Transfers and rumours 2020/2021

[Brusgaard]

Class name.

View: https://twitter.com/GcnRacing/status/1738550912581292382?t=405X-CHBeWfX_Vw73w95MQ&s=19

Feel bad for our local team (ColoQuick) with whom he signed a contract for 2024 back in August and has been training with since. Full clothing and equipment package (including 3 taylormade bikes) arriving in January for him... Hopefully they can find someone else his size to sign so the money is not wasted.

 

[Adam4868]

Feel bad for our local team (ColoQuick) with whom he signed a contract for 2024 back in August and has been training with since. Full clothing and equipment package (including 3 taylormade bikes) arriving in January for him... Hopefully they can find someone else his size to sign so the money is not wasted.

I'm pretty sure there would of been a nice little earner in there for ColoQuick to sign him early.

 

[Brusgaard]

I'm pretty sure there would of been a nice little earner in there for ColoQuick to sign him early.

Nope, they get nothing. Technically/contractually he isn't/wasn't riding for them before January 1st 2024.

I don't know if the (amateur) junior club he was riding for before gets anything, like in football?

 

[Adam4868]

Nope, they get nothing. Technically/contractually he isn't/wasn't riding for them before January 1st 2024.

I don't know if the (amateur) junior club he was riding for before gets anything, like in football?

Sound happy enough for him ?

 

[DRM]

I reckon they will have someone else lined up, it frees up a space & gives someone else the chance to be a pro rider

 

[Brusgaard]

Sound happy enough for him ?

Sure, they are happy for him - we all are. But the coloQuick DS is just not happy about the current system where they get nothing if a rider breaks his not-yet-in-effect contract to go ride for a World Tour team. The end up paying for the expenses of the training camps and all his new gear. They are only a continental level team, so their budget is nowhere like a WT-team's.

 

[matticus]

Class name. [Theodor Storm]

And the Ineos Performance Manager is called Watts

 

[Jameshow]

Sure, they are happy for him - we all are. But the coloQuick DS is just not happy about the current system where they get nothing if a rider breaks his not-yet-in-effect contract to go ride for a World Tour team. The end up paying for the expenses of the training camps and all his new gear. They are only a continental level team, so their budget is nowhere like a WT-team's.

Why offer that level of commitment without a contract. Why not start on sept 1st if they want to have pre season training camps.

Gone are the days of off season eating and drinking!

WVA and GT excepted!
WVA looked heavy against MVP this week in cyclo-cross!!

 

[roadrash]

they get nothing if a rider breaks his not-yet-in-effect contract

if the contract wasnt in effect, how can he break it, he may break his word but certainly not his contract , how could he it didnt exist until 1st january

 

[Brusgaard]

if the contract wasnt in effect, how can he break it, he may break his word but certainly not his contract , how could he it didnt exist until 1st january

You sign a contract in August to ride for a team come January. You then tear that contract in pieces when you get the better offer. I don't know it that in legal terms is breaking your word or the contract.

What if Roglic gets a really big offer from UAE today and decides to ride for them January 1st?

 

[roadrash]

I am just going off the fact that you said his contract didnt start untill january, now you say he had signed a contract in August to ride for a team come January, never mentioned that initially, however it must be doable otherwise he couldnt have done it, I guess we will never know the ins and outs of it.

 

[matticus]

I am just going off the fact that you said his contract didnt start untill january, now you say he had signed a contract in August to ride for a team come January, never mentioned that initially, however it must be doable otherwise he couldnt have done it, I guess we will never know the ins and outs of it.

Yeah. Either he didn't SIGN (it was just a provisional agreement by both sides), or there were some get-out clauses - in which case I'd be surprised that CoolcoQuick don't get a buy-out payment.
But either way, we don't currently know, any maybe both teams have agree not to talk!

 

[Brusgaard]

I am just going off the fact that you said his contract didnt start untill january, now you say he had signed a contract in August to ride for a team come January, never mentioned that initially, however it must be doable otherwise he couldnt have done it, I guess we will never know the ins and outs of it.

From my original post:
”Feel bad for our local team (ColoQuick) with whom he signed a contract for 2024 back in August and has been training with since. “

Most likely he had some sort of clause in the contract, that he could break it if offered a spot in a higher level team, but of course I don’t know the exact ins and outs. I’m just referring what their DS says in the local newspaper, and he specifically says they get zero money.

 

[DRM]

It's the January 1st thing though isn't it, all the pro's who have changed teams will go on their new teams winter training camp, but will still be in their old team kit, prior to January 1st, so despite having trained with ColoQuick, legally he isn't their rider yet, if his contract ran from 1st August for, let's say 2 years they would have had some come back, but being a small team they may not have had the funds to do that.

 

[roadrash]

From my original post:
”Feel bad for our local team (ColoQuick) with whom he signed a contract for 2024 back in August and has been training with since. “

Apologies, I missed that, dozy fecker i am sometimes