Hereby the transfer discussion for ICL19 is opened.
You may want to offer your riders or needs in here, especially when the Transfer Season starts talks on potential deals an offers could take place here.
Transfer Updates will also be posted in this thread.
Edited by Bikex on 13-10-2018 12:10
Following riders are most likely to leave them team:
Tim Wellens - swap with a top talent
Arnaud Geromboux - cash
Daan Olivier - swap for 3x 100 wage riders
Pascal Ackermann - cash
Dieter Bouvry - swap with a top talent
Eduardo Gonzalez - cash
Time for a change? Well kind of: There are there scenarios, and which one we take depends on for whom of the pair we receive the better offer:
Sep Vanmarcke stays, Rigoberto Uran goes: In this scenario we are searching for both money and riders that could strengthen our cobbles squad. It's time to support Vanmarcke properly so that he can finally show why he is the best Cobbler in the ICL. We would sell a couple of assets to make him work properly then, with Uran as the holy grail with his palmares and awesome wage.
Sep Vanmarcke leaves, we receive mostly rider compensation: If we receive a decent leader, we are searching for a guy that does both sprinting and cobbling pretty well, looking for the likes of Degenkolb, Kristoff, Sagan, Phinney. Otherwise it would need another WT leader or World Class talent to make such deal possible.
Sep Vanmarcke leaves, we receive mostly money compensation: We may scrap the idea of scoring big time on cobbles. We'll search for a minor scoring cobbler instead and focus on strengthening our already given strengths like Stage Races and Hills. In this scenario also Rigoberto Uran would likely stay if not very early sold for a convincing offer.
Apart from that we need to make a little bit of cash, hence we are trying to turn our silverware into money. Hence you'll have the chance of signing awesome young guns like Lei (DT star alert!), Dimas and Ollero as well as development wonderkid Alves, who outscored Boileau 2 times in development points in a row. With Groenenwegen and Sarmiento also 2 classy CT leaders on great wages are on offer.
I'm a bit surprised to not have any interest in my riders yet so here is the list of availabilities for now:
Team Leaders - Unlikely to be sold due to the new rules although I'm considering good offers
FL
MO
HIL
TT
PRL
COB
SP
ACC
DH
FTR
STA
RES
REC
Age
Pot.
Marcel Kittel
79
71
74
71
74
64
82
82
69
69
77
74
78
31
7
Peter Sagan
78
70
78
69
78
77
77
82
80
80
78
73
78
29
6
Key Talents - These are supposed to be the cornerstones of our future so i need a great offer to trade them away
FL
MO
HIL
TT
PRL
COB
SP
ACC
DH
FTR
STA
RES
REC
Age
Pot.
Juris Eisaks
77
66
72
70
70
78
73
74
73
74
77
72
72
25
7
Caleb Ewan
76
66
73
69
71
69
78
78
75
68
75
71
74
25
7
Marc Geyer
74
72
75
74
74
72
72
75
75
75
74
73
72
26
6
Jonathan Peiffer
70
76
74
67
68
67
67
73
72
75
75
70
73
24
7
Peter Geissler
75
68
71
69
71
73
76
75
76
72
75
70
74
23
7
Adrien Chaix
69
74
71
67
65
62
65
70
70
75
71
67
72
23
7
Martin Wagner
72
61
68
64
68
65
72
73
72
63
72
68
72
23
6
Niklas Herrmann
67
69
70
64
64
59
66
65
70
71
66
67
64
22
6
Valuable Squad Members - Available for the right prize
FL
MO
HIL
TT
PRL
COB
SP
ACC
DH
FTR
STA
RES
REC
Age
Pot.
Florian Senechal
78
64
72
70
70
80
74
74
72
72
78
73
72
26
7
Willy Willwohl
75
65
69
68
70
67
77
76
74
67
73
68
73
25
6
Charles Engeldinger
70
76
75
68
68
62
66
74
74
75
73
70
72
25
6
Marco Mathis
75
71
73
76
75
66
66
67
71
69
71
70
73
25
5
Toms Skujins
74
67
70
69
68
71
71
70
71
72
72
67
69
28
4
Interesting role riders - available for solid offers
FL
MO
HIL
TT
PRL
COB
SP
ACC
DH
FTR
STA
RES
REC
Age
Pot.
Patrick Gretsch
74
69
69
76
78
64
66
65
68
71
68
68
70
32
5
Juraj Sagan
69
66
71
68
69
69
69
71
65
72
73
68
69
31
4
Jordan Kerby
73
70
70
70
69
70
71
70
72
73
71
66
69
27
4
Transfer Listed
FL
MO
HIL
TT
PRL
COB
SP
ACC
DH
FTR
STA
RES
REC
Age
Pot.
