Transfer Winndow closed here's where we are at Cervelo. Satisfied would be the word i would use not exactly as we planned (we wanted two big leaders then a lot of cheap domestiques) but not dissatisfied with how we have turned out.

First thing to note the new teams all did steller jobs (Zain, Duvel and Ethiopian) and all look very strong first season in which wasn't exactly suspected but all add a very intriguing best newcomer race to the season.

This impacts the goal we set out for ourselves which was to promote first time of asking (though the lack of teams in the division also helps this) and we aimied to build a squad that could hit around 1500 (2nd last year) which was a bit more difficult then imagined. and if i had to estimate now i think we've got around 1000 points (variance obviously either side) which should still be solid enough for anywhere from 5th-13th based on last year.

Postivies are I love where we are at in the hills Zordan, Waeytens and Moscon should have the right mix of stats to really make us a force there. The TT depth as an afterthought i'm pretty please with nothing spectacular but this wasn't a priority as I though the market was very high pricing those riders especially when the TT field in CT now looks very strong.

Mountains and Flat I don't mind but we are just missing that one extra leader in the 200-300k mark on either of those fields that should have put us into a higher tier. And i think if we fail this year this will be were the downfall is with the prolonged chase of Debasey costing us time to recruit another target.