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Top Player Transfers of the Week: May 10 – May 16
Gabriel Ionica
05/17/2021
Welcome to our twenty-seventh edition of Valorant Top Player Transfers of the Week. The post-VCT roster moves continue to flood our Twitter timelines. Make sure to check out our last installment to stay updated! Here are the top Valorant player transfers for the week of May 10 – May 16.
Three months after he was benched, Team Liquid finally released Adam “ec1s” Eccles.
FunPlus Phoenix let go of Ivan “Johnta” Shevtsov, who went on to coach Team Heretics. In his place, they promoted their analyst Erik “d00mbr0s” Sandgren.
The Turkish team is down to three players and a stand-in after releasing Erim “Mavera” Sasal and transferring Mehmet “Turko” Özen to Blaze Esports.
TSM signed NRG’s ex-coach Chet “Chet” Singh as their team’s coach.
XSET announced that they decided to move Matthew “Wedid” Suchan to the sub role for the rest of the year. He is free to stay on the team for as long as he wants.
After successfully completing his trial, Josh “JoshRT” Lee was signed full-time to the NRG roster.
Tanishq “Tanizhq” Sabharwal left Team Heretics this week and signed Ivan “Johnta” Shevtsov as their coach.
After losing Kiara “milk” Makua last month, Dignitas Female filled the gap with Stefanie “Stefanie” Jones.
Just about a month after benching Danny “huynh” Huynh, Gen.G is up to a full roster again with the help of Nicholas “NaturE” Garrison.
Andbox are now short one player after letting go of Aaron “b0i” Thao.
The Turkish organization dropped their entire roster out of the blue. The players are free to pursue new offers.
After a disappointing run in VCT Japan, Lag Gaming dropped Park “Bazzi” Jun-ki and Yoo “Moothie” Seung-woo from their roster.
The Spanish organization moved Daniil “pipsoN” Meshcheryakov to a coaching role and brought in Michał “MOLSI” Łącki of Team Finest to fill the space.
The Korean organization dropped four of their players this week, only leaving Yu “BuZz” Byung-chul on the roster.
Oliwer “LATEKS” Fahlander and squad are left with one less player after the org benched Richard “rCk” Kanerva.
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