Transfers "Rumours & Reality" and Young Guns

[ingsve]

Marcus Ljungqvist confirms in a press release that he will be a DS for Team Sky.

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[Parcours]

Its really quite amazing that every other team appears to be able to announce all of their riders in one go without to much of a problem. Every top rider has confirmed where they will be riding next season etc.

Yet Team Sky appear to be extremely slow with it all, maybe it is all publicity but I just cant understand how a team that claimed to need 2 more riders to fill their rosters at the end of July can still only have announced 16 riders by mid October.

From the rumours around the net it would appear as though: Christopher Sutton, Serge Pauwels, Davide Vigano, Daniel Moreno, Ed Clancy, Sylvain Calzati, Michael Barry and Matthew Hayman will all be Team Sky signings with room for one more.

 

[Mickey75]

Branislau Samoilau and Andrei Kunitski will continue in 2010 with Quick Step and extended their contracts according to manager Giuseppe Acquadro.

Acquadro has denied flatly the acquisition of the two cyclists by Astana.

source : biciciclismo.com

 

[Mickey75]

Calzati has already signed a one year contract with Team Sky.

 

[Total Package]

Daniel Moreno (Caisse d'Epargne) to Omega Pharma-Lotto.

 

[Mickey75]

From the Fuji-Servetto website

'In full compliance with the deadlines imposed by the UCI ProTour council, the actual FUJI-SERVETTO team has sent the documentation required by cycling’s governing body to get inscribed next season as one of the teams in the sport’s first tier. The will change its name next season, turning into FOOTON-SERVETTO with the entering as head sponsor by Swiss-based FOOTON enterprise, devoted to the marketing health and care articles, specially feet insoles, created to prevent damages and cure all body posture defects from the feet stance.

The team’s roster, which is set to ride in the most important races in the world calendar will experience a full transformation, in a strong bet for youth, mixing together some of the best talents in European cycling, looking for an international squad that commits itself to the sport’s cleanliness, a value also preached by their leading sponsors. Apart from FOOTON, the leading backers of the team, FUJI, SERVETTO and CANTABRIA INFINITA, will still ride alongside a squad whose 2010 full lineup will be gradually confirmed in the next days.'

 

[Mellow Velo]

Daniel Moreno (Caisse d'Epargne) to Omega Pharma-Lotto.

Interesting. He was reported to have signed for Sky, a while back.

 

[iainf72]

Interesting. He was reported to have signed for Sky, a while back.

Have a look at the other place

 

[craig1985]

I have to say Fuji-Servetto have to be miracle workers, in that they always seem to get a new sponsor. By rights the team should be dead after having two positives at last year's Tour, whereas the Hog couldn't get a sponsor to replace Discovery Channel when they pulled out.

 

[Moondance]

I have to say Fuji-Servetto have to be miracle workers, in that they always seem to get a new sponsor. By rights the team should be dead after having two positives at last year's Tour, whereas the Hog couldn't get a sponsor to replace Discovery Channel when they pulled out.

Footon(?)-Sevetto is a much smaller outfit probably they can manage on a budget of three, maybe four million euros or so (and they've already got a couple of smaller sponsors) whereas Discovery probably needed a sponsor willing to invest in the region of $10-12m, obviously harder to do.

 

[luckyboy]

From the Fuji-Servetto website

'In full compliance with the deadlines imposed by the UCI ProTour council, the actual FUJI-SERVETTO team has sent the documentation required by cycling’s governing body to get inscribed next season as one of the teams in the sport’s first tier. The will change its name next season, turning into FOOTON-SERVETTO with the entering as head sponsor by Swiss-based FOOTON enterprise, devoted to the marketing health and care articles, specially feet insoles, created to prevent damages and cure all body posture defects from the feet stance.

The team’s roster, which is set to ride in the most important races in the world calendar will experience a full transformation, in a strong bet for youth, mixing together some of the best talents in European cycling, looking for an international squad that commits itself to the sport’s cleanliness, a value also preached by their leading sponsors. Apart from FOOTON, the leading backers of the team, FUJI, SERVETTO and CANTABRIA INFINITA, will still ride alongside a squad whose 2010 full lineup will be gradually confirmed in the next days.'

Nice to hear, though I can't imagine the squad being very strong

 

[Glockers]

Davis is ****ed he didn't ride the tour de france yet he signs for Astana. Makes no sense to me.

