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Chapter 313: Kkoma was intercepted? The transfer period is turbulent!

On December 12, the day after the All-Star Game ended, the LPL team set out on their return journey in an orderly manner.

During this period, the LPL transfer period was also in a busy period with all kinds of news, true and false, emerging one after another.

Just from the various rumors on the Internet in the past two days, Lin Ruo can tell that this year's transfer period is far more intense and stalemate than the transfer period he experienced.

Ultimately, it was EDG's early championship that significantly increased the commercial value of LPL, thereby bringing a large amount of capital into the market.

For a while.

The major teams have abundant operating funds to invest, and the competition for lineups during the transfer period has naturally entered a white-hot stage.

"Huni is coming to China?" Lin Ruo, who was on the plane, couldn't help but sigh as he saw the latest news that was reported by the Korean media.

It seems that an LPL team offered a higher pension than North America, which caused Huni to change his mind about making money.

After being kicked out by SKT, he can make money and come to a competitive division.

Of course he was happy to do so.

"It's not just Huni, it seems that LZ's jungler Cuzz is coming too. It is said that he is joining the newly formed RW team." Xiao Ming, who is always at the forefront of watching the show, said.

957 tensed up when he heard that. Is the LZ jungler who eliminated them in the World Championship also coming to LPL?

Lin Ruo could have predicted that Cuzz probably didn't want to compete with Xiaohuasheng for the starting position in the new season.

Facts have proved that his choice was right. If he had continued to stay in LZ, he would only be a substitute for a whole year.

"Alas, there are Galaxy Battleships everywhere now. How will our RNG survive next year?" Xiaohu pretended to be worried.

Lin Ruo rolled his eyes: "Don't think I don't know that you bought the Taiwanese jungler, and it seems that you haven't strengthened the team. It's not like us, the team is almost broken up."

Within five days of participating in the All-Star Game, LPL had already announced that Ai Loli and A Guang had left the team. In addition, the factory manager had publicly retired. The entire region was surprised and looking forward to EDG's reorganization.

Originally, LPL was slow to make official announcements, but this year is different. The battle for players is intense, and LPL teams are announcing news even faster than LCK teams. This is not only to attract fans, but also to take advantage of the hot spots during the transfer period.

Early official announcement is also part of brand management, especially with the influx of various types of capital nowadays.

"I heard that you bought an elderly top laner from the secondary league. Is that true? Who will be the jungler for EDG after Kai retires?" Curious Xiao Ming immediately started asking questions with great interest when he heard Lin Rudu personally admit the reorganization.

"The older you get, the more evil you become, don't you understand?" Lin Ruo said while looking at Ming Kai, a vivid example.

Well, actually it’s okay to look at Xiaohu, after all, he can hold on longer than Mingkai in the future.

During the twelve hours since returning home, the struggles during the LPL transfer period have intensified.

Abu, who is in charge of EDG's transfer affairs, is now having a headache. There are too many bids in the industry, causing the cost of introducing players to increase exponentially.

His goal is to bring in a jungler who meets performance expectations during the transfer period, but with two Korean players already in the team, it is inevitably difficult to choose a domestic jungler.

A few days ago, he took a fancy to a high-scoring Korean domestic jungler from LSPL, but he gave up because of the high price.

The only good news these two days may be that Audi was bought by BLG, which was transformed from IM.

Although it’s not much money, it’s still money.

Abu didn't want to be a sucker, so he finally decided to promote his own youth training jungler Haro. After half a year of various trainings, he has at least reached the standard to enter the first team.

However, Abu is not too brave to take the gamble. After all, the reason why Ai Loli was promoted in this spring season was because she had the support of the factory manager. But now that Kai has retired, who will be the jungler if he doesn't play well?
"How about convincing Mingkai to retire later and stick around for the spring split to see how Haro performs?"

While Abu was thinking about it, Xiaotie rushed into the office in a hurry.

...

In the afternoon, Lin Ruo and Ming Kai had just returned to the club when they heard the news that their EDG's favorite target had been snatched away by someone.

That target is Kkoma.

The contract had already been agreed upon, but SNG suddenly appeared halfway through and poached SKT's champion coach at double the price without any suspense.

Kkoma naturally still wants to come to EDG, but they offered too much.

