On October 24th, UAE Team Emirates announced the renewal of Tadej Pogacar until 2030. The Slovenian has a contract until 2027 but the team wants to ‘protect’ its star rider for three years.
In numbers, Pogacar will receive 50 million euros over the next six seasons and there will also be a termination clause of 200 million. This improvement This is not a chance since its year it turned out brilliant by achieving, among many other achievements, the Giro-Tour double in addition to the World Championship on the road.
Your contract, considered the best in the history of this sport, This caused a lot of reaction as well as controversy because the UAE runner’s salary can be equal to that of many footballers and basketball players.
To justify this, Joxean Fernández Matxinone of the Emirates team’s sports directors, spoke to the newspaper Convenience. There he assured that “football or the NBA are two different worlds they are more developed than us“.
Matxin believes that cycling should take these sports and see them “as an example for try to think about them“. In this sense, he also said that both, although especially football, “take more cover” than them.
“To me, someone says that Cristiano Ronaldo earns a lot of money… Well, look, If he generates it, let him collect it“, he said, adding: “If there are teams, companies or societies that can afford to pay them those amounts, the truth is that they are worth it“.
In relation to the fact that the UCI implements a salary limit for the World Tour teams from 2026, Matxin regrets that this matter is being discussed at the time cycling is experiencing this “historic moment”. In this sense, according to him, it is best for “small and medium-sized teams to grow” instead of “weakening the large ones.”
The one from Basauri, looked amazed of everything Pogacar achieved and declared “I have never seen it in my life.” It does not exclusively refer to sports, and Slovenian already has 88 victories on his recordbut also in the treatment he receives from the fans who attend the races in which he competes.
Source: La Verdad
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