Goals 1. Win, GP Torres Vedras - Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio 6th 2. Top 5, GP Llodio - Angel Vicioso 5th 3. Stage Win, Volta a Portugal - crap 4. Top 10, Team Rankings - #5 Team Rankings 5. Top 10, Subida al Naranco - Antonio Colom Mas 3rd
Squad Juan Miguel Mercado Antonio Colom Mas Sergio Pardilla Oscar Sevilla Angel Vicioso Gustavo Veloso Jorge Nogaledo Igor Astarloa Eloy Teruel José Carlos Rodrigues Silva André Cardoso Bruno Pires André Vital Jaoa Costa Diamantino Gamboa Paulo Lucas Martins Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha Claudio Corioni Maurizio Biondo Emiliano Rodomonti Pedro Nicácio Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio Mauricio Soler Paúl Torres Yoann Bagot Branislav Samoilev
Major results
11 stage victories
5th in the Final Continental Team Rankings (promoted)
7 KoM and Points jerseys won
Overall Victory in Tour of Slovénie and Rund um den Henninger Turm
Lots of top10s in Stage Races and One-day Races
NCs: Spain (RR), Brazil (TT), Mexico (RR)
2011
Energie-Diesel Pro Tour
Goals 1. Win Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Domenico Pozzovivo 5th 2. KoM jersey in Tour de France - Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio 20th 3. Top10 in Giro d'Itália - Domenico Pozzovivo 4th 4. Top3 Vuelta a Asturias - Domenico Pozzovivo 6th 5. Avoid Relegation - Team 17th
Squad Luis Léon Sanchez Gil Antonio Colom Mas Gustavo Veloso Constantino Zaballa José Joaquin Rojas Gil Angel Vicioso Jorge Nogaledo Jesus Tendero Eloy Teruel Francisco Javier Echarri Domenico Pozzovivo Claudio Corioni Maurizio Biondo Elia Viviani Davide Viganò José Carlos Rodrigues Silva André Vital André Cardoso Bruno Pires Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha Mauricio Soler Leonardo Duque Pedro Nicácio Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio Paúl Torres César Rojas Villegas Fredy Colop
Loaned Out Daniel Allonca Paulo Lucas Martins
Major results
4 Stage Victories + 9 podium places
17th in the Final ProTour Team Rankings (relegated)
2 KoM jerseys won
1 green jersey won
Victory in Rund um Koln + 5 top-10 places in one-day races
4th in the Giro d'Italia + 4 top-10 places in stage-races
NCs: Brazilian TT + RR
2012
Cerne Continental Tour
Goals 1. Top10 Volta a Portugal (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil -1st) 2. Win Volta ao Algarve (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 1st) 3. Win Vuelta a Mallorca(Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 3rd) 4. Top5 Clasica San Sebastian (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 12th) 5. Top10 Team Standings (Team - 27th)
Target Races 1. Tour de Luxembourg (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 5th) 2. Giro del Capo (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 4th) 3. GP di Lugano (Bruno Pires - 26th) 4. GP Montreal (Bruno Pires - 33rd) 5. GP Plouay (Luis Leon Sanchez Gil - 5th)
Squad Luis Leon Sanchez Gil Pedro Nicácio Maurizio Biondo Elia Viviani Bruno Pires André Vital André Cardoso José Carlos Rodrigues Silva Ricardo Martins Bruno Santos José Martins Rafael Reis Bruno Borges Lionel Coutinho Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha Carlos Baltazar Luis Afonso Bruno Silva Antonio Carvalho André Mourato Marcio Portela Marco Cunha Ricardo Vilela Paulo Lucas Martins Gabriel Cerveira
Loaned In Amaro Antunes Nelson Oliveira Jon Ander Insausti
Loaned Out Samuel Caldeira Marc Machado Daniel Allonca
Major results
8 stage victories
18 appearances on the podium
1 Green jersey
27th in the Final Continental Team Rankings
Overall Victory in Volta ao Algarve and Volta a Portugal
NCs: Brazil (TT)
2013
Prio - Porto Pro Continental Tour
Goals 1. Win - GP Tunis ----- Óscar Avelino - 1st
2. Top 10 - Manx International ----- Francisco Ventoso - 1st
