In a normal team i would call ayuso's behaviour completely unacceptable but this is really just normal uae behaviour.... Even yesterday ayuso was getting lots of hate but soler was up there and didn't help almeida at all riding for his own gc. I guess the fact that ayuso literally had no reason to drop yesterday and rest day the next day was the final straw for management.
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Even Lopez worked for other riders. For Mas and Valverde.
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Exactly! Something like this was bound to happen in UAE sooner or later. They are just like Movistar in this regard; just create internal drama by bad management.
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That's probably part of reason he rage quitted though
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Differences in vision?
Ayuso: I want equal treatment to Pogacar.
UAE: Do your job and we consider that.
Ayuso: I am leaving.
UAE: what took you so long?
Ayuso has always seemed unreasonably entitled to me. On results he is no better than Almeida. On attitude he is much worse. But this news would come as a relief to many.
As for completing the season with UAE, he wasn't much of a teammate before today hard to see what his role would be between now and when he finally leaves?
Ayuso: I want equal treatment to Pogacar.
UAE: Do your job and we consider that.
Ayuso: I am leaving.
UAE: what took you so long?
Ayuso has always seemed unreasonably entitled to me. On results he is no better than Almeida. On attitude he is much worse. But this news would come as a relief to many.
As for completing the season with UAE, he wasn't much of a teammate before today hard to see what his role would be between now and when he finally leaves?
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This has to be such an exhausting way to follow pro cycling
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For some yes but unlike those riders or Almeida in 2023 Vuelta and being talked about till 2024 Tour; Ayuso has said he’d work for others and hasn’t done so or it was like pulling teeth to make it happen. The blame isn’t solely his fault, UAE should have half to the majority of the blame for all of this due to their too many chiefs/cooks not enough Indians/servers. If Ayuso started in Lidl or the Wolfpack era Quickstep, maybe he’d help out more when not in top shape.
For a team to go to, I’m surprised it’s not Movistar or Astana. He’d have his choice of schedule and a team dedicated to him.
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Let's be honest.
Those who still defend Ayuso = Pogacar haters.
Now,it's clear to everyone.
Those who still defend Ayuso = Pogacar haters.
Now,it's clear to everyone.
Agents of Juan Ayuso and Carlos Rodriguez should sit down for possible team swap of their wards. Ayuso fits to Ineos racing style while Rodriguez could be a level-headed UAE domestique and assistant leader. If Ayuso would go to Lidl Trek, there's Skjelmose who is primed as their main man and Hector Alvarez soon to be promoted to WT races.
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He says that he's going somewhere that 'better aligns with his values'
View: https://x.com/juann_ayuso/status/1962600235223449818?t=79L-pW9RDEVyZ3r_SxNa-w&s=19
View: https://x.com/juann_ayuso/status/1962600235223449818?t=79L-pW9RDEVyZ3r_SxNa-w&s=19
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No hiding now when he straight up gets his ass stomped
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Why do people keep insisting this has something to do with Pogacar? The universe doesn't revolve around him you know..
I'm not a particular fan of Pogacar. Yet I certainly dislike Ayuso for his lack of team spirit.
I can also accept there are people defending Ayuso, claiming the onus for a large part is on UAE leadership. That doesn't mean that those people hate Pogacar though.
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Ayuso signed a deal until 2022 on a loaded team. This one is on him. He has since then whined in the press while refusing to help other teammates at any point in his career outside of a few pulls on Galibier to set up Pogacar.
Pathetic. But agree, great transfer for cycling.
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Oh god not the bull horns
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Yes, it means. Just do some research and you will find 2 or 3 users defending Ayuso. Then be aware when those people talk about Pogacar and you have your answer.
My respect for Ayuso. He has done the impossible: he beat the sheikhs at their own game. Since last year he wanted to leave, and they forbade him. Gianetti slapped a price tag of 100 million on him for any team that wanted to sign him—an absurd, unattainable figure, and one that probably goes against any labor law.
They tried to break him, even threatening not to take him to the Tour until 2028. They preferred to keep him imprisoned inside the team rather than face him as a rival outside. Meanwhile, Ayuso refused to give in: he kept winning races, even as they twisted his calendar at will. The clearest example came at the end of this season: he was preparing for the World Championships, and at the last minute they sent him to the Vuelta, unprepared and disrespected.
But Ayuso would not be tamed. He played them with their own weapons, and suddenly, what had been blocked for a year was solved in days. This wasn’t luck—it was resistance, intelligence, and character.
Because Ayuso wants his own path, his own glory. And today, with what he has achieved, it’s clear that he is not just fighting riders—he is fighting an entire system that tried to break him… and failed.
I just hope the next one to leave that team is Del Toro.
They tried to break him, even threatening not to take him to the Tour until 2028. They preferred to keep him imprisoned inside the team rather than face him as a rival outside. Meanwhile, Ayuso refused to give in: he kept winning races, even as they twisted his calendar at will. The clearest example came at the end of this season: he was preparing for the World Championships, and at the last minute they sent him to the Vuelta, unprepared and disrespected.
But Ayuso would not be tamed. He played them with their own weapons, and suddenly, what had been blocked for a year was solved in days. This wasn’t luck—it was resistance, intelligence, and character.
Because Ayuso wants his own path, his own glory. And today, with what he has achieved, it’s clear that he is not just fighting riders—he is fighting an entire system that tried to break him… and failed.
I just hope the next one to leave that team is Del Toro.
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Nice piece. But you forgot that Ayuso was whining in the spanish press to ride the Vuelta as opposed to being ambushed and forced to the race as some sport of devillishj ploy by the sheiks. Lololol
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I neither have the time nor the inclination to do such research.
I just find it bemusing that every die-hard fan of a rider always acts like the rest of the cycling community is out to get 'their guy'. It's certainly not exclusive to Pogacar though. You come across the same phenomenon in the Evenepoel and Vingegaard threads for example.
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He's kinda right though. The only ones I have seen defending Ayuso lately is Red Rick who has a clear anti-Pog agenda
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