Simon Geschke	Aleksei Saramotins
Florian Bissinger	Andris Vosekalns
Michel Koch **	Indulis Bekmanis **
Christian Mager *	Gert Joeaar
Willi Willwohl	Timothy Dupont
Phil Bauhaus	Mark Dzamastagic **
Lasse Norman Hansen	Eloy Teruel
Arnaud Grand *	Alexander Edmondson *
Yannick Stoltz	Guillaume Boivin *

* loaned in
** loaned out

Toms Skujins	Greg Van Avermaet
Andris Vosekalns	Michael Van Stayen
Andris Smirnovs	Gianni Meersman
Gatis Smukulis	Yannick Stoltz
Janis Dakteris	Mark Dzamastagic
Andzs Flaksis	Pawel Poljanski*
Indulis Bekmanis	Arnaud Grand*
Maris Bogdanovics	Gabriel Chavanne*
Krists Neilands**	Olli Kulppi*
Evaldas Siskevicius	Philipp Lindau*
Gediminas Bagdonas	Nur Amirul Marzuki*
Michel Koch	Isaac Bolivar*

*Loaned In
**Loaned Out

Thanks!

Margh Norway - We can surely look into that at some point

Atlantius - Could well be. Let's see if we can come to a result a bit quicker as last season

After the end of the season we have meet with our riders to discuss and negotiate new contracts for the upcoming season. 18 of them signed our offer and we are very satisfied with our renewals.

Some riders are missing on the list above. Due to very different reasons we have decided to part ways with them. Some were not evaluated by us to be good enough for our next challenges, with some we could not agree on their value after long negotiations and some negotiations were postponed as we expect them to come to to return stronger from their offseason trainings camp.
These riders have not signed a new contract:

	Tom Boonen	- € 654.000
	Emanuel Buchmann	- € 10.000
	Kai Exner	- € 10.000
	Fabio Nappa	- € 10.000
	Robert Wagner	- € 50.000

The Rider - Thanks a lot! As seen above I have released one of my prize-fruits from last season and the other one is very likely to be sold soon. And you're correct: My salaray cap situation looks awesome.

viking - Guess I'll have to buy more scandinavians in that case to make him look more fitting

Well, he is available but i plan to keep him unless i receive a great offer and need the money for something else.

Basically, every rider is available for the right offer and the table below is pretty much our current list of availabilities which will change depending on my needs and the first signings. We appreciate all offers and will be open for talks about everyone except Dzamaszagic.

First signing of the season is belgian classic hunter Greg Van Avermaet. He will be the successor of Tom Boonen as leader of our cobble season. It is said that the 31 year old from Lokeren has trained harder than ever before and wants to attack Sam Bewley as the world's best classic hunter.

Team scources confirm that he was the No. 1 target since first rumours of the departure of Tom Boonen came up and the team management hurried to get him signed quickly.

After getting the signature under the first signing of the season we feel it's time to present the first sponsor goal for the upcoming season.

After having a big focus on the cobbles for the first two seasons of the team's existence and being most known for finishing on the podium of Paris - Roubaix last season Evonik wanted to keep that focus and asked us to win Ronde Van Vlaanderen.

Greg Van Avermaet will be our leader for the race and we hope that he can beat the likes of Sam Bewley and Marcus Burghardt.