Rinaldo Nocentini wants to do another year. And based on his results - which include 12th in Amstel, 12th in Fleche Wallonne, a Vuelta in the service of Domenico Pozzovivo - he has a role to play. "I'm waiting for a call, the only real possibility," the 38-year-old tells Gazzetta dello Sport. "It is Caja Rural. The deadline I have made is the end of December. Otherwise, I'll stop. But it would botherme  to stop because in reality I have made the opposite decision."

Nocentini has had a great career. He won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 1995, a silved medal at the U23 level in 1998 under 23 and has been professional since 1999, riding for Mapei, Fassa Bortolo, Pinzolo Fiavé and Acqua e Sapone. Since 2007 he has been with Ag2r for a total of 17 seasons as a pro and 14 victories. He has been riding for the national team and wore the yellow jersey at the 2009 Tour de France for eight days, the last Italian to do so before Vincenzo Nibali in 2014. He has had some bad luck too, fractuting his tibia and fibula in the GP Insubria in 2010.

Nocentini is in Tenerife and is continuing to train. 

"The only real contact was with Caja Rural. If they are guaranteed that they will do important races on the Italian calendar, they will take me. Unfortunately, I pay for the behavior of Ag2r. We have been together for nine years and they let me know too late that I would not be renewed. I would have liked more clarity. Yet I was a professional until the last moment, until the Vuelta where I worked for Pozzovivo instead of showing myself, knowing that I had to find new opportunities. Other teams always say 'No money', but no one has ever made ​​even a concrete offer. I must say that Gianni Savio from Androni behaved well. He said 'I would take you right away, but I can offer only the minimum salary and that does not seem right for someone like you'. In short, if nothing materializes, I have to do something else but I don't want to because I want to be the one to decide when to stop and I fell that I can do another year."