It's interesting, I see a lot of posters saying things like "well he won't get close to Mercx's palmares if he doesn't do x, y, z". But I wonder how much Pogacar cares about that, especially at the moment when he seems to be feeling a bit down and burnt out. It must be quite exhausting to always be compared to someone else when, as Pogacar says, if he stopped now he would be happy with what he's achieved. His palmares is ridiculous.
The formulas are very very too complicated. To be fair as humans, Tadej might be in personal and professional circles were he sees happiness from family, maybe children, less travel, permanent residence that has some compromise to family connection.. Does he want to be in Spain, Monaco, France and make some compromise now and do something different post racing. And what is the hybrid? Can he turn down volume knob and still achieve goals or turn down current lifestyle intensity?
Will he still be able to win if he were to reduce training and racing schedule? He started with February and only he knows when 2025 will end but he sure sounds like he wants it to be now!
What does UAE think? What do they want for the money?
What are UAE's objectives? What is Tadej's trajectory? At 26 he certainly is not sounding like 35 is anything he is thinking about.. Him putting out there 2028 is troubling for UAE!!
He could break most records by 2028 if everything goes perfectly, it seldom does.. And with multiple crashes, Strade Bianchi, TDF,ect, unless he is a cat crashes result in days, months off the bike, it has been part of every other elite cyclists' life with the Pogacar being the odd man out, crashed multiple times and not even a significant DNF..
In my opinion, if UAE were smart they would start thinking about how Tadej fits into the organization to 40 and beyond!! If he is already feeling under the gun at 26 that is an alarm!!
What if Eddy's landmarks are not most important to Pogacar? What if he says, whatever I have achieved after 2028, that's good enough.
There is obviously a huge media problem because you say something when you are tired,emotional, and speak in generalities and it's a perpetual motion machine that will now cause Pogacar to constantly talk about possible 2028 retirement when he might not have meant that literally. Pog and many others confirm over and over use the teams media mechanism and don't do too much press, you think it's helping your brand but it often backfires!!
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