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Transfer Season 13/14
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 23-05-2013 09:48
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Strong rumours of Belkin taking over Blanco. However being American, they would expect more international team than Blanco is at the moment.
Telegraff also reported today that Boom is wanted by Team Sky.
Slagter is also wanted by Orica.
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 23-05-2013 11:32
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Not enough good American riders for all those US/US-sponsored teams 
BMC, Garmin, Cannondale, RadioShack - and now probably Belkin too. Plus, there's a few US Pro Cont teams too - and a gazillion Cont ones. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 23-05-2013 11:34
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Boom at Team Sky would be nice if it ever happens  |
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 23-05-2013 11:40
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How can Rabobank not have a Dutch sponsor? 
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 23-05-2013 11:46
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sutty68 wrote:
Boom at Team Sky would be nice if it ever happens
No way. I hope that transfer never happens.
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| Aquarius |
Posted on 23-05-2013 12:05
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baseballlover312 wrote:
How can Rabobank not have a Dutch sponsor?
Well it's no Rabobank any more.
It felt the same when T-Mobile (former Deutsche Telekom) became HTC-Columbia. |
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| CountArach |
Posted on 23-05-2013 12:06
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CrueTrue wrote:
Not enough good American riders for all those US/US-sponsored teams
BMC, Garmin, Cannondale, RadioShack - and now probably Belkin too. Plus, there's a few US Pro Cont teams too - and a gazillion Cont ones.
To be fair of those only RadioShack stands to gain from a domestic American market. The others are either global or aimed at cycling fans around the world.
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| Spilak23 |
Posted on 23-05-2013 12:08
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CountArach wrote:
CrueTrue wrote:
Not enough good American riders for all those US/US-sponsored teams
BMC, Garmin, Cannondale, RadioShack - and now probably Belkin too. Plus, there's a few US Pro Cont teams too - and a gazillion Cont ones.
To be fair of those only RadioShack stands to gain from a domestic American market. The others are either global or aimed at cycling fans around the world.
Radioshack is probably quitting. Trek also aims to sell bikes all around the world
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 23-05-2013 13:55
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alexkr00 wrote:
sutty68 wrote:
Boom at Team Sky would be nice if it ever happens
No way. I hope that transfer never happens.
Debetable.
At Blanco, he has Vanmarcke above him. At Sky he wouldn't. And Sky is a team that would improve him as a rider imo. We'll see though, I think it's clear enough that Sky will try to get at least one classic rider this season.
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| CountArach |
Posted on 23-05-2013 14:23
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Alakagom wrote:
alexkr00 wrote:
sutty68 wrote:
Boom at Team Sky would be nice if it ever happens
No way. I hope that transfer never happens.
Debetable.
At Blanco, he has Vanmarcke above him. At Sky he wouldn't. And Sky is a team that would improve him as a rider imo. We'll see though, I think it's clear enough that Sky will try to get at least one classic rider this season.
Thomas could probably do it already if he wants to go that way. The team just have to realise that EBH isn't right for that sort of racing. But I agree with you (for once), as I think Boom could really get a lot of opportunities at Sky that he wouldn't get elsewhere (see, I can play nice )
Alakagom wrote:
Slagter is also wanted by Orica.
This is a bit weird because between Gerrans and Albasini they already have a couple of good puncheurs. They really, really just need someone for GC and Slagter is not going to provide that.
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 23-05-2013 14:28
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CountArach wrote:
This is a bit weird because between Gerrans and Albasini they already have a couple of good puncheurs. They really, really just need someone for GC and Slagter is not going to provide that.
Well they were rumoured to be going for Uran, but looks like OPQS won battle for him.
They were also trying to get Porte until well, he signed his extension with Sky.
Ulissi is the other name mentioned with Orica, however he's as well more of a puncheur rather than GT rider.
Indeed, GT rider + getting Caleb Ewan abroad the team, who I expect will be very well sough after would the the transfer goals this season for them.
Edited by Alakagom on 23-05-2013 14:29
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| CountArach |
Posted on 23-05-2013 14:33
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Alakagom wrote:
Ulissi is the other name mentioned with Orica, however he's as well more of a puncheur rather than GT rider.
He definitely has a lot of potential in the Mountains and he is showing more every year. Last year he was 21st in the Giro, then you can add in these performances this year:
https://www.cqrank...ceid=24171
https://www.cqrank...ceid=24087
https://www.cqrank...ceid=24089
https://www.cqrank...ceid=23931
He certainly is getting better on longer climbs while still keeping his punch in the hills. I suspect that by next year he will be quite a solid climber and might even be capable of a top 10 in a GT (particularly something like the Vuelta where his ability on the hills comes into play and there are fewer TT kilometres).
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| CountArach |
Posted on 23-05-2013 14:34
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Alakagom wrote:
Indeed, GT rider + getting Caleb Ewan abroad the team, who I expect will be very well sough after would the the transfer goals this season for them.
As I've said here before I think that Caleb Ewan may well stay on the track until the next Olympics. Of course he might do something like what other Australian riders have done recently, which is to ride road in the between years, then switch back to track for a while.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:03
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Rick Zabel is apparently close to signing with BMC.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/telesport/wie...BMC__.html
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| cio93 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:09
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Not quite the team I like to see him the most in. Still, a pro contract is a pro contract.
Pro:
-no big sprinter
-money
Contra:
-no big sprinter
-it's BMC
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| roturn |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:11
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Not sure if this is a smart move for him.
But on the other hand as German talent it`s not that easy to find a PT team these days without a German PT team.
But it depends how much BMC is aiming on the sprints as he could get some freedom of course.
Edit: Zabel`ed for a Zabel post... 
Edited by roturn on 24-05-2013 09:12
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| cio93 |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:15
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roturn wrote:
But it depends how much BMC is aiming on the sprints as he could get some freedom of course.
Though what he needs is not so much freedom but more gaining experience and learning from others, and there's hardly a WT team that can offer this less than BMC, sprinting-wise.
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:15
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It also depends, if BMC will snatch Sagan in the future, as they were said to be trying to gain his services.
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| Jesleyh |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:15
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roturn wrote:
Not sure if this is a smart move for him.
But on the other hand as German talent it`s not that easy to find a PT team these days without a German PT team.
But it depends how much BMC is aiming on the sprints as he could get some freedom of course.
Edit: Zabel`ed for a Zabel post...
Yeah, it's not easy for a German talent to choose a good PT team, I guess.
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| roturn |
Posted on 24-05-2013 09:17
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cio93 wrote:
roturn wrote:
But it depends how much BMC is aiming on the sprints as he could get some freedom of course.
Though what he needs is not so much freedom but more gaining experience and learning from others, and there's hardly a WT team that can offer this less than BMC, sprinting-wise.
This is what I mean. He gets some freedom, which is not bad, but then again in this age it would be better to get that freedom in small "shit races" (Cavendish) and get some experience by a more experienced sprinter, which BMC does not have atm. |
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