https://www.astana...staff.html

On another message board I post on (completely unrelated to cycling), we have a term for posts that repeat news that has already been posted.

Germans.

It's short for "Germans bomb pearl harbor"... an odd reference to the movie "Animal House". Not sure how that became a byword for late posting.


So that being said...


Germans.

Been out for the whole month, could someone make a summary of Team Sky transfers and serious rumours until now.
I know they signd Gerrans and Boasso Hagen, but who are/will be the others ?

Use this page: https://www.cqrank...nsfers.asp

Thanks

As far as this transfer season goes, Columbia lost a whole bunch of good riders, and only signed young prospects.
My questions are:

1. Are the riders they brought really that good, or is it the long term investment? (i only know about Velits bros and Van Garderen)

2. How come a team that has won 73 races this season doesn't have the money to keep their current young starlets, primarily Hagen and Lovkvist?

[quote]Deda wrote:

2. How come a team that has won 73 races this season doesn't have the money to keep their current young starlets, primarily Hagen and Lovkvist?w

where have you read that it´s because of money they go away ?
maybe they don´t like to race for cavendish in every single race mark is in ?

money makes the world go round

Katusha are very close to signing Jempy Drucker from Differdange

cqranking list Possoni as confirmed to Sky. Nice signing. Very underrated. Like him a lot.

Liquigas sign Bellotti from Barloworld, Dall'Antonia from CSF, Peter Sagan from Dukla Praha, Kristjan Koren from elites (you may remember him from Perutnina Ptuj in 2008), and neo-pros David Cimolai and Maciej Paterski

On another one of mine we say ROI, which stands for Revocation of Independence, because it's a joke that's been done too many times.

https://urbanlegen...cleese.htm

On one that I'm a regular in, we say "It's a ring toss game!" when someone is drifting waaaaay off topic, like for example in a cycling transfers topic

I've been doing a list of all confirmed transfers for 2010 in PCM-Portugal, and i thought sharing with you guys. Only confirmed transfers are listed, me don't like rumours.
Anything missing or wrong, let me know

AG2R - La Mondiale
Maxime Bouet (Agritubel)
Ben Gastaeur (-)
David Le Lay (Agritubel)

Bbox Bouygues Telecom
Freddy Bichot (Agritubel)
Anthony Charteau (Caisse d'Epargne)

BMC Racing Team
George Hincapie (Team Columbia - HTC)
Alessandro Ballan (Lampre - NGC)
Marcus Burghardt (Team Columbia - HTC)
Karsten Kroon (Team Saxo Bank)
Steve Morabito (Astana)
Michael Schär (Astana)
Simon Zahner (-)

Caisse d'Epargne
Christophe Moreau (Agritubel)
Marzio Bruseghin (Lampre - NGC)
Juan Mauricio Soler Hernandez (Barloworld)

CarmioOro - A-Style
Emanuelle Sella (Suspension till 19/08/2009)

Ceramica Flaminia - Bossini Docce
Riccardo Riccò (Suspension till 17/03/2010)
Filippo Baggio (-)

Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne
Romain Zingle (Verandas Willems)
Kevyn Ista (Agritubel)
Jens Keukleire (Soenens - Yawadoo - Germond)
Tony Gallopin (Auber 93)

Euskaltel - Euskadi
Romain Sicard (Orbea - Oreka S.D.A)

Française des Jeux
Arthur Vichot (-)

Garmin - Slipstream
Michael Kreder (Rabobank CT)
Robert Hunter (Barloworld - Bianchi)
Peter Stetina (-)
Jack Bobrdige (Team AIS)
Travis Meyer (Team AIS)
Johan Vansummeren (Silence - Lotto)
Fredrik Kessiakoff (Fuji - Servetto)
Tom Zirbel (Bissell Pro Cycling)

Lampre - NGC
Alfredo Balloni (-)
Enrico Magazzini (Lampre - NGC)
Adriano Malori (Lampre - NGC)
Diego Ulissi (-)
Grega Bole (Adria Mobil)
Alessandro Petacchi (LPR Brakes Farnese Vini)

Liquigas
Kristjan Koren (-)
Maciej Paterski (Liquigas)
Tiziano Dall'Antonia (CSF Group - Navigare)
Davide Cimolai (-)
Francesco Bellotti (Barloworld)
Peter Sagan (Dukla Trencin Merida)

Rabobank
Steven Kruijswijk (Rabobank CT)

Saur-Sojasun
Jérôme Coppel (Française des Jeux)
Rony Martias (Bbox Bouygues Telecom)
Stéphane Poulhies (AG2R - La Mondiale)
Anthony Delaplace (-)
Sébastien Joly (Française des Jeux)
Guillaume Levarlet (Française des Jeux)
Cyril Lemoine (Skil Shimano)
Jonathan Hivert (Skil Shimano)

Team Columbia - HTC
Tejay van Garderen (Rabobank CT)
Leigh Howard (Team AIS)
Patrick Gretsch (Thüringer Energie Team)
Jan Ghyselinck (Beveren 2000)
Peter Velits (Team Milram)
Martin Velits (Team Milram)
Rasmus Guldhammer (Team Capinordic)

Team Katusha
John Gadret (AG2R - La Mondiale)
Joaquím Rodriguez Oliver (Caisse d'Epargne)
Kim Kirchen (Team Columbia - HTC)

Team Radio Shack
Lance Armstrong (Astana)
Sérgio Paulinho (Astana)
Janez Brajkovic (Astana)
Levi Leipheimer (Astana)
Christopher Horner (Astana)
Grégory Rast (Astana)
Sébastien Rosseler (Quick Step)
José Luis Rubiera Vigil (Astana)
Tomas Vaitkus (Astana)
Haimar Zubeldia (Astana) (Subject to confirmation)

Team Saxo Bank
Laurent Didier (Team Designa Køkken)
Jonas Aaen Jørgensen (Team Capinordic)

Team Sky
Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank)
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Columbia - HTC)
Thomas Lovkvist (Team Columbia - HTC)
Simon Gerrans (Cervélo Test Team)
Serge Pauwels (Cervélo Test Team)
Mathew Haymann (Rabobank)
Christopher Sutton (Garmin - Slipstream)
Gregory Henderson (Team Columbia - HTC)

Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
Joost van Leijen (Van Vliet - EBH - Elshof)
Brice Feillu (Agritubel)
Romain Feillu (Agritubel)

Youve got Hincapie down in 2 different teams

Oops. I did that yesterday because he was confirmed in two different teams, but know we know the one i just forgot to remove him for Shack.

You da man jolly

EDIT: off the top of my head, you're missing Chtioui to A&S. That's the only one I can remember.

EDIT2: Lars Petter Nordhaug to Sky as well

morabito & schar, cofidis or bmc?

Copy & Paste mistake.

nice jolly

but I can't let you pass Rasmussen's transfer to Tecos Guadalajara unnoticed