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Any of us being offered a contract is utterly irrelevant.
Carthy has shown good progression and would've had a number of offers from WT teams. Obviously we're not privy to which teams made him an offer, but if I was in his situation I'd think long and hard about joining Cannondale, mainly because they don't seem to have a good track record of developing young talent. They got Formolo and Moser by chance and neither have progressed under Vaughters' tutelage, despite people knowing both had talent.
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They've got some decent young riders there in Formolo, Van Barle and Paddy Bevin. I agree they seem to lack any stars though.
Perhaps he didn't have a lot on the table and it'll be a stepping stone. Or they've made commitments re his race program others wouldn't.
Put it this way - if they offered anyone on this forum a pro contract, we'd all take it.