According to a source from Vietnam Esports Express, Frander has joined the MGN Box Esports from Saigon Buffalo. This means that Frander is the first player to leave SGB after the 2023 season. At the same time, Froggy is also the first MBE contract before the 2024 season.
Frander started playing since 2020, in FTV Esports shirt. After unable to promote VCS in the summer of 2020, the player born in 2002 joined SGB and took on the mid lane position that Naul left. In SGB shirt, Frograre has 3 times for domestic runner -up, Top 6 MSI 2022 and attended Worlds 2022.
In the last VCS Sunset 2023, Frander and SGB ranked 4th in the end. Meanwhile, MBE stood at the penultimate position on the rankings and had to promote VCS 2024.
On September 18, Saigon Buffalo announced that he wanted to transfer the whole team and the competition rate due to tight financial conditions. Accordingly, SGB wants to resell all 6 players, VCS competition and 2 social network channels for 900 million VND.
SGB said the price of VND 900 million can negotiate. Besides, SGB also commits 900 million VND to be the cheapest cost to buy a team at VCS. In addition to the fee of 900 million, SGB confirmed that the salary fund of the current team belongs to the lowest in the tournament.
According to ITHETHAO.VN, owner Nguyen Van Nhat Linh used to pricing SGB up to 500,000 USD (about 11.8 billion) in late 2022. At the same time, he also contacted the Korean Sports Broker Company based in Vietnam to find the buyer. He even affirmed that “someone paid 400,000 USD” at the time before trading with CNJ Esports in November 2022.
Changing the owner and changing the team name in the near future will be the end of the “Buffalo brand”. In the past, they won the VCS Summer 2018, VCS Spring 2019, attended MSI 2019 & 2022, participated in the World Final 2017, 2018 and 2022.
