Transfers "Rumours & Reality" and Young Guns

[craig1985]

Peter Stetina to join Garmin next year. Apparently he is fluent in Spanish as well.

 

[Anonymous]

wow reducing riders, and signing a few oldies (moreau , brusi). bit weird. Joaquim Rodríguez will be a great signing for whoever gets him



be interesting to see if they can get a new sponsor.

they wont, its been known for a year that they where dropping out of the sport, if there was going to be a new sponsor it would have been announced by now i would have thought..

all we seem to know if that geraint is almost certainly going to sky, robbie hunter has had talks with garmin, and impey ISNT going to rabobank..

 

[shouldawouldacoulda]

Hincapie to BMC

No one seems to be talking about George Hincapie's move to BMC?

I guess it may still be pretty hush hush? But Cqranking has posted it.

It's unexpected, and pretty bold. I'm a fan of it. What a great way to wind down his career by helping to build and mentor that team.

I wonder if Columbia fought hard to hang onto George?

 

[Bala Verde]

AG2R dumps the following 7 riders from their roster:

Aurélien Clerc, Renaud Dion, Cédric Pineau, Alexandr Pliuschin, Stéphane Poulhiès, Jean-Charles Sénac and Blaise Sonnery.

They already replaced some and signed Maxim Bouet, David Le Lay (Agritubel) as well as Ben Gastauer.

Joaquim Rodríguez (Mr Montelupone) is making a move to Katusha...

Rasmussen is said to have been linked to a team, and they approached him - according to him - this weekend. He said it isn't a small team, and, if everything goes well, it 'meets his atlethic/sporting ambitions'... Who could that be?

 

[ak-zaaf]

nibali to sky

Nibali confirma que seguirá en Liquigas y que no fichará por el Sky

Vincenzo Nibali ha revelado que tiene contrato con Liquigas en 2010 y que, por lo tanto, no fichará por el Team Sky, según ha confirmado el corredor italiano a cyclingweekly.

 

[issoisso]

nibali to sky

The quote you posted says he WON'T sign with Sky.

Suggest you enroll in spanish lessons

 

[issoisso]

Will one of you dutch guys be so kind as to check today's dutch newspapers and tell us which well known dutch rider is moving teams? A dutch journalist on another forum was talking yesterday about how he heard it from the rider himself and it would be printed on the newspaper today...

 

[craig1985]

No one seems to be talking about George Hincapie's move to BMC?

I guess it may still be pretty hush hush? But Cqranking has posted it.

It's unexpected, and pretty bold. I'm a fan of it. What a great way to wind down his career by helping to build and mentor that team.

I wonder if Columbia fought hard to hang onto George?

I haveh eard nothing of Hincapie going to BMC. If anything I figured he would join his mate Lance at Radio Shack.

 

[bjaelkesex]

Rasmussen is said to have been linked to a team, and they approached him - according to him - this weekend. He said it isn't a small team, and, if everything goes well, it 'meets his atlethic/sporting ambitions'... Who could that be?

He has just been quoted for saying "I belong in the Tour de France. [...] There is a possibility that I'll be riding at the highest level."

Maybe we're looking at a pro-tour team?

 

[Hammerhed]

Brushegin

Marizo Brushegin (bad spelling) will be going to Caisse D'Epargne for the 2010-2011 season.

 

[Cito13]

Boasson Hagen

Birger Hungerholdt, manager of Edvald Boasson Hagen confirmed today to Norwegian news agency NTB that Hagen is leaving Columbia-HTC. They would not say which team he is going to, but rumours say Team Sky.

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/sport/article3210910.ece

 

[Cerberus]

He has just been quoted for saying "I belong in the Tour de France. [...] There is a possibility that I'll be riding at the highest level."

Maybe we're looking at a pro-tour team?

The speculation I heard was that his "sporting ambitions" refered to his hope of racing in this years Vuelta. Of cause that is perfectly consistent with the possibility of a pro-tour team.

On an unrelated note: Italian media reports that the 2007 tour montain jersey winner, Mauricio Soler is heading for Team Saxo Bank or Caisse d'Espargne. At least that's what I read in the Danish media.
http://cyclingworld.dk/index.php?p=nyheder/profil.php&id=15083

 

[ak-zaaf]

Will one of you dutch guys be so kind as to check today's dutch newspapers and tell us which well known dutch rider is moving teams? A dutch journalist on another forum was talking yesterday about how he heard it from the rider himself and it would be printed on the newspaper today...

can't find anything.
this was on steven de jonghs twitter yesterday.

stevendejonghHad a great day ! At 21:00 I am gonna meet Leon de Kort. Great guy.about 15 hours ago from UberTwitter

de kort is a journalist for a big newspaper here, maybe he's not retiring after all?

