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I finally found some time to update page 13 - Season 2017 up until now (Tour de Suisse). Conclusion: Tinkoff has had a lot of bad luck lately, probably should have seen it coming with all those 13rd places at the beginning of the season.

Due to the crazy new race days reduction system, Kritskiy was only able to ride 3 races, he crashed during the Tirreno-Adriatico (finished 13rd), came 7 seconds short for a top-5 result at the Vuelta a Espana and crashed again during the Tour de Suisse (finished 87th)... add the disqualification of our team at Classique du Grand-Duché (Chernetskiy 7th) -> A great season so far!

Trofimov only got 4 races left to ride including Copenhagen-Malmo TTT (the others are Tour of Ukraine, Tour of Tasmania and Giro di Lombardia), so it's up to the rest of the team now to prevent relegation: fingers crossed, salt over left shoulder and please avoid ladders, black cats and broken mirrors guys.

We are very pleased to announce our first signing of the transfer window; Sergei Kolesnikov! Kolesnikov already was at our team from 2012 until 2016 (in 2014 he won Stage 20 of the Giro d'Italia), but last year Ferrero - Samruk bought him for a whopping transfer fee of € 676,000. With Ferrero disbanding, Kolesnikov became a "free agent" and signed with us again!

We are very pleased to announce our second signing of the transfer window; Anton Vorobev! Vorobev already was at our team from 2013 until now (he played a key role in the Copenhagen - Malmo TTT victory in 2016), but he won the Russian National Time Trial Championship last year therefore his demands during renewals were quite high. Luckily Vorobev came to the conclusion that Tinkoff is the best place to showcase your Russian NC jersey!

We are very pleased to announce our third signing of the transfer window; Michel Sibilla! Since 2011 we only had 8 non-Russian riders in our team (5 from Belarus; Kiryenka/Sobal/Zharoven/Klimiankou/Sakolou, 2 from Italy; Malori/Dal Col and 1 from Poland; Marycz). Sibilla will be our first Frenchman, he is an experienced cobbler (30 years old) and hopefully he can learn our talents (like Sulimov and Manakov) a thing or two!

We are very pleased to announce our fourth signing of the transfer window; Alexander Porsev! Porsev has been riding for Tinkoff since 2014 (in 2016 he won Stage 4 of the Tour of Norway and the Russian National Championship), he was thinking of retirement, but decided to add at least one more year to his cycling career!

We are very pleased to announce our fifth signing of the transfer window; Artem Samolenkov! Samolenkov joined us last year and gained a lot of experience, with Porsev staying as a road captain Samolenkov's goal is to learn even more and get to his full potential by the end of this year!

We are very pleased to announce our sixth (and biggest) signing of the transfer window; Florian Senechal! Just like his fellow countryman Sibilla, Senechal is a cobble specialist but 5 years younger and he already belongs to the best cobblers in the world. Hopefully he will deliver big time, to do so we build quite a support team for him with guys like Sibilla (81), Sulimov (79) and Zubov (79); Allez, Allez Florian!

We are very pleased to announce our seventh signing of the transfer window; Matvey Zubov! Zubov has been riding for Tinkoff since 2014 (he finished 9th at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad in 2014), he will be part of our four-men-core-cobble-team for this season, together with Sulimov, Sibilla and Senechal!

We are very pleased to announce our eighth signing of the transfer window; Aleksej Kunshin! Kunshin has been riding for Tinkoff since day one/2011 (he already won 2 Grand Tour stages; Vuelta a Espana 2014 Stage 17 and Tour de France 2015 Stage 12), his main goal this year is a stage win during the Giro d'Italia 2018!

We are very pleased to announce our ninth (and last) signing of the transfer window; Ilnur Zakarin! Zakarin has been riding for Tinkoff since 2013 (in 2015 he won Stage 14 of the Tour de France), this year there are no Grand Tours on his race program, instead he will try to collect as many points as possible during 20 races across the world; including Tour of California, Tour of Norway, Tour of Northern Europe, Tour of Tasmania and of course the Ardennes classics!