Roster complete for 2026; all in all, a solid build but just missed out on the extra mountain rider to make this a real promotion contender. I expect around 2500- 2800 pts, which is slap bang in mid-table. We could have gone for another leader to maybe push us up further with Andrea Raccagni's wage, but in the end went for the talent over quality.

I expect MVDP and Lapeira to lead us in scoring Lapeira in particular, to be a big bright spot for the team going forward and could have some fun training routes to maximise his potential. Though for now MVDP will be our top scorer.

Moscon has had to take on a real mixed approach in planning, sacrificing himself at times so we can overall score at a better rate with the bands we ended up with.

Danny Van Poppel had some controversy around his signing but had to be brought in to do a job of just picking up consistent points in sprint races we have. He's not outstanding but is in there to be consistently bagging points.

Special notes for Gabburo, Olesen and Noppe who lead us in our C2 races at different points this season and should all be able to have a strong performance in there choosen races.

Nat.	Name	FL	MO	MM	HI	TT	ST	RS	RC	CB	SP	AC	FG	DH	PR	XP	Age	Wage
	Paul Penhoët	74	62	65	68	65	73	74	75	71	76	78	65	69	68	4.00	26	130000
	Alex Molenaar	74	68	71	73	69	75	73	67	68	70	74	75	72	66	4.100	28	50000
	Dario Belletta	75	66	67	69	66	78	73	68	72	71	73	70	71	66	3.00	23	300000
	Alessandro Romele	72	59	65	69	62	74	70	69	74	74	73	70	64	60	4.00	24	50000
	Ben Turner	72	60	67	72	70	72	70	71	73	72	73	74	75	76	4.100	28	50000
	Andrea Raccagni	71	68	71	72	68	75	70	62	67	71	74	72	72	68	3.00	23	250000
	Cesare Chesini	68	72	74	72	58	72	69	72	62	67	72	69	72	58	3.00	23	100000
	Edoardo Sandri	76	68	68	67	67	73	70	70	65	67	70	76	73	68	4.00	26	50000

baseballlover312 wrote:

Obviously there was some frustration on my end regarding the Van Poppel overbid at the time. Apologies if I let the stress of those first days get the better of me. In the end, it worked out fine for me as it gave me the wage flexibility to pursue stuff like Pedersen for Per. With a two week window, that's usually the case. Though I'm still curious what about Van Poppel made you prefer him at that price to the cheaper but very similar options like Samolenkov, Bonifazio, Grosu, etc.