Manchester United has increased its interest in Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembele. As per the report by Sports Claim, the Red Devils are considering a move in the transfer window.
Manchester United was trying to sign a winger last summer. They were interested in Borussia Dortmund’s winger Jadon Sancho. But they failed to sign as they cannot match the asking price for the English winger.
After that, they tried to sign FC Barcelona winger Ousmane Dembélé on loan. But FC Barcelona wanted a permanent deal only for the French winger. Finally, Manchester United ended up signing Facundo Pelistri and Amad Diallo.
However, Ousmane Dembélé is in good form recently whenever he got the chance to play. He has appeared only 35 times this season and has scored 9 goals and provided 4 assists already.
As a result, multiple clubs in Europe want to get the service of the Frenchman. Manchester United is surely one of them. Dembele has only left 15 months of his contract. His contract will end in 2022. Dembélé did not want to renew his contract with FC Barcelona. The Catalan side is also yet to make any progress in the contract negotiations.
As per the report, FC Barcelona is not interested to match the wage bill of the player. It can surely open the door for Manchester United to get their target man.
The blockbuster IPO (Initial Public Offerings) debuts in 2020, like that of Mrs. Bector, Burger King, and Happiest Minds in the Indian stock markets, has only led the country’s emerging tech startups to build up enough confidence to knock the doors on the public markets.
“The Indian IPO market has realized the potential of startups which are disrupting traditional businesses or ways of doing business and garnering large market share in different segments. Recent IPOs by Route Mobile, Happiest Minds, CAMs or Burger King have all been oversubscribed many times and debuted with high multiples,” said Anup Jain, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners, according to Business Insider.
Multiple Indian startups like Delhivery, Zomato, Policybazaar, Flipkart, and Nykaa are reportedly eyeing the public markets in 2021 with the Indian government too seems to be welcoming of tech IPOs. India’s market regulator, SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has set up an Innovators Growth Platform (IGP) and announced a consultation paper seeking comments for new rules that will encourage startups to move towards IPO.
Here’s a look at the startups reportedly heading for an IPO in 2021
“There are certain tailwinds which are pushing startups towards IPO for fundraising and to provide investors with a healthy exit. The new norms announced by SEBI such as easier migration to the mainboard, decreased holding period, and special rights have made IPO more lucrative,” said Ankur Bansal co-founder and director, BlackSoil.
Startups preparing for an IPO
Delhivery
Evaluation as of the end of 2020: $1.5 billion
Image: Business Insider
Delhivery, which is an Indian logistics unicorn, recently raised investment from Steadview Capital, a global investment firm. It picked up $25 million worth of shares in Delhivery through a secondary transaction.
With the investment, the co-founder of the logistics unicorn hinted that the startup would head towards an IPO soon. “Steadview is a long-term investor and we see them playing a key role as Delhivery heads towards the public markets in the next 12-15 months,” said Sahil Barua, founder, and CEO of Delhivery.
In a recent interview, Barua informed about the company’s orders saying that the company processes over 1.5 million orders per day.
Zomato
Evaluation as of the end of 2020: $3.9 billion
Indian food tech unicorn Zomato would become one of the most-talked-about IPOs. The company has also closed pre-IPO funding of $660 million. With the latest round, 10 new investors including Baillie Gifford, Tiger Global, Luxor, Kora, Fidelity (FMR), Mirae, D1 Capital, and Steadview joined Zomato’s board.
According to reports from the Economic Times, Deepinder Goyal, Zomato CEO, in an email to his employees said that the company is looking to list publicly in the first half of 2021.
Even while Zomato faced the test of times in the pandemic-inflicted year of 2020, it also brought the food tech startup closer to profitability. VCs believe this ability to bounce back from a crisis where companies even saw no revenue, would bring in more strength for the startups to face the unforgiving public market. “Startups also emerged as winners post-lockdown with increased adoption by consumers while low investor confidence has forced startups to fine-tune business models towards profitability, making them more appealing to retail Indian investors,” Bansal told Business Insider.
Policybazaar
Evaluation as of the end of 2020: $1.5 billion
India’s insurance unicorn Policybazaar, backed by investors like SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Tiger Global Management, and Tencent Holdings, is reportedly looking to head for an IPO in 2021.
