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[PCT22] Cedevita | Development 3/3
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 27-08-2022 09:25
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Couple of nice pickups, especially Govekar. Love a few good regional focus pickups like this 
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| redordead |
Posted on 29-08-2022 08:20
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One of the keys to last season's success was good support for Eddy Beltran for the hilly races. We lost some of that support in renewals, so we were keen to add a rider of this profile. We had to pay a bit of a premium price in free agency, but we acquired a young rider in the peak of his powers.
 Lucas Eriksson | Age: 26 | Lvl: 4.100 | Wage: 200k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 72 | 67 | 78 | 61 | 78 | 74 | 75 | 65 | 65 | 76 | 75 | 71 | 61 |
Eriksson: I know my main role in team is to support Beltran, but he also does a lot of the harder races, where as I will get my own chances elsewhere.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 29-08-2022 09:42
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Some very nice pickups at great wages and nice presentations as always. Surprised Eriksson didn't go for more with that many Scandinavian teams and him still being so young actually. Crncevic in the team should ensure the Bosian lovely national jersey to be kept at Cedevita for ever 
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| redordead |
Posted on 29-08-2022 11:06
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Eden95 wrote:
Couple of nice pickups, especially Govekar. Love a few good regional focus pickups like this
Govekar was my #1 regional target so I'm glad I got him with zero fuss and I actually have a few more regional additions to come
Nemolito wrote:
Some very nice pickups at great wages and nice presentations as always. Surprised Eriksson didn't go for more with that many Scandinavian teams and him still being so young actually. Crncevic in the team should ensure the Bosian lovely national jersey to be kept at Cedevita for ever
Maybe slightly surprised with Eriksson, but he wasn't too cheap either 
We have cornered the Bosnian NC jersey market 
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 29-08-2022 13:31
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Nemolito wrote:
Some very nice pickups at great wages and nice presentations as always. Surprised Eriksson didn't go for more with that many Scandinavian teams and him still being so young actually. Crncevic in the team should ensure the Bosian lovely national jersey to be kept at Cedevita for ever
I of course hoped that Eriksson could be my Swedish Juul-Jensen clone, but figured I'd just buy an older, trained Juul-Jensen clone instead.
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| redordead |
Posted on 30-08-2022 08:16
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Having to replace riders that left in renewals was a theme of our free agency. With that being said this is the final free agent signing that adds some climbing depth to our team. And we were surprised we were able to sign a Frenchman at a very competitive price.
 Geoffrey Bouchard | Age: 30 | Lvl: 4.100 | Wage: 100k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 70 | 77 | 74 | 67 | 70 | 72 | 76 | 55 | 62 | 70 | 78 | 76 | 66 |
Bouchard: Without a bonafide climbing leader I'm sure to get my own chances to shine. Supporting my teammates as well as riding for the best result possible will be my job.
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| redordead |
Posted on 31-08-2022 07:32
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While we mostly get young talented riders from free agency and concentrate that search on the Balkan region, this was an opportunity we weren't willing to pass up. We noticed this rider could be available and after his short trip to Carlsberg he joined us for the minimum 50k fee.
 Fred Wright | Age: 23 | Lvl: 1.54 | Wage: 50k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 68 | 67 | 68 | 67 | 68 | 70 | 67 | 66 | 69 | 69 | 72 | 65 | 67 |
Wright: I've heard about this team's good development programme and it feels good they that they went out to buy me.
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 31-08-2022 07:49
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Wright is a cool rider to play around with development possibilities
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 31-08-2022 08:28
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Bouchard went relatively cheap compared to some fellow countrymen indeed. Wright is a nice pickup for that fee, easy to level up and with many development possibilities indeed like Abhi already stated
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| redordead |
Posted on 31-08-2022 10:22
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A big reason why I bought him. Gonna make him very cool
Nemolito wrote:
Bouchard went relatively cheap compared to some fellow countrymen indeed. Wright is a nice pickup for that fee, easy to level up and with many development possibilities indeed like Abhi already stated
If Bouchard can be what Gilanipoor was or a bit better even, then that would be very nice
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 31-08-2022 12:35
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Really cool few signings to fill some of the outgoing holes, so overall looking at the big picture I think I have to agree with you that your team is doomed and going to get worse and Beltran coming 2nd once and 1st once in the individual standings was a fluke and you'll never promote and continue to backslide all the way into the CT
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| redordead |
Posted on 01-09-2022 09:00
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After free agency was over for us we scrambled to find whatever we could with our remaining cap space and still sizeable transfer fee to spend. When we saw it was possible to increase the number of Balkan riders on our team we pounced on the opportunity. In the end we broke even on that number as we sent homegrown rider  Matija Mestric and a 550k fee to Evonik - ELKO to get our man.
