phzy: "I don't want to [stay in Wildcard]"

In an interview with Ludvig "quacke" Nilsson of Fragbite.se, Wildcard AWPer Love "phzy" Smidebrant revealed that he hopes to leave Wildcard at the end of 2025 and transition back into the European scene. The interview was conducted at the Svenska Cupen 2025, where phzy competed in "Southern Lights" a mixteam of his fellow countrymen.

quake graciously translated a number of sections form the full interview, providing insight on phzy's future with Wildcard and on his viral "ChatGPT" comment from Fragadelphia Fragville.

On his future with Wildcard, phzy told Fragbite that he does not want to continue with Wildcard into 2026 and that he hopes to find a European team after spending the past few years of his career jumping between North America, Europe, and China:

I don't want to say too much but I don't want to [stay in Wildcard]. I really enjoyed my time in 9INE and I feel I've been gone too long. China, USA... it's time I get a European team. There's been way too much traveling, way too many issues around it all. Hopefully I'll get an EU team in 2026.

phzy was then asked if that means Wildcard will be placing him on the transfer list, to which he replied:

That's something I believe will be announced pretty soon.

phzy also provided some extra context on the viral "ChatGPT" quote from Fragville, explaining that he phrased it in such a way to be a "clickbait-friendly quote" while noting that Wildcard's use of ChatGPT had a disastrous effect as it seemingly "hallucinated" Jaxon "Peeping" Cornwell's roles:

It was a very clickbait friendly quote. But from what I've heard the manager who scouted Peeping asked ChatGPT which roles he was playing, instead of checking himself. It was entirely wrong. He was more of a star player in his previous team, then he came into Wildcard and got anchor roles. It wasn't very easy for him either as a newcomer and a young talent to jump into Wildcard and play entirely different roles from what he was used to.

Overall, in the interview phzy provides a fairly negative impression of his second tenure with Wildcard, with all signs pointing to the Swedish star being the latest piece of exit Wildcard. The news comes at a poor time for the Houston organization as it has also been reported that Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz is on his way out of the roster.

Check out the full interview below (YouTube's auto-generated English subtitles work surprisingly well for this):