Although the global transfer period of League of Legends has long ended, for the LPL division, there is still no news about the whereabouts of some players. For example, EDG’s mid laner scout has not had any official announcement. Although we all know the result, everyone seems to be holding it back, and we don’t know what they are holding back. As if they can hold back a world champion?
The story about Scout's transfer period this year can really be written into a novel. In a live broadcast on the night of the 28th, EDG's boss Ed Zhu connected with former jungler Ai Loli and talked about some inside information about Scout's transfer. There is a lot of information, but in fact there are also many doubts. We might as well take a look.
First of all, let’s briefly sort out some of Ed Zhu’s insider revelations and remarks about Scout during the entire transfer period. Ed Zhu revealed that Scout signed a non-competition contract with EDG, but that if he missed home, he could discuss it with the club and let him go home. This has been the case in recent years. This contract is registered with the league and recognized by the league. We just added a clause that if the player is very homesick, let him go back. The so-called card contract does not exist at all.
Everyone was very happy when they won the championship last year. EDG hoped that the original team would renew their contracts for another year and increase the salaries of most of them, but then there was an episode that made it very unpleasant. Because the league's registration is global, Scout thought it didn't matter if the contracts in the two divisions were different, so he signed a contract with another club, which was against the rules. Later, EDG asked the league to suppress the matter, and ended up with a super high price. After all these troubles, the price doubled again, and as a result, they encountered this problem again this year.
The conditions we gave him were good. As soon as he came back, he said he wanted to go back to South Korea. We felt that he really missed home. There was a salary cap at the time, so it was very difficult to stay. And because the mask rarely returned in the past two years, I felt that if the price was based on the initial price, it would be very difficult for people to stay. There was no other way. If you want to go back, there are good teams there, and those with higher prices than what we offered, just go back.
Later, when he went back, he played around with it and pulled it around. He found that it was not as high as EDG's. It was very embarrassing when he came back. After that, the topic stopped abruptly. Regarding the rumor that Scout joined LNG, Ed Zhu didn’t mention a word. So after hearing these words from Ed Zhu’s boss, we have a lot of doubts.
1. One Scout goes home at a time. If Scout doesn’t want to go home and simply wants to transfer to a certain team in LPL, is that not possible? If you do, will the price you pay be very high?
2. Is Scout’s only way home after the contract with EDG is terminated? Or maybe Scout can only retire with EDG, or if the LCK team bids higher than EDG, Scout can leave?
3, what happened to KT in 2021, kt was willing to pay the 3 million liquidated damages plus scout's salary, and then scout could leave. I don't understand why EDG increased the price to stay with them, why they still want to say that the players violated the rules.
4, why did Scout finally choose to join LNG with a quote that was far lower than EDG? If Scout was pursuing salary, why didn't he return to EDG? Or does Scout have a grudge against money?
5. As EDG’s longest-serving mid laner and a key player in the S-game championship, do you really want to destroy it if you don’t get it?
And Ed Zhu’s revelations about the transfer period are far more than just Scout. The subsequent revelations about viper and xiaohu are even more interesting.