 

[issoisso]

can't find anything.
this was on steven de jonghs twitter yesterday.



de kort is a journalist for a big newspaper here, maybe he's not retiring after all?

Nope. I know the name of the reporter. Not a well known guy at all I think. Said one of the top dutch talents told him he'd signed for a foreign team.

EDIT: meh, nevermind. Top espoir. Remco te Brake

 

[Bala Verde]

Will one of you dutch guys be so kind as to check today's dutch newspapers and tell us which well known dutch rider is moving teams? A dutch journalist on another forum was talking yesterday about how he heard it from the rider himself and it would be printed on the newspaper today...

Haven't found anything, but I saw it was re ter Brake...

I did see that Jonathan Hivert and Cyril Lemoine are leaving Skil-Shimano

He has just been quoted for saying "I belong in the Tour de France. [...] There is a possibility that I'll be riding at the highest level."

Maybe we're looking at a pro-tour team?

Could it be Lampre, they are losing a sponsor in 2010, but are also loking to see Ballan and Bruseghin go... Rasmussen is cheap as a 'convicted doper' and he wants to ride big races again. They also don't seem to mind the doping associations, as they were about to sign di Luca before he was caught.

But then again, they I just read thy are interested in Petacchi. LPR will quit in 2010, while Bordonali (LPR) wants to continue a slimmed down team, with less expensive riders (such as Daniele Pietropolli, Damiano Caruso, Roberto Ferrari and Claudio Cucinotta)

and furthermore:

2 Belgians, Kevyn Ista (Agritubel) and Jens Keukeleire (Soenens-Yawadoo-Germond) to Cofidis.

Then:

Steven Kruijswijk (RAB CT, 22) moves one step up and signs for RAB. Tom Leezer (2 years), Bauke Mollema (1 year) en Mauricio Ardila (1 year) extended their contracts. Hayman will leave the team.

 

[ak-zaaf]

vacansoleil is negotiating with ongarato. rumours are they want petacchi(!) and signing ongarato should pave the way for that transfer.

 

[bjaelkesex]

The speculation I heard was that his "sporting ambitions" refered to his hope of racing in this years Vuelta. Of cause that is perfectly consistent with the possibility of a pro-tour team.

On an unrelated note: Italian media reports that the 2007 tour montain jersey winner, Mauricio Soler is heading for Team Saxo Bank or Caisse d'Espargne. At least that's what I read in the Danish media.
http://cyclingworld.dk/index.php?p=nyheder/profil.php&id=15083

http://sporten.tv2.dk/cykling/article.php/id-24257343.html

 

[issoisso]

Paulinho will go where contador goes

Following on from my discussion a few pages back with the guy who was adamant Paulinho would go wherever Contador went:


Sérgio Paulinho has just become The Shack's first officially confirmed signing

 

[amp300]

No one seems to be talking about George Hincapie's move to BMC?

I guess it may still be pretty hush hush? But Cqranking has posted it.

It's unexpected, and pretty bold. I'm a fan of it. What a great way to wind down his career by helping to build and mentor that team.

I wonder if Columbia fought hard to hang onto George?

I'm loving the rumors, hincapie and levi to BMC... make it happen. That is much more exciting (to me) than them going to the shack.
I'm skeptical to say the least that this would happen, we'll see come september 1

 

[bianchigirl]

Paulhino's signing reminds me of when the poached Beltran from Coast and used him against Ullrich in the 2003 Tour - but then Ullrich was always somewhat fragile and Contador more than has the measure of Boss Hog.

 

[issoisso]

Paulhino's signing reminds me of when the poached Beltran from Coast and used him against Ullrich in the 2003 Tour - but then Ullrich was always somewhat fragile and Contador more than has the measure of Boss Hog.

And Beltran wasn't signed to team coast by Bruyneel himself. Very different scenario

 

[bianchigirl]

Not really - the intent is the same

 

[issoisso]

Not really - the intent is the same

The intent of signing a rider he's always admired and tried to sign (and did sign) several times since 2004 is the same as signing a rider who happened to be on a folding team when they needed a climber?

I understand the Ullrich-Contador comparison that you're trying to make, but I don't agree in the slightest, sorry.

 

[bianchigirl]

So you don't agree that securing the signing of one of Contador's trusted lieutenants - particularly in light of the pathetic attempts at psyops perpetrated by Boss Hog during the Tour - isn't supposed to send a message to Contador? I assume you also believe that Armstrong's farts smell like roses and that Bruyneel never did all the bad things they said he did at ONCE

 

[Hugh Januss]

Following on from my discussion a few pages back with the guy who was adamant Paulinho would go wherever Contador went:


Sérgio Paulinho has just become The Shack's first officially confirmed signing

Guaranteed money will trump friendship almost every time in the pro cycling world.