After the most mediocre 2014 season imaginable, having almost no wins at all, our 2015 season in the PCT proved tremendously successful, as we finished inside the top 5 and seized one of the automatic promotion spots. This largely came thanks to tremendous performances from our team leaders, most of whom had stuck with us after we relegated from the PT in the previous season.

This year we are back in the PT and we will be looking to at least stay up. BPost stick with us for the fifth year straight and remain committed to Belgian cycling. The Flandrian government is back with more funding as well, realising how important it is to commit to the sport directly now that Quickstep have disbanded.

We hope that we can once again be the standard bearer of Belgian cycling, and we hope to achieve our target of staying up primarily with Belgian riders and Belgian leaders, while still fostering the next generation of Belgian talent through from youth.

Today, with renewals now completed, we can announce the riders that will be provisionally making up our roster for the coming season. It can be seen that a number of riders have had a large increase in their wages, some of them as a reward for hard work, and others because they are now finally coming into the peak of their careers.

As part of this announcement we are also announcing those riders who will not be joining us for next season. Of particular note here is Johan Vansummeren, who was one of the first riders brought into the team when it started in 2012. He is also notable for bringing in the first win of our team, a late attack during a stage in the Criterium International of that year. The fact that I just knew that fact off the very top of my head should tell you how integral he has been to our team over the history and how closely he has been woven into the history of this squad.

We wish all of our released riders the best of luck in finding a new team. Certainly the young Belgians are worth looking at for any CT team that may want to raise some PCT-quality domestiques all of their own.

In the coming days we will be announcing the availability of our various riders. We expect that a number of them will be available for the right offer, but we anticipate that most of our current leaders will remain leaders in the coming season.

Name	New Wage	Old Wage	Change
Pieter Vanspeybrouck	410,000	350,000	+60,000
Jurgen Van den Broeck	400,000	475,000	-75,000
Kris Boeckmans	310,000	130,000	+180,000
Tim Wellens	360,000	170,000	+190,000
Dominique Cornu	210,000	210,000	---
Joeri Stallaert	160,000	140,000	+20,000
Jens Keukeleire	135,000	147,000	-12,000
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	120,000	50,000	+70,000
Neils Albert	95,000	75,000	+20,000
Romain Zingle	85,000	105,000	-20,000
Eliot Lietaer	50,000	50,000	---
Laurens De Vreese	50,000	60,000	-10,000
Jelle Wallays	50,000	50,000	---
Sven Vandousselaere	50,000	50,000	---
Kevin Fouquet	50,000	65,000	-15,000
Ben Curfs	50,000	50,000	---
William Maesen	50,000	50,000	---
Mathieu La Lavandier	50,000	50,000	---
Welle Jallays	50,000	50,000	---
Victor Campenaerts	50,000	50,000	---
Bart De Clerq	Released	50,000
Jerome Cousin	Released	50,000
Oliver Naesen	Released	50,000
Johan Vansummeren	Released	50,000
Dieter Bouvry	Released	50,000
Niels Vandyck	Released	50,000
Loic Vliegen	Released	10,000

In another announcement today, we are pleased to present the goals for the coming season:



Our ultimate goal is simply to avoid relegation. We are confident that we can put up a much stronger fight this season, with many of our riders who were young when we first came up now reaching their full potential.

We are also targeting a top ten in the Tour de France. Belgians are calling out for a top GT rider and we like to think that if we can push for a top ten here, we can give them someone to believe in. Tim Wellens, we believe, is just that man.

Finally, our other three goals should surprise no one. The Ronde van Vlaanderen is the ultimate goal for the season, as it will be for every single season that we are racing at the top level. Pieter Vanspeybrouck will once again lead us there, and we think that this is easily his best chance to win it ever. Not only that but Vanspeybrouck will be leading us at Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Northern Europe, and we think that a podium is a very realistic goal for one of Belgium's favourite riders.

Ian Butler wrote:
Well, I very heartily wish you that victory in the Tour of Flanders. Go get it!

Today we announce the availability of our riders for the coming transfer season. Each rider has been given a star value to represent how likely we are to listen to offes. The stars mean the following:

* = Don't even bother making an offer.
** = We will at least take offers, but they would have to be quite good for us to listen.
*** = We will accept offers, depending on how the rest of transfers goes for us.
**** = We will listen to offers on this rider, though note that you still have to hit our asking price.
***** = We are aiming to sell this rider.

Note that of course these are not binding, so we will free to knock back any offer at any time.

Name	Wage	Availability
Pieter Vanspeybrouck	410000	*
Jurgen Van den Broeck	400000	**
Kris Boeckmans	310000	*
Tim Wellens	360000	*
Dominique Cornu	210000	**
Joeri Stallaert	160000	*
Jens Keukeleire	135000	*
Guillaume Van Keirsbulck	120000	***
Niels Albert	95000	****
Romain Zingle	85000	*****
Eliot Lietaer	50000	***
Laurens De Vreese	50000	*****
Jelle Wallays	50000	**
Sven Vandousselaere	50000	***
Kevin Fouquet	50000	****
Ben Curfs	50000	***
William Maesen	50000	***
Mathieu La Lavandier	50000	***
Welle Jallays	50000	**
Victor Campenaerts	50000	***

Reports have emerged today that Romain Zingle, who has been with his current Team BPost for a number of years, may be looking for a move away. It is understood that he does not believe that he is capable of leading a PT squad on the hills, and fears that another rider may be brought in, relegating Zingle to super domestique duties.

Zingle would very much like to lead a PCT or even a CT squad, and it is understood that his team are now willing to listen to offers for the young Belgian puncheur.