Guess what ...

Anyone needs the Euro Millions numbers for tonight while I'm at it?

I didn't find it too bad, as you can select the races that you want your riders to go to. the problem arises when you are in a manager team and the manager doesn't care to send in race planners (like TMM is doing now) that you don't race anywere.

I do! :3 You should've predicted that König would go to Sky

Paul Rosanski, who still hasn't a contract, is a bit upset at the moment, because his friends B. Weschenbach and L. Grawunder are having a contract for next year, while he doesn't.
So he is politely asking, if some team is willing to sign him. He is promising to give his best next season.

Name: Matteo La Bestia
Age: 22
Nationality: Italian
Rider type: Climber
Short Bio:

Matteo was born in the South of the most beautiful country in the world: Italy. More precisely in Brindisi, a windy city that looks out over the sea. While he was growing up he didn't ever knew what to do. People always told him that he got lots and lots of talents. He firstly wanted to do the chef, then the writer, the footballer, the basketball player, the athlete etc...
One day he discovered how fascinating was riding that bicycle that everyone was calling "bike". When he was 13 he joined the local cycling team and everyone in his team looked to be extremely impressed by the fluency which he was used to while climbing. At 16 years old they decided to take him to one of the most famous climbs of Italy: the Vesuvio. That day, the 15th of June, was a sunny Sunday, not too hot, but hellishly windy: his favourite weather conditions, quite the same as his home-town. More than 60 young riders came there to face the terrible Vesuvio in a race. Matteo won, with quite a margin, too.

Flat: 66 -> 11
Hill: 75 -> 25
Mnt: 79 -> 41
TT: 67 -> 12
Prol: 60 -> 5
Cob: 55 -> 0
Spr: 60 -> 5
Acc: 73 -> 21
Desc: 68 -> 13
End: 71 -> 17
Res: 65 -> 10
Fight: 70 -> 15
Rec: 70 -> 15

Points used = 190/190
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Name: Plusvite Q. de la Lumière
Age: 21
Nationality: French
Rider type: Punchy Sprinter
Short Bio:

His name literally means "faster than light". He is in fact a talented punchy sprinter. Grew up in Epinal, in the Vosges, he has always been a talented athlete. His grandfather, a former Renault-ELF team manager scouted him as a cyclist and he joined the local cycling team. Nacer Bouhanni who was casually in his same team, made him even more interested about cycling and his only goal was to be as good as him. Let's see if he will succeed!

Flat: 73 -> 21
Hill: 73 -> 21
Mnt: 64 -> 9
TT: 60 -> 5
Prol: 70 -> 15
Cob: 55 -> 0
Spr: 78 -> 37
Acc: 76 -> 29
Desc: 63 -> 8
End: 60 -> 5
Res: 65 -> 10
Fight: 55 -> 0
Rec: 70 -> 15

Points used = 175/175
______________________________________________________________________

Name: Jan Kaas
Age: 18
Nationality:
Rider type: Potential all-rounder, mainly good on cobblestones
Short Bio:

Jan Kaas had a difficult and frustrating childhood and teenage. Grew up in Assen, his only outlet was the cycling, trying to take shelter from the daily insults of his so-called "friends". At 14 his family decided to move to the beautiful Utrecht, where he had way more time to pursue his passion.

Flat: 68 -> 13
Hill: 67 -> 12
Mnt: 61 -> 6
TT: 64 -> 9
Prol: 65 -> 10
Cob: 70 -> 15
Spr: 66 -> 11
Acc: 67 -> 12
Desc: 65 -> 10
End: 67 -> 12
Res: 67 -> 12
Fight: 55 -> 0
Rec: 63 -> 8

Points used = 130/130

12 points too much. You need to count the 10 points in RES too and MT is 41 pts if you want 79.

Oops, sorry! Will fix that immediately!

EDIT: I guess that he's good now..?

You'll need an 18 year old rider as well or lower the age of one of them to 20

Pointwise they're ok

Ehh hmm

Matt's Management is proud to announce that Plusvite Q. de la Lumière succesfully joined the FDJ.fr team managed by TheManxMissile as the main lead-out of Demare and Bouhanni and as a leader in the smaller races! He is very happy to find there his old friend Bouhanni!

All 3 riders approved now


I'll add a list with available riders, let me know if I accidently put one on inactive.