Stefano Locatelli
70
76
73
66
66
59
66
73
70
73
71
67
70
30
4
Ion Izagirre
70
72
73
68
70
68
65
70
72
71
69
69
69
30
4
Marcel Hornig
64
64
65
65
65
56
55
56
70
66
60
61
65
19
5
Kevin Richter
64
64
64
66
64
54
56
62
66
64
58
63
62
19
5
Michael Schulz
61
59
57
60
59
55
65
64
64
59
67
63
62
22
5
So basically every rider is available for the right prize! Come and PM with any sorts of ideas. Cash offers preferred but including riders can work too.
Here's the availlability of Polestar's riders:
Gatis Smukulis (71,6) - we will only consider serious offers
Tanel Kangert (75,8) - HANDS OFF
Ramunas Navardauskas (74,7) - Only huge money offer will be accepted
Sven Erik Bystrøm (71,6) - could be sold for a acceptable fee
Fredrik Galta (75,1) - Only fee which matches his wage and above will be considered
Thomas Nybo Riis (74,3) - We will consider if offers are acceptable
Jonas Ahlstrand (75,9) - HANDS OFF
Jonas Henttala (71,3) - unlikely to be sold, but if the price is right we may consider it
Kim Magnusson (73,7) - Money fee or rider swap can be accepted (subject to approval from shareholders)
Martin Laas (73,7) - Very unlikely to be sold unless some one goes deep into their pockets
Fredrik Ludvigsson (76,7) - HANDS OFF
The remaining riders that are not listed here are from the Telenor Rider Search programme and are not for sale under any circumstances.
An important time of year as everyone scrambles around to make sure their squad is the best it possibly can be! We're no different, although obviously limited by our very strict focus.
This focus on Caribbean cycling means we have no real intentions to sell riders, not that we expect anyone really wants our ridershaving release Lobato and Henao our two stars.
That said, if we were to recieve an offer for Anders Newbury or Xavier Ela we would seriously consider it! Full stats for both riders can be found below. Ideally we'd like a rider swap, exchanging Newbury for a similar level rider from one of our focus. With Ela we'd offer him and some cash money for a rider from one of our focus nations.
As for our plans, we've got one rider marked up in the Free Agency we're gunning for 110%. So it will be a very quiet and simple window for Cool Runnings Warm Cycling, saving plenty of money for Research, Training and Scouting.
Quick update to people who sent me PMs (and anyone else wondering), I'm not going to sell Daniel Oss. I'm interested in making a swap of scouted riders, I'll probably send out messages to those involved tomorrow.
Moreno Moser, Enrique Sanz and Fernando Gaviria won't leave the team, unless we receive an offer that we can't reject or a swap deal
Someone tried a steal on Jarlinson Pantano earlier in this pre-season, so whoever he was, we can start some talks about his future in my team
Pablo Alzaga, Rolando Calo and Dario Guglielmo are the base of our development and won't leave the team. We expect from the first of them to be one of the best if not the best cobbler in U23 level
Our trio of Spanish riders in the team could leave the team with the right offer. Angel Madrazo, Omar Fraile and Manuel Sola are all in their minimum wages, so maybe that can attract better offers?
Michiel Looyen could leave the team, despite the huge progression he's made over the winter. A high pot Dutch rider with a good future ahead of him
About Matteo Rabottini, we are not keen to sell him, being our leader in the mountains
Our last rider is Matteo Pelucchi, who has evolved into a more punchy type of sprinter, and the idea of having him next to Sanz as last year i like it, but he could leave the team anyway
Big news out of Santos-Euskadi this afternoon as the transfer availability of many valuable riders was upgraded! Although they'd all require good deals, the following riders could leave the team in some circumstances!
Available?
Offer Needed
Ospina
Argiro
Maybe
Money
Bennett
George
Possibly
Money
Smith
Dion
Yes
Money
Fellow managers were told to Privately Message the Santos manager or to hit him up on Skype.
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From Allianz team any rider is up for sale, so feel free to PM me.
Exciting riders:
Pierre Roger Latour 77 MO 75 HI 71 TT 410 wage
Sergey Chernetskiy 76 MO 75 HI 73 TT 74 PRL 370 wage
Thomas Damuseau 76 MO 75 HI 350 wage
Genis MArtinez, Juan del Campo, Jose Cervantes all of them 24-25 yerars, 70+ in MO, HI and TT, cheap wage
AND, two of our 100 wage riders can leave for the minimum fee.
All riders except Durbridge and my pot6 riders are available for sale. I don't need to sell all, but a bit of extra cash wouldn't hurt. Surprisingly I'm mainly looking into cash offers.
Currently no time to make a fancy post so I hope it's enough
Be creative, be excited with this gorgeous squad, you can get a piece of it for the right value I do prefer trades over deals, have that in mind
EDIT: Not very prone into making transfers, but PM me in case you have any deal in mind.
Edited by Yellow Jersey on 17-10-2018 00:44
Suntory 
Anders Newbury or 
Xavier Ela we would seriously consider it! Full stats for both riders can be found below. Ideally we'd like a rider swap, exchanging Newbury for a similar level rider from one of our focus. With Ela we'd offer him and some cash money for a rider from one of our focus nations.
