does somebody know if Coquard can change team this year like Viviani? I think he might have problems to be selected by Direct Energie so it could be the best solution for him.

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Re:

Does somebody know if Coquard can change team this year like Viviani? I think he might have problems to be selected by Direct Energie so it could be the best solution for him.

Coquard and Viviani already said that they would change teams!
Viviani to UAE and Coquard not known, but AG2R or the new French team!

 

[Urbi27]

Re: Re:

Does somebody know if Coquard can change team this year like Viviani? I think he might have problems to be selected by Direct Energie so it could be the best solution for him.

Coquard and Viviani already said that they would change teams!
Viviani to UAE and Coquard not known, but AG2R or the new French team!

Yeah I know that, but cyclists not always change their teams in August, mostly ends a season in their current teams. I think it should be written in contract or maybe it depends on negotiations between cyclist and DS.

I have checked Tour de la Région Wallonne startlist Coquard is there, so maybe even after that media storm with Bernaudeau he will ride with DE in few races by the end of the season.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

Re: Re:

Does somebody know if Coquard can change team this year like Viviani? I think he might have problems to be selected by Direct Energie so it could be the best solution for him.

Coquard and Viviani already said that they would change teams!
Viviani to UAE and Coquard not known, but AG2R or the new French team!

New French team? Any details?

 

[Ricco']

For that to happen, the rider must have the permission of his old team.

Honestly, Bernaudeau doesn't seem to me the kind of guy who lets his rider go away on the middle of the season. If he chooses to punish his biggest star, not selecting him for the Tour, he would certainly not let him go away for free. Maybe if some other team pays him to let him go... But who is going to pay him to buy out Coquard's contract if it ends at the end of the season and they can get him for free?

 

[staubsauger]

Bernaudeau did just that with Beloki back in the day.

 

[dirkprovin]

A good team for Coquard is ORICA because Ewan goes to GIRO and VUELTA to sprint and Coquard was the sprint leader on the TOUR!

NO on a number of aspects !! Firstly Ewan will NOT be going to the Vuelta; if Orica is going to send a fast man to the Vuelta it will be Cort.

Secondly, Orica would be a debateable fit. They are gravitating towards a GC centred team for GTs meaning that a specialist bunch sprinter (who required a lead-out train) can't realistically be accomodated, especially with GT team sizes reducing from 9 to 8. A classics type quick guy, who doesn't need a lead-out train & who can be of use to the GC campaign on other stages, may still be viable but they already have two guys who look to fit that mould in Cort & Edmondson.

As for classics, they already have a "cobbles crew" and he may also battle for precedence if he's looking at the hillier classics. Would he be willing to go to an English speaking team in any case ?

 

[Ricco']

Re:

Bernaudeau did just that with Beloki back in the day.

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Yes, but I think they are different situations. I don't remember much details about 2004 (only started following regularly the season, apart the Tour, from 2005 onwards), but I think Beloki's career was in shambles after the crash in '03 and it seems that he would never achieve the level shown before.

On the other hand, Coquard is a very young rider, with a very promising future and, most important, was born and raised on Europcar/Direct Energie, he is like a boy raised and teached by Bernaudeau, so I think he feels betrayed by his decision to leave (unlike Voeckler and Rolland, his top boys before, who were loyal for many, many years - Rolland eventully left for Cannondale, but I think you can get the point I'm trying to make) and wants to punish him.

 

[dirkprovin]

Re: Re:

Bernaudeau did just that with Beloki back in the day.

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Yes, but I think they are different situations. I don't remember much details about 2004 (only started following regularly the season, apart the Tour, from 2005 onwards), but I think Beloki's career was in shambles after the crash in '03 and it seems that he would never achieve the level shown before.

On the other hand, Coquard is a very young rider, with a very promising future and, most important, was born and raised on Europcar/Direct Energie, he is like a boy raised and teached by Bernaudeau, so I think he feels betrayed by his decision to leave (unlike Voeckler and Rolland, his top boys before, who were loyal for many, many years - Rolland eventully left for Cannondale, but I think you can get the point I'm trying to make) and wants to punish him.

