Jean-Clair Todibo joined Barcelona in January 2019 from Toulouse. The 20-year-old centre-back was deemed to be a future prospect.
He was sent out on loan to Schalke in the second half of last season. He made 10 appearances in all competitions and has now returned to Barcelona.
But sadly, Todibo isn’t in the plans of new Barcelona manager Ronald Koeman. He has chosen Pique and Lenglet as his first choice centre-backs with Araujo and Ramos Mingo as back up. Eric Garcia is also rumoured to be on his way to Barcelona. So, Koeman wouldn’t be able to give the young France international enough game time.
Fulham are pushing to convince Todibo, after €18m bid submitted to Barcelona [he’s the #1 target]. Negotiations on also for Colley [no agreement yet].
Barça hope Todibo will change his mind about #FFC so they can increase the bid to Man City for Eric Garcia. 🚨 #MCFC#FCB
Premier League side Fulham are interested in signing the young defender and are willing to pay as much as €18m.
Todibo will be surely going out of Camp Nou this summer. As the transfer deadline day approaches, he is now evaluating his options carefully.
According to ‘RAC 1’, Borussia Dortmund is the latest team to join the bid for Todibo, They have seen him play in the Bundeslga for Schalke last season. Dortmund is probably the best club in Europe for nurturing young talents.
It now remains to be seen whether Todibo would go to a low-ranked Premier League club or to a club who regularly plays in the Champions League and has one of the best young teams in Europe.
According to multiple reports in Europe Manchester United is finally going to sign one of their targets within the next few hours. Manchester United was linked with Edinson Cavani for a long time.
Edinson Cavani is a free agent this season. He left Paris Saint-Germain this June after his contract expired. The Uruguayan striker was not happy at PSG as he became irregular in the starting line-up. PSG manager Thomas Tuchel favoured Argentine striker Mauro Icardi.
Cavani joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2013. In his 7 seasons for the French Club, he has scored 200 goals in 301 appearances.
Earlier Cavani wanted a three-year contract worth €10million-a-season (£8.8m). But Benfica was not ready to sign the striker at a high wage. After that, some of the other European clubs become interested in the Uruguayan forward.
More details about Edinson Cavani > Manchester Utd 🔴🇺🇾
– Cavani and his agents will be in UK tomorrow to complete the agreement on agents fee [€10m asked].
According to Fabrizio Romano, Edinson Cavani wants a ‘long term deal + more than €10m/season as wages + huge agents fee’. But United was not interested to sign him if he doesn’t want to negotiate with wages and agent fees. As per final reports, Edinson Cavani is flying to England today to complete his medicals and the deal. He has agreed to take less than €10m/season.
Edinson Cavani agent also confirmed the agreement on personal terms with Manchester United. Agents fee to be agreed on next hours [#MUFC to get it sorted for bit less than €10m]. Medicals pending – Edinson will fly to Manchester today. Here we go is coming 🔴 #ManUtd#Cavani
Edinson Cavani will be a good addition to the Manchester United squad. He is a proper centre-forward which Manchester United was lacking since last season. If the deal happens then he will face his old club Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League group stage tie on 20th October which could be his first match in United Jersey as well.
After loan spells at AC Milan and former club AS Monaco, Tiemoue Bakayoko is set to join Napoli on loan for the 20/21 season. The news comes on the back of the French midfielder’s return to Chelsea following a spell back in France.
The defensive midfielder made an ambitious switch to Chelsea for €40 million following an impressive stint at Monaco, during which he managed to win the 16/17 Ligue 1 title.
Tiemoué Bakayoko will be in Napoli tomorrow to undergo medicals. It’ll be a simple loan, *no* buy option. He’s leaving #CFC. 🔵
Chelsea are refusing to sell Callum Hudson-Odoi on loan with buy *option* to Bayern.
A deal looks set for Bakayoko at Napoli and the player is now set to fly to Naples to complete his medical and sign the contract which will see him spend the 20/21 season in the heart of the park at Napoli.
