This is just as stupid as your previous contribution.
Bennett got injured. The injury was very clearly real and with the benefit of three years of hindsight we can now divide his career quite cleanly into the period before and after that injury. There may have been all kinds of disagreements behind the scenes about how to handle the injury, although Lefevere’s petulant ranting is not a reliable source on that point or any other.
Lefevere, infuriated by the loss of a guy who’d been dominant all season before the TdeF and reacting with his customary good grace to being thwarted, went berserk in the media, accusing his rider of faking the injury because he’s mentally weak. After that, there was of course no longer any collegiate or cooperative relationship because Lefevere had publicly destroyed any possibility of one. It was be of the most bizarre and publicly malicious things a team owner has done in recent years.
On both sides the sensible thing to do at that point was to hold on to whatever dignity those involved had left, let the end of the contract run down and go your separate ways. Bennett was recovering from an injury and once he’d recovered enough to train properly was uncompetitively out of shape. He was of no use in any race to QS and they all knew it. Lefevere switched tack to trying to slash his rider’s pay, more it seems out of a desire to punish than out of greed. Bennett responded by entering a race he was entirely uncompetitive in to stop him. Again thwarted, Lefevere puts him in as many races as possible, even though he was of course nearly useless to the team. Just petulance, followed by more petulance.
Throughout all of this Lefevere ranted and threw tantrums in the Belgian press, talking through sycophantic journalists to sycophantic members of the public. Bennett, correctly, just stayed silent and waited to depart the team at the end of the year.