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Beech Mtn said:
Thaks Joy for the link. I saw in the comments (from the person who I *think* is Vino's relative - gets all the photos and updates from Vino onto the site) I saw that person say that they expect to sign the contract this week, and that all is going well. 3 more years for AC at Astana. That should put an end to people's speculation that Alberto and Vino cannot get along and share a team together.

I'm pleased to see Alberto stay. He seems very happy with Martinelli and Sanquer, and with Vino, the other riders, the staff, etc. Sounds like he's found a good fit.

As both a Vino and an Alberto fan, this is great news!

AC to stay - so could we see some spainiards move from caisse to astana?
 
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Archibald said:
AC to stay - so could we see some spainiards move from caisse to astana?

Sounds like a good guess. AC has lots of friends on Caisse, and this year Astana can do recruiting in the normal time frame. You have to wonder where all the Caisse guys will end up.
 
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Archibald said:
AC to stay - so could we see some spainiards move from caisse to astana?
I have to say I'm a bit disappointed - I really wanted to see AC racing in that black Caisse kit (yeah I know it won't be Caisse any longer) and riding a Pinarello. Dunno why, but just always seemed the "right" fit to me that he ride for Caisse.
 
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Astana seems to have the budget while at Caisse it's nothing sure; probably that's why his bro said that they want everything done in a couple of weeks.
 
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Yannick Eijssen (21,winner of this years tour d'isenard) is going to sign a two year contract with BMC after the Tour.

prefers to go to BMC over other offers from topsport-vlaanderen, quickstep, omega pharma and Columbia because BMC offers him a program for a climber..
 
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cobblehead said:
Yannick Eijssen (21,winner of this years tour d'isenard) is going to sign a two year contract with BMC after the Tour.

prefers to go to BMC over other offers from topsport-vlaanderen, quickstep, omega pharma and Columbia because BMC offers him a program for a climber..

Good to see BMC going after some climbing talent, but by the time Yannick is an effective mountain domestique, it'll be too little too late for Cadel Evans tour hopes. Oh Well, good signing anyway.
 
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chavanel and pineau have promised lefevre they are both staying at quick-step, according to lefevre the deal is 99% done...

a rumour that keeps flying around is that stijn vandenberghe (katusha) will be joining quickstep next season, would be a nice transfer for quickstep
 
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Yesterday during the stage the italian commentators started to talk about market and they mentioned that there's been some talking between Riis and Contador, mainly due to their common sponsor (Specialized).

Visconti seems confirmed to Liquigas while Riccò has offerts from 2 Spanish and 1 Belgian Pro Tour Team.
 

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stijn devolders move to vacansoleil apparantly a done deal...

ONly came from Mart Smeets, if I read the cyclingnews article correctly, if there is one person whose information I won't trust its his
 
Michele said:
Yesterday during the stage the italian commentators started to talk about market and they mentioned that there's been some talking between Riis and Contador, mainly due to their common sponsor (Specialized).

Visconti seems confirmed to Liquigas while Riccò has offerts from 2 Spanish and 1 Belgian Pro Tour Team.

There's only two Spanish pro-tour teams counting out Euskaltel.

Caisse d'Epargne and Footon-Servetto.

The Belgian one will be Quick-Step I would reckon. They seem to be losing riders.
 
What about the F1-driver Alonso that was gonna start a cyclingteam for his friend Contador? I've heard this rumour for a year, but didn't hear anything about it anymore last months. And as far as I know right now is that Contador will sign for more years with Astana.

And what about the rumours that Rabobank wanted to sign L.L. Sanchez? That's what I heard, but then in the evening on dutch television they keps talking about Rabo wanting to sign S.Sanchez. Which is unlikely imo. Caisse is stopping as a team I thought so signing L.L. Sanchez made sense to me.
 
Kwibus said:
What about the F1-driver Alonso that was gonna start a cyclingteam for his friend Contador? I've heard this rumour for a year, but didn't hear anything about it anymore last months. And as far as I know right now is that Contador will sign for more years with Astana.

And what about the rumours that Rabobank wanted to sign L.L. Sanchez? That's what I heard, but then in the evening on dutch television they keps talking about Rabo wanting to sign S.Sanchez. Which is unlikely imo. Caisse is stopping as a team I thought so signing L.L. Sanchez made sense to me.

That's the same infamous Mart Smeets. Don't believe him, he doesn't have any inside information in todays cycling.
 
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For BMC, just to update thread Rumours of van avermaet wanting to go to BMC and Moinard and Yannick E (Bel) have signed with BMC. A guy with similar attributes as Tony Martin would be good.
 
