Kinguin: "No intention to sell any players"

25/1/2018 - 19:29

Team Kinguin COO Giovanni Varriale has guaranteed that the organisation has no plans to sell any of its players at this moment.

Earlier on Thursday, a report from DBLTAP suggested that Virtus.pro were lining up a move for Kinguin's Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller as a replacement for Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas, who is believed to have been given his marching orders by the team.

The 21-year-old is widely regarded as one of Poland's finest talents, with a career that stretches back to 2014. He filled in for Virtus.pro on two occasions in 2015, at Gfinity Spring Masters I and at IEM San Jose.

Kinguin happy with their current setup

Contacted by HLTV.org, Kinguin's Giovanni Varriale stressed that the organisation is not looking to sell at this time. This could mean that Virtus.pro will have to meet the player's valuation, reported to be in the region of $300,000, for a deal to come through.

"It is hard to comment on something we know from 'internet rumours'," the Kinguin chief told HLTV.org.

"All we can say right now is that we are happy with the current team setup and we have no intention to sell any of our players."

Kinguin made headlines at the start of the month by replacing Grzegorz "⁠SZPERO⁠" Dziamałek and Kacper "⁠kaper⁠" Słoma with two Portuguese veterans - Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco and Christopher "⁠MUTiRiS⁠" Fernandes.

MICHU has been part of Kinguin since June 2016, when the gaming marketplace company secured the services of the lineup known as Dobry&Gaming. The team's biggest achievement came at the start of 2017, when they placed second at the WESG Finals, taking home $400,000.

Rip vp

2018-01-25 19:29

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fuck that kinguin isnt their only chance actually its can be their worst chance ago's players are better

2018-01-25 19:30

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AGO is better in terms of teamplay or shit like that. But MICHU is very skilled player and could add a lot of firepower

2018-01-25 19:36

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Yes, but michu is completely braindead, his gamesense is worse than pashas. He is good mechanically but most dumbest guy out of these type of players

2018-01-25 19:49

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anyway if michu refuse vp he is really stupid

2018-01-25 23:46

Dosia is an idiot, but a good IGL like Zeus was able to give him a few extra brain cells. I feel like with the guidance of NEO and coaching of Kuben that MICHU could be a good edition.

2018-01-26 10:44

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edition or addition :D

2018-01-27 10:32

you gotta be shitting me i have been watching fucking michu since 2016 he doesnt have the mindset to compete in tier one he wont develop in the other hand gruby and furlan are pretty sick players worth to shout especially furlan his improving day by day,lan by lan aq

2018-01-25 19:50

If they dip into Ago, i feel like Toao will be on of the first

2018-01-26 12:52

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if i were one of the ago players i would decline the offer ago has more willing to develop

2018-01-26 13:04

But VP is willing to spend so much money, it would be hard to refuse an offer if VP pays you a lot more than AGO.

2018-01-27 04:48

cmonBruh, chu mean, why u be lyin liek that

2018-01-25 19:31

no michu pls, dont wanna see him in tier1 matches........

2018-01-25 20:36

Feelsbadman

Kek

denied

AGO it will be then

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ago > VP so no

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it's like when Zeus switched back to navi - more (short-term) potential + better achievements, bigger orgs with more of a name to itself

that isn't how it works at all vp = much higher salary + get to play with snax/byali, for those young polaks its a no brainer they would all 100% switch to VP at the first chance

2018-01-25 19:38

Byali plays PubG and doesn't care about csgo anymore

2018-01-26 11:05

Just want to point out. Snax said Byali had 10x more hrs in cs than pubg, before the major.

2018-01-27 08:08

yeah! we still have gold VP!

Then it’s bntet time

But bntet is monagasque

2018-01-25 19:37

No he is chinese

They’ll communicate in Englando, thanks to Pasha London School

2018-01-25 19:46

2018-01-25 22:10

lul

Obviously because Dekay is a retard lol

Exactly. What a lying cunt lmao.

