2 rumored to saxo

Bennati and Mikel Snow

EE cannot keep losing their better riders.

Robert Kišerlovski  -- RaNT

and

http://teamsaxobanktinkoffbank.com/ny_news.asp?n_id=3745&lang=uk

Morkov stays with saxo 3 years

Mais non, Monsieur Dim. "Officiel" means official. JTL, Cataldo and Kiryenka are listed as "Officieux", meaning unofficial. Confusing, I admit, but there you go.

oh well thats just silly... I should have known that but assumed they would just put rumeur for rumours..

http://www.radioshacknissantrek.com/news/robert-kiserlovski-join-team

+100000000 bonus points to anyone who saw this coming. Come on. Anybody?

http://www.radioshacknissantrek.com/news/robert-kiserlovski-join-team

+100000000 bonus points to anyone who saw this coming. Come on. Anybody?

All their actitiviy points at an assurity that they will stay together as a team for next season..

Good for Martin and for Garmin. :tu

All their actitiviy points at an assurity that they will stay together as a team for next season..

well radioshack were still renewing riders contracts last year before they went tits up

"What I know for a fact is that he has signed a letter of intent of signing with Team Sky.”

Massively odds on to join Sky, surely? Especially after they've made room for him with the departure of Nordhaug.

yeah think he will go to sky but think he would have done really well at Garmin. not sure why just something in my head said they would be a better fit.

yes Nordhaug has gone but with Joe D apparently coming in the list of climbers keeps on growing.

Devolder to ...................................... RaNT 

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/devolder-in-talks-with-radioshack-nissan

RadioShack manager Bruyneel, who has been charged with doping by the US Anti-Doping Agency, confirmed that he had been in talks with Devolder. “I don’t see why I wouldn’t do that,” he said.

Because he has been  awful the past two years and is obviously not at the same level he was when he won his two Flanders...  :

Because he has been  awful the past two years and is obviously not at the same level he was when he won his two Flanders...  :

to be fair, he didn't look too bad in the early part of the season this year (E3, de Panne and so on - not regarding results, just his style of riding), and I think he crashed early on in the Ronde, didn't he?

His main problem is mental I think, he still thinks he can win the Tour de France, stepped out of the belgian TT championships after being overtaken by Vandewalle and things like that. He certainly has the pure abilities to be a good domestique for Cancellara at Radioshack but I really don't know if he is mentally able to do a job like that.

According to Het Nieuwsblad also Cofidis and Europcar were interested in signing him, so he still seems to be quite well-respected in the peloton - at least more than I expected, I thought he would end up at Willems Veranda like Leif Hoste...

latest from bicicic...

AG2R La Mondiale
High: Steve Chainel (FDJ-BigMat) , Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJ - Big Mat) , Davide Appollonio (Sky) , Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) , Carlos Betancur (Acqua &  Sapone) , Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago CSF)

Low: Sébastien Hinault (IAM cycling), Martin Elmiger (IAM Cycling), Kristoff Goddaert (IAM Cycling), Romain Lemarchand (Cofidis), Nicolas Roche (Saxo Bank)

PRO TEAM ASTANA
High: Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas Cannondale) , Valerio Agnoli (Liquigas Cannondale) , Alessandro Vanotti (Liquigas Cannondale) , Fabio Aru (neoprofesional) , Jakob Fuglsang (Radioshack) , Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini)

Out:  Robert Kiserlovski (Radioshack )

BMC RACING TEAM
High: Daniel Oss (Liquigas Cannondale) , Dominik Nerz (Liquigas Cannondale)

Out: Johan Tschopp (IAM Cycling), George Hincapie (Retired)

Euskaltel Euskadi (new project)
High: Samuel Sanchez , Mikel Landa , Igor Anton and Ion Izagirre (renewed), Jure Kocjan (Team Type 1)

Low:

FDJ - BIG MAT
High: Laurent Manger (Saur Sojasun) , Murilo Fischer (Garmin Sharp)

Out: Steve Chainel (AG2R La Mondiale), Yauheni Hutarovich (AG2R La Mondiale), Gabriel Rasch (IAM Cycling), Rémi Pauriol (Saur Sojasun)

GARMIN - SHARP
High: Rohan Dennis (Jayco AIS) , Nick Nuyens (Saxo Bank Tinkoff)

Low: Christophe Le Mevel (Cofidis), Murilo Fischer (FDJ Big Mat)

KATUSHA
High: Low:


LAMPRE - ISD
High: Mattia Cattaneo  (Neoprofesional)

Low:

CANNONDALE LIQUIGAS
High: Matthias Krizek (Neoprofesional) Low: Vincenzo Nibali (Astana), Alessandro Vanotti (Astana), Valerio Agnoli (Astana), Daniel Oss (BMC), Dominik Nerz (BMC), Eros Capecchi (Movistar), Sylvester Szmyd ( Movistar), Timothy Duggan (Spidertech)


LOTTO - BELISOL
High:  Low:


MOVISTAR TEAM
High: Sylvester Szmyd (Liquigas Cannondale) , Eros Capecchi (Liquigas Cannondale)

Low: Vasil Kiryienka (Sky)

OMEGA PHARMA - QUICK STEP
High:  Low:


GreenEdge ORICA
High: Michael Matthews (Orica GreenEdge)

