Team Falcons owner dismisses talk of CS2 roster changes

Darragh Harbinson, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 23/12/2025

Team Falcons owner and Chairman, Musaed ‘Msdossary’ Al-Dossary, took to X to dismiss rumours circulating around Falcons’ CS2 roster.

The post put to bed several rumours surrounding both NAVI IGL Aleksi ‘Aleksib” Virolainen and Mouz anchor, Jimi ‘Jimpphat’ Salo which had spread on social media the day prior.

Team Falcons decide against changes

On December 21, rumours emerged surrounding the future of Natus Vincere IGL, Aleksib.

The rumour initially emerged in Russian telegram channels, which reported that a friend of Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev stated that alecksib would replace Damjan “kyxsan” Stoilkovski.

Despite the extraneous link to NaVi, through a “friend of s1mple,” who is no longer a part of the NAVI organisation, the rumour spread throughout social media.

The rumour has coincided with the latest HLTV Confirmed podcast, in which the possibility was discussed that jimpphat would leave Mouz for another organisation.

As jimpphat and Alecksib are both Finnish, sharing a link through jimpphat’s brother Jere ‘sergej’ Salo, who alecksib played with in Ence, social media leaned towards the two playing together in the iteration of Falcons.

The theoretical move would have seen René ‘TeSeS’ Madsen depart the org. Together with kyxsan, the move would have left Falcons without any members of the original Heroic core Falcons purchased to build the roster.

Regardless, the rumour has now been put to bed, with Msdossary dismissing that any changes will take place.

The Falcons owner stated, “Regarding CS rumors, there’s no intention to change anyone and we have full trust on our players and the staff.”

As such, the rumours disappeared just as quickly as they had emerged.

Prior to the beginning of the StarLadder Budapest Major, Esports News UK asked Janko ‘YNk’ Paunović about the future of the roster, with YNk asserting that the roster was relatively set:

“I think this is the five going forward. I mean, I think Niko will become IGL inevitably, right? I’ve always said, like, I think that’s when he’ll start winning the most trophies, but it’s clear that at the moment that he doesn’t want to make that switch.

Similarly, like G2 asked Hunter an X amount of times, and he didn’t want to. So I don’t think kyxsan’s seat is in peril or anything like that.

I really feel like this is the lineup that they are satisfied with and feel like they can win with, and that it’s more team things that are holding them back.”

It seems that their disappointing quarter-final exit in Budapest has not changed the general direction of the roster, that has grown to the degree where it has made several semi-finals and multiple Grand Finals, but is yet to win a significant trophy together.

The expensively-assembled roster, often memed upon sarcastically as ‘needing one more superstar,’ instead perhaps needs time more than anything to work together and take that next step.

Darragh Harbinson, Senior Editor

Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.

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