We'd hate to part with home-grown Giro d'Italia U25 and stage winner and all-around fan favourite James Fouche, but it would be useful to gauge what interest people have in securing his services - a stone-cold CT beast, a top-tier points per wage efficiency co-leader in PCT, or one of the best-suited GT mountain breakaway scorers in the PT. While we lean towards keeping him and so aren't going to go out of our way to sell him (yet... isn't that always the way?), we would like to invite anyone with any kind of offer to get in touch to help us gauge interest and start some conversations. Given the value put on worse riders already during this transfer window, bids in the 700k-1m range would seem a sensible start.
Anything else?
Otherwise, we're always open for chats - our manager has been living his best uni lifestyle and slept through his alarm this morning and gone for drinks this evening so hasn't had all his normal chats so far. If you have any kind of ideas for any kind of deals, want to just have a yarn, or need a PT loan, feel free to flick me a PM here or slide right into my DMs on Discord
Have had nibbles at Fouche but not enough to make us sell yet. Speaking of...
Morne van Niekerk 30 | Maxed | 75,000
FLA
MON
HIL
TT
STA
RES
REC
COB
SPR
ACC
FTR
DH
PRL
76
61
67
78
73
75
72
64
61
67
72
64
77
Hamish Schreurs 31 | Maxed | 75,000
FLA
MON
HIL
TT
STA
RES
REC
COB
SPR
ACC
FTR
DH
PRL
72
54
67
52
75
75
71
77
72
71
64
63
61
Guillaume Martin 32 | Maxed | 50,000
FLA
MON
HIL
TT
STA
RES
REC
COB
SPR
ACC
FTR
DH
PRL
68
75
72
66
74
71
75
52
59
71
63
65
67
All three riders are open for offers! Martin will go from the minimum fee of 50k, Schreurs will have an opening bid of around a very low 350k to gain a top CT leader or PCT co-leader, and Van Niekerk to fill the same roles from around 500k as a starting point. All three likely to be sold if those are met!
Schreurs looks the most likely to leave and has garnered the most interest, 350k will do it and he's yours.
There is a deal thread up for Filippo Ganna, overbids are technically welcome but since this deal is a part swap and fits the rest of my transfer plans it would have to be something much much better
Schreurs continuing to get plenty of interest but nobody biting yet. Ganna deal seems quite settled. Martin still on the block for any takers.
Morne probably off the block, though anyone can feel free to make us an offer. Seeing the prices for worse African time triallists the last few years, I'd like to think he's worth a fair bit though
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In trouble in the transfer sheet? Going over the cap and need to come down? Well we here at Xero Cap Solutions provide a couple of services to help out:
Loan-ins: We loan in a (useful) rider, either paying a majority or 50/50 of their wage and receiving minimum or 0 fee. We're just good like that!
Rider swaps: Mostly centred around Guillaume Martin, though other options could be negotiated for better riders. We can swap Martin, who is a better 50k option than anybody left in Free Agency, for a higher-wage rider with no fee needing to be involved, just pure swapping
James Fouche
Morne van Niekerk
Guillaume Martin