2018-01-25 19:32

please elaborate :O

2018-01-25 19:40

He is a lying idiot. He steals leaks from other leakers and post it as if he found out about it. And then sometimes he makes things up like this probably to get attention. I dont know if the name haci says something to you. He is also a leaker and he posted screens of dekay begging him for leaks. Sadly the screens were on the account that got deleted.

2018-01-25 20:23

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Oh how stupid you look now kid lolololol

2018-02-07 23:35

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"He steals leaks from other leakers and post it as if he found out about it." What if that was the case? Even if not. Its not hard to predict the most predictable transfer ever.

2018-02-08 17:14

I agree that’s why you report all the transfers all the time....wait a minute....lol you’re a moron btw good day

2018-02-08 20:31

Well you are the moron here. Because you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Stop defending people if you dont know what they do.

2018-02-09 16:51

He does journalism. He investigates roster swaps mostly and gets them right. Also makes sure players get paid. So ya I know exactly what he does and thanks to me you now do to. So now you can see the error of your ways and are better for it. You’re welcome friend. Have a nice day

2018-02-09 17:01

Well if you can call stealing investigating then you are right. But I dont think you can.

2018-02-09 17:03

And you’re way better since I showed you the light

2018-02-10 00:49

dekay was right but things changed.

2018-01-25 19:41

Don’t even try man. Children are too stupid to understand this.

2018-01-25 20:06

told u it will be furlan

300k buyout lmao

these prices are dumbest asf, so cold worth 10MILL?

2018-01-25 20:07

well it's not like VP doesnt have the money

2018-01-25 20:25

try to find better polish player, price can be much higher :)

2018-01-25 21:26

WTF

Rip

RIP Michu

Ja se sabia

kosovo je kosovo

2018-01-25 22:34

who

I don't who too

thats a lie thats a lie thats a lie lie lie

I said fake info

RIP VP XDDDDDD

#freeMICHU

2018-01-26 22:20

just pls dont fuck up ago whatever you do... take stark instead or someone from pride

stark XDDDDD

2018-01-25 19:33

-taz +luzu

why would you want onliners on your team?

2018-01-25 19:47

rip

AGO is better team than VP but one or two AGO members will move to VP because 20k Salary

2018-01-25 19:34

you are newfag so you completely dont understand how it works XD

Expected from an uneducated poorlak.

2018-01-25 19:56

mexico... lmfao

AGO is better because they beat some tier2-3 teams....and never played tier 1 teams.

poor michu

and so the bargaining foreplay begins lol. anyway VP should not spend a huge buy out on a risk. and if they're only gonna change one player nothing real will change. VP should have been looking for polish talent for a while now but they probably didn't and now they got to find good people in no-time. that's people in plural because only kicking taz won't do shit. VP needs new management lol.

hltv.org/news/16170/virtuspro-gets-100m-.. dont think that they care about buy outs that much...

maybe they should first trial other people like any sane org would do instead of spending what 200k on a fancy name. michu can be good but what will he do alone? he will probably get bitch role or VP will put too much pressure on him. kick byali pasha and taz and find a good 3 man core with promising future for half the price lol. they're still a business. that 100m investment doesn't say anything we don't know how healthy VP is business-wise.

i surely agree with you...i only think that cash isnt problem at all here

2018-01-25 19:45

in the article you linked they spoke of creating tournaments etc. my first guess as a noob business-wise would be they already spent half of that investment. i don't know VP at all lol but the more money you got the more you spend and VP is a BIG business. i hope they've put it away for a rainy day.

keep in mind that this is only 1 investor out of many+other money from sponsors.even if half of this would be already spent,they have other incommes

100% agree. Most of the VP players doesn't even know 10% of semi pros in Poland. All the players they know are players from AGO, Kinguin, Pride, and maybe now Venatores. Byali is consul in PolishProLeague ( faceit PPL), and he is playing it a lot, so is the only one that could know what player is good, and who to choose for tryouts.

