Since he joined us his career has blossomed like I've never seen before,

We want him to stay and he wants to stay with us, but from my point of view, he's asking for too much money. The important thing is that he wants to race on my team, later we'll see if we can resolve all this.

He won't be riding in the spring classics.

How can it be that Denmark has only three riders in the road race and Britain has six?

Ivan, ... is a professional, always.

Ivan Basso has also signed for three more years and will be our team leader in future editions of the Tour,