NiKo declines Falcons transfer to stay with G2: \u201cI\u2019m not leaving\u201d G2 EsportsNikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kova\u010d has declined a blockbuster transfer to Team Falcons and decided to stick with G2 Esports. NiKo declined a reportedly agreed-upon transfer between his team and the Saudi Arabian-owned Falcons. Team Falcons had apparently agreed to a million-dollar buyout to acquire the player and join its burgeoning super team. NiKo would be the first big piece of the puzzle for Falcons and its head coach Danny \u2018zonic\u2019 S\u00f8rensen. The former Team Vitality and Astralis coach is reportedly crafting a super team for the start of the Counter-Strike 2 era. Team Falcons is also reported to have added Emil \u2018Magisk\u2019 Reif and IGL Marco \u2018Snappi\u2019 Pfeiffer to its team and planned to add NiKo and his G2 teammate Ilya \u2018m0NESY\u2019 Osipov. NiKo staying on G2 Esports, declining Falcons move G2 released a video statement, trolling their fans, with NiKo saying he is sticking with the team. \u201cYou guys know I\u2019m not really leaving right?\u201d NiKo said in the announcement. According to a report about the transfer, G2 Esports had already begun to look for a replacement for the star rifler. With G2 Esports, NiKo has won multiple IEM tournaments and a BLAST championship but has failed to secure a Major tournament trophy. The closest he and the team have come was in the 2021 PGL Stockholm Major where they lost to NAVI in the grand final. The team\u2019s roster has undergone significant changes since that run. Team Falcons is currently taking advantage of the chaos hitting the professional Counter-Strike market which has teams adjusting to the new title with a flurry of player moves. The organization has already announced the benching of four players from its starting roster, keeping only Mohammad \u2018BOROS\u2019 Malhas in the starting lineup as of now. A new target for the Falcons super team has not been revealed but with the rumored implosion of FaZe, and other high-profile targets now on the market, zonic and his new squad have many stars to choose from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NiKo declines Falcons transfer to stay with G2: \u201cI\u2019m not leaving\u201d G2 EsportsNikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kova\u010d has declined a blockbuster transfer to Team Falcons and decided to stick with G2 Esports. NiKo declined a reportedly agreed-upon transfer between his team and the Saudi Arabian-owned Falcons. Team Falcons had apparently agreed to a million-dollar buyout to acquire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}