3. Top 10 - Clasica San Sebastian ----- Francisco Ventoso - 2nd
4. Top 5 - Volta a Portugal ----- Rubén Plaza - 3rd
5. Top 5 - America Tour Standings ----- Team - 2nd
Squad Rubén Plaza Francisco Ventoso Óscar Avelino Pedro Nicácio Marc Machado Bruno Santos Jose Mendes Rodrigo Nascimento Daniel Allonca Nelson Oliveira Carlos Baltazar Bruno Silva Bruno Pires André Vital Luis Afonso Samuel Caldeira José Martins Bruno Borges Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Rui Pedro Vinhas Ricardo Ferreira
Loaned-out Rafael Reis Vitor Rodrigues
Major results
20 stage victories
29 appearances on the podium
3 Green jerseys
1 KoM jersey
9th in the Final Continental Team Rankings (promoted to ProTour)
Overall victory in Tour of Britain, GP Montreal, Manx International, GP Tunis, Baltic Chain Tour, Volta ao Alentejo and Tour do Rio
NCs: Portugal, Brazil (TT)
2014
Prio - Porto Pro Tour
Goals
1. Top 3 - Vuelta a España: Tiago Machado - 4th
2. Top 5 - Tour de France: Markus Fothen - 18th
3. Win - Vuelta a Colombia: Tiago Machado - 2nd
4. Win - GP Liechtenstein: Tiago Machado - 7th
5. Avoid Relegation: not even close
Squad Tiago Machado Markus Fothen Rui Costa Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Kiel Reijnen Samuel Caldeira Vyacheslav Kuznetsov Domingos Gonçalves Carlos Baltazar Alfredo Balloni Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso José Martins Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa
Loaned Out Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Bruno Borges Dario Antonio
Major results
3 stage victories
8 appearances on the podium
1 KoM jersey
23rd in the Final PT Team Rankings (relegated to Pro Continental Tour)
NCs: Angola (RR & TT) and Brazil (TT)
2015 - 2019
Spoiler
2015
Prio - Porto Pro Continental Tour
Goals 1. Win Volta a Portugal - Tiago Machado: 1st 2. Win Tour of Ukraine - Rui Costa: 2nd
3. Top 5 Tour of South Africa - Rui Costa: 44th
4. Top 5 Tour of Britain - Rui Costa: 9th
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team: 11th
Squad Tiago Machado Rui Costa Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Samuel Caldeira Domingos Gonçalves Carlos Baltazar Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Dario Antonio Ramon Domene
Loaned Out Bruno Borges
Major results
10 stage victories
22 appearances on the podium
2 Points jerseys, 1 KoM jersey and 1 U25 jersey
Overall victory in Volta a Portugal
11th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT) and Portugal (TT)
2016
Porto - Prio Pro Continental Tour
Goals 1. Win Volta a Portugal - Rafael Reis: 2nd 2. Win Tour d'Andorra - Tiago Machado: 6th
3. Win Giro del Trentino - Rafael Reis: 5th 4. Win Colombian Venteaux - Tiago Machado: 1st
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team: 2nd
Squad Tiago Machado Ruben Guerreiro Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Samuel Caldeira Domingos Gonçalves Carlos Baltazar Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Dario Antonio Manuel Betilson Bruno Borges
Major results
Countless stage victories
So many appearances on the podium that I can't be bothered to count
Various Points jerseys, numerous KoM jersey and maybe even a few U25 jerseys
Overall victory in Colombian Venteaux and perhaps other races too
2nd in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT)
2017
Porto - Prio Pro Tour
Goals
1. WinVolta a Portugal:14th
2. PodiumVuelta a España:5th
3. Stage winsevery Grand Tour: 2nd (TTT - Giro)
4. PodiumCopenhagen - Malmo TTT:4th
5. Top10Pro Tour Team Standings:16th
Squad Tiago Machado Ruben Guerreiro Óscar Avelino Nelson Oliveira Rafael Reis Jacob Fiedler Domingos Gonçalves Marlen Zmorka Daniel Allonca Bruno Silva Ricardo Ferreira Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Lionel Coutinho Antonio Carvalho Jaoa Costa Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas João Gaspar Christian Egidio Roy Goldstein Krzystof MArchewka Manuel Betilson Bruno Borges
