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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vincenzo Nibali joined his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bahrain-Merida teammates at a training camp in Catalunya on Tuesday to prepare for the 2019 season but confirmed that he is already thinking about 2020 and his personal future, which could be at Bahrain-Merida, Trek-Segafredo or even elsꦑewhere.

Nibali admitted to Cyclingnews that Team Sky team manager Dave Brailsford had contacted his agent Johnny Carera after he said before last year's Il Lombardia that he'd be flattered to receive an offer from the British team. Team Sky's future is now in doubt after Sky decided to leave the sport but Trek-Segafredo have stepped up and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:confirmed they want to sign Nibali, with🦄 the I🦂talian coffee brand offering Nibali a apparently tempting post-career ambassador role.

Nibali, his agent and lawyer held talks with both Bahrain-Merida and Trek-Segafredo teams last week and both will soon submit formal offers that include a two-year deal, a Grand Tour winners salary and the hiring of his personal staꦕff and his brother Antonio.

"I'm still here…." Nibali told Cyclingnews with a smile while sitting under a Bahrain-Merida backdrop and in the team's red and blue cꦺolours but very much his own man.

"We'll see what happens in th💖e future. They're importan🐷t negotiations and important projects on offer.

"I think it's normal that when a contract ends, you listen to the offers. Listening is easy to do. It can also be motivating depending on the proje⛦cts that are on offer."

Nibali has won all three Grand Tours during his career. He's also won Il Lombardia twice and snatched Milan-San Remo😼 from the sprinters and Classis riders last March with yet another show of aggression a⛎nd panache.

He still struggles to 🥃speak English fluently but knows he is one of the biggest names in the sport. Nibali understands that Bahrain-Merida want to keep him as team leader as McLaren takes up an ever more important role in the🌃 team's future development. But he also knows brands like Trek and especially Segafredo want him to promote their products in Italy and globally.

Nibali could perhaps be successful with ei🔥ther teams and so other factors could tip his decision on where he rides in what are likely to be the final two years of career.

The Bahrain-Merida team was created after Nibali's bike ride with Prince Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa but his influence seems to have been restrained. There now appears ⛎to be a backstop to how much power and influence Nibali will have if he exten𓃲ds his contract with the team.

That seems to be a key sticking point for Nibali and could be enough to convince him to change teams and take up Trek-Se𝄹gafredo's offer that includes a post-career ambassador role.

"The ▨arrival of McLaren means that the team will be managed by a board and so (the management) part of the team will be completely different," Nibali ex🐬plained, carefully choosing his words.

"Mc🔯Laren is owned by the prince's brother and so it's 100% Bahrain but I have to speak to the team's delegates Brent Copeland a🌼nd Milan Erzen, not with royal family."

First the Giro d'Italia, then the Tour de France

When Nibali and Bahrain-Me𒊎rida revealed his plans for the 2019 season at their December training camp in ꦿCroatia, much was said about him going for the Giro-Tour double.

After a few weeks of reflection and consideration, Nibali is keen to pour cold water on the growing hype and expectation that he could perhaps follow in the footsteps of Marco Pantani and win both the Giro and Tour in the same season. His coach Paolo Slongo believes Nibali has the maturity and ability to do i🧸t but he is more cautious.

"It was said I'll do the Giro and Tour but it's important to clarify that I'll focus on t🌃he Giro d'Italia first, recover and see what I can do at the Tour," Nibali told Cy🦩clingnews.

"I've never said I want to go for the double. For me the Giro-Tour double is a huge ask. Some riders have gone close in recent years but it's difficult to win b🅘oth."

Nibali was k♚een to return to the Giro d'Italia after missing his home Grand Tour in 2018. Riding both w🙈as a compromise with the wishes of Bahrain-Merida.

"I asked to ride the Giro d'Italia this year, while the team asked that I ride the Tour de Fran🏅ce. Lets say it's a good compromise," he said.

"I think I'm mature enough to try it. But I thiꦛnk it's going to be very hard, that's why I'm not building up my chances. It's going to be a long hard r🐟oad and so that's why I'm taking it one step at a time."