Geraint Thomas says he has held discussions over staying on at Team Ineos as he prepares to end his racing career.
It would see the 2018 Tour de France winner working closely with Sir Dave Brailsford to replicate their past Grand Tour successes.
The 39-year-old Welsh rider will cross his final finish line on Sunday, 7 September when the Tour of Britain concludes in his home city of Cardiff.
Thomas joined Team Sky, as it was then known, in 2010 and over the next decade helped the British outfit win seven Tours de France as well as success at the Vuelta a Espana and the Giro d'Italia. However, they have not won one of cycling's major tours for four years.
Brailsford has recently scaled back involvement with Manchester United, which like Team Ineos is owned by Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
"Obviously Dave Brailsford is sort of back in the fold now with the team," said Thomas.
"He stepped away for a while, but now he's back and he's key to the success of the team from the start.
"The thinking is just to be able to work closely with him and learn off him from that side of things as well."
Thomas - who also won two Olympic gold medals on the track, as well another two top-three finishes in the Tour and one in the Giro - is being lined up to join Team Ineos' top management structure, rather than taking on a more hands on role with riders as a sporting director.
"I've obviously got a lot of knowledge when it comes to the actual physical performance and the training preparation and all that, but then the other side, the management sort of side, [I want to] try and learn as much as I can in that area," he said.
"Nothing's certain yet, but that's the idea anyway, so hopefully we can figure that out soon."
The Cardiff-born rider aims to combine a part-time role within professional cycling alongside grassroots development.
"I feel like it ticks both boxes then," Thomas told BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme.
"It gives me that focus and that drive and that competitiveness, which will be in a different area of the team now, but I think will still excite me and get me motivated to help the boys out."
But Thomas, who has been based in Monaco during his racing career, will be moving back to Cardiff and is also looking forward to returning to the Maindy velodrome where he first learned to race.
"You get the real grassroots stuff as well of trying to get kids active and getting them enjoying riding their bikes," he added.
"If I didn't live so close to Maindy or if I didn't live in Cardiff I may never have ridden a bike, I may never have had the career I had, the life I've had, the enjoyment... and all the travelling and met all the great people I have.
"It sounds a bit corny, but [I want to] spread that joy really and just get everyone out on the bike."
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