Martijn Keizer is the team`s strongest climber and is obviously trying to challenge in the mountain races. Despite his weakness on the hillier stages, he is capable to gain time in ITT`s, where he belongs to the very best.
The team sees this signing as some kind of long-term planning as with the right training he could become a really good rider in any PT stage race.
He is joining us from Team Volkswagen - Mapei, another promoted team.

Luis Leon Sanchez Gil is one of our most experienced riders. He already proved to be a good scorer on the highest level. His combination of climbing at any terrain as also not losing a lot in time trials makes him very valuable and is an important signing in our PT debut season.
As the team`s best puncheur, we also expect him to show himself in the classics.
He joins us from Team Project 1t4i.

José Angel Gomez Marchante was our biggest FA signing and completes our stage race plannings. Despite his age of 34 years already, which makes him the second-oldest rider of our team, he is still an excellent climber.
Different to first two, he is mainly one of those Spanish mountain goat with less strength against the clock.
He comes into our team in the knowledge, that it`s most likely only a 1-year project with him but sees a last chance to perform against the best in the biggest races.

Anthony Roux is our 2nd puncheur and so we expect him to score in the hilly terrain. He was traded in as replacement of Jonathan Bellis and should do well in our team.
We hope he can form a good duo together with Sanchez Gil and eventually can take the pressure from our team with nice attacks.
He is joining us from Team Bacardi.

Lars Boom is the last of our top4 from last years PCT squad and goes into his 3rd season for our team. although his role might be a little bit different to previous years, where he always was in a standout leading role in many races, he still is seen as very important part of the team even though he might have to have more helper roles this year.
His allround skills will make him very valuable in many terrains like all kind of classics and time trials. But he also will get the chance to ride on his own a few times of course.

Sep Vanmarcke is a very interesting rider and was one of our biggest targets. So it`s not surprising, that he was our first PM this season and also our first transfer signing.
The young Belgium goes into his first season since maxed out and can already look back on a nice palmares last year when riding for Venchi in the Pro Tour.
With our best cobbler we hope to be a consistent top10 team in the cobbled classics in 2014 and eventually even surprise with a better result.
He is joining us from PCT team Compal - Merida.

Alessandro Ballan joins us as from the Free Agent market. The Italian is already 35 years but still a very valuable rider in the classics and sprint preparations. You could call him the road captain of our team as he is able to read the situation very well and this way helps our younger leaders.
He surely won`t be able to repeat his 2011 performance where he dominated the PT classics, but last year proved that he is still capable to perform with the best and surprise in some races. That said this year he is not the team`s leader in the cobbled races and so he is having a free role next to supporting Vanmarcke.

Sven Nooytens also joins from Compal - Merida and so is rejoined with Sep Vanmarcke. As 3rd piece in our cobbled squad he is a really good helper which helps our depth in those races.
Despite that he already collected quite a lot experience on PT level and performed some top30`s in the biggest cobbled races. So this surely can help our team a lot as you never know how the pavès will influence the race.

Andrea Guardini will be our top sprinter in this season despite the fact that he is not maxed yet. Next year though, when he reaches his full potential, he is back at his actual team La Vie Claire as we only loaned him.
We hope that the Italian can do well on the highest level against all those top sprinters and eventually surprise with a stage win.

Giacomo Nizzolo is our newest Free Agent signing and our second sprinter. He was our big target the last few days and now we are happy that he decided to ride in our team.
Just like Guardini not maxed yet, but in this case we will take profit from his improvement next season, when he is fully maxed.
Together with Guardini he will make sure, that we are going to challenge all sprints this season as both will get a lot of opportunities.

Alexander Krieger is our youngest sprinter with 23 years only. Still he is already in his 3rd season with us even though he was on a loan deal with Simply Red Bull last year. So it`s his 2nd PT season.
And how could it be any different. Of course he is also not maxed yet, which makes it a nice trio, that we have here.
While having to race as a leadout for the other two in most races, we guaranteed him to find at least 1 stage race, where he is our main sprinter as also the guarantee to let him race in Avenir as our lead sprinter.