Some of the best LoL professionals in the West won’t find a job in 2022 – Because the teams are too greedy

In League of Legends, 2 of the best midlaners in the western world will no longer find a new team for 2022. Because they no longer want to set up their teams themselves, but still want enough money for the highly endowed professionals that no team starts and pays the high transfer fees. An analyst explains the problem.

Which players are you talking about?

• The Dane Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen (26, cover picture) is midlane for Team Liquid and has been playing there since November 2018. At the age of 25, he allegedly signed a contract for 4.2 million euros in 2020, which is supposed to last 3 years.
• The Belgian Yasin “Nisqy” Dinçer (23) has been with Fnatic since 2020. He still has a contract until 2023.

Jensen stated on a November 7th stream that he might not play in 2022. Since then, this has become more and more apparent.

What is the problem with the two players?

Both players have publicly stated that they probably don’t have a team for 2022 and won’t play Lol professionally.

• Jensen has the problem that his team will sign Bjergsen of all people for 2022, probably the most famous LoL player in the USA. He only plays in the midlane. Apparently there is no place for Jensen in the new team. But Team Liquid does not want to let its midlane star Jensen go “for free”.
• Nisqy, in turn, apparently wants or should leave Fnatic. They had a traumatic experience at the LoL Worlds in 2021. But because he still has a contract for so long, his team is apparently demanding a transfer. The sum is so high that interested parties have already given up and the negotiations collapsed. It was originally thought that Nisqy would switch to Cloud 9 to replace Perkz, but they have now put their top laner Fudge in the midlane.

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Jensen and Nisqy are among the top 10 mid-laners in the west

This is what an analyst says about the situation: The page Inven spoke to LoL analyst Isaac “Azael” Cummings about the situation that experienced and established LoL professionals like Jensen and Nisqy will be without a team for 2022.

He says both players deserved a spot in the LCS or LEC. There would be 20 start spots in the midlane in the western professional leagues. Jensen and Nisqy were at least in the top 10 on the position. You should be allowed to play for someone:

“The contracts got bigger and bigger. We see these hefty transfer fees. I think: That meant that some teams and players increased their transfer fees to unreasonable levels. And now, as a result, many players fail to find teams because nobody wants to spend that much money on them.

Azael

Azael says the fee depends on supply and demand. You can say “Hey, the market value for the player is X million US dollars”. But if nobody is willing to pay the price, then it is no longer the market value.

How does it go on? Azael believes that a downward correction is already taking place. One possibility that he sees would also be a “salary cap” so that the LoL leagues can sustain themselves in the long term. That is ultimately the goal. Such a discussion would already exist in China and could also include other LoL leagues.

This “correction” of transfer fees downward apparently already took place at G2 Esports. They are said to have sold the top Laner Wunder for a third of the price they originally wanted:

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