Jumbo can't afford that bad PR if they are forcing him to stay. Remember Groenewegen, they still wanted him for Giro but he wanted Tour. So they let him go. Same is gonna happen here if they don't find a compromise. But I think he's not gonna leave, TJV can't afford to lose him.
I think he is focused on his recovery 24/7 because the chances of him going 100 % for Vuelta are slim and he is telling his agent "make sure I will still have a good position in the team in terms of leadership". Also I feel like he might not be in the best mood, he was criticized publicly by a lot of people. Remember he was also silent for a bit after the Worlds fiasco with WvA and he made no Worlds post that time.
I think this silence is gonna end when we know if he goes for Vuelta or not.
I think Jumbo going forwards will struggle with its #wintogether mantra & marketing.
They've just won the cycling equivalent of the football world cup. It's as big as it gets for the team but there's a sporting reality they cannot ignore (or escape) which dictates individual riders enjoy the spoils, i.e. two riders in particular were the beneficiaries in this TdF, aka obviously WvA & mainly Jonas Vingegaard. Just look at his rock star reception in Denmark, i.e. wild.
The Jumbo team was comprised of two new riders just happy to be in the TdF selection (Benoot & Laporte), one rider who's climbing Jumbo's ranks steadily as a domestique (Van Hooydonck, i.e. who recently signed a new contract as well), another rider who rediscovered some form this year after a couple of really sketchy seasons (Kruijswijk), a permanently happy rider who is always smiling (Kuss aka the ultimate mountain dom GOAT, although he does have personal ambitions despite what people think), Wout van Aert & Jonas Vingegaard.
They all got something out of #samenwinnen.
Roglič didn't, even before his crash (the balance of 'support received from the team' versus 'expected support given to the team' was not in his favor). In my mind he's the first of many to come as well, i.e. considering the new standing of the team in world cycling. Sky never managed to keep everyone happy (unless they dropped obscene amounts of cash on domestiques), so I doubt Jumbo will be able to either.
Cycling is a team sport with individual winners. Jumbo just cannot pretend Jonas Vingegaard's victory was "everyone's", i.e. this isn't the football world cup & translating Dutch total football (from the Cruyff era) into "total cycling" (their stated intent) will have serious limitations going forward. There's a contrast as I type between the message Richard Plugge wants to sell, i.e. "we win as a team", versus what's actually happening, i.e. which is Jonas Vingegaard's rise as a superstar & victory celebrations
alone in Denmark. He won the TdF, his name will enter the history books, it's his victory.
I don't think Jumbo Visma can (or even should) convince Roglič to ride towards the goal of repeating that result next year.
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