Danilo Napolitano

-In his last years as a topsprinter Danilo would be a perfect role model for any young and promising sprinters we want to train. We already openly declared intrest in this man, and Evian, now La Vie Claire, confirmed he could be available to get transferred.

Tomas Vaitkus

-With AirBaltic disbanding Tomas will become a free agent. He should always be a gread lead-out for any main-sprinter and for that reasen he caught our eyes. Besides, Lithuania isn't too far away from Ukraine, so he should fit well in our team.

The Skettos brothers

-Both Timotheos and Kyriakos Skettos from Cyprus are talented sprinters. They should be able to reach a decent level within a few years.

Jaroslav Popovych

-Ukraine's best known stage racer is at the end of his career. His age should start to prevent him from winning really big races now, and for that reason we think he might be interested to help us develop talanted riders from the region.

Roman Maksimov

-We all know him as the Russian Rocket and his strikingly bad performances have actually caused more people to google the words 'Privatbank', and 'Russian sprinter'. For financial reasons he would certainly be an interesting rider to add to our roster, permanently.

Mikayil Krasnoperov

-Going to the free agency very soon, this climber sure caught our eyes. Very strong on long climbs, and still fairly young. Mikhayil would surely be a great mountain leader.

Jukka Vastaranta

-Also a rider who is going to the free agents. The Fin is a rare puncheur with a very strong sprint. He'd be an awesome lead-out and hills leader for Privatbank.

Rui Costa

-A great rider for 1 week tours which don't have real mountains. His abilities on both hilly terain and time trials should be a great pointssource to survive in the PCT.

Vadim Ratiy

-Ukraine's other great climber has already been linked to both our team and Metinvest by numerous sources. He is a bit more allround than Krasnoperov and would be a great leader for any PCT team.

Ivan Kovalev

-Great against the clock, basically sucks at everything else. Nevertheless he could be a strong rider for the team time trials, a dicipline we lack good riders in at the moment.

Vladimir Karpets

-Karpets is, like some other riders mentioned earlier, in the late days of his career. However, he might still be a great domestique, or even leader in some races.

Aleksandr Serebriakov

-A rider quite similar to Maksimov, and from the same country. Aleksandr misses the real kick to accelerate and would therefore be more a lead-out then a main sprinter.

Gatis Smukulis

-Really strong domesique on flat stages in a stage race. This Latvian has no real expertise and is strong on multiple terains, without being exceptionally good overall.

Yuriy Vasyliv

-Born in Ukraine, riding with a German license, this youngster is a promising stage racer. With the initial goal to train talented riders he would seem to fit great in our team.

Maksym Averin

-One of Polivoda's friends. They've ridden at the same amateur team where they challenged eachother to get better every day, resulting them to be Ukraine's leading sprinters.

Yuri Trofimov

One of the premier stage racers/puncheurs active in the peloton right now. Getting Yuri willing to move to the PCT would be a massive surprise, but we've done surprises before.

Vladimir Efimkin

One of the great old Russians. Vladimir is more then decent climber who should be capable of being a (luxury-)domestique for most teams.

Paride Grillo

A pure sprinter who can't climb that well. He manages to get over speedbumps rather well tho and that should make him a contestand for the somewhat harder sprintstages. He'd be a great lead-out any time too.

Andrei Grivko

Andrei is one of the better puncheurs in Ukraine. He should be able to do well on short, hilly tours with a time trial somewhere.

Roberto Ferrari

A mini-Maksimov. Roberto is a very fast sprinter, which a massive acceleration when he leaves the wheel. He's not great on climbing roads. Therefore we compare him to Maksimov, who seems a bit quicker, but also less strong on rising roads.

Tanel Kangert
Tanel is a really strong rider who can climb very well and has a good timetrial. With the Tour of Ukraine featuring hills and a long time trial Tanel might just be the man to do the job there.

Marko Kump
Multi-talented rider from Slovenia who has a great sprint and can get over hills very well. He should be able to sprint for the win in hilly classics and tough flat stages, like the ones in South Africa or the TDU.

Branislav Samoilev
Like Kangert, this guy is a great all-rounder. He lacks the pure quality of the Estonian but would a very strong domestique in any kind of race.

Krisztian Lovassy
Left without a team last season, this Hungarian sprinter hasn't reached his full potential yet. If transfered to our team he would be an important piece of the sprintingtrain.

Artem Tesler
Same story as Lovassy basically. Had no team last season but would be a good addition to the sprinting core we're expecting to have next season.[/quote]