Bakayoko still has time on his side, and the 26-year-old could still manage to move past his disastrous move to Chelsea and show his talents on the pitch.
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Hertha Berlin, Valencia and PSG were also rumoured to be in the race for the Frenchman, but Gennaro Gattuso’s side are the winners for the signature of the midfielder.
Having formerly played for AC Milan, the midfielder is no stranger to the style of play in Italy. However, it will be interesting to see how Gattuso integrates Bakayoko into his midfield, especially following the departure of Allan to reunite with former Napoli manager Carlo Ancelotti at Everton.
Napoli have agreed on a straightforward loan deal for Bakayoko with no option to buy, which seems a change from the rumours that Chelsea were willing to include an option for their failed prospect to leave permanently.
On the other side of the pitch, Fabrizio Romano has denied rumours that Marcos Alonso will be leaving Chelsea to reunite with Antonio Conte at Inter Milan.
After the signing of Ben Chilwell from Leicester City, Alonso looks set for a squad role with the England international being the prefered choice at the back for Frank Lampard.
We end our weekend and Super Sunday with another barn burner as Chennai Super Kings will take on Kings XI Punjab.
During the initial days of the IPL, nobody would have thought these two teams to be at the bottom of the points table. However, that’s exactly what happened as both of these teams find themselves at the bottom with only one win in four matches.
CSK is coming off another disappointing loss against the Sunrisers Hyderabad. The loss marked their third consecutive loss. KXIP, on the other hand, is coming off another disappointing 48 run loss against the Mumbai Indians. Both the teams will desperately need this win.
Chennai Super Kings
CSK found probably their best combination in the last match with the return of Ambati Rayadu and Dwayne Bravo. Bravo extended their bowling lineup and also added depth to their batting. However, their top-order couldn’t deliver. They would be happy about their skipper MS Dhoni showing form. Ravindra Jadeja played well for a fifty as well.
CSK’s bowling has looked decent. Their spinners are lowly regaining form and momentum.
(PC- InsideSport)
Kings XI Punjab
KXIP have been putting phenomenal performances, however, failing to put it together completely as a team. They are a top-order dominant team, therefore, if KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal fail, the entire team falls under pressure. Glenn Maxwell will have to step up his game.
KL Rahul will have to evaluate his bowling options. Having 8 overs from part-timers Jimmy Neesham and Gowtham proved to be extremely expensive in their last match. They may consider bringing back Murugan Ashwin and even Chris Jordan.
(PC- The Indian Express)
Fantasy XI team
FAF DU PLESSIS (9)(C) – Du Plessis is coming off two phenomenal fifties. He scored 72 of just 37 balls with 7 sixes against RR. He’ll again be my captain.
KL RAHUL (10.5)(VC) – Rahul has been extremely consistent in this IPL with a fifty and a century. He has been a run machine and will be our vice-captain.
MAYANK AGARWAL (9) – Agarwal is probably in the best purple patch of his life.
AMBATI RAYADU (9) – Rayadu will look to continue from his match-winning inning in his first match before the injury.
SHANE WATSON(9.5) – Watson has been getting some good starts. However, he’ll have to convert them into something big.
SAM CURRAN (8.5) – Curran bowled really well and also scored a match-winning cameo in their first match against MI. Dhoni likes the idea of promoting him depending upon the situation.
DWAYNE BRAVO (9) – Bravo gives CSK with 4 solid overs. He’s also a handy batsman in the lower-middle order.
RAVINDRA JADEJA (9) – Jadeja converted his starts into a big fifty in the last match against SRH. His bowling has been gaining momentum as well.
MOHD. SHAMI (9) – Shami looked phenomenal with his spell where he picked up 3 wickets in the first match and bowled well in the second as well.
DEEPAK CHAHAR (8.5) – Chahar has been contributing with crucial wickets especially in the powerplay overs.
RAVI BISNOI (8) – Bishnoi impressed everyone with his dynamic leg-spin.
