Transfers and Rumours 2018 > 2019

[Armchair Cyclist]

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Hopefully all these departures mean the Bahrain team fills bankruptcy and closes sooner or later!

Those who would lose their jobs may beg to differ.

 

[Escarabajo]

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Hopefully all these departures mean the Bahrain team fills bankruptcy and closes sooner or later!

I don't understand these messages?

 

[staubsauger]

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Hopefully all these departures mean the Bahrain team fills bankruptcy and closes sooner or later!

Williams, Bauhaus, Teuns, Sieberg, Dennis, Caruso and Tratnik don't think so. Whether you like it or not TBM is one of the most stable teams in WT.

The team survives as long as the prince does. Whether that can be called stable has yet to be seen under current conditions in the Middle East.

This team won't last for long. Once military defense becomes more important investment for the Kingdom, it's closed.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Pim Ligthart to Direct Énergie.

 

[Koronin]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

After the comments he made about Quintana when he left, I doubt he goes back to Movistar as long as Quintana is there.

 

[tobydawq]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

After the comments he made about Quintana when he left, I doubt he goes back to Movistar as long as Quintana is there.

Could you find those comments or are they somehow irretrievable like many of the comments you so often refer to and that nobody else has heard?

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

After the comments he made about Quintana when he left, I doubt he goes back to Movistar as long as Quintana is there.

Could you find those comments or are they somehow irretrievable like many of the comments you so often refer to and that nobody else has heard?

http://www.marca.com/blogs/llamaradas/2017/05/18/los-malos-recuerdos-de-visconti-en-el.html

 

[tobydawq]

Gracias!

 

[Tugboat]

Paddy Bevin stays with BMC/CCC for 2019...

http://www.roadcycling.co.nz/patrick-bevin-renews-contract-with-ccc-outfit/

 

[Nirvana]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

After the comments he made about Quintana when he left, I doubt he goes back to Movistar as long as Quintana is there.

Could you find those comments or are they somehow irretrievable like many of the comments you so often refer to and that nobody else has heard?

It's not a problem with Quintana, Visconti use to complain with everyone because according to him they hamper his chances, I still remember when after the 2016 Giro he said that the team sabotaged his own top 10 asking to him to work for Valverde, but actually the only time he waited for Valverde was at the top of Lombarde and he pulled only for 500 meters or so, until that moment he rode his own race.
He's totally unable to work for something different from his own glory, also this year there were reports on local newspapers after the Giro that he repeatedly refused to work for his team mates and broke with the team, I think that's the reason because was left out of Vuelta team and he'll leave.

 

[search]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

back to Wilier was rumoured in Italian media a couple of weeks ago. Would make sense I guess, especially if Pozzato really gets that WT ride he was talking about

 

[Squire]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

back to Wilier was rumoured in Italian media a couple of weeks ago. Would make sense I guess, especially if Pozzato really gets that WT ride he was talking about

I love Pozzato, but really?

 

[Koronin]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

After the comments he made about Quintana when he left, I doubt he goes back to Movistar as long as Quintana is there.

Could you find those comments or are they somehow irretrievable like many of the comments you so often refer to and that nobody else has heard?

It's not a problem with Quintana, Visconti use to complain with everyone because according to him they hamper his chances, I still remember when after the 2016 Giro he said that the team sabotaged his own top 10 asking to him to work for Valverde, but actually the only time he waited for Valverde was at the top of Lombarde and he pulled only for 500 meters or so, until that moment he rode his own race.
He's totally unable to work for something different from his own glory, also this year there were reports on local newspapers after the Giro that he repeatedly refused to work for his team mates and broke with the team, I think that's the reason because was left out of Vuelta team and he'll leave.[/quote]


I still have a few stages of that Giro on my DVR. Visconti broke his ribs in the first week of that Giro (if I remember correctly it was the stage Amador ended up with the leader's jersey) and became useless for the rest of it for the team and for his own ambitions. I know he broke his ribs in a crash when he was going after a stage win, just don't remember exactly which stage it was.

 

[search]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

Wonder where Visco is off to. And I wonder which team would sign Navardauskas. Back to Vaughters maybe?

Visco to Movistar again?

back to Wilier was rumoured in Italian media a couple of weeks ago. Would make sense I guess, especially if Pozzato really gets that WT ride he was talking about

I love Pozzato, but really?

he said he was in talks with two WT teams - and that was before BMC was rescued, as far as I can remember. They definitely could need a good dom for van Avermaet. And I wouldn't even be too surprised if he ends up at Quickstep again, who now are surprisingly short on cobbles specialists

 

[Squire]

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back to Wilier was rumoured in Italian media a couple of weeks ago. Would make sense I guess, especially if Pozzato really gets that WT ride he was talking about

I love Pozzato, but really?

he said he was in talks with two WT teams - and that was before BMC was rescued, as far as I can remember. They definitely could need a good dom for van Avermaet. And I wouldn't even be too surprised if he ends up at Quickstep again, who now are surprisingly short on cobbles specialists

But he hasn't done anything for two years. Has he been taking it easy on purpose?

 

[Nirvana]

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I still have a few stages of that Giro on my DVR. Visconti broke his ribs in the first week of that Giro (if I remember correctly it was the stage Amador ended up with the leader's jersey) and became useless for the rest of it for the team and for his own ambitions. I know he broke his ribs in a crash when he was going after a stage win, just don't remember exactly which stage it was.

