Must admit I woul have loved to see you build and work for survival and more in the PT, but of course it's easy to understand your switch of plans.
That future lineup, assuming it starts already in 27 in the PCT, but especially going from 28 in the PT, is looking absolutely magnificent! Congratulations
Two helpful future assets! One regional guy is already decent, but definitely nice to see you're also embracing the latino culture even more. Quispe will make sure he'll feel right at home!
I hope they will play their role in the future. And maybe we'll find some more Latinos still ...
Nice to see you found another local domestique with that Gregoire dude. A shame you had to pay so much, I wouldn't forgive the one causing this if I were you.
I hope to bring nightmares to all puncheurs with G&G for a long, long time!
And the dude who also bid on Gregoire has a very high place on my blacklist reserved for him, just a shame I can't find it at the moment ...
Must admit I woul have loved to see you build and work for survival and more in the PT, but of course it's easy to understand your switch of plans.
That future lineup, assuming it starts already in 27 in the PCT, but especially going from 28 in the PT, is looking absolutely magnificent! Congratulations
There might have been a way to build a proper PT squad for this season, but it would probably have taken some years to transform it into a sustainable long term stint. I actually think the path taken could take us back to PT for 2028 already or at latest 2029 and then we'll enter with a squad built of young regional PT ready leaders!
Igor Arrieta joins us as part of a rider swap for Boileau with Philips – Hero. He’s a minimum wage talent and will develop into a very (very!) attacking mountain goat, so we really hope he’ll already join some breaks this season (although he obviously doesn’t need to have bloody elbows while winning).
A certain manager whose name shall not be mentioned liked our outreach to Latino riders, so we are more than happy to add another Costa Rican TTer to our roster (he’s actually the NC in this discipline). Sergio Arias Villanueva joins us as part of the Boileau swap and will be a very handy TTT and ITT depth rider with still some years in his legs while on a near minimum wage of 55,000.
Alan Boileau has his place in our history books secured as our first ever signing four years ago. But with the next generation coming in we felt the need to give him an opportunity elsewhere (more precisely at our friends from Philips – Hero) while also freeing some cap space.
We've come at a point where you have almost more latino's than us, so I'm going to have to ask you to go back to French riders and talents. They usually come cheaper anyway, definitely the level 3's!
Emiel Verstrynge and is another minimum wage talent that joins us from Bralirwa –Cegeka for a fee of 370,000. He was high on our list pre-transfers as an all-round classics domestique with still a year of development ahead and is planned as part of our classics squads for quite some years to come.
Alexander Hajek adds to our Austrian contingent (and we actually have a long tradition of Austrians in our colours). He joins us as part of Bolt – Eestis attempt to trade every rider on the circuit in and out, costing us a fee of 480,000 with Jesse Kramer on top. He’ll develop into a cool rider for all kind of uphill races (and also joins our squad for our main race goal of the season: plain dominance at the Tour de l’Avenir).
Jesse Kramer only rode for us as a stagiaire, but we wish him the best for his future career nonetheless as he leaves to Bolt – Eesti as part of the Hajek deal.
We also say goodbye to our second stagiaire from last season. We found a nice regional fit for Gabriel Grozev who joins IESE ProCycling Team for a modest fee of 100,000.
