Recent Vuelta a Espana winner Chris Horner is still left without a contract for the 2014 season but claims that he could find a job within an hour. The main problem for the American is to find a team that is ready to pay him the amount of money he is worth.

When Chris Horner entered the Vuelta a Espana, his future was up in the air. At 41 years of age, the a knee injury had seen the American miss most of the early part of the season and he had just recently made his returned to racing in the Tour of Utah where he had won the queen stage and finished 2nd overall. With no contract for next season, it was doubtful whether the American would be allowed to continue at the highest level in 2014.

Horner did the maximum to convince a new team to sign him when he won the Spanish grand tour overall. Nonetheless, he still hasn't signed a contract for next year and yesterday he vented his frustration on Twitter when he sent out a series of sacrifices that detailed his sacrifices and great results.

In an interview with Velonews, Horner claims that the problem is not to find a team for next season. Wat complicates things is to find a well-paid job.

"I can find a job an hour from now," he said. "But it makes it harder finding a job because you want to find a good-paying job. That’s the problem. Not every team has that kind of money available to just say, “Oh yea, we can just dish that out right now.” So that’s why it makes it hard to find a job. But if I wanted to find a job, I could find one in an hour. Call a ProTour team up and say, “Hey, give me $100 grand,” and I’d have a job tomorrow. So that’s not the problem."

"What the problem is, is when you win a grand tour you’ve got to find a team that has the value of what you’re worth. Clearly I have plans on riding the next couple years, and I have plans on winning the Tour of Spain next year, so to find a team that’s looking for that type of rider, that’s when it becomes difficult. But I don’t see staying with Trek. I think I can break my own record and become the oldest rider to win the Tour of Spain again next year."

During the Vuelta, Horner thought that he had secured his future as he had been in contact with the new team that Fernando Alonso tried to set up. When those plans derailed, Horner's future was suddenly in limbo.

"Well, I thought I was going with the Alonso team, so I really didn’t put much effort into searching for teams during the Tour of Spain, because I was contacted from that team, and so I thought, “Oh, it worked out.” So, either Trek will sign me again, or the Alonso team will sign me. I didn’t really put much effort into it," he said. "And the then the Alonso team folded, and I was like, “Oh, I guess I’m going to have to do some phone calls.”"

"But clearly there’s a team out there that I’m going to get on," he added. "There’s no dire worries or any stress or anything like that. I’m sitting 12th in the world. I just won the Tour of Spain. I’ve won a stage at Utah, wore the jersey at Utah, and I was sixth at Tirreno-Adriatico. I know what my value’s worth."

His Vuelta win has been met with lots of scepticism and he recently chose to publish all his biological passport data since 2008 to prove that he is clean. He has been happy with the reception.

"It went really well," he said. "It’s been really well received. I think a lot of the fans have liked it, and it shows all the teams out there directly that I’m not afraid to list any of that stuff publicly, because clearly there’s nothing there to worry about."

Horner crashed out of the world championships road race fractured multiple ribs which brought his season to a premature end.