Major results
Sorry didn't count this year
16th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT), Portugal (RR & TT), Ukraine (TT), Germany (TT), Israel (TT)
2018
Porto - Prio Pro Tour
Goals
Giro d'ItaliaTop 3 Tour of CaliforniaWin Tour de SuisseTop 3 Chrono des HerbiersWin Team Standings Top 10
Squad Tiago Machado Dimitri Claeys Óscar Avelino Rafael Reis Beñat Intxausti Bruno Silva Antonio Barbio Andre Looij Hugo Nunes Frederico Figueiredo Luis Afonso Chun Wing Leung Antonio Carvalho Reda Aadel Rodrigo Nascimento Lluis Mas Rui Pedro Vinhas Paul Junior Maroga Christian Egidio Girogi Nareklishvili Stefan Petrovski Manuel Betilson Bruno Borges
Major results
4 stage wins
20th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Angola (RR & TT), Brazil (TT), Portugal (RR)
2019
Duolingo Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Berlin Pro Race: 15th Oscar Avelino
2. Top 5 Down Under Classic: 3rd Oscar Avelino
3. Win Tour of America: 8th Rafael Reis
4. Top 5 Deutschland Tour: 2nd Zakkari Dempster
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings: 9th
Squad Rafael Reis Óscar Avelino Antonio Barbio Frederico Figueiredo Antonio Carvalho Bruno Borges Ivo Oliveira Rui Oliveira Yuri Trofimov Nikita Razumov Dominique Cornu Tim Merlier Nicola Bagioli Edoardo Affini Fabio Duarte Choon Huat Goh Zakkar Dempster Georgios Bouglas Libin Chen Walter Trillini David Veilleux Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka Shane Archbold Markus Kopfauf Rodrigo Nascimento
Major results
6 stage wins (Romandie x2, Slovenie, Olympia's, Colombiar and ToA)
+ 16 podium appearances (stages and GC)
Overall victory in the Tour de Romandie - R. Reis
9th in the Final PCT Team Rankings
NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Brazil (TT), Portugal (TT), Belgium (TT)
2020 - 2023
Spoiler
2020
Duolingo Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Volta a Portugal - Robert Gesink: 2nd
2. Win Vuelta al Pais Vasco - Robert Gesink: 1st
3. Win Monterrey TTT -Team: 2nd
4. Win Tour of Slovenia - Robert Gesink: 3rd
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team: 10th
Squad Robert Gesink Bruno Borges Yoeri Havik Gerald Ciolek Damien Howson Kyeng Ho Min Kristian Sobota Zoltan Sipos Siim Kiskonen (loaned-in from Farfetch) Alexandr Kulikovskiy (Stagiare) Elias Abou Rachid Gijs van Hoecke Norman Vahtra Antonio Barbio Rui Oliveira Nikita Razumov Dominique Cornu Tim Merlier Nicola Bagioli Choon Huat Goh Zakkari Dempster Walter Trillini Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka Shane Archbold Markus Kopfauf
Major results 14 stage/classics wins (Tour Down Under, Strade Bianche, Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Tour de Pologne, Vuelta a España, Tour du Maroc, Franceville Classique, Hong Kong Challenge, Olympia's Tour, Tour of South Africa, Tour of Slovenia)
+ 18 podium appearances (stages) Overall victory in the Tour of South Africa (Borges), Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Tour de Pologne (Gesink); 2nd @ Volta a Portugal, 3rd in @ Tour of Slovenia (Gesink), 2nd @Olympia's Tour (Howson) Points jersey in the Tour of South Africa, U25 jersey in the Tour of Cyprus 10th in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 3rd in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Gesink) NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Portugal (RR), Korea (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
2021
Duolingo Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Volta a Portugal - Robert Gesink 12th
2. Win Vuelta al Pais Vasco - Robert Gesink 14th
3. Top 5 Tour de Pologne - Robert Gesink 5th