 

[Anonymous]

Footon(?)-Sevetto is a much smaller outfit probably they can manage on a budget of three, maybe four million euros or so (and they've already got a couple of smaller sponsors) whereas Discovery probably needed a sponsor willing to invest in the region of $10-12m, obviously harder to do.

i can find nothing on google on footon..

is this a joke?

 

[ingsve]

i can find nothing on google on footon..

is this a joke?

Ya, that does sound strange...

 

[auscyclefan94]

Davis is ****ed he didn't ride the tour de france yet he signs for Astana. Makes no sense to me.

he wasn't happy with quickstep. he may not ride the tour but will get support in some one day classics and GT"s.
intersting to see he is going back to the team which he got in to trouble with OP.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Daniel Moreno (Caisse d'Epargne) to Omega Pharma-Lotto.

Moreno is a good addition to them. OPL said they had a few suprise signings yet (at tdf presentation), maybe they are getting their act together.

 

[badboyberty]

Moreno is a good addition to them. OPL said they had a few suprise signings yet (at tdf presentation), maybe they are getting their act together.

If Lotto has another couple of similar calibre signings to announce (and none of them have skeletons waiting to jump out of the closet), Cadel may be in with a chance of a GT win next season.

 

[ingsve]

If Lotto has another couple of similar calibre signings to announce (and none of them have skeletons waiting to jump out of the closet), Cadel may be in with a chance of a GT win next season.

That would be interesting. He will be the first world champion in a very long time with a chance of winning a GT.

 

[reba99]

fuji

new sponsor may be: http://www.footon.it/de/

 

[reba99]

i can find nothing on google on footon..

is this a joke?

new sponsor may be: http://www.footon.it

 

[craig1985]

Footon(?)-Sevetto is a much smaller outfit probably they can manage on a budget of three, maybe four million euros or so (and they've already got a couple of smaller sponsors) whereas Discovery probably needed a sponsor willing to invest in the region of $10-12m, obviously harder to do.

Yeah but in the reign of Discovery's sponsorship, they won the Tour twice, as well as the Giro. Not a bad record there. And at the time when OP hit, none of their contracted riders were implicated in the scandal, although Bruyneel got his fingers burnt with Basso. Also, in their final year, they won close to 40 races. So short of winning a major Classic, on the bike they did not do too many things wrong in 2007.

And then there's Fuji, a team that has had quite a few positive tests in the last few years, win squat, and only got to ride the Giro and the Vuelta by going through the courts as RSC and Unipublic did not want them. So I have to hand it to them to get a company to shell out millions of euros to them. Maybe Bruyneel, despite speaking five languages, is rubbish at negotiating.

If I were company and I was to spend 3 or 4m euros on a cycling team, I would go to a team like Cervelo, who at least you can have some sort of faith in, and will have no problem riding the biggest races. Unlike Fuji.

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

Moreno is the best signing lotto have made in years imo (in terms of cadel support... i realize gilbert tops the best signing). Excellent signing.
Llyod, Moreno to support evans in the high mountains... not bad.

I also think lowik is a decent signing.

 

[Bala Verde]

Roger Kluge (currently ripping it up with Bartko in Amsterdam) to Milram...

Robin Chaigneau (21, Piels) to Skil

Alex Meenhorst (Hadimec - Nazionale Elettronica) to NetApp

Dunno if it was mentioned already but: David Gutiérrez Palacios (Camargo) to Footon Servetto source

Contador has said that he needs to renegotiate his contract with AST in case the UCI prolongues the PT license. Due to the current circumstances, he is still undecided. Source

 

[TRDean]

Roger Kluge (currently ripping it up with Bartko in Amsterdam) to Milram...

Robin Chaigneau (21, Piels) to Skil

Alex Meenhorst (Hadimec - Nazionale Elettronica) to NetApp

Dunno if it was mentioned already but: David Gutiérrez Palacios (Camargo) to Footon Servetto source

Contador has said that he needs to renegotiate his contract with AST in case the UCI prolongues the PT license. Due to the current circumstances, he is still undecided. Source

Bala...great info as usual!! I appreciate your posts in this thread. Where are you getting this information? Any idea how good or what to expect from Robin Chaigneau?

 

[Bala Verde]

Bala...great info as usual!! I appreciate your posts in this thread. Where are you getting this information? Any idea how good or what to expect from Robin Chaigneau?

most of it is readily available online, either sportwereld.be; sporza.be; wielerland.nl; wielerupdate.nl; or other spanish/italian websites. I don't know much about Chaigneau, but I bet some others can fill you in.