Uomo Nero

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Current riders:


A young team that is looking good for the upcoming season, with probably the highest paid leader in the game in the near future. (he gets as much as Ganna and Bieri together currently)
The team scouts are busy looking for a kid with high potential in the Tokyo streets, probably a 46-60-70 60+reg rider that costs as cheap as possible.

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Hayato Toyotomi sings a 2years contract that will not be extended unless he makes top3 in MSR or RVV, or if Quick thinks he's worth keeping the r jersey by that time.

No luck in finding a young cheap guy yet and things aren't looking great financially, but there should be a new arrival soon to reduce the high salary issue.

Februray23:

Income: 654,469r$f


Results:

• Besseges: Graham with top form was hoping for a stage win, but could actually win the tour with an early attack in stage3. Daglish wasn't feeling it and finished 17th in the GC.

• UCI Cyclocross World Championship: Spencer prepared for this race, and things were looking great until the final km, he deccided to waste energy in an unsuccessful attack, then couldn't sprint well, and finished 7th. This was the failure of the season.

• NCs: It was hard to win the Japanese race against the french teams helping each other. Dogan managed to get the Turkish jersey for the team.

• Oman: not much to mention here, Daglish was struggling again, and couldn't keep up with the other climbers in every uphill finish, then ended 7th in the GC.

• Algarve: In the second stage Daglish lost Pearce in the final hill and finished second, 6" behind him. But on stage 4 he managed to keep up with Pearce, then won in a very close sprint. But the climbs weren't long enough to distance the tt guys, so in the end he was 4th in GC.

• UAE Tour: The team lost 50seconds to CC in the TTT on stage 2. Even though Daglish won the next day, he couldn't gain time on Henry Hill who won the tour, Daglish 2nd in GC 1'23" behind. We also won the team ranking thanks to some early escapes.

Overall not a bad a season, when Kenny 84-58 is the only leader of the team...

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2023 feels like the first year of real playing of the game. For the first time a rider spends his whole career in the team then retires and this was Harry Graham, followed by a few others. Team building was what I struggled with before with constant sellings, but this time around I managed to trust my riders and keep them around so the year was decent compared to how it was bebfore.

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The finances were ok too, with a big income last December!




Top races of 2023: Not results wise, but races that were fun, from what I can still remember anyway.

Monte Paschi 04.03.2023. late race, 9 teams. It wasn't super hard to control, but the ending was fun. Double attack with Dogan(who was weaker back then) and Graham, followed by Mateusz Michalski (Bahrain-Merida) and Linus Broaar (Bearclaw Cycling). Dogan rode a little bit then we needed to go faster so he dropped in the 5**, Bahrain and I worked together while Bear rested a little for having weaker stats, but in the final km Linus attacked and won, Mateusz and Harry followed eachother and let him go, we missed switching to blue too probably, but was a nice race.

World Championships Road Race 06.08.2023. Less teams then expected were there, some (Lenny & free ) left and we were only 2 top sprinters basically, NNT with a very strong train. a big group of 12riders escaped in km2 and I missed it, then I had to do probably the hardest chase of the year, with NNT. Used all my riders to death and somehow managed to get the MS, for a top form Takahashi. But the NNT train was way too strong, so finished 2nd in a very close sprint from 50m.


NC Liechtenstein. 19.10.2023. Not the biggest race but it was exciting. Nc's usually a diffirent experience from normal C4F. Just 4 riders, two offline, so only Mike Kübler (r TAKA) and Spiridon Sprenger (Team FL) were left. The circuit was up and down so well balanced. Spiridon attacked in the first 2% but Mike could follow, then tried again the next 2% and could get rid of Mike that time around and the intense 1v1 race started from there. In the end the hills were too much for Sprenger so Kübler won, but they both ended with 0 energy left. looking forward for the next Liechtenstein race



So a very nice year for r TAKA but no big achievements yet, that's what the team is looking for in 2024, with an actual Grand Tour leader, and some nice riders for the spring classics.

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2024 Has been great so far but hopefully more to come! First goal achieved, Roubaix won. Now Giro is the second goal, but by the look of it, TdF would be easier, but we'll try to win both anyway.

