After a dreadfully disastrous dreadful 2010 season (in which we were a favorite to win the CT rankings and get promoted, but we only managed 21st or something), Wii decided to pull out of cycling and, due to their experience, will most likely never return. With them went our other sponsors, except for Asics and Mazda (because they have cool logos). However, UBS will now sponsor the team along with Annie Chun's, the noodles company. Mmmm...
So here's the bland, boring, bi-colored jersey I made for the event
Anyways, we can wear ugly jerseys if we want!
So, the 2010 team...
Janez Brajkovic - 435,000€
Christophe Riblon - 50,000€
Julián Becerra - 50,000€
Juan Mora - 55,000€
Paolo Savoldelli - 60,000€
Chu Thien Sinelobov - 50,000€
Stefan Schumacher - 550,000€
Michael Albasini - 170,000€
Anthony Roux - 140,000€
Christophe Brandt - 60,000€
Sergio Barrio - 75,000€
Stian Remme - 50,000€
Robert Förster - 120,000€
Leonardo Duque - 99,500€
Maximiliano Richeze - 100,000€
William Connolly - 80,000€
Alexander Kristoff - 50,000€
Christian Müller - 50,000€
Frederik Wilman - 50,000€
Wim De Vocht - 80,000€
Lars Petter Nordhaug - 50,000€
Sergei Komkov - 50,000€
And the list did not have this guy for some reason. Maybe I am missing something?
Gian Piero Signorini (Edit: I put Savoldelli on accident )
?????
So, you can expect to not see many of those riders on the team once I get my expected massively downsized budget
...And that's the end of my first media thing. I will try to post more often during the next season.
Edited by Bushwackers on 02-08-2010 17:42
Goals:
1: Win - Volta a Portugal
2: Promote
3: Win - Volta ao Algarve
4: Top 5 - San Sebastian Classic
5: Top 5 - Giro dell'Emilia
Edited by Bushwackers on 05-03-2010 00:54
Signorini is in your team pre-renewals (so the wages for last season dont really matter anymore), its actually Savoldelli who isnt - since he has now retired.
UBS - Annie Chun's would like to announce to transfers that have taken place. The first one includes the selling of two Scandanavian domestiques, Stian Remme and Frederik Wilman, to team Telenor - SAS. We hope they can be useful members on their new team.
The second is the trade of Janez Brajkovic to Domina Vacanze for Bernhard Kohl and Haimar Zubeldia. In doing this we freed up a little bit of salary room and acquired two decent stage racers. I would like to say sorry to the people that I told I was not going to sell Brajkovic to, but it was a good offer.
If someone would offer something like this for Schumacher...
With the transfer season over, I would like to announce our new additions.
Francisco Perez Sanchez: Yeah, I spent a lot of money on him. Maybe too much. However, he is a good stage racer for a decent salary. He will lead us in all of the mountanous stage races that Bernhard Kohl is not taking part in. We hope he turns out to be worth the money.
Simon Zahner: A good mountain domestique. He is also Swiss, which is an added bonus.
Igor Bogdan: A Ukranian climber that we signed to help us out in the mountains.
Denis Vorontsov: A Russian domestique who still has a little bit of room for improvement.
Jason Kenny: One of two sprinters that I signed because they had high sprint stats. He probably wont do much, but he has room to improve and was only €50,000.
Daniel Thorsen: The other sprinter. He is similar to Jason Kenny, except he won't be getting any better. Again, he was only €50,000, so maybe he will do something, but most likely he won't.
Johan Le Bon: Our French prospect. He will get to be pretty good over time, and since I wasn't able to sign any of the young riders that I originally wanted, I turned to him.
Roman Stricker: A Swiss stagaire that can at most become a mediocre time trialist.
Christopher Jull-Jensen: Another stagaire, this time from Denmark.
And here are the riders and their salaries for 2011:
Christopher Juul-Jensen €10,000
Roman Stricker €10,000
Johan Le Bon €125,000
Daniel Thorsen €50,000
Jason Kenny €50,000
Simon Zahner €60,000
Igor Bogdan €50,000
Francisco Perez Sanchez €200,000
Christian Müller €50,000
Robert Förster €70,000
Christophe Riblon €60,000
Bernhard Kohl €400,000
Michael Albasini €130,000
Maximiliano Richeze €100,000
Gian Piero Signorini €50,000
Sergio Barrio €50,000
Stefan Schumacher €550,000
Anthony Roux €100,000
Chu Thien Sinelobov €50,000
Julián Becerra €70,000
Alexander Kristoff €70,000
Haimar Zubeldia €95,000
Juan Mora €50,000
Denis Vorontsov €50,000
And that's that!
Edited by Bushwackers on 02-02-2011 16:57
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