And it's only a one-year contract. If you don't want to stay in the second year, you can terminate the contract at any time and leave.

Seeing such a high degree of freedom, Kkoma immediately chose to report to SNG.

"Who is SNG? They even poached them from Kkoma?" Mingkai was shocked when he learned about this.

Xiaotie spread his hands, indicating that he had no background. SNG had only acquired YM's talented mid laner Knight and jungler Tian during this year's transfer window, making it a purely new roster.

"We haven't found a jungler yet, but the coach was poached for no apparent reason."

Abu was speechless.

This year's transfer period has been quite turbulent.

"Abu, do you want to save money?" Lin Ruo suddenly asked.

Abu nodded subconsciously. He just didn't want to pay an unreasonably high price, otherwise how could he let the players and coaches slip away from under his nose one after another.

EDG has just won the championship, and it is not a rich team without competitiveness that can be slaughtered everywhere.

"That's easy. Mingkai can retire right here and become a coach. That would save a lot of money."

Lin Ruo said as if to refresh his mind.

Not only does it not cost money for players to become coaches, it can even save money, because coaches' salaries have historically been much lower than those of so-called big-name players.

And who knows the current club and teammates better than Mingkai, so he can be exempted from the integration period.

Abu's eyes lit up, thinking it made perfect sense. The next second, regardless of the person involved's opinion, he asked doubtfully, "Wait, what about the jungler if he becomes a coach?"

I was originally thinking of persuading him to retire later, so that the second prince Haro could take care of him for half a season, but now he wants to force him to become a coach.

Lin Ruo smiled slightly: "That's easy, I can just go to the jungle, anyway, we have an existing little genius on the shelf for the AD position."

Before Mingkai could get over the confusion of being asked to be a coach, he turned around and heard Lin Ruo volunteering to play jungle. His whole body was filled with black question marks.

Could you please speak more slowly? Could you at least give me some time to think and relax?

"You want to play jungle? Although you seem to be quite strong in jungle, I don't agree." Abu expressed his refusal decisively.

It is not easy to change positions, especially when the person to be changed is the absolute core of the current team.

Abu can't stand this kind of change. He would rather believe in the performance of the new jungler Haro in the spring season. Maybe he can find another genius like him.

Lin Ruo's expression seemed to be expecting something, and he said calmly, "Who do you believe more, Haro or iboy, can perform well in the competition?"

Needless to say, Abu trusted iboy more. After all, he was a talented AD carry whose age the entire team had been waiting for him to play. If it weren't for the sudden appearance of the concept god Lin Ruo in the spring season...

Moreover, iboy played in four regular season games in this year's summer season, and his performance proved to be completely up to expectations.

If iboy plays bottom lane, then is there any problem with Lin Ruo playing jungle?

Abu, who was worried, couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

He watched Lin Ruo play jungle in the ranking competition to win the first place in the Korean server and earn prize money every day. His strength was definitely that of a top jungler, and there was no problem with his hero pool and awareness management.

What's more, Lin Ruo is the team's all-time commander. He's always felt awkward commanding the bottom lane, but it's only natural for him to be the jungler...

Could it be that Lin Ruo was truly born to be a jungler?! Abu couldn't believe it.

Even AD can play like this...

"Don't overthink it. The transfer period is still a while away. We can just get together and play a few scrimmages to see if it works out."

Lin Ruo's clear words pierced through Abu's fantasy. Doesn't the success of everything depend on the actual performance of the running-in? Is there any need to think so much?

"Yes, just play a few training matches to verify it and it will be done." Abu, whose curiosity was aroused, changed his mind in a second.

If Lin Ruo can really switch to jungle, iboy will not have to be sold to the enemy, and the factory manager can also retire with peace of mind and become a coach. This is undoubtedly a win-win situation for all parties.

Wouldn't that mean EDG would be reborn overnight? Absolutely brilliant.

Lin Ruo walked out of the office and Abu followed excitedly.

Ming Kai, who had been stunned for a long time, finally spoke up after watching the two of them walk out one after another. "Wait a minute, jungler or coach, why didn't you ask for my opinion?"

I'm also a party...

Are you guys saying you won't retire? You saying you'll change coaches? That's too embarrassing.

Although he has a heart dedicated to EDG, he still has to go through the formalities of asking for opinions.

(End of this chapter)