4. Win Tour of Slovenia - Jakub Kaczmarek 11th
5. Top 5 PCT Team Standings - Team 3rd
Squad Robert Gesink Bruno Borges Yoeri Havik Jakub Kaczmarek Damien Howson Kyeng Ho Min Rasmus Quaade Zoltan Sipos Elias Abou Rachid Mark Christian Norman Vahtra Antonio Barbio Rui Oliveira Nikita Razumov Tosh Van Der Sande Tim Merlier Nicola Bagioli Choon Huat Goh Hayden McCormick Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka Shane Archbold
Major results 8 stage wins (Tour of Southland, Tour of Britain, Intertnational Osterreich Rundfahrt, Olympia's Tour, Tour of America, Vuelta al Pais Vasco, Tour de Romandie, Tour of Slovenia)
+ 20 podium appearances (stages) Overall victory in the Tour of Southland (Borges), Tour of Britain (Gesink); 2nd @ Olympia's Tour, Celtic Chrono (Howson), Tour of Vineyards (Min), GP Lugano (McCormick), Vilnius GP (Team) 3rd @ Tour Down Under (Borges) Points jersey in the Volta a Portugal (borges) U25 jersey in the Tour de Vineyards, Tour of Lithuania, Tour of America (Min), Tour of Southland, Tour of South Africa (Oliveira) 3rd in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 22nd in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Gesink) NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
2022
Duolingo Pro Tour
Goals
1. Win Copenhagen-Malmo TTT - Team 3rd
2. Win Tour de France - Eastman 7th
3. Win Tour of Slovenia - Bobridge 11th
4. 12 Stage wins - 3 stage wins
5. Top 5 PT Team Standings - Team 3rd
Jack Bobridge Damien Howson Glenn O'Shea Kaden Groves (loaned-in from Amaysim Cervelo) Cameron Scott (loaned-in from BNZ) Tosh Van Der Sande Michael Van Stayen Alexandr Kulikovskiy Nikita Razumov Joao Almeida Rasmus Quaade Zoltan Sipos Gergely Szarka (loaned-in from Jura-GIANTS) Ryan Eastman Mark Christian Kamil Gradek Gaetan Pons Norman Vahtra Joel Yates (loaned-in from ELCO) Davide Gabburo Mekseb Debesay Choon Huat Goh Elias Abou Rachid
Major results 3 stage wins (Tour of Slovenia, Vuelta a España, Tirreno-Adriatico) + 20 podium appearances (stages)
0 Events won;
Bobridge 4th @ T-A, 5th @ AGR, LBL
Debesay 2nd @ P-R, Roma Maxima, 4th @ Rheden GP, 5th @ RVV, 7th TONE
Eastman 4th @ Vuelta 5th GP Liechtenstein 7th @ Tour 18th in the Final PT Team Rankings; 32nd in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Eastman) NCs: Singapore (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT), Eritrea (RR), Denmark (TT), Hungary (TT), Luxembourg (RR)
2023
DuckDuckGo - Everesting Pro Continental Tour
Goals
1. Top 5 Tour de Suisse - Guerreiro 8th
2. Win Tour of California - Rachid 26th
3. Win Tour of Japan - Arndt 19th
4. Top 5 Tour of the Battenkill - Debesay 7th
5. Win 5 PCT Team Standings - Team 16th
Robert Stannard Nikolaos Zegklis Nikias Arndt Ruben Guerreiro Tomohiro Hayakawa Adrien Petit Alexandr Kulikovskiy Sebastian Henao Rasmus Quaade Zoltan Sipos Kevin Inkelaar(loaned-in from Polar) Clement Kusi Joel Ponce Andy Alihonay Diaz Suarez Santiago Montenegro Norman Vahtra Mekseb Debesay Elias Abou Rachid Kevin Orosco Francisco Guerreiro (Stagiare) Eipor Eiriksson (Stagiare)
Major results Victories: Clasica San Sebastian - Nikias Arndt Runner-up: Strade Bianche, GP Wallonie, Tour of Britain - Robert Stannard Third: GP Kigali - Mekseb Debesay Fourth: Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne - Mekseb Debesay Fifth: Viana do Castelo, Le Samyn - Mekseb Debesay; Tour of South Africa - Robert Stannard 16th in the Final PCT Team Rankings; 27th in Final PCT Individual Rankings (Stannard) NCs: Andorra (RR), Estonia (RR), Ghana (RR & TT), Hungary (TT), Iceland (RR & TT), Lebanon (RR & TT)
A very rich team history and a nice base to build upon this season. With a big leader or two there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to compete for the promotion spots I think.