Out: Robbie McEwen (Retired), Matt Wilson (Retired)

RABOBANK
High: Lars Petter Nordhaug (Team Sky) , 

Low: Michael Matthews (Orica GreneEdge) RADIOSHACK - NISSAN High: Robert Kiserlovski (Astana) Low: Daniele Bennati (Saxo Bank Tinkoff)





SAXO BANK Tinkoff
High: Nicolas Roche (AG2R La Mondiale) , Marko Kump (Adria Mobil) , Daniele Bennati (RadioShack)

Out: Dani Navarro (Cofidis), Nick Nuyens (Garmin Sharp)

TEAM SKY
High: Vasil Kiryienka (Movistar Team) Out: Davide Appollonio (AG2R La Mondiale), Lars Petter Nordhaug (Rabobank), Joan Antoni Arrow (Vacansoleil DCM)


Vacansoleil - DCM
High: Joan Antoni Flecha (Sky)

Low:

Professional Continental Teams
ANDALUSIA
High:  Low: RURAL HOUSING High:  Low:







COFIDIS
High: Jérôme Coppel (Saur Sojasun) , Romain Lemarchand (AG2R La Mondiale) , Dani Navarro (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff ), Christophe Le Mevel (Garmin-Sharp) , Cyril Bessy (Saur Sojasun) , Stéphane Poulhies (Saur Sojasun) , Guillaume Levarlet (Saur Sojasun)

Casualties: Samuel Dumoulin (AG2R La Mondiale)

SAUR SOJASUN
High: Rémi Pauriol (FDJ Big Mat) , Evaldas Siskevicius (La Pomme Marseille) , Julien El Fares (Team Type 1) , Fabien Schmidt (Roubaix Lille Metropole) , Maxime Daniel (Amateur)

Withdrawals: Jérôme Coppel (Cofidis), Laurent Mangel (FDJ Big Mat), Cyril Bessy (Cofidis), Stéphhane Poulhies (Cofidis), Guillaume Levarlet (Cofidis)

SPIDERTECH
High: Timothy Duggan (Liquigas Cannondale)

Low:

EUROPCAR
High: Bryan Coquard (Neoprofesional) , Natnael Berhane (CMC)

Low:

CYCLING MI
High: Johann Tschopp (BMC)  Gabriel Rasch (FDJ Big Mat) , Martin Elmiger (AG2R La Mondiale) , Kristoff Goddaert (AG2R La Mondiale) , Sébastien Hinault (AG2R La Mondiale) , Jonathan Fumeaux  (Atlas) , Sébastien Reichenbach ( Lota Maca) , Marcel Aregger (Atlas) , Patrick Schelling (Atlas) , Marcel Wyss (NetApp), Reto Hollenstein (NetApp)

Low: (Team ups , no casualties)

Mikel Snow resigns 3 years

http://www.deia.com/2012/08/23/deportes/ciclismo/nieve-perpetua-en-euskaltel

and Fabs look set to stay at RaNT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molina

Probably where they train in Italy/Spain (I'll go with the Catalunya option).

Just cutting bits from the release..

Brixia Sport SpA is the new sports company that has taken over the Liquigas-Cannondale Pro Cycling Team project, the professional cycling team led by team manager Roberto Amadio. With Paolo Zani as president and Amadio and Paolo Papetti as managing directors, Brixia Sport has recently acquired Liquigas Sport SpA which has managed the green and blue team since 2004. The wealth of experience from eight years of racing will be not be wasted though as Brixia Sport plans to reinvest it in the team’s future. During next weeks the company will announce also the sponsors and the technical partners that will support this new adventure.

We will strive to strengthen the organisation by making it more international and comprehensive, bringing young riders to the fore and setting ourselves ambitious goals. From a sports perspective, confirming riders such as Basso, Sagan, Moser, Viviani and Caruso is the first major step forward.

And at the end they add that..

In view of 2013 season Brixia Sport has renewed the contracts of 19 riders from the current team for the 2013 season. Ivan Basso, Peter Sagan, Moreno Moser, Elia Viviani and Damiano Caruso will be reference riders of the team and will be joined by Stefano Agostini, Maciej Bodnar, Federico Canuti, Mauro Da Dalto, Ted King, Kristijan Koren, Paolo Longo Borghini, Alan Marangoni, Maciej Paterski, Daniele Ratto, Fabio Sabatini, Juraj Sagan, Cristiano Salerno e Josè Cayetano Sarmiento.

Three, at the moment, the new signings: Italian Alessandro De Marchi (from Androni-Venezuela), Austrian Matthias Krizek (neo-professional rider from Marchiol-Emisfero-Site) and Australian Cameron Wurf (from Champion System) that already wear the Liquigas-Cannondale jersey in 2011. In addition to completing the squad, Brixia Sport’s plans for the immediate future also include focusing on maintain the team’s UCI WorldTour licence that team had already till 2014.

From Janraaskalt on CN


So 22 riders confirmed, but it doesnt seem like Brixia and in the market for big transfers, and it seems the team is going to lose some of its prominence though it will be speaheaded by some very talented young riders..

So finally a bit more clarity on Liquigas's or rather Brixia sport's future....

Wonder if Sep could end up there as well

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/vanmarcke-not-heading-for-belgian-team

Still recon Saxo though