KWalker wrote:Why don't you provide some citations- I've never seen that Sky was going to drop him and have often read that they had the most faith in him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/others ... s-ago.html"The Mail on Sunday can reveal that on the eve of the Vuelta a España in August 2011, Brailsford told a senior official from RadioShack that Froome was among riders whose contracts were expiring and who were not in Sky’s plans for 2012."
It is also covered in his book "The Climb", some quotes here
https://sub3argus.wordpress.com/2015/01 ... is-froome/Froome talking to his agent, Alex Carera
“Alex, I don’t know if I’m going to get into the Vuelta. We need to start talking to teams now to see what my options are. Worst-case scenario, we can use those offers to try and set a benchmark for Sky in case they want to decrease the salary I am on.” At this point, I was thinking that the decrease in salary might be my best possible option. Any time Alex called Dave Brailsford to talk about my future, Alex was hearing a lot of ‘hmmmmmmms’. And some ‘ummming’. And a bit of ‘ahhhing’…..
Later, Alex would show me the texts he had been getting from Dave. Things were worse than I’d thought: ‘What has Chris done all year? He’s done nothing.’