A furious Juan Ayuso has accused his team of being “more like a dictatorship” after the announcement that he would be leaving UAE Team Emirates-XRG at the end of the season was published unexpectedly on the Vuelta a España rest-day.
On Monday evening, the team sent a press release confirming that Ayuso, 22, and UAE Team Emirates-XRG had reached an agreement to end his contract through to 2028 early, and he would be leaving at the end of the year.
Speaking separately at the start, when asked about Ayuso in general, UAE Team Emirates-XRG manager Joxean Fernández Matxin defended the team’s decision to publish the press release, telling the media that “you people were asking the same question [about Ayuso’s exit] every day, and every day it came round again, and you are the example. So instead of hiding it all or not saying anything, better to say it and be transparent about it. Nothing more than that.”
The massive drama follows hard on the heels of the controversy that emerged at the end of stage 9 when Ayuso’s teammate João Almeida said he had…
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