You’ve Ship of Theseus’d everything about NIP, except REZ, to the point where one of the replacement pieces is also now being replaced. This is no longer recognisable as NIP - except for the fact they continue to disappoint.

alex has been binned off for MisteM, who was leading their academy project (oh, sorry, Young Ninjas) and assistant coach slap has been replaced by sprayxd, also from the academy project. Hope you enjoy the poisoned chalice, MisteM. Good luck.

NIP have been pretty rubbish for a long, long time now and no matter who they change, bring in or sign they seem to continue to be pretty rubbish.

There are three potential options here.

The NIP brand is cursed, potentially because of gestures vaguely at every single scandal from the last ten years.

REZ is cursed.

NIP have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, and keep signing mediocre-to-bad players.

We tend to think it’s the fourth one. They still don’t have a single superstar and haven’t since device. They talk a good game about winning stuff in 2025, but they don’t seem to recognise that you need a worldclass player to do that.

Look at the top teams in the world and notice that they all have legitimate superstar players. HEROIC proved you don’t need one, but they were a full Danish team who had all the advantages of being a national team and, frankly, were a massive outlier.

What we’re saying is, you can have Lewis Hamilton driving, but if you give him a Fiat 500, he ain’t going to win.