Curious how you plan to give Stannard the training he deserves this year
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant." [ICL] Santos-Euskadi | [PT] Xero Racing
Probably should've been paying more attention, but it's really awesome how global your team is. A really cool grouping of folks and more than a few folks to catch other manager's eyes.
Hope you'll you've got some even cooler plans for the transfer season.
@jandal:
Having previously postponed by several years the obvious training of a lead puncheur I may feel the need to give Stannard some time to reflect
@seancoll:
Thanks for noticing. We try to build our team around the idea of rejecting riders from nationalities that already exist in our squad. Last year cio tried to swap Herklotz for Zegklis, but we already had Arndt as a german rider, so I couldn't make that work for him.
Seconding Jandal that it would be a shame to not see Stannard trained, although as a rival manager in the same division I laud that you're not looking to do it just yet
Gustavovskiy wrote:
@seancoll:
Thanks for noticing. We try to build our team around the idea of rejecting riders from nationalities that already exist in our squad. Last year cio tried to swap Herklotz for Zegklis, but we already had Arndt as a german rider, so I couldn't make that work for him.
@wj: let's see which way i'm deciding to fumble his progression
@cio: sorry mate. maybe i can sell arndt this year and we try again?
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Avalilability status
As per tradition in the transfer season everyone starts questioning if they can get an Everesting rider. In order to prevent turmoil in the streets we publish our annual availability status.
Nat.
Name
MO
HI
TT
CB
SP
OVR
XP
Age
Av.?
Ruben Guerreiro
76
77
62
63
72
76,34
4.100
30
A
Nikias Arndt
78
75
55
62
70
76,01
4.100
33
V
Tomohiro Hayakawa
63
65
50
57
79
75,56
4.100
32
A
Alexandr Kulikovskiy
64
71
64
61
78
75,17
4.100
27
I
Sebastian Henao
76
76
66
53
63
74,68
4.100
31
L
Elias Abou Rachid
77
70
74
58
62
74,68
4.100
29
A
Norman Vahtra
58
70
55
76
75
74,5
4.100
28
B
Nikolaos Zegklis
70
73
64
65
68
73,34
4.17
28
L
Santiago Montenegro
69
75
64
62
63
73,02
4.27
26
E
Kemp Orosco
74
71
69
60
63
72,09
4.37
25
H
Clement Kusi
66
71
75
61
64
71,23
4.39
28
C
Andy Alihonay Diaz Suarez
69
71
62
64
64
71,14
3.52
23
X
Joel Ponce
70
70
70
64
62
69,97
3.82
27
M
Robert Stannard
73
79
67
67
69
78,42
4.100
26
No?
Everyone is available for the right offer, but Stannard might just be a climb too steep to be conquered.
