In 2013, Peter Sagan topped the winners' list with 22 wins but his dream of winning a monument eluded him. Stating that he is sick of 2nd place, the Slovakian super talent will go all out in a quest to finally conquer a monument in the new season.

When you win 22 races and is the - by far - most successful rider in the peloton, you cannot describe your season as a failure. Peter Sagan doesn't do that either but one cannot escape the feeling that the Slovakian ended his year with a slight disappointment.

In 2013, Sagan got extremely close to winning a big monument. In Milan-Sanremo, he was the big favourite and appeared to have the win almost in the bank when a select lead group entered the finishing straight in Sanremo. However, he was upset by surprise winner Gerald Ciolek and had to settle for 2nd in a race that he appeared to have been destined to win.

Two weeks later he found himself up against a superior Fabian Cancellara in the Tour of Flanders and despite digging extremely deep on the Paterberg, he was unable to match the Swiss' acceleration. Again he came away with 2nd place and when he made his final attempt in a monument in the season-ending Il Lombardia, he crashed out of the race.

Sagan may have won Gent-Wevelgem and Brabantse Pijl which are both big one-day races but they are not monuments. In 2014, Sagan has one major objective: to finally add a big classic to his palmares.

"[My goal] is to improve," he told L'Equipe. "I am sick of second places. I want to win a classic."

The course for Milan-Sanremo has been made harder but the race still appears to suit him down to the ground. Hence, the Italian classic will again be his first big target but he will make an important adjustment to his classics program.

After focusing on the Amstel Gold Race in 2012 and 2013, he will skip all the Ardennes classics in favour of the Paris-Roubaix. He has done the biggest classic twice but has had little success and is now eager to have an incident-free run in the cobbled classic.

"I will have good condition for the Milan-Sanremo and will try to keep it to the Paris-Roubaix," he said. "Then we will see how it goes. I have done Roubaix twice. The first time I broke a wheel and couldn't get back to the lead group. In my second participation, I crashed and it destroyed my race. I will try again this year. It is an unpredictable race and this is what fascinates me."

Later in the season Sagan will try to take a third consecutive green jersey in the Tour de France. His two first wins have been convincing and he hopes that history will repeat itself.

"It is my goal in that race," he said. "So far, it has been easier than I imagined. I hope it stays that way."

Sagan has finalized his schedule for the first part of the season. Tour de San Luis, Tour of Oman, Tour of Dubai, GP Camaiore, Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo, Harelbeke, Tour of Flanders, Ghent-Wevelgem, Paris-Roubaix, Tour of California and Tour de France will be his schedule until the summer, with the Tour de Suisse likely to also feature on his calendar.

The Worlds course in Ponferrada has been described as tailor-made for him but he still hasn't considered his plans for the second half of the season.

" Then we will see," he said. "You can not foresee everything. We will see what happens during the Tour and based on my results and my form, we will decided my schedule."

Sagan's contract ends at the end of the season and he will be the hot topic on the transfer market this year. Recently, he revealed that he has had several proposals from different teams and admitted that the new Fernando Alonso team has already shown interest.

However, he is still undecided about his future.

"Cycling needs someone like him," he said. "It's good to know that he is interested in cycling but I still don't know my coming team. At Cannondale, I have a family. I grew up in this team. And I know that if I leave, I don't know what I will find elsewhere."

Sagan will start his season on January 20 in the Tour de San Luis and has stated his intention to try to get his season off to a successful start in Argentina.