He won’t be on much money and he has a big social media following/is a big name in the sport as well as having history with the team so it makes sense for him to do one final year there to try and get a big win as a swan song.
For what it’s worth I don’t think he’ll even come close to winning...
I noticed myself starting to lose interest slowly towards the end of 18/19 when we last won the league but this year I’ve totally lost interest to the point where I don’t even know when City are playing anymore. Only come back on the forum today to see the reaction to fans being allowed in...
Have to agree with this. I was thinking it yesterday but didn’t want to post as it felt like it might just be sour grapes because he and his team are the big rival to my favourite team, but he’s the type of rider to follow attacks and gain small amounts of time rather than launch a big attack...
I don’t think it’s too much time (59 seconds) but he did look weak when Primoz & Pogacar went. I was hoping that Bernal would grow into it and by now be the one testing everyone else but he was hanging on today which doesn’t bode well for next week.
Good sprint yesterday with Caleb winning. Sagan relegated due to barging WVA in the sprint. Bennett still in green and given Sagan’s troubles he’s looking good for keeping it.
Shortest ever longest stage today at 218km. Lumpy profile with two cat 4s, a cat 3 and a cat 2 which could be a good...
This will have a huge impact on clauses in future contracts with top players surely saying no to ridiculously high release clauses rather than just going along with the club’s wishes taking it for granted that they’ll want to stay at said club for the length of that contract
Just got in from work and worryingly there seems to have been a huge drop off in optimism on this thread? Only read the last three pages - has something happened?
Bernal looking weak as he did in the Dauphiné, can only hope he’s building up to week 3 as Froomey used to! If Roglic can keep that up then it’ll be a walk in the park
I’m sure Sergio wanted rid of 16 because he originally chose it due to some link with his ex (Maradona’s daughter) so if that’s the case I can’t imagine he’d take it back? Can’t find a link to back that up but I’m sure that was why he chose 16 in the first place
He was in exceptional form last year prior to Le Tour and then he surprised even himself at Le Tour, so I would expect that he’s planned this year around Le Tour having realised he might actually have a semi-realistic chance of winning the GC given how close he got last year and how crazy...
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