A busy transfer period has come to an end. Here's how it went for us:
1. Renewals:
We let go of mercenary Mekseb Debesay, who despite us paying him a fortune for two whole years, demanded a 622k salary after his first decline. With him went Zoltan Sipos, Adrien Petit and Rasmus Quaade who already knew they wouldn't be offered new contracts. Stagiaires Francisco Guerreiro and Eipor Eiriksson also suffered the same fate.
2. Getting a new leader Failing to come to terms with Debesay meant we needed to find ourselves a new leader for the team. Free agency was rather sympathetic with us in this regard by offering us the chance to sign Joao Rodrigues in one simple 600k bid.
Joao Rodrigues 30 | Maxed | 600,000
FL
MO
HI
TT
ST
RS
RC
CB
SP
AC
FT
DH
PL
66
81
73
74
73
75
77
55
61
72
70
68
74
3. Deciding where to go from here Having achieved our no. 1 goal we decided we either should: A. Secure funds to train Stannard for a solid foundation for long term success or B. accept we wouldn't bE able to gather said funds and maybe try to strengthen the team for a possible promotion push.
Now we're not as busy as 2kignacio, but we have our schedule constraints. Having little time available to seek and negotiate good deals led us to the remarkable conclusion we should do just that.
First FAs
Rider
Role
Wage
Miguel Angel Benito
Stage race domestique
50k
Thomas Silva
Talent puncheur
50k
Wan Yau Lau
Talent puncheur
50k
4. Selling our soul to the devil Having set our course we managed to attract some attention to our home-grown talents, Vahtra and Kulikovskiy. Both were with us since the birth of the Duolingo project and had just reached their peak potential, but were bitterly sacrificed. A number of other important riders left as well.
These deals, while helping approach our financial goals, left us in a no-man's land with not a great team behind our two leaders and not enough money to train them.
Departures
Rider
Team
Deal
Ruben Guerreiro
Team Würth MODYF
300k + Rider swap
Norman Vahtra
DK Zalgiris
400k
Alexandr Kulikovskiy
Sony - Force India
400k + Rider swap
5. Accepting our fate Transfers were quickly approaching its end. This was when we realized we wouldn't be able to develop our talents without loan deals and wildcards. We had to resort to daily ad publications and PMs to get attention to our riders. We finally managed to get some offers, not without lowering the fees we were asking. Replacing the riders we were selling didn't happen because of all this uncertainty and because, you know, FAs tend to become less scrupulous at the end of transfers. With only 17 riders signed for the season and still looking for money we had to settle for what we had.
Loan outs
Rider
Team
Fee
Nikolaos Zegklis
Team Puma - SAP
-10k
Andy Alihonay Diaz Suarez
Spark Team NZ
100k
More departures
Rider
Team
Deal
Nikias Arndt
JEWA TIROL
400k
M.A. Ahmad Zamri
Genii Hyundai N Cycling
250k
Joel Ponce
Lidl Cycling
200k
6. Completing the task at hand Having reached the conclusion we would have to sacrifice squad quality we decided to close shop and use some of the remaining salary cap for training/wildcards purposes. The roster was finalized with a mix of remaining youngsters and veterans in the market which should bring us a really low point haul but that was the best we could do.
More FAs
Rider
Role
Wage
Levente Vasko
Talent climber
80k
Matthew Riccitello
Talent climber
130k
Gil Gelders
Stage race domestique
50k
Patompob Phonarjthan
Talent sprinter
50k
Martijn Tusveld
Stage race domestique
50k
Peter Kennaugh
Sprint captain
50k
Lorenzo Fortunato
Climber
50k
7. Training camp and wildcard selection
All these dealings at least gave us the possibility of competing in 3 PT stage races: Tour of Qatar, Paris-Nice and Tour of Northern Europe, which will prove invaluable to our talents.
We also had the opportunity to give Stannard the improvement he deserved after the stupendous season he had in 2023:
Robert Stannard 26 | Maxed | 450,000
FL
MO
HI
TT
ST
RS
RC
CB
SP
AC
FT
DH
PL
73
73
81
67
75
76
74
67
69
78
74
69
68
2024 Squad:
Nat.
