I think he'll have a very different year under Riis, but not for Clinic type reasons.
Riis says in Velonation that he's relieved Alberto didn't win Algarve, because he doesn't want him too fit too early, with bigger fish to fry later in the season.
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/7...ieved-that-Contador-didnt-win-in-Algarve.aspx
Contador said that in the past, there was always pressure on him to go out and get that early win, so he'd be in shape for the one week stage races, then have to take ten days completely off to recover before training for the Tour. Last year that got disrupted when he rode the two classics.
This year he's racing the Giro to win, and depending how things go, will also do another grand tour. It means that in mid-May he might have to be in the kind of shape he normally is by Castilla y Leon. His results in Algarve - missing the podium by two seconds - came at a race where he just got his license back the afternoon before, missed a flight, and ended up getting where he needed to be at 3:30 in the morning. He also had a much different off-season than usual, to say the least.
It is good that people here understand that he IS under intense scrutiny, and that a positive before a CAS decision would be devastating. If he pulls off, or gets close to, the Giro - Tour double, I hope people will figure out that might be the reason he could be a bit less successful in the early season. Riis wants him to start out easier and build up to the Giro d'Italia without the rest period.