Team Sky/Ineos

[roadrash]

teams come and go , tis the nature of things, I cant see any other sponsor coming in with the same budget, which to be honest allowed them to buy up a lot of top tier riders to be nothing more than domestiques. ive read a lot of people complain about that fact but lets be honest, if other teams could afford to do the same , its what they would have done themselves,.... change isn't always a bad thing, all we can do is wait and see

 

[MrPorridge]

Hmmm. Wondering if a leveraged buyout in the style of the Glaziers at Manchester United might be on the cards?
Not being financially savvy, I still don't quite understand how you can buy a very expensive company out with loans and then saddle the company you've bought with repaying the capital and interest on those self same loans. Damn clever stuff though so maybe we could buy them out with a few applications to some of the payday loan companies? (Rates don't matter as uncle Dave will be paying for it.)

As others have pointed out in the thread, there are no shortage of organisations that are associated with the team's success who could be persuaded to part with a few bob for exposure that they, if we're honest, have already had...

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I'm not sure Sky didn't contribute a little bit to the mess themselves. With all that money behind them they should have been squeaky clean..........and had better record-keeping systems. Marginal gains and all that.

It is a shame, however, for the Sky and British teams.

Record keeping was marginal losses

 

[Rusty Nails]

Record keeping was marginal losses

Nothing marginal about it.

 

[Lloss]

Anybody who takes any of the riders is taking a chance IMO.

 

[mjr]

https://www.velonews.com/2018/12/road/signing-froome-would-be-an-expensive-complicated-deal_482469 reckons taking Froome would cost £10m to also hire his preferred helpers, but the author either has gaps in his knowledge or is so hard that he doesn't regard a broken foot as a serious injury.

 

[User169]

They’re going Colombian......

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ecopetrol-linked-with-taking-over-team-sky-sponsorship/

 

[MikeG]

They’re going Colombian......

That's the discussion that we've heard about. I'd be amazed if it was the only ongoing conversation on the subject.

 

[Milzy]

Let’s get all the ridiculous TUE’s for cocaine rubbish jokes out of the way then.

 

[User169]

That's the discussion that we've heard about. I'd be amazed if it was the only ongoing conversation on the subject.

Oh I'm sure they'll be talking to others. Anyhow, we'll know soon enough as April 1 seems to be the deadline for making an application for registration of a new team.

I wonder what all the Sky fans would make of the team being registered as a Colombian team.

 

[Milzy]

Oh I'm sure they'll be talking to others. Anyhow, we'll know soon enough as April 1 seems to be the deadline for making an application for registration of a new team.

I wonder what all the Sky fans would make of the team being registered as a Colombian team.

I bet £10 it will never happen

 

[FishFright]

I bet £10 it will never happen

Because ... ?? Pro cycle teams are like ships, registered at the most advantageous county at the time.

 

[User169]

I bet £10 it will never happen

Well it seems an outside bet, but let’s face it, if Sky wants to be kept in the manner it’s become accustomed, the money’s come from somewhere pretty funky.

 

[Milzy]

Because ... ?? Pro cycle teams are like ships, registered at the most advantageous county at the time.

Should be registered by Yorkshire the best county in the world.

 

[MikeG]

.......April 1 seems to be the deadline for making an application for registration of a new team......

Honest question here (I have no idea of the answer). Will this be a new team? Same team different sponsor.......does that constitute a new team?