We can now present our squad for upcoming season, we have strenghten our mountain-squad but other then that its more or less the same as last season and we will have a very hard time to stay up in the ProTour...
Team Leaders
Jonas Ahlstrand - 30 y.o - 690.000
Team legend Jonas Ahlstrand is of course with ut this year aswell, last season he had his best season ever for us and we hope he will keep on delivering in ProTour!
Jose Alarcon - 32 y.o - 750.000
Coming in too transfer our biggest goal was to strengthen our mountains/gc squad, Alarcon was not our first choiche but we are still happy too have one of the best rider when it comes to ride up mountains!
Joeri Stallaert - 29 y.o - 500.000
Stallaert deliver some nice wins last season but also failed in a few races, hopefully he will be more consistent in the cobble races this year and he is a key for our season if we will even have a little chance to stay up!
Kristian Haugard Jensen - 29 y.o - 240.000
KHJ is our leader when it comes to hillyraces, we dont expect him to win any Ardennes classics but we hope he can sneak in to top 10 or even a surprising top 5 in one race!
Stage Racers
Richard Antonio Carapaz - 27 y.o - 260.000
Transfer in from MOL, Carapaz will be our leaders in mountain races when Alarcon is not there, he is even a bit better in TT then mr Alarcon.
Marcus Faglum Karlsson - 26 y.o - 128.000
Faglum Karlsson have trained hard this offseason and it looks like he have taking a further step in surviving mountains! With his strong backup-stats we hope he will upset his opponement in a few races and maybe even in a GT?!
Climbers
Havard Blikra - 29 y.o - 50.000
Tobias Ludvigsson left us late in transfer season on a deal we just could not refuse, unfortunaly we did not have enough time to secure a replacement for him so Blikra will be our only real Climber-helper and that really sucks, we really should have got alteast one more rider inte this category....
Cobblers
Nejc Kosic - 30 y.o - 50.000
Swap deal with Polar took mr Kosic in to our team and he will be a very valued helper for Stallaert in every race where we will find Cobble sections!
Laurens Sweeck - 27 y.o - 50.000
We had a few teams asking about Laurens in transfer season but since he has develop too what he is in our team we were not willing to let him go, just like Kosic he will of course help Stallaert.
Rasmus Tiller - 24 y.o - 65.000
Our norwegian talent that will enjoy a year at the highest level and most likely develop further, in a few years he will maybe be our leader on the cobbles!
Sprinters
Davide Appollonio - 31 y.o - 115.000
Italian guy who comes in from our neighbour fron Denmark, Carlsberg.
Super leadout for Ahlstrand in a few races and chance to shine for himself in other races!
Kristofer Halvorsen - 24 y.o - 128.000
One more talent from Norway that will have a important year for his development upcoming season, will most leadout Ahlstrand and learn how to races those final km´s!
TT´s
Phan-Age Haugard - 28 y.o - 50.000 Haugard have been with us many years now and we hope he can continue to snatch a few points in TimeTrials and be helpful in TTT!
Victor Campanaerts - 29 y.o - 50.000
Have not been with us as many years as Haugard but other then that we could write the same text about Victor!
Harry Tanfield - 26 y.o - 50.000
Not even maxed but still a good TT and a year at the highest level will get his TT-stat even better!
Ronan van Zandbeek - 32 y.o - 60.000
Another TT-guy we secured late in transfer most because Sten Stenersen left us we felt we needed one or two new TT´s who will be important in TTT...
Dion Beukeboom - 31 y.o - 50.000
Another TT-guy we secured late in transfer most because Sten Stenersen left us we felt we needed one or two new TT´s who will be important in TTT...
Talents / Loanies
Lucas Eriksson - 24 y.o - 50.000
Sweden new hope when it comes to hills and will develop in to a good puncher after this season!
Andrea Vendrame - 26 y.o - 50.000
Andrea will stay with us one year as a loanie from Centovalli - Fiat, he likes to ride up short hills and will help KHJ!
Kasper Asgreen - 25 y.o - 50.000
Kasper took the bridge over Öresund from Carlsberg to stay with us for a year, he just like Andrea like short hills!
Jasper De Plus - 23 y.o - 10.000 Jasper will join us in the last month of the season to try secure a contract for the next season, he likes to fight alone against the clock!
Jarno Mobach - 22 y.o - 10.000
Just like Jasper , Jarno will join us in the end of the season to try show that he deserves a full contract next year, he prefer to ride on cobblesstones!
Team Presentation is now up for the team that needs to make so miracle next few months for us to even have a chance to stay in the ProTour, hope is the last thing to leaves a person!
We definitely were looking at the same riders this transfer window. Im glad we both got 1 of the 2 best climbers available through FA. I think as two promoting teams, we may have a bit of a rivalry, (friendly for me tho, atleast) but on paper I'd say your team looks better than mine, so it will be interesting to see where we end up.
valverde321 wrote:
We definitely were looking at the same riders this transfer window. Im glad we both got 1 of the 2 best climbers available through FA. I think as two promoting teams, we may have a bit of a rivalry, (friendly for me tho, atleast) but on paper I'd say your team looks better than mine, so it will be interesting to see where we end up.
Yeah, when I had the leading bid on Quintana at 700k I checked over and over again if you had been online too see my bid But when you finally came online you bidded again haha. Yeah, you got the most expensive and most likely the better of them.
You are right there about the rivalry, I think Kinoshita with his training will be very good for you, and I lack depth in espacially Climber department so I´m not sure my team is any better on paper. Good luck hope we both stay up
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But when you finally came online you bidded again 
haha. Yeah, you got the most expensive and most likely the better of them.
