A very nice guy, but still one who will throw a team under the bus with accusations based primarily around weaseling out of commitments he'd made by underhanded means, in order to sign a shiny new contract for more money. Yea, I judge him for that and don't see why I should apologise for that. It's the kind of thing that overrides a whole lot of being a nice guy because it makes him the kind of nice guy who'll stab you in the back at the first sign of personal gain.
The most sympathetic interpretation I can give you - and I think it would be a more than reasonable interpretation too - is that, being a young pro giddy on his first bit of high profile success, and a bit of a dork, he was susceptible to manipulation by a money-grubbing agent who had got wind that Plugge was interested, and was prepared to use scummy means if necessary to get the deal done. And that as a Belgian rider on a Dutch team, it's not surprising that media in those two countries would have a more sympathetic rendering of the situation than others.
I don't know what they want from me, it's like the mo' money we come across the mo' problems we see.