Alinejad	Naveed	23	IRN	Champion System
Birtles	Jordan	22	UK	Garmin
Brookes	Fabian	22	AUS	Bardiani-Valvolve
Burton	Josh	19	UK	Cannondale
Cervero	Delfi	23	CR	Androni
Cristobal Riquelme	Jorge	23	CHL	Belkin
De la Montagne	Pierre	21	FRA	Giant-Shimano
De las Campos	Cristiano	23	ESP	Euskaltel
De Vries	Pieter	18	NED	Vacansoleil
Di Silvestro	Drago	20	ITA	CCC Polsat
Dimitriou	Ioannis	21	GRE	NetApp-Endura
Feunard	Aquali	18	FRA	FDJ
Feunard	Pyroli	18	FRA	CCC Polsat
Feunard	Voltali	18	FRA	Champion System
Fischer	Alex	18	DEN
Furan	Pietor	21	UKR
Guido	Mario	18	ITA	Colombia
Hagg	Heimdal	18	SWE	NetApp-Endura
Hanzen	Adrien	23	UK	BMC
Harrini	Fabrizio	18	MOL	Colombia
Hinault	Thomas	21	FRA	Europcar
Hintermuller	Josef	21	GER	MTN Qhubeka
Khamse Khamphan	Lue	23	LAO	Europcar
Kim	Po-ding	23	NKO	Champion System
Llanet	Albert	18	AND	CCC Polsat
McDermott	Erik	23	DEN	Garmin
Miles	Nattrapon	18	UK	CCC Polsat
Milosevic	Spiro	23	CRO	Katusha
Muriel	Christian	23	COL	Colombia
Nokkvason	Johann	20	ICE	CCC Polsat
O'Callaghan	Tom	18	IRE	Bardiani-Valvolve
Pal	Peter	23	FRA	Giant-Shimano
Pennarossa	Silvio	23	SM	Cannondale
Schroder	Christian	23	GER	Europcar
Schwabe	Thomas	21	GER	NetApp-Endura
Shaqif	Marouane	21	TUN	MTN Qhubeka
Sinaga	Firmansyah	18	INA	Champion System
Van Drenthe	Nicky	21	NED	Vacansoleil
Verboven	Rudy	21	BEL	Euskaltel
Von Triesenberg	Mathias	21	LIE	NetApp-Endura
Walker	Dermot	18	UK	NetApp-Endura
Al-Mohney	Ahmed	21	QAT	Androni
Birt	Mitchell	23	AUS	Orica-GreenEdge
Bousche	Erik	18	FRA	FDJ
Calzone	Carlo	23	ITA	Movistar
Juarez	Jose Alberto	18	MEX	NetApp-Endura
Kakhi	Rajesh	23	IND	Champion System
Loewenherz	Richard	21	AUT	Katusha
Nieve	Gorka	18	ESP	Colombia
Tan	Kim	21	JAP
Abundi	Abasi	21	NGA	MTN Qhubeka
Johnson	Diego	23	PER	Orica-GreenEdge
Johnson	Jamel	18	PER	Saxo-Tinkoff
Owniak	Damian	22	POL	BMC
Berg	Soren	18	DEN	Colombia
Bernard	Gregory	23	LUX	Colombia
Charneux	Charlie	18	LUX
Grawunder	Lars	21	GER	Champion System
Kaas	Jan	18	NED
Kaha	Mangere	21	NZ	Belkin
Kusnezov	Ilja	23	RUS	Movistar
La Bestia	Matteo	22	ITA
Lipawsky	Pierre	21	CH	Androni
Lipawsky	Sylvian	23	CH	Androni
Marcus	Krista	18	AUS	Androni
Mashaba	Husani	18	SA	MTN Qhubeka
Plusvite	De la Lumiere	21	FRA
Rosanski	Paul	18	GER
Schneider	Andre	21	GER	CCC Polsat
Weschenbach	Benedikt	23	GER	Team Sky

Don't think you can go more Dutch than Jan Kaas.

Other than this, yesterday, me and the new OPQS' manager Paul23, had a deal as what regarding Matteo La Bestia. The next year he will in fact ride for his team as a leader! Matteo told me he's extremely happy to ride in a WT team and he will most likely focus on the Giro d'Italia hoping to get a nice result.
Now Matt's Management will focus on finding a team for the Super-Dutch Jan Kaas!

Some horrible news coming out of Japan today where Kim Tan was spending time on holiday. After a disastrous season he was ashamed by his performances and was given a mental and physical beating by the Russians. Early this morning he was found dead in his apartment and all the evidence links to hanging himself with his bicycle chain.

Death is just so unoriginal after Chelyakov

My 3rd rider

Name: Ricardo Martinez Machado
Age: 21
Nationality: Portuguese
Rider Type: Hilly Sprinter
Short Bio: Born in the country of Portugal Ricardo enjoyed life through his teen years playing football and hanging with girls but he realized that he would struggle to have a good future if he continued the lifestyle he was living so when he was 17 he dumped his girlfriend and resorted to cycling. The reason that cycling was the sport of his choice is that it took his mind off everything else and made him focus on what he was doing. The turning moment was when he was 18 and he met Alessandro Petacchi while on a cycling holiday in Italy. From this moment his desire was to become a sprinter but not just any sprinter. He wanted to become a sprinter who could go over the hills and win the reduced bunch sprints much like Sagan does nowadays. He has spent the last three years of his life training on the hills and the flats racing against himself and doing sprint exercises. He has continued to play football socially but now cycling is his main sport and he wants to be able to ride alongside his new idol Rui Costa and one day achieve as much if not more than Petacchi did in his career.

He is a dedicated young man who wants to give it all to lead a team, preferably in the WT but will think carefully about offers from all teams.

Stats:

	Stat	New Stat	Points
Flat:	55	70	15
Hill:	55	75	25
Mnt:	55	65	10
TT:	55	60	5
Prol:	55	60	5
Cob:	55	55	0
Spr:	55	78	37
Acc:	55	77	33
Desc:	55	65	10
End:	55	70	15
Res:	55	65	10
Fight:	55	55	0
Rec:	55	65	10
Total:			175
Remaining:			0

You have hilly sprinter. He does well, breaking a few records, grabbing a handful of wins. Then this publicity rivalry develops, grows, gains mainstream recongnition. It comes to an unfulfilling end.
And suddenly everyone wants to be a hilly sprinter

I have a stage racer and a normal sprinter