GBV is at risk of “dissolving” after the 2024 World Championship
With a dramatic 3-2 victory, T1 officially won the 2024 World Championship in a very worthy way. On the other side of the battle line, sadness is something the audience can feel from the players as well as the coaching staff of BLG. It is important to know that BLG is the No. 1 hope of the LPL region at Worlds 2024, but they cannot overcome a very brave T1 at important moments.
Sadness is something the audience can feel from the side of GBV
Not stopping at failure at a tournament, BLG also faces an extremely “tragic” situation after Worlds 2024. According to experts in the LPL region, BLG will likely have to disband. Current squad for the upcoming 2025 season. The reason comes from the fact that the current squad is receiving too high a salary and will exceed the salary ceiling prescribed in the LPL in the upcoming season. If BLG won Worlds, they would have invested a lot of money and could afford fines to keep the squad, but that cannot happen.
Sharing from knowledgeable people in the LPL area: “BLG will almost disband the squad in the upcoming season when the LPL's salary cap regulations are applied. They will have to pay a huge amount of tax if they want to keep the team.” current situation. If BLG won the world championship, they would have the money to do it, but unfortunately that didn't happen.”
Knight is the first name expected to “pack up” and leave BLG
It is important to know that the salary cap regulation has been mentioned since the beginning of the 2024 season and it is probably only a matter of time before it is applied in the 2025 season. This will cause teams with many stars, a typical example of which is BLG, to be forced to find ways to cut their salary budget, and the simplest way is to say goodbye to famous players. A few days ago, JDG officially broke up with Ruler and the next star who is expected to “pack up” and leave is Knight.
Knight is said to be the first name to leave BLG in the upcoming transfer window
Specifically, many LPL viewers believe that Knight is a player who enjoys an extremely high salary at BLG. Therefore, breaking up with him is a measure to reduce the salary budget of this team. Furthermore, 4 BLG players including Bin, Xun, Elk and ON have been together for many years while Knight just joined in the 2024 season. Therefore, when considering BLG's personnel change, Knight is the name with the highest departure rate.
“It's really over” – A viewer posted a picture of Knight sharing his sadness, implying that he thought this player would leave BLG.
“The LPL is really becoming more tragic than ever” – Another player shared
“Just look at Knight's annual remuneration to know who will have to leave because of the salary cap regulations. Previously it was 40 million yuan, when he was at JDG it was 20 million yuan and this year it is 12 million yuan” – An audience Other authors confirm
Of course, the above information is just at the rumor level and BLG has not made any move to part with the player at the present time. However, the pressure on salary caps in the 2025 season is real and BLG will have to find a way to deal with this. It cannot be ruled out that they will still keep the entire 2024 World Championship runner-up squad next season to maintain hope of “revenge”, but the price for that is certainly not cheap at all.
