Hopefully that means a crack at the Giro.
I'm starting to like the 3-year project approach. A ride in the Giro is good preparation for the tour (if they do happen to get invited), and if not, Cadel can probably join the club of podiums in all 3 GTs
Cadel has shown he can perform in his second GT of a year in 2007 and 2009 with the Tour/Vuelta, so why not have a crack at the Giro whilst the tour invite is being sorted out.
As for the money thing, I think it is clear that the BMC move is not for money, as was argued thoroughly in the opening pages of the thread.
Why do people still think its about money when both BMC and Cadel have come out said that the transfer was discussed well before the worlds? Furthermore, Cadel had to pay one years base salary to S/L to break his own contract, and it sounds like this was out-of-pocket so to speak.
Cadel wants a team that supports him, and I'm not talking just about riders, I'm talking about management. Lotto management were idiots, especially the Omega CEO Coucke (or Courcke
![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
). He was so quick to bad mouth cadel after one bad day at the tour, and so quick to praise Jurgen VDB as the future. Then Cadel wins the WC and Coucke is back on the ban wagon, and then Cadel leaves the team, which we've since found out was being almost decided BEFORE the WC and this **** (Coucke) says he wanted to capitalise on the jersey...
On a side note, it's good to see that Van den Breakaway is "nervous" - he knows that his tour top 15 was due to 3-4 breakaways, which hardly makes him a contender. Maybe he could learn to stay upright during a time trial as well...