Yashish Dahiya, the co-founder of Policybazaar, told Bloomberg in an interview earlier this year about his plans for an IPO, while also talking about funding plans, he said, “we have global interest and will raise in the coming week.”
While there has been no development on the report, it is expected that by September 2021, PolicyBazaar will head for an IPO.
Flipkart
Evaluation as of the end of 2020: $24.9 billion
Walmart-owned Flipkart could also hit the public market this year. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has often hinted about the Indian e-commerce giant, Flipkart’s IPO debut, which would reportedly be worth $10 billion.
One of the most-talked-about companies, Flipkart was last valued at $24.9 billion and could head for an overseas IPO. This fits in well with what VCs in India, like Jain, expect of India’s tech IPOs. “India public markets have acquired the level of maturity and depth of coverage to support IPOs of this size (less than $5 billion) very easily. Beyond this, the IPOs would probably be better off in overseas markets,” he said.
Nykaa
Evaluation as of the end of 2020: <$1 billion
The Falguni Nayyar-headed startup, Nykaa too is headed for the public markets in the next year. Indian beauty e-commerce unicorn turned unicorn this year and has raised investments from Boston-based asset management company Fidelity Management & Research Company, Steadview Capital, and also from actresses including Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt.
Nykaa’s profitability streak:
Year
Revenue
EBITDA
FY20
₹1,860 crore
₹94 crore
FY19
₹1,159.32 crore
₹2.3 crore
EBITDA: Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
With the rise in e-commerce sales despite the restrictions due to the Covid-19 lockdowns, Nykaa expects its revenue to grow by 40% in FY21.
Earlier it was reported that a GPU called the Ampere GA102-250 GPU SKU exists In Nvidia’s sectors. Now a user on Hardwareluxx Forums has confirmed that the GPU which was previously expected to be featured on the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card exists.
According to sources, the GPU was spotted when the forum member took apart his GeForce RTX 3090, and the GPU was initially labeled as the GA102-250 SKU instead of the GA102-300 which is supposed to be the official SKU used on the RTX 3090.
Until now, the NVIDIA GA102-250-KD-A1 GPU only existed in rumors, but now it is confirmed to be a real chip. The GPU was initially planned for the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card, but it seems that the green team decided to utilize it for the GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card.
The image posted by the user, clearly shows that the GA102-250-KD-A1 GPU label has been cut-off, and instead, it’s been repurposed as the GA102-300-A1 SKU. According to previous reports, we had heard that the GA102-250-KD-A1 was expected to feature 78 SM units enabled for a total of 9984 CUDA cores whereas the RTX 3090 with its GA102-300-A1 GPU packs 82 SMs or 10496 cores.
It is also being speculated that NVIDIA decided to repurpose the GA102-250 SKU into GA102-300 due to the shortages of its high-end graphics cards. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has seen a spec-change and will now be using the Ampere GA102-225-A1 GPU SKU. Following are the expected specifications of the upcoming RTX 30 series flagship.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series ‘Ampere’ Graphics Card Specifications:
The Cupertino giant’s supply chain has been reported to already start the production for next-generation AirPods. The backend service supplier ASE Technology has been reported to have started packaging and testing optical sensors for new AirPods expected to launch in Q3 2021.
The third-generation of Airpods is supposed to be released in the first half of 2021 as per Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. This report from Digitimes is in-line with Kuo’s prediction that third-generation AirPods will enter mass production in the third quarter of the year.
Even though it was assumed that the new Airpods would be announced in the first half of 2021, but it seems the Cupertino giant needs some time. Also, Apple’s much rumoured March launch event has also been delayed for the ongoing chip shortage.
It is expected that the third-generation AirPods will have a similar design as that of the AirPods Pro. So this includes shorter stems, however, come without silicone ear tips or active noise cancellation, to adjust for a lower price.
The second-generation of AirPods retailed for $159 with a wired charging case or for $199 with a wireless charging case, while the AirPods Pro runs $249. So, it is expected that the new Apple AirPods will have similar pricing as that of last-gen or lower.
Cryptocurrency mining is one of the primary methods to generate a profit in the cryptocurrency industry, and it consists of a cluster of computers on a global scale. Each computer competes to solve a mathematical problem specified in a blockchain network of a certain cryptocurrency in the creation of a block.
