The cycle market closes at the end of 2022, but the big maneuvers have already been made. Today we analyze six other formations for next season.

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EF – The coup was completed just before the Vuelta: Richard Carapaz , winner of the 2019 Giro, will wear the colors of the US team and will aim to do well in at least two major stage races (Tour and Vuelta?). To help him there will be Andrey Amador, gregarious in Ineos, and Jefferson Cepeda, who in addition to being the idol of our community, is also a decent climber waiting to be a protagonist again.

Rounding out the arrivals are Stefan De Bod from Astana and Mikkel Honoré, a Dane who comes from Quick Step and a finisseur with good legs. One who has already shown good things is Andrea Piccolo, a 21-year-old who arrived in August from the Drone Hopper, who could be the revelation of 2023. The name of Ruben Guerreiro, who ended up at Movistar, stands out on the way out. Instead, Langeveld and Nakane ended their careers.
Score at the transfer market: 7

Groupama Fdj – What can be said of a team that retains its captains, and adds eight new professionals to the first team, at least four of which are of excellent caliber? Well done! Marc Madiot's team has included, among others, Romain Grégoire and Lenny Martinez , two very young Frenchmen who, we are sure, will get people talking about them. The former won stages at the Avenir and the Giro Under 23 as well as Liège, the Giro del Belvedere, Recioto and the Flèche Ardennaise in three weeks. The second has already achieved brilliant placements in some races run with the professionals.

To watch carefully our Lorenzo Germani, the French Enzo Paleni and Paul Penhoët, the British Samuel Watson and the New Zealanders Reuben Thompson and Laurence Pithie. Among the farewells we point out Attila Valter to Jumbo and Jacopo Guarnieri to Lotto. Via also Sébastien Reichenbach, ended up at the Tudor. Q36.5 instead took Matteo Badilatti and Tobias Ludvigsson.
Market rating: 7.5 (for the project)

Ineos Grenadiers – Lost three big names like Richard Carapaz in the EF, Adam Yates in the Uae Emirates and Dylan Van Baarle in the Jumbo Visma, without forgetting the retirement of Richie Porte and the farewell of Eddie Dunbar who will go on to captain the Giro for the Bike Exchange, the grenadier market would be clearly undersufficiency.

But there was something good coming in: Thymen Arensman (photo) arrived from the DSM, winner of a stage in the Vuelta, where he finished sixth, who will have to make the leap in quality (almost certainly in the Giro). And then the loose cannon Leo Hayter, winner of the Giro d'Italia Under 23 and gifted with great talent like his brother Ethan. Also Joshua Tarling, who at just 18 years old, won the World Time Trial among the juniors. Finally the arrival of Connor Swift from Arkea aims to safeguard the captains in the Northern classics. Will it be enough against the battleships Jumbo and Uae?
Score at the transfer market: 5.5

Intermarchè Circus Wanty – One of the teams that has changed the most with eleven arrivals (the latest being Niccolò Bonifazio) and eleven exits. There is a lot of curiosity in seeing Mike Teunissen , a man for the North to work alongside Girmay, coming from Jumbo, and what Rui Costa, 36 years old and 29 career successes, will be able to do. Dion Smith, arrived from the Bike Exchange, will have to carve out some space as well as Lilian Calmejane from Ag2R.

Attention to the Estonian talent Madis Mihkels, a 19-year-old sprinter who finished fourth at the Under 23 World Championship and sixth at the Gran Piemonte. For the rest, the team is definitely aiming for the classics with Herregodts and Marit from Sport Vlaanderen, Paquot and Rex from Bingoal and with the neo pro Dries De Pooter. At the exit Hermans (Alpecin), Pasqualon (Bahrain), Kristoff (Uno-X) and Hirt (Quick Step) lost with regret. Goodbye also to Dimitri Claeys and Kevin Van Melsen, both retired, to Tom Devriendt, fourth in the last Roubaix (finished in Q36.5) and to Barnabas Peak, who closed the deal with the Human Powered team.
Market rating: 5 (especially for exits)

Jumbo-Visma – The strongest team of 2022 is strengthened with the winner of Roubaix, Dylan Van Baarle , stolen from the opponents of Ineos, and with Wilco Kelderman, Ian Tratnik and Attila Valter to help the captains in the grand tours or in the races of a week. Lost, without regrets David Dekker, finished at Arkea, Chris Harper at Bike Exchange and Mike Teunissen at Intermarchè, as well as Pascal Eenkhoorn finished at Lotto. Repeating yourself is never easy but the ingredients for making an encore are all there.
Score at the transfer market: 7

Movistar Team – Alejandro Valverde's farewell closes a twelve-year cycle. The restart is slow: only Fernando Gaviria from the UAE Emirates has arrived, a man for group sprints, Ruben Guerreiro from EF, a rider with a very particular character who will be able to make the classification in the small one-week races and support captain Enric Mas in the big ones laps, and the neo pro Ivan Romeo, 19 year old specialized in time trials. The Spaniards, in key sales, have practically not moved, losing only Inigo Elosegui for Kern Pharma. With the salute to Don Alejandro who will be impossible to replace.
Score at the transfer market: 5.5

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