Massimo Zanetti "Mister Segafredo":
Was hiring Nibali, after a long courtship, good business?
"Vincenzo is the Italian champion par excellence, nobody is like him. In these two years with us he has not been lucky: first the pandemic, then the wrist fracture. He won everything. I don't see an heir around".
Nibali, at almost 37, is at the end of his career.
"My friend Francesco Moser says that today's riders start early and finish early. Nibali's longevity is unique."
Will he renew for another two years?
"The cost-benefit ratio is to be evaluated. It will depend on Vincenzo, how much money he will be satisfied with: certainly, less than today. Now there is the most famous sprinter in the world who insists on coming to us, but with Nibali, for better or for worse, you are sure to be always in the newspapers".