Think that's a pretty fair summation of Bernadeau's outlook re Coquard

 

[Tonton]

Re: Re:

Does somebody know if Coquard can change team this year like Viviani? I think he might have problems to be selected by Direct Energie so it could be the best solution for him.

Coquard and Viviani already said that they would change teams!
Viviani to UAE and Coquard not known, but AG2R or the new French team!

AG2R would make a lot of sense...

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Re: Re:

Does somebody know if Coquard can change team this year like Viviani? I think he might have problems to be selected by Direct Energie so it could be the best solution for him.

Coquard and Viviani already said that they would change teams!
Viviani to UAE and Coquard not known, but AG2R or the new French team!

AG2R would make a lot of sense...

If AG2R hire anyone who has already been mentioned above + Coquard, would be a very good team .... I did not mention it but Alexis Gougeard is also very good to work for Neasen ... Another French with future is Florian Sénéchal, 12 at Paris Roubaix and No contract for 2018! It would be one more for Neasen ....
For the pave they were with Neasen, Vandenbergh, Gougeard, Drucker, Vermote, Houle, (Sénéchal -> no rumor of anything, I just think Sénéchal wants to go to WT and AG2R can be a good team for that) Work on the ground without pave ...
In my opinion, only one other cyclist was missing for Bardet

 

[Lexman]

Gilbert renews with Quick/Step / Lefevere for two more years and Thomas renews for one year with Sky (although he had offers from Trek and UAE-Fly Emirates)
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20170706_02960771

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Another cyclist for the pave that has not yet been spoken is Dylan van Baarle, who is on the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team, has no contract for 2018 and made an excellent spring, 8 on Dwars Door Vlaanderen / A travers la Flandre, 9 on Record Bank E3 Harelbeke, 4 in Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres and 20 in Paris-Roubaix (same time as the 6th)

 

[dirkprovin]

Another cyclist for the pave that has not yet been spoken is Dylan van Baarle, who is on the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team, has no contract for 2018 and made an excellent spring, 8 on Dwars Door Vlaanderen / A travers la Flandre, 9 on Record Bank E3 Harelbeke, 4 in Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres and 20 in Paris-Roubaix (same time as the 6th)

He will most certainly attract market interest, nominating a likely new home however may be tricky as the obvious Dutch/Belgian teams may not necessarily have vacancies or will have rivals who would not exactly be "rolling out the welcome mat" to new internal competition. Will be very interested to see where he ends up.

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Another cyclist for the pave that has not yet been spoken is Dylan van Baarle, who is on the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team, has no contract for 2018 and made an excellent spring, 8 on Dwars Door Vlaanderen / A travers la Flandre, 9 on Record Bank E3 Harelbeke, 4 in Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres and 20 in Paris-Roubaix (same time as the 6th)

He will most certainly attract market interest, nominating a likely new home however may be tricky as the obvious Dutch/Belgian teams may not necessarily have vacancies or will have rivals who would not exactly be "rolling out the welcome mat" to new internal competition. Will be very interested to see where he ends up.

I think it may end in Quick-Step or with Lefever ... Boonem's place, I'm not comparing with Boonem, but it has a future .... I thought Neasen was going there, but it's renewed, so I do not know!

 

[PedroMonteiro]

Another cyclist for the pave that has not yet been spoken is Dylan van Baarle, who is on the Cannondale-Drapac Pro Cycling Team, has no contract for 2018 and made an excellent spring, 8 on Dwars Door Vlaanderen / A travers la Flandre, 9 on Record Bank E3 Harelbeke, 4 in Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres and 20 in Paris-Roubaix (same time as the 6th)

He will most certainly attract market interest, nominating a likely new home however may be tricky as the obvious Dutch/Belgian teams may not necessarily have vacancies or will have rivals who would not exactly be "rolling out the welcome mat" to new internal competition. Will be very interested to see where he ends up.

I think it may end in Quick-Step or with Lefever ... Boonem's place, I'm not comparing with Boonem, but it has a future .... I thought Neasen was going there, but it's renewed, so I do not know!

And Julien Vermote (AG2R) and Matteo Trentin (FDJ) are for me 2 almost certain exits, plus 2 men from the pavé ... Already have at least 3 spaces to occupy!