Factors affecting the profitability of a cryptocurrency mining business:
Property ownership: Legal security needs to be provided of the property in which the mining is done.
Electricity costs: The lower the cost of the electricity needed to mine the cryptocurrency, the better.
Internet speed: More blocks can be mined with faster internet speed.
Climate conditions: The cooler the weather in your location, the easier it is to keep the mining equipment cool.
Based on these characteristics, here are the top 10 best countries in the world to mine cryptocurrencies:
10. Latvia
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Latvia accumulated 72 points.
The commercial electricity rate here is USD 0.18 per kWh.
With download speeds as high as 32.74 Mbps, Latvia comes in 16th place globally.
A valuable advantage here is that the country has an average annual temperature of 5.65 degrees Celsius, which is quite generous in helping to cool down the digital mining equipment.
As an interesting final piece of information, the government of this beautiful North-Eastern European country recognizes cryptocurrencies and approves of them, though it also collects taxes on such assets.
9. Switzerland
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Switzerland accumulated 87 points.
$0.21 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Switzerland.
Switzerland is in the ninth position worldwide for internet download speeds, with speeds of 38.85 Mbps.
An annual average temperature of 5.50 degrees Celsius in Switzerland is quite generous in contributing to the cooling of digital mining equipment.
8. Georgia
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Georgia accumulated 69 points.
Georgia’s cost of commercial (non-domestic) electric service without a doubt, is the lowest in this ranking with $ 0.06 per kWh.
In contrast, Georgia’s internet download speed is at 7.14 Mbps and located at 88th position worldwide.
Georgia has an average annual temperature of 5.80 degrees Celsius, quite generous in contributing to the cooling of digital mining equipment.
7. Estonia
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Estonia accumulated 83 points.
$ 0.17 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Estonia.
Estonia ranks 18th in the world and has an excellent internet download speed of 31.55 Mbps.
Estonia has an average annual temperature of 5.10 degrees Celsius, quite generous in contributing to the cooling of digital mining equipment.
Estonia has created an entire online government ecosystem not only aimed at native Estonian citizens but also international entrepreneurs.
“Many entrepreneurs move their blockchain businesses to Estonia due to existing cryptocurrency regulations. The favorable tax regime and ease of doing business means that more than 700 cryptocurrency and blockchain companies with foreign shareholders are directing their blockchain businesses to this country,” said Dmitri Lihno, director of the branch of Private Financial Services in Estonia.
6. Canada
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Canada accumulated about 88 points, occupying the eighth position worldwide.
$ 0.10 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Canada.
Canada ranks 25th worldwide and has a good internet download speed of 28.76 Mbps.
Canada has an average annual temperature of -5.35 degrees Celsius that is one of the best on this list to cool digital mining equipment.
5. Finland
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Finland accumulated about 88 points, occupying the fourth position worldwide.
$ 0.07 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Finland.
Finland ranks 24th worldwide with an internet download speed of 29.34 Mbps.
Finland has an average annual temperature of 2.10 degrees Celsius, one of the best in the world for cooling digital mining equipment.
4. Iceland
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Iceland accumulated about 88 points, occupying the ninth position worldwide.
$ 0.12 per kWh the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Iceland.
Iceland ranks 35th worldwide with an internet download speed of 22.13 Mbps.
Iceland has an average annual temperature of 1.75 degrees Celsius, one of the best in the world for the cooling of digital mining equipment.
3. Denmark
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Denmark accumulated about 86 points, occupying the 16th position worldwide.
$ 0.069 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Denmark.
Denmark ranks in the fabulous fifth place worldwide with internet download speed of 49.19 Mbps.
Denmark has an annual average temperature of 7.50 degrees Celsius.
This beautiful European country, apart from having ideal conditions to mine cryptocurrencies also sees the government not charging taxes for the trade or extraction of cryptocurrencies.
2. Norway
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Norway accumulated about 84 points, occupying the 20th position worldwide.
$ 0.07 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Norway.
Norway ranks 11th worldwide with an internet download speed of 38.46 Mbps.
Norway has an annual average temperature of 1.50 degrees Celsius, ideal for cooling digital mining equipment.
