When it comes to LoL esports, It's hard not talk about the crazy offseason this year with most players changing teams, many of whom swapped to North American as rich teams enter the NA LCS.

But one player who has been playing since the start and has never left his EU brethren is Paul 'sOAZ' Boyer.

The Fnatic top-laner has had an accomplished career with plenty of Worlds appearances already including three semi-finals and a quarter-final finish to his name.

Fnatic top laner sOAZ who gave us his thoughts on the EU LCS and the team's aspirations

That impressive record makes him the most decorated Western LoL player in history. Just this season he helped his Fnatic side to a miraculous run which saw them qualify through the group-stages.

Yet, sOAZ says his record isn't that impressive: 'It looks like it's something substantial to get Worlds appearances but you're only appearing there.

'I've never been dominant at Worlds, I have gone through to the semi-finals but it was never in dominant fashion, we just got the best draw we could possibly get and beat those teams.

'The big goal would being playing in the final. Obviously you can dream about winning worlds but playing in the final would be a really big achievement, I mean Europe did that in season one but that doesn't really count.'

sOAZ is the most decorated player in Western history but says his record isn't that impressive

sOAZ will continue his long playing career this season with Fnatic who have a relatively unchanged roster from last year, with the support Zdravets 'Hylissang' Iliev Galabov as the only new addition.

Hylissang comes in as a replacement for Jesse 'Jesiz' Le who has stepped down into a sub position. The change didn't surprise sOAZ, who hopes the team will now be able to solve a lot of their problems: I' think Jesiz stepping down was a thought in his mind for a long time already - he wanted a change, probably since Summer Split.

'The reality is that, even though we ended up having good results, it was a really bad year overall for us and I don't think anyone was actually that happy playing this year.

'I hope Fnatic will be more structured next season. I won't go too much into details, but there were a lot of issues this year and I hope they get fixed so we work better as a team and enjoy the game.'

He hopes that their roster roster will fix their issues and will be able to 'enjoy the game'

Many European players have left for North America but sOAZ still believes the EU LCS will be 'stacked' next season. However, he also thinks this season will be the last we see of some teams: 'I'm expecting half of the EU LCS teams to be gone after franchising and a load of football clubs will probably come in.

'I think franchising is mostly going to help the top orgs get bigger and bigger. I believe it will be a good thing as it'll help to get players to stay within Europe - with wages at the moment, the EU LCS cannot compete.'

There had been rumours of the EU LCS splitting into four leagues spread across Berlin, London, Paris and Barcelona. However, those changes appear to have now been dropped, a decision that is popular with sOAZ : 'Speaking for myself, it would be less fun.

'It's much more enjoyable to be in the same region with all the teams and being able to hang out with everyone. Say Fnatic moved to London, I don't know anybody and have no friends there - without the other teams it would be super boring for me.'