Cycling, the record figures of the new contract between Pogacar and the UAE Team Emirates

Rome, 5 November 2024 - Not even time to discover, through rumours and veiled confirmations from those directly involved, that Remco Evenepoel in case of white smoke when switching from Soudal Quick Step to the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe would become the highest paid runner in the world thanks to a salary of 10 million per season, that a few weeks after the signing of the renewal, details on the new figures of the contract that binds Tadej pogacar to the UAE Team Emirates: figures, needless to say, nothing short of pharaonic and much closer to the world of football than to that of cycling.

The figures of Pogacar's new contract

The Slovenian extended his lead to 2030 the bond with the team that launched him into professionalism in 2019 and which he himself defined as a family, but it is not only the duration of the contract that is growing: from 7 million (bonuses included) per season, now in fact pogacar he gains from it 8 and will do so as long as he has 32 years. Making a rough calculation, therefore, in this period of time the new world champion will pocket at least 50 million: totally new figures in cycling that, perhaps, only the never blossomed union between evenepoel , Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe could have scratched. The real and concrete one between pogacar el 'UAE Team Emirates in reality it could falter before the natural expiry, but only if some team digs into their pockets to cover the new termination clause, which has also increased dramatically and reached the 200 million. A sum which, barring any follies that are difficult to imagine today, technically takes on a more symbolic value than anything else of a partnership that no one wants to dissolve: neither the Slovenian nor, even more so, theUAE Team Emirates, who in the figure of the team principal Mauro Gianetti declares himself enthusiastic. And, turnover collected in 2024 in hand (25 victories, and what victories, in just 58 days of competitions), it could not be otherwise. Then there is a 2025 still to be planned, apart from the central hub which will be as always the Tour de France. Today the pendulum swings between the Return, in pole, and the Giro d'Italia, in addition to the woodworm Milan-Sanremo and Tour of Flanders, but first, by express declaration of Gianetti, pogacar still has to catch his breath after the efforts of the season just ended. After the holidays still underway at Seychelles with his partner and colleague Urska Zygart, it will be the turn of the November 22 of the padel tournament organized in Erbusco, where the cycling record holder will be challenged by his opponents on the road (but friends in life) Jasper Phillipsen, Biniam Girmay, Julius Ciccone e Antonio Tiberi. With the beloved rackets it seems that pogacar he's doing well but obviously not like on a bike, where the chances for other people to win are very slim. One fact above all: on 11 races (on line and stages) held in 2024, pogacar he won 9.

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