In February 2017, the Norwegian government stated that it would not impose taxes on the purchase or sale of Bitcoin and this Nordic country is very safe to trade and mine cryptocurrencies.
Sweden
In the 2020 Property Law Index, Sweden accumulated about 89 points, occupying the seventh position worldwide.
$ 0.065 per kWh is the cost of commercial (non-domestic) electrical service in Sweden.
Sweden ranks among the top five in the fastest internet speed worldwide with download speeds of 55.18 Mbps.
Sweden has an annual average temperature of 2.10 degrees Celsius, the ninth-best worldwide for cooling digital mining equipment.
The Swedish jurisdiction, compared to other countries within the EU and the rest of the world, is generally quite favorable towards cryptocurrency companies and users. The Finansinspektionen, (government regulatory and supervisory body of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority) has legitimized the fast-growing industry by publicly proclaiming bitcoin and other digital currencies as a means of payment.
Notable omissions from the list include China, Russia, Belarus, and Venezuela. These countries were not listed because legal security and respect for private properties are important criteria to be on the list. However, the aforementioned anti-democratic nations will never be safe to mine cryptocurrencies.
Intel’s 11th Gen processors have already been launched by the company few days ago and its official availability starts from tomorrow, March 30th. However, the good thing is that, you can already get your favorite Intel CPU from Amazon and pre-order it.
Intel’s Rocket Lake processors are limited to 8-cores, however, they contain Intel Deep Learning Boost and up to 50% better-integrated graphics performance. So, it will be tough competition against Rocket Lake and AMD’s Zen-3 in the gaming segment.
The processors will also house exactly 20 lanes of PCIe 4.0. They will also have native support for DDR4-3200 RAM without overclocking the IMC. 10bit AV1 and 12bit HEVC are now natively supported as well. To make its processor competitive in gaming, Intel’s integrated graphics also supports Resizeable BAR.
The Z590 chipset is the platform of choice for Intel’s Rocket Lake processors, but the new CPUs will also support Z490 with bios upgrades. The Rocket Lake family also supports USB 3.2 Gen 2×2, along with x8 DMI Gen 3.0 for twice the bandwidth between the chipset and CPU. WiFi 6E support along with Thunderbolt 4.0 Support is also available.
According to official sources, the Core i9 11900K can boost up to 5.3 GHz with Intel Thermal Velocity Boost and an All-Core of 4.8GHz with the same. Speaking of the Core i7 11700K, it can boost up to 5.0 GHz and an all-core of 4.6 GHz.
The Intel Core i5 11600K, on the other hand, has 6 cores and can boost up to 4.9 GHz and 4.6 GHz all-core, respectively. As of now, Intel didn’t release any Core i3 for its Rocket Lake and they will just be the last-gen refreshed models, so beware of that.
Amazon has made a dedicated page for these new Intel processors that you can check out from here: https://amzn.to/3swkTFf
There are some of the new 11th Gen Intel processors you can order right now, here are all of them:
Intel Core i5-11400
6 cores and 12 threads
2.6 GHz base and up to 4.4 GHz boost frequencies
Compatible with Intel 500 series & select Intel 400 series chipset based motherboards
Intel Optane Memory Support
PCIe Gen 4.0 Support
Thermal solution included
Buy from here:
Intel Core i5-11500
6 cores and 12 threads
2.7 GHz base and up to 4.6 GHz boost frequencies
Compatible with Intel 500 series & select Intel 400 series chipset based motherboards
Intel Optane Memory Support
PCIe Gen 4.0 Support
Thermal solution included
Buy from here:
Intel Core i5-11600KF
6 cores and 12 threads
3.9 GHz base and up to 4.9 GHz boost frequencies
Compatible with Intel 500 series & select Intel 400 series chipset based motherboards
Intel Optane Memory Support
PCIe Gen 4.0 Support
No thermal solution included
Buy from here:
Intel Core i7-11700K
8 cores and 16 threads
3.6 GHz base and up to 5.0 GHz boost frequencies
Compatible with Intel 500 series & select Intel 400 series chipset based motherboards
Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Support
Intel Optane Memory Support
PCIe Gen 4.0 Support
No thermal solution included
Buy from here:
Intel Core i9-11900K
8 cores and 16 threads
3.5 GHz base and up to 5.3 GHz boost frequencies
Compatible with Intel 500 series & select Intel 400 series chipset based motherboards
Manchester City were denied the chance to claim the biggest winning streak in all of Europe’s top five leagues recently as their rivals, Manchester United triumphed 2-0 in the Premier League at the Etihad Stadium to leave City eight games short of the 29 successive victories set by Benfica between 1972 and 1973.
