With the CS:GO rumor mill in full swing regarding the possibility of Kenneth "koosta" Suen playing for Team Liquid, Robin Nymann, Team Liquid's director of eSports, spoke with theScore eSports to say that a deal has not been struck, but his intentions were clear.

"If we could sign koosta, we would," he said. "That entirely depends on our conversation with Enemy. They have koosta on their contract and we need to talk to them about the scenario that’s about to unfold there."

Earlier today, Enemy's coach Steve "Ryu" Rattacasa said on Twitter that koosta would not play for the team after his contract expired.

TL began looking for new prospects in response to Eric "adreN" Hoag's recent performance. adreN has come under criticism for his play, especially at the ELeague Road to Vegas where TL went down 0-2 to unknown squad DOGMEN. adreN has felt the pressure, going so far as to speak out on stream on Tuesday about his situation with the team.

Nymann said that adreN's difficulties are a separate issue from the team's interest in koosta. "adreN is still under contract, we are still figuring out the possibilities there are with him," he said. "Even if we end up figuring it out with koosta and Enemy, that does not mean adreN would be a free agent, we would still have to have a lot of talks there."

Eric "adreN" Hoag at the FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals at DreamHack Open Winter

According to Nymann, TL are currently trying out a number of players and adreN is able to throw his name in the hat. "We have given him the opportunity to prove his worth for his spot," he said.

However, he did make clear that adreN's performance is an issue the team is taking seriously. "I think throughout the last couple of months he has lost some motivation and he is not performing to the same level of trying to better himself and the team to try and reach the goals that we believe we can with our current roster," Nymann said. "In order for us to achieve our goals we need people who are all 110 percent committed."

koosta appears to be TL's top prospect, but he's been on their radar for a long time now. According to Nymann, after their tryout with Aleksi "allu" Jalli didn't work out, they had two names in mind: koosta and Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostylev. They picked up the latter, but koosta has remained in TL's mind.

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"When we had the talk about AdreN as a team and figured out we wanted to do tryouts, we wanted to tryout koosta," Nymann said. "Around the time when we signed s1mple, it was clear that we wanted to see opportunities there and see where his future was heading.

"We talked to Enemy and we asked them, 'Hey, is it OK that we talk to your player, we would potentially like to sign him,' and they gave us the heads up and said, 'Yeah, you can talk to him.' So we started talking to koosta and koosta immediately said he was interested in trying out."

Nymann said the team had a long scrim session with koosta on Monday. "It was a really good experience playing with koosta, both from a management and coaching position, to what the players were feeling about koosta."

Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostylev at ESWC 2015 at Montreal, Quebec when he was part of FlipSid3 Tactics

koosta has apparently left a strong impression on the team, but his role as an AWPer brings up the same problem adreN had with s1mple: there can only be one primary AWPer on the lineup. Regardless of the role of the player they end up signing, Nymann says that s1mple is willing to make any adjustments.

"I think we’re still finding our identity as a team," Nymann said. "What I do know, to quote a recent video of Thorin’s called, 'I just want to win,' is s1mple just wants to win, whatever it takes."

He said one potential scenario is that s1mple may work with another AWPer the same way Fnatic's jw (an AWPer) plays with olofmeister (a secondary AWPer/Rifler). s1mple is known as a very versatile player who can fill a variety of roles on the team.

"We’re looking for the player that will make our team the best long-term," Nymann said.