After our first six Latin American signings, we decided to throw some Europeans in the mix. We got a hold of our Belgian cobbler, welcomed another national champion and strengthened the team with an Italian time trialist.

We wanted a Belgian cobbler and we found one. In an ideal scenario he would not have cost us this much, but our love for cobbles is more important than battling for promotion (at least this season ) He will share an apartment in Oudenaarde with Jose Gerardo Ulloa, training with him on a daily basis and learning him how to master the cobbles like he does. After this season Jerome will decline, so maybe we can keep him next year with a smaller wage as well.

Having arrived yesterday evening from Swisslion Cycling Team, we still do not understand what he's constantly rambling about. Stefan probably thought he would be joining a Northern Macedonian team because of our red and yellow, which will also be the colors of his national champion jersey this year. Definitely some communication problems though, but no problem, as he's allowed to do his thing wherever he goes. He also gave Marco Guillén a six minute hug upon arrival, as the two riders have worked together before at Swisslion. Guillén explained that North Macedonia was the Costa Rica of the Balkans, and they understand each other without the need to talk.

Luckily, Luca will have less communication problems, as every Italian I know seems to have perfected their Spanish after learning it for one day. We picked him up at the airport with tears in his eyes, as he left the team where it all began for him, Generali. We're happy to have a time trialist, and promise matt17br that we will take good care of him. We bought Luca for 200k. Originally this was 250k, but Generali manager matt17br dropped the price after we agreed to not fly with Air France and KLM this season.

That's it for today, thank you for reading and we hope to be back soon with some more transfer news

While some crazy things are happening on the transfer market this evening, we are happy to announce the tenth rider on our roster

Tenth rider, tenth nationality. We went back to our Latin American roots with Dani Muñoz, who is still quite young and has a lot to improve. It remains unclear whether he will be riding for us this season, but we are looking forward to him being a helpful domestique for any future GC leader we might have. Also, for a change, we signed a rider without (absolutely) terrible backup stats, so drinks are on me tonight!

First of all, Seboka would like to file a complaint against his own team for using the old flag of Lesotho in his presentation table. We apologize, and sincerely do not know how to get the new flag in there. Second of all, Seboka would like to apologize himself for having even worse back up stats than the team's average. We would like to accept his apology and hope he somehow manages to get a good result somewhere to make us forget that we did not spend his salary on a regional talent. Also, Matala is the Lesothian (Lesothuenian? Lesothoney? Lesothonian?) national champion, which brings the total of our team to four. Some people would actually say Lesotho is the Costa Rica of Africa. Let's see what Makala can do for us this season...

Not the youngest, not the cheapest, not really Latin American. However, he is still younger than the average age in Spain (43,1 y/o), still cheaper than Sam Bewley whose mountain stat is only 68 (pathetic if you ask me), and his great great great grandparents could have been conquistadors. All in all, close enough. He won't be able to compete with the Pinot's of this CT, but we hope (and believe) the former pupil of team Philips will be able to compete for a decent result here and there.

That's it for now, Thanks for reading and with some luck there'll be another update tonight

We're back with some transfer news, and are happy to announce our first Avenir eligible rider(s). We're happy that we could stay within our regional focus, and really look forward to develop our own young rider presented in this post, with hopefully more to come soon.

Just an example of what Robinson Steven could turn into, which seems to be a very decent lead out for our future sprinters. He is the second Peruvian in our team, and might have a 1v1 in Rust against teammate Quispe at the end of the season to decide who will be the Peruvian national champion next year.

Next, we would like to announce a loan swap has taken place. Daniel Munoz has been sent to Great Britain (we are terribly sorry, Daniel) to level up this season. We would like to thank cycleYorkshire to give him the opportunity to level up in the PT division. In exchange, we will take care of leveling up one of his future diamonds of the MG, which is...

We hereby promise cycleYorkshire we will take good care of Ethan, and he will speak fluent Spanish by the end of the year.