Philander ' s was 5050 mate . <| sep |> Wouldn ' t blame him for getting worried if he was , but honestly Aru is a star . A bad year this year , absolutely . Terrible actually . But mostly because he was shooting for a Tour debut and blew it on the last day . He was definitely top 5 shape , and had the second best Mountain Time Trial behind only Froome of the GC contenders this year . He didn ' t do a lot in the leadup , but he ' s been terrific in the previous . 4 GCs he ' s done . He ' s explosive , gutsy , young and his tactics and TT are both improving quite a bit . Point being , yeah , Astana had a rough couple of transfer seasons , but largely because they ' re committing to Aru and willing to lose a couple of others to keep him . He still looks like a muppet though .