One of the best jerseys I've ever seen, do that piece of work proud viking
Good luck with the real exciting year if I recall, where most of your precious riders will hopefully shine right through everyone else, myself included
After some months of vacation we are up and going again!
The team manager and the sponsors has recently had a meeting about the upcoming season. After some hours of discussion they concluded which races that will be most important for us and where the sponsors really want us to deliver some great results.
There is still some time before we can publish those "goals"
Below here a list of the riders we signed a new contract with and their new wage will be showed also the possibility of the riders leaving the team in a transfer.
Country
Full name
Wage
Transfer availability
Jonas Ahlstrand
€ 410.000
Impossible
Thomas Lövkvist
€ 190.000
Impossible
Martin Reimer
€ 150.000
Unlikely
Kristian Haugard Jensen
€ 130.000
PT Loan
Thomas Vedel Kvist
€ 110.000
Unlikely
Magnus Cort Nielsen
€ 100.000
Unlikely
Johnny Hoogerland
€ 75.000
Possibly
Tobias Ludvigsson
€ 70.000
Impossible
Sten Stenersen
€ 70.000
Possibly
Alexander Wetterhall
€ 55.000
Unlikely
Fredrik Ludvigsson
€ 50.000
PT Loan
Freddy Johansson
€ 50.000
Unlikely
Tormod Jacobsen
€ 50.000
Loan/Sale
Hakon Frengstad Berger
€ 50.000
Loan/Sale
Raymond Kreder
€ 50.000
Unlikely
Havard Blikra
€ 50.000
Unlikely
Christian Bertilsson
€ 50.000
PT Loan
Jonas Bjelkmark
€ 50.000
Unlikely
Ben Hermans
€ 50.000
Possibly
Troels Vinther
€ 50.000
For sale
Anders Ekh Dahlberg
€ 50.000
For sale
Max Öste-Macdonald
€ 50.000
For sale
Phan Age Haugard
€ 50.000
Unlikely
Truls Engen Korsaeth
€ 50.000
Loan/Sale
So we said bye and thanks for your service to Theo Eltink and Kasper Klostergaard.
And our goals for the 2016 season is now official a couple of posts above here.
Edited by viking90 on 10-06-2016 11:36
Interesting status update! Aker - MOT might make contact regarding a couple of the riders listed as unlikely. We will anyway talk when the transfer season starts for real
We can now present some new riders for Spotify - Haglöfs hopefully they can all help us too better days.
Sven Erik Bystrom - 1992-01-21
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76.52
220.000 wage
That´s our biggest signing this season and actually the biggest fee this team ever had paid for a rider. He did cost us 1.300 000 to buy from our neighbour Aker-MOT. Hopefully he can live up to that price tag in the coming seasons.
He will be our absolute leader in hilly races, shocking. (?!?)
Marcus Faglum Karlsson - 1994-07-20
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Pot. 6
1.0 XP
100.000 wage
Swedens next big talent, of course he belongs in this team! (Right?!)
It looks like he can develop to a great GC rider in the future, we really hope that´s true.
Alexander Kamp 1993-12-14
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pot.5
2.0 XP
50.000 wage
Young riders from Scandinavia always taking up our interest, Kamp looks like he can develop good. He´s still allround and wat type of rider he will be in the future is not sure right now. (To be honest the management screwed up a bit and believed he was on XP 1.00...)
We are still working on getting new riders in too strengthen our team...
So far we have not given much energy on present our goals for the season but here is a little post about them.
Win - Paris Tours
This is one for the sprinters, well you may recognize that phrase when I describes the other goals aswell. Obvious it´s a goal build for Jonas Ahlstrand and we hope he can deliver in our only win goal this season.
Top 5 - Berlin ProRace
Another flat oneday race, hopefully a battle between the best sprinters.
Last year a breakaway managed to hold on all the way here and took the win but fastest behind him was Jonas Ahlstrand. This year we hope Ahlstrand will do atleast the same.
Points Jersey - Tour of Norway
Of course we always focus us races from our own region, Scandinavia.
In Norway we will try to fight to win the pts jersey it may come down to Ahlstrand to secure this aswell.
Top 5 - Baltic Chain Tour
This race will go through Sweden, so naturally we are very interested in this race. It start off with a short prolouge where we hope reduce time looses.
After then once again it´s time for Jonas Ahlstrand to start delivering.
Top 5 PCT Team Standings
When picking this goal the management may have been a bit ambitious and a top 10 goal would have been more realistic but with a great piece of luck it could go.
Much rests on Jonas Ahlstrand shoulders, if he has a greatgreatgreat season we can acheive some of these goals. If he has a bad season it will be very tough for us to secure any of these goals.
That's a really nice team you've built. There's a fair amount of teams in PCT i've noticed that have decent leaders, but no depth; you manage to have both. Your sprinting depth is ridicolous, as is your depth in hills. And of course, Kruopis Don't think he would have suited a team much better than yours.
Below will a list of out/in transfer the last week be summed up.
As always the transfer season dont go exactly as you planned before but the team management of Spotify - Haglöfs our quite happy how it went out in the end.
We want to say thanks for your work to the guys leaving us and good luck in your new teams. We also hope our guys that are out on loan can do some nice work for their 2016 team.
Will be hard for you not to promote really, would take some really underwhelming performing of Ahlstrand especially and Bystrom, who is also an incredibly valuable rider.
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