Name
FL
MO
HI
TT
ST
RS
RC
CB
SP
AC
FG
DH
PR
XP
Age
Pot
R Stannard
73
73
81
67
75
76
74
67
69
78
74
69
68
4.100
26
6
J Rodrigues
66
81
73
74
73
75
77
55
61
72
70
68
74
4.100
30
4
T Hayakawa
73
63
65
50
75
68
76
57
79
79
75
73
50
4.100
32
5
J Hindley
71
72
76
67
75
72
72
55
67
73
76
70
67
4.100
28
6
S Henao
65
76
76
66
71
73
71
53
63
70
68
67
64
4.100
31
5
E A Rachid
70
77
70
74
73
73
76
58
62
68
69
66
73
4.100
29
5
L Fortunato
66
75
72
61
72
75
76
58
62
68
74
66
61
4.100
28
5
D Sunderland
65
76
73
57
65
68
72
60
67
75
71
70
60
4.100
28
3
M A Benito
68
75
70
73
72
71
73
51
56
61
67
62
73
4.100
31
4
S Montenegro
68
69
75
64
69
72
71
62
63
72
71
67
64
4.27
26
6
P Kennaugh
73
54
61
59
68
65
71
54
78
75
66
59
59
4.100
35
6
K Orosco
69
74
71
69
73
67
71
60
63
65
68
63
66
4.37
25
4
T Silva
68
65
72
66
70
72
69
60
71
72
66
66
64
3.0
23
3
M Tusveld
71
72
71
72
68
73
74
61
67
66
68
69
71
4.100
31
5
W Y Lau
68
69
72
64
72
69
67
63
66
70
71
65
64
3.24
28
3
C Kusi
70
66
71
75
69
72
74
61
64
68
72
67
75
4.39
28
2
P Phonarjthan
70
60
63
62
68
72
66
54
73
73
64
66
63
3.88
27
5
L Vasko
62
70
63
61
72
73
74
65
57
61
65
70
54
1.0
22
4
M Riccitello
65
70
64
63
71
65
70
58
60
63
65
69
63
1.0
22
5
G Gelders
67
67
66
66
65
63
68
54
58
63
62
64
69
1.0
22
4
Final thoughts Playing the game of digging for training money for Stannard was definitely risky in the sense we just didn't have the time and networking skills to simultaneously sell half of our riders and battle for meaningful replacements. We ended up with an unbalanced squad heavily dependent on its two leaders and with a calendar which relied on more race days from Stannard. We believe that if we can sustain ourselves in PCT this year we may have a better starting position to build a promotion push for 2025.
Very colorful with all those flags! It's great to see that Phonarjthan gets a chance to develop further with you this season. Good luck, hopefully your strategy with two strong leaders will pay off!
Enjoyed the story. As Bikex said, impressive international array, you and Minions seem to specialize in that.
Stannard is the archetype for the puncheur in the new game I think. I might have been tempted to go MT, SP or AC instead of HI but hard to know the right balance. I think Silva is a hidden gem.
Rodrigues seems like a decent get given the free agent market and that he won't decline like Debesay. Definitely very reliant on the two main leaders, but they're good riders so I would think you'll be alright.
@Bikex: Maybe we could discuss his availability next year then. Thanks, Crossing my fingers.
@UU: Yeah I just decided to go full throttle on his main stat given how expensive it would be to train any other. I agree with Silva being a cool prospect, but wouldn't go as far as calling him a 'gem'
@KO: Gotta ackownledge how busy some of us are MMmm big transfer talk.Drooling already.
@red: Pretty happy with those acquisitions. Rodrigues being the 2nd best stage racer in the FA pool (after Haig) is sweet. Riccitello was kind of a surprise. Was gunning for Piganzoli and/or Vasko as I considered Riccitello to be outside our reach, but really happy to have fished him. Thanks for the words.
@Laurens: Thanks, but the calendar choices we've made can really offset the value they bring to the team. I'm just not very confident this year.
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