Across the rest of Europe, Dinamo Zagreb (2007/08 – 28), Celtic (2003/04 – 25), Ferencvaros (1931/32 – 22) and PSV Eindhoven (1987/88 – 22) have also topped City’s 21-game run, but achieving this feat in one of the top five leagues requires something truly special.
1. Bayern Munich – 23 (2019/20)
Hansi Flick took over a completely demotivated Bayern Munich from Nico Kovac and ended up turning them into sextuple winners in the span of one complete season. The Bavarians also managed to put together the longest winning run in Europe’s top five leagues in the process.
2. Real Madrid – 22 (2014/15)
Los Blancos’ winning run comprised of victories across all possible competition in a streak that surprisingly did not end with them lifting silverware. They lost out on the league title to Barcelona and also missed out on the Copa del Rey.
3. Manchester City – 21 (2020/21)
After being held to a 1-1 draw by West Bromwich Albion in December 2020, City embarked on a spectacular 21-game winning run.
Pep Guardiola’s men are now way ahead of the rest of the Premier League, and are destined to lift the league title at the end of the campaign once more.
4. Barcelona – 18 (2005/06)
Frank Rijkaard oversaw one of the most dominant runs for Barcelona, and he ended the season by securing the La Liga and Champions League double, only the second time they had achieved the feat in their history at the time.
They reeled off 13 victories in La Liga, three in the Champions League and two in the Copa del Rey, before being beaten 4-2 by Real Zaragoza in the latter competition.
5= Bordeaux – 16 (2008/09 & 2009/10)
In the days before Qatari investment into Paris Saint-Germain skewed the playing field in Ligue 1, the top of the table had a very different look.
Bordeaux won their last 11 league matches of the 2008/09 campaign to clinch the title and beat Vannes 4-0 to add the Coupe de Ligue to their haul.
5= Paris Saint Germain – 16 (2015/16)
PSG equalled Bordeaux’s 16-game record in 2015/16 – a run that set them on their way to winning four trophies.
The winning streak featured nine wins in Ligue 1, three in the Coupe de France, three in the Coupe de Ligue, and one in the Champions League.
7. Real Madrid – 15 wins (2011/12)
Madrid set plenty of records during the 2011/12 season, including a winning streak of 15 consecutive victories in all competitions. They dominated in La Liga, winning 20 of their 38 games by at least a three-goal margin to finish nine points clear of Barcelona.
Cristiano Ronaldo was also singlehandedly responsible for scoring 60 of the 174 goals scored by them that season.
8= Lyon – 14 wins (2006)
Throughout the early part of the 21st century, Lyon were the dominant force in French football unlike PSG now.
They won seven successive Ligue 1 titles from the 2001/02 season onwards and regularly reached the knockout stages of the Champions League. The highlight of Lyon’s remarkable winning run was a victory over a star-studded Madrid team.
8= Bayern Munich – 14 wins (2017/18)
A 5-0 thrashing of Besiktas in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie saw Bayern rack up their 14th win in a row in February 2018.
Their winning run was surprisingly ended just four days later as they were held to a goalless draw by Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga.
10. Various – 13 wins
Thirteen appears to be an unlucky number where winning runs are concerned, with five clubs seeing their streaks ended at that point since the turn of the century.
Inter Milan (2007/08), Bayern Munich (2009/10 & 2013/14), Atletico Madrid (2012/13) and Juventus (2015/16) are the clubs concerned.
Despite this, every one of them went on to finish the season by lifting at least one piece of silverware.
Transfers are one of the most interesting parts of football. However, oftentimes the transfer of players extends rival clubs that loyal fans can never imagine their players ever playing for. While this does not apply to all such players, there were some transfers in history that sent shockwaves through the fandom and that is what we look at here.