PREDICTION
CSK seem to have found their best combination. It didn’t work in their last match due to tight SRH bowling. However, KXIP do not have the same steam in their pace bowling. Bravo has added depth to their batting and bowling as well. CSK will therefore defeat KXIP.
The launch of the upcoming RDNA 2 based GPUs is on the cards for AMD, and in the middle of all this, it seems the last year’s AMD mid-range GPUs are likely to be discontinued. In fact, both RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT were the best-selling 1440p gaming GPUs in the market because of their incredible price-to-performance ratios.
As Videocardz points out, according to Cowcotland, AMD will no longer be manufacturing graphics processors for Radeon RX 5700 series. So, the current ones available in the market will be some last Navi 10 cards, which is why we have seen inflation in prices.
Later, Videocardz updated its article to confirm that Radeon RX 5700 XT will not be discontinued totally, but the card will be manufactured at least till Q1 2021. The lower RX 5700, on the other hand, will only be available on special orders, so AMD isn’t focusing anymore on its older RDNA based GPUs.
This is true because the upcoming RDNA 2 based GPUs shall deliver much better performance than last-gen and come with multiple variants. Naturally, AMD is focusing on the new RX 6000 series GPUs launching on October 28th and will be available from November.
However, AMD has no intention of discontinuing the Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU along with the budget Radeon RX 500 series and Radeon RX 5500 GPUs.
The weekend will end with another thrilling battle of heavyweights as defending champions Mumbai Indians will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Mumbai Indians are coming off a clinical win over the mighty Kings XI Punjab. Sunrisers, on the other hand, has had a resurgence as they defeated the mighty CSK in their last match.
Mumbai Indians
MI defeated KXIP by a margin of 48 runs, which definitely helped them improve their net run-rate. Rohit Sharma again played a captain’s knock by scoring a match-winning 70 runs off just 45 balls. Ther middle-order has been in great form with Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard, and Hardik Pandya in great form.
As per bowling is concerned, the Sharjah pitch is a graveyard for bowlers anyway. Therefore, bowlers will have to pick wickets at regular intervals. The MI side has been doing that with Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, and James Pattinson. MI would be happy that their spin-bowling has gained some form as well.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Sunrisers are coming off two huge back-to-back wins overs Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings. Their stacked top-order will have an important role to play. All of David Warner, Johnny Bairstow, and Manish Pandey have been getting starts but will have to show some consistency. They would be extremely happy as their middle-order showed up after the top-order collapsed. Youngsters Abhishek Sharma and Priyam Garg played beautifully to take the side to a respectable total.
SRH would be concerned about their bowling. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar isn’t 100% fit. They needed an experienced player like Kumar who could lead the young bowling attack of Khaleel Ahmed and Natarajan. SRH doesn’t have a complete fifth bowler and will have to rely on Abhishek Sharma and Abdul Samad for four overs. Both being spinners, they might leak runs on Sharjah.
(PC- Indian Express)
Fantasy XI team
ROHIT SHARMA (10.5) (C) – Rohit Sharma again played a captain’s knock by scoring a match-winning 70 runs off just 45 balls. He’ll be my captain.
DAVID WARNER (10.5) (VC) – David Warner has been in phenomenal form and has been consistent as well. He’ll be my vice-captain.
JOHNNY BAIRSTOW (9.5) – Bairstow has been in great form as well. He has adapted an anchor role and thus scores big.
MANISH PANDEY (9) – Manish Pandey has been in great form and has been given a new role of leading the middle-order.
ISHAN KISHAN (8.5) – After what he did in his first match against RCB, it’s pretty self-explanatory why he makes the place.
KIERON POLLARD (9) – Pollard has looked in great form. Especially against spin in Sharjah, he can change the course of the game.
HARDIK PANDYA (9.5) – Hardik Pandya has looked in great form. He does not take time to settle and can explode at any moment.
JASPRIT BUMRAH (9) – Bumrah is struggling with his form. However, he did well in the super over. He can establish consistency as time passes.
