In a month we start again with the World Tour races and the time has come to take stock of the cycle market and the most important movements of the teams, remembering that the business is not finished.

Fantacycling has decided to give the votes by averaging the entries and exits officialised up to now.

In strict alphabetical order:

AG2R Citroen Team – The French team has changed very little compared to last season. Among the four new professionals arriving, the best known is Bastien Tronchon , winner of a stage at the Vuelta a Burgos.

We also point out Alex Baudin, 21 years old who won a stage at the Giro della Valle d'Aosta. The riders who have left the team are better known. Clement Champoussin has signed for Arkea while Bob Jungels, who appeared in good physical condition after years of anonymity (and first in a stage of the Tour de France), has settled on the Bora. Lilian Calmejane, the new Intermarché rider, is also off.

Score at the transfer market: 4.5

Alpecin Deceuninck – Strengthened by taking Quinten Hermans from Intermarché, suitable for sprints on arrivals in small ranks and capable of overtaking Van Aert in the sprint at the last Liège, the sprinter Kaden Groves from the Bike Exchange and Soren Kragh Andersen from the Dsm, who however will have to start almost from scratch after two negative years.

Nicola Conci had already arrived in June but the good results obtained so far lead him to consider a great signing for 2023. The deal closed Ramon Sinkeldam, from Groupama, Robbe Ghys from Sport Vlaanderen and the new pro Jensen Plowright, 22-year-old Australian years who defends himself in the classics and has a good quick start.

True, Tim Merlier and Jay Vine have gone to Quick Step and UAE respectively. With them the surprise at the end of 2022 Sjoerd Bax (UAE), winner of the Agostoni Cup, and the Floris De Tier-Guillaume Van Keirsbulck duo, both at Bingoal. But the victories in 2023, we are sure, will not be lacking.

Score at the transfer market: 6

Astana Qazaqstan Team – It's not a good time for the Kazakh team, which must first think about budgets and then reinforce its staff. Few entrances: there are the expert Luis Leon Sanchez from Bahrain, the Estonian sprinter Martin Laas from the Bora, who last year placed only two successes at the Tour of the Baltic, and Christian Scaroni , 25 years old who in 2022 took a seventh place in Bernocchi but above all two stage victories at the Adriatica Ionica Race.

The twenty-year-old Gianmarco Garofoli is a new pro to be discovered while at the exit, in addition to the definitive farewell of Vincenzo Nibali, they greeted Valerio Conti, Corratec destination, and Stefan De Bod at the EF.

Score at the transfer market: 5

Bahrain - Victorious - The team focuses on young people but not only. As many as five new professionals arriving for 2023, including Fran Miholjevic , the twenty-year-old Croatian son of art who won a stage of the Giro di Sicilia and is European time trial vice-champion among the under 23s. kilometres, watch out for Matevz Govekar, a 22-year-old Slovenian who is very suited to breakaways (he won a stage of the Vuelta a Burgos) and one-day races.

Andrea Pasqualon, who comes from Intermarché, will take care of supporting Milan and Bauhaus while the German Niklas Arndt, 31, will work for the team. They say goodbye to Domen Novak, at the Uae, Jan Tratnik, who ended up at Jumbo Visma, and Stephen Williams, who however is still looking for a team. The most painful farewell, even for us Italian fans, is from Sonny Colbrelli.

Score at the transfer market: 5

BORA – hansgrohe – Few news for the 2023 squad. In addition to Bob Jungels from Ag2R, Nico Denz from Team Dsm, Victor Koretzky from B&B and Florian Lipowitz, a 22-year-old neo professional on whom a good job is expected from gregarious.

Go, instead, Wilco Kelderman at Jumbo, with the Dutchman who will have to abandon dreams of glory to devote himself to captains Roglic and Vingegaard, Martin Laas at Astana, Felix Großschartner at UAE Emirates and Lukas Postlberger at Bike Exchange.

Score at the transfer market: 5

Cofidis – The French team has changed little. And the incoming market is not exciting: from Jonathan Lastra , coming from Caja Rural (29 years old, still zero successes in his career), to the Belgian Christophe Noppe arriving from Arkea (a man for the classics but, to date, without significant results) , passing through the neo professionals Axel Mariault, a 24-year-old climber, and Harrison Wood, a 22-year-old Englishman (promised but not too much).

At the exit, the disappointment is linked to the non-renewed contract of team man Davide Villella, Sander Arméè and Tom Bohli. Szymon Sajnok also went away, joining the new Swiss team Q36.5.

Score at the transfer market: 4

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