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[PT'26] Ekoi | Hello, goodbye ...
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 28-07-2026 10:43
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Second Nemo on the first line, great pickups for the season and for the long term future!
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| ember |
Posted on 28-07-2026 11:33
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Must admit I woul have loved to see you build and work for survival and more in the PT, but of course it's easy to understand your switch of plans.
That future lineup, assuming it starts already in 27 in the PCT, but especially going from 28 in the PT, is looking absolutely magnificent! Congratulations  |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 29-07-2026 13:05
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Nemolito wrote:
Two helpful future assets! One regional guy is already decent, but definitely nice to see you're also embracing the latino culture even more. Quispe will make sure he'll feel right at home!
I hope they will play their role in the future. And maybe we'll find some more Latinos still ...
knockout wrote:
Castro was someone i noticed with a very interesting skill set likely to be cheap in wages for ever!
I take that as a compliment from the grandmaster of useful cheap domestiques!
Nemolito wrote:
What an amazing batch of signings!!!
Nice to see you found another local domestique with that Gregoire dude. A shame you had to pay so much, I wouldn't forgive the one causing this if I were you.
I hope to bring nightmares to all puncheurs with G&G for a long, long time!
And the dude who also bid on Gregoire has a very high place on my blacklist reserved for him, just a shame I can't find it at the moment ...
AbhishekLFC wrote:
Second Nemo on the first line, great pickups for the season and for the long term future!
Now we just have to live through the immediate future 
ember wrote:
Must admit I woul have loved to see you build and work for survival and more in the PT, but of course it's easy to understand your switch of plans.
That future lineup, assuming it starts already in 27 in the PCT, but especially going from 28 in the PT, is looking absolutely magnificent! Congratulations
There might have been a way to build a proper PT squad for this season, but it would probably have taken some years to transform it into a sustainable long term stint. I actually think the path taken could take us back to PT for 2028 already or at latest 2029 and then we'll enter with a squad built of young regional PT ready leaders!
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Posted on 31-07-2026 23:14
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 30-07-2026 20:16
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Igor Arrieta joins us as part of a rider swap for Boileau with Philips – Hero. He’s a minimum wage talent and will develop into a very (very!) attacking mountain goat, so we really hope he’ll already join some breaks this season (although he obviously doesn’t need to have bloody elbows while winning).
Spoiler | | FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | Age |  | Igor Arrieta | 64 | 73 | 70 | 66 | 57 | 68 | 71 | 67 | 61 | 64 | 69 | 80 | 66 | 62 | 24 |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 30-07-2026 20:16
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A certain manager whose name shall not be mentioned liked our outreach to Latino riders, so we are more than happy to add another Costa Rican TTer to our roster (he’s actually the NC in this discipline). Sergio Arias Villanueva joins us as part of the Boileau swap and will be a very handy TTT and ITT depth rider with still some years in his legs while on a near minimum wage of 55,000.
Spoiler | | FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | Age | | Sergio Arias Villanueva | 74 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 77 | 74 | 76 | 71 | 61 | 62 | 68 | 71 | 65 | 77 | 28 |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 30-07-2026 20:17
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Alan Boileau has his place in our history books secured as our first ever signing four years ago. But with the next generation coming in we felt the need to give him an opportunity elsewhere (more precisely at our friends from Philips – Hero) while also freeing some cap space.
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 31-07-2026 08:55
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We've come at a point where you have almost more latino's than us, so I'm going to have to ask you to go back to French riders and talents. They usually come cheaper anyway, definitely the level 3's!
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 31-07-2026 18:58
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Emiel Verstrynge and is another minimum wage talent that joins us from Bralirwa –Cegeka for a fee of 370,000. He was high on our list pre-transfers as an all-round classics domestique with still a year of development ahead and is planned as part of our classics squads for quite some years to come.
Spoiler | | FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | Age | | Emiel Verstrynge | 70 | 66 | 70 | 73 | 56 | 70 | 74 | 55 | 74 | 60 | 71 | 71 | 67 | 56 | 24 |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 31-07-2026 18:59
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Alexander Hajek adds to our Austrian contingent (and we actually have a long tradition of Austrians in our colours). He joins us as part of Bolt – Eestis attempt to trade every rider on the circuit in and out, costing us a fee of 480,000 with Jesse Kramer on top. He’ll develop into a cool rider for all kind of uphill races (and also joins our squad for our main race goal of the season: plain dominance at the Tour de l’Avenir).
Spoiler | | FL | MO | MM | HI | TT | ST | RS | RC | CB | SP | AC | FG | DH | PR | Age | | Alexander Hajek | 67 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 61 | 71 | 72 | 71 | 57 | 58 | 68 | 66 | 71 | 58 | 23 |
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 31-07-2026 18:59
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Jesse Kramer only rode for us as a stagiaire, but we wish him the best for his future career nonetheless as he leaves to Bolt – Eesti as part of the Hajek deal.
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 31-07-2026 18:59
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We also say goodbye to our second stagiaire from last season. We found a nice regional fit for Gabriel Grozev who joins IESE ProCycling Team for a modest fee of 100,000.
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