Transfers and Rumours 2018 > 2019

[RedheadDane]

Rumours going around Tour presentation today is that G will be leaving Sky at the end of the season.

Expected arrivals are Pinot, Caruso and Amador.

Rumours of Izagirre brothers again, they tried to get them a couple of years ago.

Apparently Caruso at Bahrain is done deal.

But they're aren't telling us yet. They're telling us that they'll tell us…

 

[Salvarani]

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Caruso is a great man for Bahrain and for Nibali. If Cataldo would also go there it would even be better. And Sosa. And Ciccone.

Any more names you wanna throw in there?

 

[pastronef]

Rumours going around Tour presentation today is that G will be leaving Sky at the end of the season.

Expected arrivals are Pinot, Caruso and Amador.

Rumours of Izagirre brothers again, they tried to get them a couple of years ago.

Apparently Caruso at Bahrain is done deal.

Teuns and Sieberg too.

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180706_03600649

 

[Laplaz]

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Caruso is a great man for Bahrain and for Nibali. If Cataldo would also go there it would even be better. And Sosa. And Ciccone.

Any more names you wanna throw in there?

Yes, Conci maybe

 

[Lo squalo di messina]

Wrong info....teuns to bahrain is not a done deal.
Source teuns himself. He prefers to wait on bmc and see what happens

 

[rlntlssly]

Caruso to Sky seems rather unlikely -- he served a doping suspension. Don't Sky still have a policy against hiring people with past convictions?

 

[tobydawq]

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Caruso to Sky seems rather unlikely -- he served a doping suspension. Don't Sky still have a policy against hiring people with past convictions?

Wasn't that Giampaolo Caruso?

 

[LaFlorecita]

Rumours going around Tour presentation today is that G will be leaving Sky at the end of the season.

Expected arrivals are Pinot, Caruso and Amador.

Rumours of Izagirre brothers again, they tried to get them a couple of years ago.

That would be quite the haul to restock the farm.

Like every bloody year

 

[LaFlorecita]

Rumours going around Tour presentation today is that G will be leaving Sky at the end of the season.

Expected arrivals are Pinot, Caruso and Amador.

Rumours of Izagirre brothers again, they tried to get them a couple of years ago.

Apparently Caruso at Bahrain is done deal.

So that casts doubt on those other 'expected arrivals' as well, good.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

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Bora extends their sponsorship deal with the Bora Hansgrohe team until 2021.

I’m not particularly surprised. I maintain that Bora have probably got the best value of out of cycling sponsorship of any current commercial sponsor in recent years. They were footing the bill for running a top end PCT team on their own, then they effectively moved to splitting a WT budget three ways with Hansgrohe and Specialized. That has meant vastly more exposure for probably not all that much more money, particularly through Sagan whose salary they don’t even have to pay.

They are also about the right size of a company with about the right international spread of operations for cycling to actually make sense as a way of increasing brand profile.

Hansgrohe have now also announced an extension of their title sponsorship until 2020.

Bora seem from the outside to be as well run as cycling teams currently get. These days genuine commercial sponsors are rare in the World Tour. Most WT teams are financed as rich men’s toys, as quasi national outfits, by national lotteries or by bike brands and most of the exceptions are long term legacy sponsors. Bora Hansgrohe have managed to bring in two new commercial sponsors and keep them both around for the long haul.

Of course it helps having Specialized on board, bringing Sagan. And being German also helps - they are from a large rich country which has a lot of companies that want to become Continental scale brands and which doesn’t have rival pro teams. But they’ve done a very good job in getting results, both big ones (this year already they’ve taken stage wins in their fourth and fifth consecutive GTs and won Paris Roubaix) and smaller but sponsor relevant ones (like winning the German and Austrian nationals last week).

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Wout van Aert close to a deal with... LottoNL Jumbo. According to De Telegraaf. Huge surprise if they can pull that off

 

[DNP-Old]

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Wout van Aert close to a deal with... LottoNL Jumbo. According to De Telegraaf. Huge surprise if they can pull that off

Belgian media now saying that Van Aert will honour his contract with Crelan.

 

[janraaskalt]

Re: Re:

Van Aert will honour his contract with Crelan

More likely: "Van Aert will accept an improved contract and stays with Crelan"

 

[Bakkie]

Lampaert renews with QST.

 

[bikeit]

I've heard that the BMC/ Dimension Data relationship is more a merger of the two than just a bike supplier arrangement.

 

[Koronin]

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Lampaert renews with QST.

Good news for QS. TY

 

[Moviefan1203]

I've heard that the BMC/ Dimension Data relationship is more a merger of the two than just a bike supplier arrangement.

Interesting.

 

[DNP-Old]

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Wout van Aert close to a deal with... LottoNL Jumbo. According to De Telegraaf. Huge surprise if they can pull that off

Belgian media now saying that Van Aert will honour his contract with Crelan.

HLN today saying that Sky are very serious and would be fine with Van Aert combining the road with the cross.

 

[yaco]

Re: Re:

Wout van Aert close to a deal with... LottoNL Jumbo. According to De Telegraaf. Huge surprise if they can pull that off

Belgian media now saying that Van Aert will honour his contract with Crelan.

HLN today saying that Sky are very serious and would be fine with Van Aert combining the road with the cross.

Sky does have a track record of allowing team-members to ride other disciplines.

 

[MatParker117]

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Wout van Aert close to a deal with... LottoNL Jumbo. According to De Telegraaf. Huge surprise if they can pull that off

Belgian media now saying that Van Aert will honour his contract with Crelan.

HLN today saying that Sky are very serious and would be fine with Van Aert combining the road with the cross.

Sky does have a track record of allowing team-members to ride other disciplines.

Swift, Thomas, Kennaugh, Viviani have all won world or Olympic titles on the track while on Sky.

 

[Moviefan1203]

This forum would explode if he signed with Sky.

 

[MuskyOurSaviour]

For Sky, he could literally ride Febuary-April schedule and do whatever the *** he wants for the remainder of the seasono

 

[claude cat]

Alex Evans (Mobius-BridgeLane) joins BMC Racing Team as a stagiaire for the remainder of the 2018 season.
http://mobiusbridgelane.com.au/2018/07/alexander-evans-joins-bmc-racing-team-stagiaire/

 

[DNP-Old]

Stephen Williams to Bahrain.

 

[Bakkie]

Rumours about Hagen and Quick-Step Floors? Michel Wuyts (Sporza, Belgium TV) told about talks between Lefevre and the manager of EBH.