The stage of Cividale (the one in which Amador took the pink jersey) is the perfect manifesto of how Visconti rides, the team was fighting for the pink jersey but he went in the break for his own ambitions (stage win, KOM points), after the last climb Nieve went clear and he couldn't fight anymore for the stage but instead of waiting for the GC group and help Amador that dropped Jungels he continued to push on the flat with 20"/30" of advantage on the GC group for nothing and Valverde was forced to pull for Amador behind.

He wasn't useless for the team because of physical problems but because he's not able to work for anyone bar himself, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to go for stage wins and KOM points, go all out in the MTT and finish 13th on the GC, his best result ever in a GT.

 

[Koronin]

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I still have a few stages of that Giro on my DVR. Visconti broke his ribs in the first week of that Giro (if I remember correctly it was the stage Amador ended up with the leader's jersey) and became useless for the rest of it for the team and for his own ambitions. I know he broke his ribs in a crash when he was going after a stage win, just don't remember exactly which stage it was.

The stage of Cividale (the one in which Amador took the pink jersey) is the perfect manifesto of how Visconti rides, the team was fighting for the pink jersey but he went in the break for his own ambitions (stage win, KOM points), after the last climb Nieve went clear and he couldn't fight anymore for the stage but instead of waiting for the GC group and help Amador that dropped Jungels he continued to push on the flat with 20"/30" of advantage on the GC group for nothing and Valverde was forced to pull for Amador behind.

He wasn't useless for the team because of physical problems but because he's not able to work for anyone bar himself, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to go for stage wins and KOM points, go all out in the MTT and finish 13th on the GC, his best result ever in a GT.

Yeah that stage. I'm still fairly sure he crashed on that stage and that's where he ended up with broken ribs. Yeah, when it was evident he couldn't win the stage he should have dropped back to help pull the group.

 

[skippo12]

Any rumors concerning Schachmann? Giro stage win, Catalunya stage win, 3rd european TT champs, 4th Benelux and only 24 years old. Is he staying with Quickstep or is he getting a pay day somewhere else?

 

[Lo squalo di messina]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

This is more or less what i expected. Not surprised at all but i m happy moho stays with the team.
I guess this means gaspa will stay with the team and not go to dimension data?

 

[Valv.Piti]

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I still have a few stages of that Giro on my DVR. Visconti broke his ribs in the first week of that Giro (if I remember correctly it was the stage Amador ended up with the leader's jersey) and became useless for the rest of it for the team and for his own ambitions. I know he broke his ribs in a crash when he was going after a stage win, just don't remember exactly which stage it was.

The stage of Cividale (the one in which Amador took the pink jersey) is the perfect manifesto of how Visconti rides, the team was fighting for the pink jersey but he went in the break for his own ambitions (stage win, KOM points), after the last climb Nieve went clear and he couldn't fight anymore for the stage but instead of waiting for the GC group and help Amador that dropped Jungels he continued to push on the flat with 20"/30" of advantage on the GC group for nothing and Valverde was forced to pull for Amador behind.

He wasn't useless for the team because of physical problems but because he's not able to work for anyone bar himself, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to go for stage wins and KOM points, go all out in the MTT and finish 13th on the GC, his best result ever in a GT.

Agree. I remember being incredibly annoyed by Visconti in that particular Giro, he is very selfish.

 

[RedheadDane]

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Copeland says the following will leave Bahrain: Visconti, Siutsou, Boaro, Bonifazio, Ion and Gorka Izagirre, Navardauskas and Per. Pellizotti and Bozic will retire with Delfino getting a job in the staff.

This is more or less what i expected. Not surprised at all but i m happy moho stays with the team.
I guess this means gaspa will stay with the team and not go to dimension data?

Huh? I thought that one had already been confirmed. So much for the "obtain the entire top-three of the Amstel Gold Race" plot, then…

 

[Der Effe]

Any rumors concerning Schachmann? Giro stage win, Catalunya stage win, 3rd european TT champs, 4th Benelux and only 24 years old. Is he staying with Quickstep or is he getting a pay day somewhere else?

Latest I heard about that is that Lefevere said BORA is interested in signing him, but that he would like to stay at Quickstep.

 

[Lequack]

Laurens De Plus to Lotto NL:
Laurens De Plus will be racing for Team LottoNL-Jumbo for the next two seasons. According to the nearly 23-year-old Fleming, the formation of manager Richard Plugge offers him the best prospect for the future. “I think this is an ideal team for me”, he explains his choice to ride for the Dutch squad. “Team LottoNL-Jumbo has proven to work well with young riders and to be able to develop them further. Seeing how the team rode in the Tour motivated me. This is a unique opportunity for me to develop further and hopefully to be able to perform well later on in grand tours. The good atmosphere at Team LottoNL-Jumbo is also very important to me.”

 

[WKA311]

Any rumors concerning Schachmann? Giro stage win, Catalunya stage win, 3rd european TT champs, 4th Benelux and only 24 years old. Is he staying with Quickstep or is he getting a pay day somewhere else?

Latest I heard about that is that Lefevere said BORA is interested in signing him, but that he would like to stay at Quickstep.

A week or a week and a half ago, he said he indeed wants to stay at Quickstep but hasn't been offered a contract yet. This was before the Terpstra exit though.

 

[Alex47]

According Etb, Izagirre brothers will ride for Astana.