Khodayari is our first free agency signing with pro experience. The 30 year old will earn the minimum contract worth 50,000 this season.

Farzad is a climber who can do well on both longer and shorter climbs. He has the necessary punch you'd associate with attacking riders and is a daredevil on descents. He will be a part of our mountain train for Lecuisinier but will also get opportunities to attack.

DubbelDekker wrote:
Insane duo of leaders. Absolutely mental

whitejersey wrote:
You might as well start thinking about 2023 already, mental leadership duo!

Gerben Thijssen is our first and so far only loan signing for the upcoming season. The Belgian joins us from Zara - Irizar and we will pay the entirety of his 50,000 contract.

Gerben is a pure sprinter. His climbing is only just good enough that he can survive mountain stages but his strength is his super quick acceleration. He will be our lead sprinter going into the upcoming season.

knockout wrote:
He will be our lead sprinter going into the upcoming season.

Jaako Hänninen returns to professional cycling. The former Valio talent lost a year of development last year when he signed with Polestar but will race this year for us. He signed a contract worth 50,000.

Hänninen is a fairly versatile rider that feels most at home in short stage races. He is quick over the hills but is also fairly strong over longer mountains and in time trials. He has a quick acceleration and can recover from efforts well. For the future, we see the most potential focussing on his strength over hills.

Asbjorn Hellemose is the second nordic talent we have convinced to join us. He signed a contract worth 50,000.

Hellemose is a climber. He likes longer and shorter climbs but dislikes most other races. We see him developing into a strong domestique for Miguel Angel Lopez.

He is the third nordic talent we signed this year on a minimum contract: Fredrik Dversnes signed his 50,000 contract basically at the same time as Hänninen and Hellmose.

Dversnes is an exciting young rouleur. It can be assumed that he develops into a proper flat beast over time with a lot of energy. We could see him developing a secondary liking for the cobbles but might also want him to focus on his attacking skills.

jandal7 wrote:
Three very solid talents to look to the future of the team

One of the busiest rider this off-season was Wojciech Pszczolarski. He started the off-season renewing his contract with Team Popo4Ever p/b Morshynska who quickly sold him to new CT outfit Staffbase - BHP. They went on to trade him to Duolingo in exchange for Yoeri Havik. He already boarded the flight, when news came that Duolingo cancelled the transfer deal. Upon returning to the Staffbase staff base, he learned that a new deal was agreed that sends him to Evonik - ELKO in exchange for cycling legend Yannick Stoltz. This marks his return to the manager that started his career in 2018 when he signed him for their amateur team Signal Iduna.

Pszczolarski is a prologue specialist who can perform in longer time trials and is somewhat decent over hills and in small group sprints. His skill set can be valuable for the few team time trials that we might have to ride as well as for flatter stage races.

Luke Plapp is a very exciting talent that wants to start his career with us. He signed a 325k contract with us but will ride for Staffbase this year who take over 200k of his salary for the year in exchange for a nice fee.

Plapp is a complete stage racer who can excel on longer and shorter climbs and is competent on the time trial bike. We see him as one of the strongest GT riders of the next generation.