5. Ashley Cole to Chelsea, 2006
Joining London rivals Chelsea after coming through the Arsenal academy, Ashley Cole had fans turn on him and call him ‘Cashley’. The approach made by Jose Mourinho and Chelsea was deemed illegal by the Premier League and all parties were later fined by the governing bodies. He since went on to enjoy success at Chelsea in the form of silverware and us still one of the best left-backs in the history of the Premier League.
4. Sol Campbell to Arsenal, 2001.
The player told Spurs that he would be staying but ultimately ended up leaving White Hart Lane to join North London rivals Arsenal in one of the most shocking transfers in the Premier League to date. He joined Arsenal one free transfer and is still hailed as one of the best Arsenal centre-backs in the history of the club.
3. Johan Cruyff to Feyenoord, 1983
‘I wanted to take my anger out on Ajax via Feyenoord after the club had thrown me out with the rubbish’, Cruyff wrote in his autobiography. Ajax did not offer him a new contract which caused him to join bitter rivals Feyenoord, and the player went on to win the double with them in the only season he spent with the club.
2. Carlos Teves to Man City, 2009
The Argentinian striker was never offered a new contract despite being a valuable asset to Manchester United during his time at the Old Trafford. He went on to clinch the Premier League and the Champions League with United, but also ended City’s 35-year long wait for a major trophy, winning the FA Cup.
1. Luis Figo to Real Madrid, 2000
Figo to Madrid was not received well by the Barcelona fans, who threw all sorts of things at the player whenever he touched the ball. Infamously, a pig’s head also made it onto the pitch and words like Judas and Scum were thrown around.
For content creators and work-heavy users, Nvidia offers its RTX A6000 Ampere graphics which supports workstations. But, as it stands, it is the only option for workstation users, and as things go, Nvidia seems to have decided to provide more options for workstation users to explore.
According to sources, Nvidia is ready to sell its RTX A5000 and RTX A4000 as the more affordable pro options for content creators and work-heavy users. Both the cards are based on the Ampere GPU architecture and are siblings to the flagship RTX A6000.
Reports indicate that the cards were submitted for the OpenCL 1.2 and as we already know that the NVIDIA RTX A6000 uses the full GA102 GPU, we can assume that the RTX A5000 and RTX A4000 will have NVIDIA’s Ampere GA104 and GA106 GPUs, respectively.
According to sources, the NVIDIA RTX A5000 has a total of 6144 CUDA cores and will also have a 256-bit bus. We can also expect either 16 or 32 GB GDDR6 memory. The NVIDIA RTX A4000, on the other hand, will have GA106 GPU with 3840 CUDA cores and could end up with up to 12 GB of GDDR6 memory running across a 192-bit bus interface.
According to sources, the NVIDIA RTX A5000 workstation graphics card has been spotted within a workstation laptop comprising of an Intel Core i7-11600H CPU. The machine was tested in the Ashes of The Singularity benchmark, but unfortunately, we don’t have any new details regarding the GPU.
It is a good sign that Nvidia is preparing more affordable graphics cards for workstations, based on its Ampere GPU architecture, and we can expect them to launch in the coming months in both desktop and laptop discrete flavors.
Barcelona are looking to Flamengo center-back Natan as a solution to their defensive problems, especially the injury problems that have plagued them throughout the season. Ronald Koeman is reportedly keen on trying to sign the player, who is currently on loan at Red Bull Bragantino.
At 20, the young defender has exhibited an exceptional amount of composure and leadership at the back. And that is exactly what makes a player like him desirable for Ronald Koeman this summer. However, there is a problem that Barcelona will have to overcome in order to sign the youngster.
While he is valued at €1 million, the release clause in his contract is valued at £60 million, which shows the amount of potential the Brazilian outfit sees in him. While he is still very young for a defender, a move to Barcelona will be hard to reject especially if they come calling this summer.
One of the main debates regarding this, though, is whether the Blaugrana will actually be able to gather the funds needed to sign the player this summer. That is an especially big headache since their financial condition is terrible, with over €1 billion worth of debt in place.
Eric Garcia will also be joining the club for a second spell this summer, and with the likes of Gerard Pique and Samuel Umtiti at the club, Barcelona will ideally want to snap up the young defenders to put their future in secure hands right now.
