"Maybe in the near future, but not in his first year of retirement" - Johan Bruyneel deems unlikely Mark Cavendish would take on a team role in 2025

Not much time has passed since Sir Mark Cavendish finally and officially confirmed his retirement from professional cycling peloton. After having broken the Tour de France stage victories record, the quesion of retirement has been in the air for a long time and once settled, fans already wonder what the next steps of the Manxman would be.

"He clearly wants us to think something's up," Spencer Martin reads between the lines of Manxman's latest statements in The Move podcast. But with the same breath, he adds that it won't be a role of a staff member in a formation: "I don't think he's going to work for a team. I would look for some sort of Television role."

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Johan Bruyneel nods with the other's opinion: "Maybe in the near future, but I don't think in his first year of retirement." He adds that Cavendish would certainly like to spend some time with his big family after career now.

Martin continues that it wouldn't really make sense after almost twenty years in the peloton, constantly travelling from race-to-race, going on training camps, and so on, to suddenly go and say: "Alright guys, I'm off. I'll be gone 300 days a year. I hope it works out here." He notes that in a role like sports director, he might even need to do work more than as a cyclist.

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