You seem to be confusing poor mental health with a lack of mental strength, mate. I doubt you'd instruct someone with a chronic physical ailment to just bust out a few pull-ups? Yet apparently a young lad who has entertained thoughts of taking...
Have to say, as much as I dislike the cart, fair flucks to Fernandes for rejecting 700,000 quid a week tax free to play in Saudi. Has probably turned down the best part of 100 million pounds there, assuming they offered him a three-year contract...
Sancho is the latest example of this after Chelsea asked him to take a pay cut and he refused. His career has been in freefall since he joined United, but that doesn't seem to matter.
Aside from Yates win, perhaps the most remarkable thing was the time up the Finestre. He was around 5 minutes quicker than Froome in 2018 (or ~8%).
I know people like to say that equipment and nutrition and all that have improved a lot, but can...
I suspect you'd need at least £80 million to get someone in to replace those 15 goals and 15 assists he usually guarantees per season. Look how much Wirtz has gone for (and there's no way that United are good enough to get that kind of player)
That was the game changer. One of the best classics riders in the world burying themselves versus two climbers, neither of whom wanted to work for the other.