We are open to receiving offers for all our riders except Krieger, Ruijgh and Van Zandbeek. The riders tagged as 'Maybe' will need good offers to leave us.

We are eager to find a good team to loan out our youngsters Hofstede and Allegaert, so let us know if you think you can accommodate them in your squad.

Our stance may change in the transfer window depending on how we get along. We will post updates regarding the same if the situation arises.

The team management and scouts have been hard at work over the past few days in scouring the lands in search of the perfect riders to bring in to the team for our first season in the PCT. We are delighted to announce that we can now disclose the first of our signings for this season.

The first rider we signed in this transfer window is the Moroccan sprinter quite adept at handling the cobbles. He joins us from Bennelong - Mitchelton, where he spent a large part of his cycling formative years, for a fee of 800,000. We expect big things from Saber and believe we can provide him the type of calendar that will perfectly suit his strengths.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
78.03	75	62	68	64	74	72	78	76	81	79	63	68	70

Next up, we wrapped up the deal for legendary Portuguese puncheur Rui Costa. With hills set to be a big part of our schedule, he could perhaps become the most important cog in our system. His exploits in the ManGame need no introduction and we felt we got an excellent deal from recently promoted Berg Cycles, which was 700,000.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
77.09	70	71	80	76	73	72	72	61	69	72	66	63	76

Our next rider comes to us as part of a rider swap with out fellow German team T-Mobile, with Enrico Battaglin heading the other way. Mai is expected to be a domestique in the mountains, and his wage and strength up the climb convinced us to bring him in.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
72.03	67	77	70	63	67	75	74	50	52	60	55	63	63

David Per is a rider we are very familiar with as he rode in our colours last season. His performances as a neo-pro stunned the cycling world as he turned out to be the Breakout Star of the Year, scoring a whopping 119 points in the Continental Division. This year, he is back riding with us again as we continue our excellent partnership and friendship with now completely Slovenian outfit, Isostar Slovenija. We hope for more of the same from him basically!

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
73.26	75	68	69	72	70	72	69	74	70	73	67	71	71

Following on from our first set of unveilings yesterday, we are now proud to present the next set of riders that will ride in our colours in the coming season.

Our first signing from Free Agency is a young German puncheur with a bright future. Jan Dieteren joins us, having ridden for the (now renamed T-Mobile) Pro Tour team Wiesenhof-Andritz last season. His role will be to support Rui Costa in races where they start together. He will also get opportunities to lead the team in lower division hilly races. He has an affinity to launch an attack very often, so we could get used to seeing him out ahead of the peloton on a number of occasions. His low wage and age make him the perfect capture with a lot of possibilities of his future development open to us.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
74.26	67	70	77	58	75	70	68	51	63	66	80	73	58

Young German classics specialist Lukas Meiler joins us from the Free Agency at minimum wage. He will spend the season on loan at Campari - Super Dry to gain valuable experience in the Continental Division. He is expected to become a vital part of our classics setup in the future.

FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
69	64	69	64	67	67	68	70	63	71	70	65	64
74	64	74	64	72	70	71	77	63	71	75	66	64

Patrick Muller was a rider we had scouted extensively. However, it was not possible for us to sign him because of wage commitments elsewhere, and he signed with recently promoted to Pro Tour, Team UBS, who are based out of his home country. When the opportunity to take him on loan came up, we jumped at the option to do so and he will ride in our colours this season. We have had a good history with loan-ins and a terrific history with Swiss riders so far and hope that Muller is another addition to the same.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
69.06	67	61	71	62	68	67	66	68	63	64	68	60	62

Having secured our leader for the hills and the sprints early on in the transfer window, we have now secured a leader for the mountains and a super domestique to help him reach his goals. Our team is now taking it's final steps towards completion. Here's who we got.

Our biggest signing of the transfer window and our history. Sergio Henao will be our leader in the mountains, as he joins us from Free Agency, having been a part of the now defunct Ferrero - Samruk team last season. After our difficulties in getting the Keizer deal across the line, and finally losing him at the last minute, we knew we had to go big to get a star climbing into the team. We offered Henao a whopping 730,000 wage and he accepted. A lot of the team's point scoring responsibilities will be on his shoulders.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
77.91	70	82	71	71	75	79	77	51	58	73	70	62	71

Joining our Colombian climber extraordinaire will be a super-domestique also from the same country. Jarlinson Pantano will be tasked with the dual role of becoming the super-domestique for Henao in some races, while he leads the team on certain other occasions. He joins us from the Minions for a sum of 300,000.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
73.60	66	79	71	54	73	74	74	51	50	68	63	68	54

Our third and final loan-in of the season will become the first ever Asian rider to ride in our colours. Associate sponsors Unilever have for the second year in a row financed a loan deal for one rider outside of our focus region, and this year Jung is that rider. He comes in from our friends at Campari - Super Dry, who we've talked to to and conducted business with quite a bit this transfer season. We believe Jung will be useful in hilly races.

OVL	FLA	MON	HIL	TT	STA	RES	REC	COB	SPR	ACC	FTR	DHI	PRL
69.96	65	64	72	59	68	70	66	64	62	67	65	63	60

Vien wrote:
Grats on Henao! Will be interesting to see how you plan him around his weaker hill stat

AbhishekLFC wrote:
@Vien: Obviously I don't intend to plan him to meet Lutsenko in the hills very often

@viking: Makes me want to get a wildcard! But what use will that be without scoring points? But hey, a GT is a GT right?