here are my 33 friends for the year
| Name | Price | Popularity |
|---|
| MAS NICOLAU Enric | 1095 | 1 |
| BENNETT Sam | 566 | 43 |
| LOPEZ MORENO Miguel Angel | 563 | 51 |
| LANDA MEANA Mikel | 533 | 20 |
| EWAN Caleb | 482 | 68 |
| HIGUITA GARCIA Sergio Andres | 404 | 28 |
| CICCONE Giulio | 343 | 33 |
| MARTINEZ POVEDA Daniel Felipe | 311 | 32 |
| CONSONNI Simone | 269 | 3 |
| BETTIOL Alberto | 257 | 34 |
| KOOIJ Olav | 249 | 26 |
| IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka | 214 | 3 |
| SOSA CUERVO Ivan Ramiro | 211 | 25 |
| PINOT Thibaut | 207 | 61 |
| ANDERSEN Søren Kragh | 203 | 39 |
| BUCHMANN Emanuel | 190 | 49 |
| HERMANS Quinten | 186 | 2 |
| AYUSO PESQUERA Juan | 178 | 57 |
| IMPEY Daryl | 165 | 1 |
| VAN WILDER Ilan | 137 | 63 |
| HINDLEY Jai | 137 | 62 |
| MARECZKO Jakub | 130 | 5 |
| GROSU Eduard-Michael | 111 | 3 |
| PLAPP Lucas | 97 | 34 |
| TIZZA Marco | 58 | 1 |
| KÄMNA Lennard | 53 | 72 |
| KANTER Max | 49 | 16 |
| MÜHLBERGER Gregor | 45 | 16 |
| VERNON Ethan | 26 | 29 |
| MILAN Jonathan | 25 | 8 |
| EWART Jesse | 5 | 4 |
| UIJTDEBROEKS Cian | 0 | 50 |
| MARTIN ROMERO David | 0 | 2 |
a bit wary about leaving out Rivera. Dumoulin and Jungels, not so much, but could still backfire of course.
As I said, I wanted to follow Ibarguren's move to Movistar a bit, so ended up with guys like Mas (unique), Gorka and Sosa, who looked like having the most potential to me - and because Valverde felt too old to still pick. Apparently others felt that way about Impey, my 2nd unique pick. Third one is Tizza. Vai
Marco Tizza!
Also quite happy with the other rare picks. Hard to say how quick Martin really is, but with not much sprinting competition at Eolo, I felt more confident in him than in Malecki, or Gazprom turning the table for Rivera. Grosu could become no #1 sprinter at Androni as well, and apparently also Consonni is at Cofidis, despite signing Coquard. Maybe I'm a bit overconfident in him, but I think he could do very well if he finds enough hilly races/stages with a sprint in the end.
Celano was another 0-point option for a long while, but last week I read that Sapura's move to Europe may not happen, so he had to go. Same as some other long-timers like Askey, Babor and Hirschi, because I messed up the points