January: offseason so not any important races. Emir won the first race of the year GP Letzebuerg and the team thought he'd have a great future, but no. Just like the previous Sultan, he doesn't ride well in important races...so Emir the biggest disappointment of the team currently. Shisui won January tour in an easy field against bad Gipfel, and that was it mostly.
8 stage wins, 1 tour. +$2,147,261.

February: Start of the real season, so a few cool races to win but not so many. NC's we could win 3, Japan, Turkey (mot important) and Senegal. Inui won Omloop then Emir won KBK the day after, so perfect last week and beginning of the spring classics.
8 stage wins +$1,860,401.

March: Definitely the best month ever for the team, great results and history was made. But it didn't start well, Strade Bianche the team's favorite race was lost in an awful way. Tukhtahuaev refused to cooperate then gifted the win to a random untalented rider. With that we immediately started looking for a new classic that won't get fucked in downhill and bought Thorkell. The team then went to Tirenno and Fujiwara finished 2nd in GC, so good result. Milano Torino was very bad, miscommunication between Emir and Keisuke led to a place13 result. But few days later Keisuke Takahashi won the first monument for the team! MSR! wasn't expecting it, but in the end he was the only sprinter left in the main group and could easily win. Then results kept coming, De Panne, Suda won DDV and 2nd in E3, Fumihiro won GW, Shisui ended the season with a podium in RVV.
7 stage wins, +$1,797,897

April: The team was under pressure to win the D1 title so didn't perform well in some tours, but it wasn't that bad to be honest, AAD
just overperformed so it was hard to beat him. Inui won Roubaix, one of the main goals of the team in 2024 so was very happy about it. Shisui won Amstel with a solo attack in the last hill and that was the team's top performance so far, great win. But then Emir failed to win LBL and ruined everything. Fujiwara won Romandie, but unimportant Suiss stagerace anyway, just good preparation for the Giro.
4 stage wins, 1 tour, +$1,011,335.


So first part of 2024 was good overall, great spring classics season, much better than the other r team...But riding for the Division1 win hurt the team financially, now we'll have to spend June grinding again and leave the fight for D1 to August+.

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Was a very nice battle for the Division win in April. But it also was very stressfull as I couldn't leave out any important race. After all, a shitload of 2nd places (monuments, classics, stage races) brought me there so I don't feel like having overperformed at all. Now I have less pressure winning division 1 in May and can concentrate on the GIRO.

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The second part of 2024 was a lot worse than the first part. With Fujiwara growing up the team switched to riding for GC instead of stage wins, so didn't like that for the most part.

May: It was the Giro month. With a big lineup fail I lost the tour in the pavés stage with no flat riders to bring Takumi back. Donto making sensless tempo everytime I tried to get rid of Hansa's helpers pissed me off so I stopped trying at some point and ended up 2nd.
2 stage wins, 1 podium and 1mountain jersey -$1,279,866

June: June was a preparation for the TdF, but I had less time so only 18 races. Winning the hilly itt in Suisse only and the Japanese NC.
2stage wins, 2 Podiums -$573,602

July: Tour de France was easy with almost no real concurents, so the team won the 1st GC ever in the final timetrial.
3stage wins, 1 GC $834,164

August: The team was strong for the Vuelta in August but the field had better hubers and seeing donto again was depressing, but I tried to stay in the fight, and in stage 18 I gained over one minute with a 50km attack, it was the decesive attack that got me the tour win.
4 stage wins, 1 sprint jersey and 1 classic podium -$1,163,996

September: Nothing important in September. Fujiwara was sold right after his Vuelta win, needed some money to recruit riders for 2025. The Canadian classics were awful, and the WC was too hard to win.
5stage wins, 1gc, 1 team classification and 1 sprint jersey $2,283,880

October: Lombardia should have been for Emir, but a weird bug made sure Emir doesn't comeback the last km, gg. He won the Tre Vali instead to add it to the classics collection in 2024.
5 stage wins $1,165,280

November: Offseason started, was supposed to make some gold but the salary was too expensive to gain much.
5 stage wins $966,708

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2025 Was very bad, compared to the previous year, a few finance mistakes aswell but it is wat it is. Could maintain the +50 wins at least.

