Chapter 388: The Atmosphere is Better, But the Style's Gone Sideways
After their battle against the Demon King Team, Starlight and Frost had another easy match—
A battle against the league's weaker team, the Wildgrass Team.
Although the schedule was tight and the match was the day after Ninetales had evolved, meaning Ivy didn't have time to debut her new ace, the team still secured a clean victory.
Arthur returned to the singles scene and got his sixth shutout of the season!
The legend continued!
Starlight and Frost's dominance was unwavering!
After this match, the league was halfway through its schedule, and as usual, there would be a mid-season break. At the same time, the league would take the opportunity to organize a series of reality TV events.
It was during this period last year that Arthur had met the sisters Ivy and Bianca.
In Arthur's opinion, these activities were a waste of time. He would rather be training at the base. But unfortunately, as a star player, some official events were unavoidable.
And this year's mid-season break was particularly noteworthy!
Because a few weeks ago, news had been released: another team in the league would be changing ownership and name this year.
The current Tigris Team, whose team image is an Incineroar, and who were often jokingly called the "Fat Tiger Team" due to their recent poor performance, had been confirmed to be put up for sale at the end of this season.
Two or three potential buyers were already in contact with them, but the specific details of the transaction had not yet been announced.
This kind of capital replacement, while not frequent in the professional circuit, was certainly not rare.
Two years ago, the sisters' family had entered the scene in a similar fashion, buying the team that was now Starlight and Frost for Ivy and Bianca.
Because the Kubfu professional league doesn't have a minor league or a promotion/relegation system, the most common way for new capital to enter is to directly buy an existing team.
Furthermore, the league has set many requirements for teams to enter the circuit, such as requiring all professional clubs to have a sufficiently large training base, a complete staff and logistics support system, and a certain number of related personnel.
Even for a very wealthy tycoon, building all of these from scratch would require a huge investment. The cost-effectiveness is too low compared to buying an existing team.
The league uses this method to limit the number of teams, which has kept the number of professional teams stable at seventeen for over a decade.
Although the owners behind these seventeen teams have changed several times over the years.
The Tigris Team was not the first case, and it probably wouldn't be the last.
For the players on the other major teams, they didn't care if their opponents next season were called the Tigris Team, the Fat Tiger Team, or the Tigger Team. What the players and team management really cared about was—
The new owner of the Tigris Team had not yet announced any intention of buying out the existing players' contracts.
This is something that should have been announced early on to stabilize the team's morale. The current season wasn't even over yet.
But there was no news.
"So the existing players of the Tigris Team might all become free agents at the end of this season?" Arthur asked Ivy, who was traveling with him on the way to the event.
As the team's little boss, Ivy was more sensitive to this kind of news.
"Yes. And with the league's new rules, a new transfer window has been announced for after the regular season. Plus, there's the Champions Cup in the latter half of this year. All the major teams are now eyeing the current players of the Tigris Team, seeing if they can poach anyone."
"Do you have any ideas?" Arthur asked.
"A few," Ivy didn't deny it.
One of the reasons they were attending this official event today was to meet the players of the Tigris Team.
Starlight and Frost had not yet faced the Tigris Team in the regular season.
When they arrived at the venue, Arthur quickly discovered that they weren't the only ones with this idea.
The players of the Tigris Team were surrounded by the most people, even more than the real big-name star players.
Most of them were management from various clubs.
"Who are we going after?" Arthur asked.
No matter how rich Starlight and Frost was, it was unlikely they could sign multiple players at once. Not to mention, due to the expense of acquiring Arthur at the beginning of the season, the team's cash flow was a bit tight right now.
Arthur glanced around. The one surrounded by the most people was undoubtedly the Tigris Team's captain: Quincy.
This person had also been selected as an All-Star a few years ago. He was a very good player, just a bit stoic and introverted. He was famous in the league for being a terrible interview, often answering a long string of questions from the host with a single "mm-hmm."
He had been a frequent feature in meme compilations back in the day…
"Should we talk to Quincy?"
As soon as Arthur asked, Ivy decisively shook her head.
"No. He's too expensive. We can't afford him."
As the current face of the Tigris Team, Quincy would surely be the subject of a bidding war once he entered the transfer market. The teams aiming for this year's Champions Cup would not give up such a rare opportunity to strengthen their roster.
Intense competition would inevitably lead to a serious price inflation.
Ivy didn't think it was worth it.
Their team's current lineup was relatively complete. They were undefeated in the first half of the regular season and hadn't exposed any obvious weaknesses. There was no need to pay such a high premium for a rotational player.
In the end, Ivy added, "And I've already contacted him online. He's more interested in going to the Blaze Team."
The Blaze Team… at this, Arthur didn't say any more.
Although Starlight and Frost's current record was impressive, the Blaze Team's was just as good!
As the team with the best result for the Kubfu Alliance in the Champions Cup two years ago, and last year's professional league champions, the Blaze Team was, in the eyes of many, the current number one team in the Kubfu Alliance!
Compared to them, their team's appeal was suddenly not so great.
"Then who are we talking to?" Arthur asked again.
Ivy gave him a sideways glance.
She really wanted to complain: Arthur's tone sounded like, "Big brother, who are we going to chop?"
But time was tight. The official event was about to start. Ivy had no time to worry about Arthur's little slip of the tongue.
"Come with me. We're going to talk to her: Ye Qinghai."
Ivy pointed to a very quiet, scholarly-looking girl in the corner.
Arthur said "oh" and obediently followed.
He was just an escort today. Wherever the boss went, he would follow.
But on the way to the corner, as Arthur sized up this quiet girl who could potentially become his new teammate, a strange thought came to his mind—
If this continues, isn't the number of young, beautiful girls on our team getting a bit high?
Currently, there was already Ivy, Bianca, and Bella, all of whom were very attractive. And now, the "rookie" Ivy was scouting was another very pretty girl.
He felt that since he had switched teams, the atmosphere had gotten better, but the style had gone a bit sideways, hadn't it?
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