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Pretty much everyone has already heard about this since the announcement an hour ago, but I thought the thread warranted a valid discussion.

Resident superstar Korean translator OrangeMilkis revealed a translated article on Twitter and Team Liquid. Extract below:

TSL announced today that they will be releasing Puma on their team. The team revealed today that after Puma won NASL, Puma directly received interest from a foreign team, Evil Geniuses.

Manager Lee noted that "It is disappointing that we have to make a decision like this, but it's absolutely disgusting that Evil Geniuses would ignore the coaches completely and directly go talk to the player"

TIG confirms that Puma will be joining Evil Geniuses. EG made an offer to Puma after they made it to the round of 4, and after that, Puma had decided that he would accept EG's offer. Puma revealed his intentions to the TSL manager after coming back to Korea. Manager Lee decided to respect the player's wishes in the end. He noted that "It's really disturbing. It feels like the player I raised was just stolen away from me.", adding that "There needs to be a system to stop foreign teams from stealing Korean players like this"

EG has been revealed to pay Puma a certain amount of salary, and to provide Puma with money for foreign tournaments.

With the recent acquisition of the team formerly known as fOu by FXO, PuMa to EG and MinChul/NaDa being "globally branded" by SK Gaming, I think the pattern of Korean offshore dominance is here to stay.