2018-01-25 19:51

*facepalm*

2018-01-26 06:28

Byali plays PubG so aren't think that

2018-01-26 11:07

"NO INTENTION TO SELL ANY PLAYERS" sorry but it means literally nothing...just like that tweet from VP ceo

2018-01-25 19:35

Yea, I have no intention to play today at 20.00 but who said I will not at 22.00 xD

yea and if their players have specific number(buy out clause) in their contracts,kinguin cant do sh*t about it anyway if some player would accept that trade

it means they want much more money. nothing else.

Finally someone who knows what's all about. TY buddy.

2018-01-26 00:20

hueehueheuuheuhe >)

HHAHA they are all shit, how are they even pro

Kinguin no chance xD

2018-01-25 20:18

rip kinguin

Kinguin players are already OUT from this organization they sign contract with polish players in 2016-06-07 and only waiting for post major shuffle to replace this 3x polish players with international mix Fox Murtis confirmed this

2018-01-25 19:39

4real?

Hope so cause fox and especially mutiris suck dick

2018-01-26 09:14

90% that michu leave kinguin anyway and 99% that taz leaves VP, there were info even before the major legends stage

LUL, we will see when VP comes with the wallet of $$$ Kinguin will insta sell him.

2018-01-25 19:44

Dekay per sources btw

kinguin? no chance my friends.

+ szpero or furlan = ez vp

yea right because kjnguin roster looks scary, t1 contender.

I want to be totally clear with our fans that speculations like this are just random accusations. No one contacted me or VP asking for comments, most of the assumptions are just fantasies. We’ll give an update when there is an update. VP CEO twitter.com/dvoryrom

2018-01-25 19:48

Lol why you paying these people do to nothing.

Orgs always say this, literally every time a player is rumored to be for sale.

didnt flipside say the same thing?

thank god no MICHU in VP

Free Michu ! kick byali and buy Toao from Ago vp will rise again like NIP !

"no intention" means they have to pay TWICE the amount :D : D counting dem munai already! we smart we loyal (to money) we kinguin.

hahah not only TAZ is the problem^^

VP just sign AGO roster and let AGO sign ex VP-s roster :) I think AGO's players deserve VP's salary more than VP's players in a form they are in now, at least for now... :D

Yeah cause playing against tier 3 teams only and winning (not even close to everything) deserves more money btw look at their last matches “...:D”

2018-01-26 09:18

Kng time

2018-01-25 19:57

i think adding michu to vp will be like replacing zeus for simple in 2016 it will destroy their team

2018-01-25 19:58

Reasons why Dekay and Csgo News are terrible sources

2018-01-25 20:00

How dumb do you look? Lol Dekay is always reporting the truth, sadly dumb shits like you exist

2018-02-07 23:38

He rarely gets anything right. All speculation. Get his dick out of your mouth.

2018-02-08 02:29

stark to VP :D

2018-01-25 20:03

TaZ > Michu Vp only need to get back into their form

LUL

2018-01-25 20:16

We are in 2018 not in 2008

2018-01-25 20:17

Betting MICHU still goes to VP. They note that his buyout would be in the region of 300,000.. and the other report indicates VP offered 310,000 for him. Thinking we may yet find out today or tomorrow that MICHU is in fact going to VP.

2018-01-25 20:10

Kinguin as org itself is shady af so nope

2018-01-26 11:09

VP TAZ :D rip VP [*] :((

taz :( ill miss you

2018-01-25 20:12

so michu overpriced

2018-01-25 20:14

Michu > taz/pashanoobceps/neo ez

-NEO + Furlan

2018-01-25 20:15

Taz playing like shit on purpose to get "fired" and get the whole salaries from the 3 years contract and then create his own business... smart boy

-michu +kng better to all envolved

New Lineup Fox Mutt dennis rubino and 1 game leader top Ez top

2018-01-25 20:19

they still want to be a bit Polish team (not only organisation)

2018-01-25 20:22

why would they keep botiris???

2018-01-25 22:42

Yeah ez top like both portuguese every game at the bottom especially botiris

2018-01-26 09:20

2018-01-25 20:20

300k for a tier2 player ZULUL

pasha is weaker...

