Strangest thing IMHO is that he drinks so much alcohol two days before Romandie that he can‘t remember what he had done.
He even won a stage in Romandie, OK.
His new opponents, for a few years now, have been van Aert and van der Poel. Normally, if you are still hungry for success, you keep your eye on every detail to have a chance against these new top riders. I suppose Sagan is not 100% hungry for success any more, at least not over the full season. Considering his palmares, I even understand him.
Cavendish 2021 has shown that you should never ever write a champion off, and Sagan still is a big champion. I however fear that Bernaudeau could have bought the next disappointment, after the disappointing transfer of Terpstra...