Lapeira is a great long-term piece, and Beletta is a true contender for the coolest talent of the class, congrats on both!
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [PT] Xero Racing
Fantastic group of incoming riders. Lapeira is of course awesome and all four unmaxed riders are really cool - Bettles was someone i hoped would go under the radar but obviously you had him on your mind already
Nice riders in general, but Belletta and Chesini stand out as future top talents in your own sponsor country. Chesini at 100k is a steal, and one day Belletta will win a monument. Heard it here first!
Well thats pretty much a wrap on our transfers so for the 2nd half lets see where we got too...
After a huge bidding war erupted for MVP and Pithie we ended up signing the Dutchman for 975k for Bolt-Eesti, a large amount for a man entering his 30's but with the scoring we know he can bring we really wanted to make sure this transfer happens as he was our number 1 priority all off-season. We expect him to mix some easy cobbles with leadership roles at Hilly Stage races and classics.
Georgios Stavrakakis and Constantinos Iannou join us in loans from our friends at Elco-Abea with The Stav also coming with a boost in Cobble stats up to 78. Expect both to feature multiple times this season with the Stav a sneaky points scorer.
Danny Van Poppel comes into to be our sprinter for the season we aren't expecting miracles just to be in the top 10 on most sprint stages will be enough and he should have plenty freedom to lead races.
Alexandor Cataford joins back with the first manager who ever bought him into pro cycling we are hopeful of a few good top 20's from him in the season.
Patrick Olesen is another signed for C2 races with a couple in mind mainly he will also be a good domestique on hilly classics for our two leaders.
Paul Penhoet is a fun Sprinting prospect who will be able to cobble as well, he gives us a sprinting option longer term that we don't currently have across the team.
The definitely Lithuanian Van Mechelen is on loan from DK Zalgiris he should play a couple of really important roles in the cobbled season while Michael Leonard gives us another TT rider we are sorely missing currently.
Finally our 3rd Italian Giovane prodigio Andrea Raccagni proving once asking that if you stick a high ST youngster in front of me I refuse to say no
Nat.
Name
FL
MO
MM
HI
TT
ST
RS
RC
CB
SP
AC
FG
DH
PR
XP
Age
Wage
Mathieu Van der Poel
73
70
74
77
69
78
77
74
72
72
77
77
79
73
4.100
31
237,000
Georgios Stavrakakis
76
61
65
68
75
74
70
66
78
64
68
70
62
77
4.100
28
LOAN
Danny Van Poppel
71
59
61
63
66
73
70
77
63
80
77
55
68
71
4.100
33
225,000
Alexandor Cataford
73
71
70
69
78
73
73
71
66
59
67
66
70
78
4.100
33
130,000
Patrick Olesen
68
75
75
75
62
72
73
74
63
63
73
61
66
61
4.100
32
60,000
Paul Penhoët
71
61
64
67
65
70
72
65
69
72
76
65
68
68
3.50
25
130,000
Vlad Van Mechelen
67
64
67
70
64
71
72
60
71
67
70
68
71
72
1.00
22
LOAN
Constantinos Ioannou
67
68
69
69
67
68
68
67
62
65
71
70
70
68
1.00
23
LOAN
Michael Leonard
71
69
68
67
72
67
63
64
61
60
62
68
65
71
1.00
22
LOAN
Andrea Raccagni
70
67
68
69
68
72
68
61
67
69
71
70
71
68
1.100
22
250,000
And here are the Potential Maxed stats of Penhoet and Raccagni