 Milos Borisavljevic | Age: 28 | Lvl: 4.100 | Wage: 100k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 68 | 77 | 73 | 74 | 74 | 74 | 75 | 54 | 59 | 65 | 64 | 68 | 74 |
Borisavljevic: I'll spend quite a few races riding alongside Tadej Pogacar. I'm sure we can form a good duo in the mountain stage races.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 01-09-2022 10:42
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Boris is a great regional rider imo. Looking forward to see what national jersey Ivan can come up with
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 01-09-2022 11:04
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Was interested in Boris myself as he is a really cool rider. Hope he delivers for you
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| redordead |
Posted on 01-09-2022 17:05
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jandal7 wrote:
Really cool few signings to fill some of the outgoing holes
Yeah, I like some regional additions. We'll see how they do.
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so overall looking at the big picture I think I have to agree with you that your team is doomed and going to get worse and Beltran coming 2nd once and 1st once in the individual standings was a fluke and you'll never promote and continue to backslide all the way into the CT
Why even bother commenting? 
Nemolito wrote:
Boris is a great regional rider imo. Looking forward to see what national jersey Ivan can come up with
I'll post the NC shirts in the next week or so
AbhishekLFC wrote:
Was interested in Boris myself as he is a really cool rider. Hope he delivers for you
I had my eye on him for a few years now, but he was never available. So I had to go for him now 
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| redordead |
Posted on 02-09-2022 07:43
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This is another, late in the transfer period acquisition. Having a bit of extra depth in the hilly races and another attacking option doesn't hurt. And by spending the minimum 70k fee we add a different type of puncheur that comes here from Duolingo.
 Hayden McCormick | Age: 28 | Lvl: 4.100 | Wage: 70k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 70 | 66 | 76 | 65 | 74 | 71 | 70 | 53 | 73 | 73 | 67 | 59 | 65 |
McCormick: I'm a quite versatile rider with my sprinting ability, so expect to see me performing odd jobs in all sort of races.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 02-09-2022 09:39
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Always nice to have domestiques with different secondary skills I feel, and so McCormick provides a bit of a kick and that green flat stat that Beltran could possibly do with at times
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
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| redordead |
Posted on 05-09-2022 08:36
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Same as last season we were left with a small amount of wage space left and again we were able to secure two Balkan youngsters to add to our young core moving forward.
 Aljaz Jarc | Age: 23 | Lvl: 1.00 | Wage: 10k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 69 | 63 | 66 | 63 | 67 | 68 | 68 | 68 | 67 | 69 | 72 | 68 | 63 |
 Aleks Bechkov | Age: 23 | Lvl: 1.00 | Wage: 10k | FL | MO | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CO | SP | AC | FT | DH | PR | | 67 | 66 | 64 | 69 | 66 | 66 | 65 | 55 | 63 | 60 | 70 | 66 | 68 |
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 05-09-2022 15:19
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Nice TT stat on Bechkov, might actually be useful for any TTT's you have from August onwards
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| redordead |
Posted on 06-09-2022 07:05
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jandal7 wrote:
Always nice to have domestiques with different secondary skills I feel, and so McCormick provides a bit of a kick and that green flat stat that Beltran could possibly do with at times
We'll see. I hope so.
Nemolito wrote:
Nice TT stat on Bechkov, might actually be useful for any TTT's you have from August onwards
No TTTs past July
I probably could've found a better rider, but it was too tempting to go for another Balkan lad.
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