The topic of player salaries, and the willingness of some organizations to take a short-term loss for the hope of long-term gain, has become increasingly relevant as more teams funded by investment groups and venture capitalists enter the League of Legends scene.

In an interview with L'Équipe's Paul Arrivé, Unicorns of Love manager Romain "Khagneur" Bigeard said that he's heard of LoL players outside his roster receiving offers for double what UoL pays.

"There is a big problem right now: salaries are exploding. Teams are offering double what we pay our players, knowing that our salaries are absolutely reasonable," he said. "So no matter what team arrives to propose double our salary, they are losing money. I don't understand. It will be a problem, because it seems to me that teams are borrowing against what Riot Games may give them."

UoL, Bigeard continues, is able to offer competitive salaries at the moment. But if salaries continue to increase, it will prove difficult for them to fight some of the teams that are willing to take a loss.

"We pay our players all that we have, but just what we have," he said.

The team's results, its family-like atmosphere, and its willingness to be honest about incoming offers are also reasons that the players have decided to stay with the organization, Bigeard said.

"Last year, we had offers for Vizicsacsi, from big teams. We could have protected ourselves and not told him, but we decided to tell him."

In addition to addressing some of the financial issues facing League of Legends, Bigeard said that the team had added their new jungler. On Sunday ESPN's Jacob Wolf reported that UoL have signed former Dark Passage jungler Andrei "Xerxe" Dragomir pending Riot's approval.

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"We're changing one player: [Kang "Move" Min-su], the jungler. We will start the season with someone else, not a known player. Excellent, very young, he just turned 17. The last time we recruited someone this way, it was [Fabian "Exileh" Schubert] and it worked out very well for us."

Finally, Bigeard said that he'd love to have the team sport a pink-dyed Olympique de Marseilles jersey if they find themselves on stage against Paris Saint-Germain's new LoL squad, continuing the Ligue 1 soccer rivalry between the two teams.

"If tomorrow we were to play PSG ... we'd play with an OM jersey on stage. I don't know how, I'd find them, I'd contact them, but we'd dye some OM jerseys pink and we'd play on stage. Obviously. An opportunity like this shouldn't be wasted."

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that Khagneur said that his players had received offers for double the salary that UoL pays. In fact, Khagneur said that he has heard of players who have been offered salaries that are twice as high as what UoL pay their players. theScore esports regrets the error.

Translation provided by Josh Bury, who is a news editor for theScore esports. You can find him on Twitter.