339 races
52 wins. No major wins, but La Wallonne for the first time is something.
FPK Donations $650,000

Promoting the riders from the b team (r QUICK) to use them as leaders didn't work out. Pituch/Kucka and Hwangbo failed to win Roubaix and MSR. Then later the rushed transfer of Firiam from the rival team didn't pay out very well as he couldn't win the Giro. (some say he lost in purpose to ruin the team's reputation) But he said he was distanced in the downhill because he saw Donkeys crossing the road...nobody knows.

Top races of 2025:
The WC: First nation race of the new server, had some bugs but made it more fun for me. Had Japan with my rider Itachi as leader, that late 6* looked like a good final for him so he was well protected until the end thanks to Ryomen(who would've won it if leader). The French attack was very dangerous in the final part, Japan even helped for it. But was caught in the final km. a lucky follow of the Algerian monster was worth it, just hoped they won't stop until the hill and that's exactly what happened, a final attack by Itachi on the 6* was enough to stay 1 second infront.


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2026 A New Beginning

Main goal is to take over the FPK and because of that the two former legends of the team were called to help. Luca Scalabrini and Fabrizio DeMartini now have full control of the team, they have a good plan on paper, the only bad thing so far is the co-owner of the team the mega super star Takashi Ryuuzaki didn't attend a single training session since they moved to Italy...

Interview with Luca:
Were you good as a cyclist?
Good? I won 3 tour de France stages at 21, untouchable record.
The team is struggling, what are your plans to bring it back to the top?
First we're getting rid of the Robinhood strategy, we won't try to make cycling popular in outer regions anymore, but instead we'll look for riders with the best potential that had a very promising youth, Conti is a good example of that.
New sponsor soon? Or any other deals to fix the financial issues?
Maybe soon but for now we just need a proper team building that relays more on the youth academy.
What are your objectives for this season?
Main objective is to become a 20 riders team, as for race objectives, the usual Strade Bianche, SanRemo & Roubaix.
Last question, Fürchtegott Fürst, is it true that the whole team fear this name?
Fear? no, we're ready to beat him on the next race.

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Fürst is the one who is scared. He even avoided a duel with you at the January Tour

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Fürst is the one who is scared. He even avoided a duel with you at the January Tour

You mean Taka fled to Australia to avoid the Fürst in the January races

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After three years of dominating the r world, the new guys found a new replacement, one that is going to bring new feelings to the game.

We're coming for The Fürst! But reports said, the team will be working hard to hire Fürchtegott Fürst to be part of the technical team after he retires. "Should not be a problem to convince the poor Liechtenstein team to let him go, in case they still want him after retirement." said Fabrizio.


The new team will be introduced after the tour in Australia. First race will be in Libya next Wednesday with high expectations.

The new Acronym will be "UNO" and that's the new jersey presented





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Karma sign found in Takashi Ryuuzaki

On a completely different type of news, thanks to Dreizehn we've realized Takashi has a karma sign in his hand, which means a very powerful Ôtsutsuki will be coming after him, to dominate the C4F world.
That being said the team is still expecting great achievemnt from the young superstar in the spring classics, with Ronde as main objective.

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Yersey looks dope

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We're coming for The Fürst! But reports said, the team will be working hard to hire Fürchtegott Fürst to be part of the technical team after he retires. "Should not be a problem to convince the poor Liechtenstein team to let him go, in case they still want him after retirement." said Fabrizio.

I cannot decide for the Fürst, but i hope you know what you're getting yourself into...

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Historical day for the team! Starting of today the team will race as Uomo Nero!

But not just that, today marks the debut of our new legendary rider, Berg Werk, who should finalize his contract in the next few hours, and start in the Tunisian stage race later in the day.

We wish for an interview with him but it's kind of impossible to get, but however he might say something in the next posts!

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And what for kind of a day!
A win yesterday and we saw a glimpse of the young Berg Werk