#FREEMICHU

2018-01-25 20:27

good for vp michu t3 player

2018-01-25 20:29

100% bullshit lol just playing hard to get to milk that cash cow

ez money

2018-01-25 20:32

300K for michu OMEGALUL

2018-01-25 20:30

300k what?

2018-01-25 20:33

300k Thieves and 99Visas if you dig the joke. Kekekekeke. Offtopic: DumbV to waste his career to such obvious baitd. Kekeke.

2018-01-26 00:22

OMG

2018-01-25 20:39

Team Kinguin are not stupid they have no single reason to sell players,and ofc they dont care about moneys because investments in org comming from Kinguin.RIP G5.

2018-01-25 20:57

Money. No such thing as "moneys" exist. Come on.

2018-01-26 00:23

BRING IN DENNIS FFS AND PROVIDE HIM SOME POLISH LESSONS IN SWEDEN BY F0REST!

2018-01-25 21:02

Why would michu wanna go to the third best polish team there is? Kinguin is literally better

2018-01-25 21:03

Kinguin- company based in Poland? What?

2018-01-25 21:19

damn, admin pls delete, im sorry

2018-01-25 21:21

why everyone talks only about raz leaving vp ? First of all vp needs Better awper. Pasha is only decent at most. He does not carry like guardian or fallen. Look at his mid (no)control on cache against qbf. There are no important kills from him but There are plenty unnecessary smoke pushes on ct side. He just doesn't feel the game anymore. I'd like to see stomp or soren with awp in that team. Even though they are not better than pasha right now, they have potential to be tier1 awp playèrs. Snatchie wasn't consider by anyone as a Good awper and he is doing Great Job for Ago

2018-01-25 23:10

I agree. Honestly, I feel like Neo, Pasha, and Taz all need to retire. They're great players, but they're all 30+ years old. I think it's time for them to move on. Poland needs a tier 1 CS team again.

2018-01-26 04:36

Unfortunately I don't see any real up and coming AWP talent anywhere NA, EU or otherwise. I don't think it's the AWPers either. If you are going to really try to be a pro in this game you are crazy not to master the AK-47 before you do anything. AWP has been nerfed into the ground since 1.6. That unfortunately leaves a situation where it's only super useful on CT and the "talent" is already playing. I mean Skadoodle for example is literally a top ten AWPer in the world. Why? Because he's not that great. There's just no one else. You have three excellent players in Fallen, Guardian and Kenny and then an extremely deep fall off to the next tier. CSGO is just a different game. Onto more roster speculation.

2018-01-25 23:21

where did we see that taz got kicked?

2018-01-26 00:18

"when they placed second at the WESG Finals, taking home $400,000." Holy fuck a lot of big teams miss out big on WESG

2018-01-26 00:32

Michu is booty lol theyll be even worse with him. Just gotta except that theres no young talent in pooland and the scene is officially dead just like sweden and denmark

2018-01-26 01:46

LMAO, MICHU can bring a lot of firepower. He can quickly develop under the leadership of more experienced players like neo

2018-01-26 07:44

No intention of selling any players = Bid higher motherfuckers

2018-01-26 02:00

Sell Michu to VP you fuckers

2018-01-26 02:39

Flipside said the same thing when there were rumors of Electronic leaving for Navi. It looks like VP are just negotiating the price down from 300k which was apparently what Kinguin wanted for buyout.

2018-01-26 02:54

That's such a huge buyout. Wasn't Scream's buyout from G2 100k? and people thought that was a lot.

2018-01-26 07:06

FeelsTaZMan never forget

2018-01-26 03:22

Keep deleting my comments, you're making fake articles based on some random's guy "info"

2018-01-26 06:19

They say that but that can change in a blink of an eye once that ESFORCE money comes rolling.

2018-01-26 07:02

Why does michu even wants to go to VP? :/ Kinguin with that line up puts VP on the ground

2018-01-26 17:13

money $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ EZ

2018-02-08 17:15

Lol fuck ur intentions its all the money game baby Money thrown and intentions drop teams drop they all go for the team like VP who get major invites Why wud a player not move t tier 1 or ,2 teams from shit teams no 1 knows

2018-01-27 08:10