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Barrus said:
ONly came from Mart Smeets, if I read the cyclingnews article correctly, if there is one person whose information I won't trust its his

the article isn't correct itself, it implies that devolder wanted to ride the tour but wasn't allowed to do so by lefevre while in reality it was the other way around, devolder didn't want to ride the tour (didn't want to continue his string of failures in the tour) and remained firm in this view even after lefevre asked him to possibly reconsider after boonens forfait...

anyway, it's clear that devolder is leaving quickstep, and the press (not just smeets who just picked it up from the newspapers here in belgium) seems pretty sure it will either be vacansoleil or radioshack for devolder...

curious to see if he'll fare any better than boonens last lieutenants to leave quickstep to become the leader themselves (nuyens, steegmans). Extra curious since devolder took his two biggest wins (ronde van vlaanderen) partly by the grace of boonen whose mere presence kept most other riders from going after him (by which I don't want to downgrade devolders archievement)
 
Arnout said:
That's the same infamous Mart Smeets. Don't believe him, he doesn't have any inside information in todays cycling.

Yeh I know. I was cursing at the tele since I was convinced it should be L.L. Sanchez, but the day after people at work were also talking about S.Sanchez so I started doubting.
I found it a disgrace that Mart Smeets, Michael Boogerd and Marianne Vos were discussing/talking wether it was a good move of Rabo to try to get S.Sanchez in " the" cycling program on Dutch television. I mean... isn't there someone behind the scene to correct them during a live television program. This was a disgrace.
 
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cobblehead said:
the article isn't correct itself, it implies that devolder wanted to ride the tour but wasn't allowed to do so by lefevre while in reality it was the other way around, devolder didn't want to ride the tour (didn't want to continue his string of failures in the tour) and remained firm in this view even after lefevre asked him to possibly reconsider after boonens forfait...

anyway, it's clear that devolder is leaving quickstep, and the press (not just smeets who just picked it up from the newspapers here in belgium) seems pretty sure it will either be vacansoleil or radioshack for devolder...

curious to see if he'll fare any better than boonens last lieutenants to leave quickstep to become the leader themselves (nuyens, steegmans). Extra curious since devolder took his two biggest wins (ronde van vlaanderen) partly by the grace of boonen whose mere presence kept most other riders from going after him (by which I don't want to downgrade devolders archievement)

Err...this is a personal opinion but I wouldnt call Devolder exactly a "Boonen's lieutenant".
 
Barrus said:
ONly came from Mart Smeets, if I read the cyclingnews article correctly, if there is one person whose information I won't trust its his
It's confirmed by Vacansoleil. Interesting: they're also planning to sign a GT rider with whom they're going for top-5 in the Tour... now who could that be? The first name that springs to mind is a certain Thomas D.
 
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Michele said:
Err...this is a personal opinion but I wouldnt call Devolder exactly a "Boonen's lieutenant".

why not? He's the same as nuyens or steegmans, good riders alltogether but from the moment the weight of the team lands on their shoulders they often fail under the pressure..

nuyens won a number of nice races when he was still at quickstep where he benefited from a strong team and could ride knowing that the pressure was on the big guns like boonen and bettini, from the moment he moved to rabobank however and had to bear the pressure of being the big gun he didn't manage to win a single thing (his racing style is also part of the problem)

steegmans the same story, won two stages in the tour and two stages in paris nice while at quickstep, but failed to live up to the expectations when he left quickstep because he couldn't mentally bear the weight of having to perform in every sprint. A real shame since steegmans is a very talented rider and can do everything a guy like hushovd can do...

devolder is the same thing, a very talented rider but he doesn't seem to have racing intelligence and thus took his biggest wins after moving to quickstep and riding in boonens shadow. He won the ronde van vlaanderen at least once (2008) because boonen couldn't go after his teammate and the other riders were scared of taking boonen along to the finishline when going after him...

I do however recognise that lieutenant is perhaps a bad term for these boys, in dutch the proper word is "schaduwkopman", don't really know the corresponding word in english..;
 
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Agree that Devolder miss that "racing intelligence" that it makes you a true champion, cause he got the legs.
But neither Nuyens nor Steegmans can say to have won 2 Ronde.
 
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Hilaire vanderschueren (vacansoleil) has confirmed that the deal with devolder is 99% sure, he also mentioned that leukemans is staying with the team..

As allready mentioned in this topic, vacansoleil has big plans, apparantly they have a list of 5 riders they want to sign, devolder is number one and the second one on the list is a rider with whom they hope to go for top-5 in the tour next season...
 
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Michele said:
Agree that Devolder miss that "racing intelligence" that it makes you a true champion, cause he got the legs.
But neither Nuyens nor Steegmans can say to have won 2 Ronde.

fact, they could however have had a far bigger list of wins if they would have stayed at quickstep and I fear devolder is gonna be the same story
 
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