The situation around 3DMAX has taken a new turn after reports that a potential deal with French YouTuber CYRILmp4 has collapsed. According to KRL, talks to acquire the club had been going on for months and had even reached a preliminary agreement, but now CYRILmp4 has officially withdrawn from the deal. Against this background, the topic of 3DMAX’s financial problems has resurfaced: according to reports, the organization may still owe more than €1.5 million to players, staff, and other parties.
The deal that could have changed 3DMAX’s future
CYRILmp4’s interest looked like a potentially very important chance for 3DMAX. This was not just about a media figure with a large audience, but about someone who could have given the organization new momentum, sponsor attention, and the opportunity to stabilize the project after a prolonged period of uncertainty.
French YouTuber CYRILmp4, who has more than 5 million subscribers, had been in talks for several months to acquire 3DMAX and signed a preliminary agreement. Today, CYRILmp4 officially announced his withdrawal from the process. According to reports, 3DMAX still owe around €1.5 million to players, staff, and other parties.
The story is much more serious than ordinary rumors about a club sale. If a preliminary agreement really existed, then CYRILmp4’s withdrawal may mean that the potential buyer did not see sufficiently safe conditions to complete the deal. For the organization, this is a painful signal: the problem is no longer only reputation, but also the ability to convince an external investor to take on the risks.
The financial background becomes the main problem
Against the background of KRL’s reports, the public statement from YouKnow, who previously worked at 3DMAX, looks especially important. He directly linked his time at the club to constant payment delays and described the situation not as a one-time failure, but as a systemic problem that dragged on for months.
Yes, I received money during this period. But every payment only covered a month that was already overdue, not the current month. So the delay never disappeared, it simply shifted. In the end, it feels as if those eight months as head coach were spent without pay.
Why could the potential deal have become so complicated? For a buyer, what matters is not only the brand, roster, and place on the scene, but also the organization’s real financial condition. If debts had accumulated to players, coaches, employees, and partners, then acquiring the club automatically turns not into an investment in a team, but into an attempt to clear old obligations.
The team continued working despite instability
Another important aspect of this story is the sporting side. YouKnow emphasized that even under such conditions, the team remained competitive. This changes the perception of the situation: 3DMAX’s results cannot be judged only by what happened on the server, because behind the scenes, it seems, there was a much heavier reality.
Despite everything, I continued. Because of attachment to the work and the project, yes. But also — and let’s be honest — because I did not really have a choice: leaving halfway through would have meant losing everything at once. So you stay, endure, and try to do your job properly.
In this context, 3DMAX looks like a club that for some time was held together more by the people inside the system than by a stable organizational base. When coaches and players continue working while the payment situation remains unresolved, it can preserve results in the short term, but in the long term it almost always destroys trust in the project.
There were results, but the system did not hold up
Despite the financial background, YouKnow does not write off the entire period at 3DMAX as a failure. On the contrary, he separately emphasizes that the team had moments that are not visible in dry statistics. This is important, because the story is not only about debts: inside the project, there was work, there were results, and there was belief that the team could keep moving forward.
Despite everything that happened, what I take from it is that we were competitive. In conditions where nothing was holding together anymore, we produced results above what we could reasonably expect, and we had genuinely good moments. That does not show up in any results list, but it existed.
That is why the collapse of the deal with CYRILmp4 looks for 3DMAX not just like a missed chance, but like a symptom of a deeper crisis. The organization had a sporting foundation, had people who continued to carry the project, but if the financial side was not put in order, even a strong media buyer could decide that the risk was too great.
What comes next for 3DMAX
For 3DMAX, this story may become a turning point. If the information about the debts is true, the club needs not only to find a new buyer or investor, but also to publicly and practically show that it is capable of closing obligations to the people who worked inside the system.
At the same time, for YouKnow, this story sounds like an attempt to close a difficult chapter without a scandalous tone. He said directly:
This disappointment does not take away my desire. I want to build a career in this game, and today I am hungrier than I was at the start.
Against the background of 3DMAX’s crisis, this phrase looks not just like a personal conclusion, but as a reminder that behind every organizational problem are people who continue to build their careers even after a difficult experience.