T. NATARAJAN (8) – Natarajan has impressed everyone with his death bowling. He justified himself being picked over Khaleel Ahmed, Siddharth Kaul, and Basil Thampi.
JAMES PATTINSON (8) – Pattinson has been bowling tight and picking wickets at regular intervals as well.
TRENT BOULT (8.5) – Boult has been doing a good job by keeping things tight and picking wickets as well.
PREDICTION
The matches in Sharjah are dependent on toss as well. The team batting first puts up a huge score and thus the team batting second is already under pressure. Therefore, MI has a more versatile set of batsmen who can bat in any situation. Plus all of them are in decent form.
Also, Sunrisers’ best bowler is Rashid Khan. Khan being a spinner might not be effective in Sharjah. Also, they lack a fifth complete bowler. MI will therefore defeat SRH.
As we that this month is going to be rich with the launch of smartphone accessories from different brands in India. There are already three new Bluetooth earphones listed in Flipkart and Amazon India. Let’s have a look at all the earphones launching this month.
Earphones
Launch Date
OnePlus Buds Z (Rumored)
14th October
Realme Buds Air Pro
7th October
Realme Buds Wireless Pro
7th October
Redmi (TWS earbud)
7th October
Redmi (Bluetooth Neckband)
7th October
boAt Nirvana 1007
Coming soon
Now the latest launch is on 7th October from Realme where they are revealing two new Bluetooth in-ear audio devices in India along with a smartphone in the online launch event.
Both the Bluetooth audio devices from Realme will be the pro version of the previously launched earphones and this time these audio devices will be launched with more modifications. Both the TWS and Neckband earphones had an amazing response last time and this time we are hoping for something more.
Read the full article on Realme Buds Wireless Prohere.
Now let’s talk about the competitor of Realme, Redmi India is here with two new Bluetooth Audio devices and the launch date also falls on October 7, which is on the same day of Realme’s launch event.
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There will be one TWS earbud and one Bluetooth neckband launch at the event. This will be the first time we will see a Redmi neckband and right now we do not have any information about the specifications of both the audio devices. So, let’s wait for the launch event and see how it turns out to be.
OnePlus has already disclosed the upcoming in-ear audio device will be launching along with the OnePlus 8T on 14th October. The image is quite artistic where we can see the rubber ear tip of the earphone. This time we can expect another OnePlus Buds successor along with a rubber ear tip, whereas the previous earbud was all plastic design.
The new Nirvana 1007 ANC carries a massive 40mmaudio driver to provide you the boAt signature audio. As the name suggests, the key feature of this headphone is the Active Noise Cancelling technology. While activated, the headphone can run for up to 20 hours long, otherwise, it goes for up to 30 hours. To ensure the fast charging, boAt added the Type-C port in it.
In this COVID Pandemic situation, most people are looking for a phone which provides good features at an affordable price. Recently, a lot of smartphone companies have released many handsets that have an affordable range. Three noticeable handsets have released which are very close in terms of pricing- Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite 5G, OPPO F17 Pro, and Realme 7 Pro. So let’s check out the features comparison of these phones which may help you to choose your preference.
Let us have a detailed specification comparison among these three devices in this price range. We will discuss the price range of these smartphones later and will justify which one will be better for you.
Display
The Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite 5G features a 6.67-inches Full HD LCD display with 1080 pixels of screen resolution with a 20:9 aspect ratio, this phone also has 120Hz of refresh rate. Oppo F17 Pro sports a 6.43-inches display, whereas the Realme 7 Pro has a 6.4-inches display. Both phones feature Full HD Super AMOLED display with 60Hz of refresh rate.
Xiaomi 10T Lite
Camera
Coming to the camera comparison of these phones. All these three smartphone packs with a quad rear camera setup on the backside. Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite and OPPO F17 Pro have the same rear camera sensors, including- a 48MP main shooter alongside an 8MP ultrawide lens, 2MP Macro, and 2MP depth sensor. Whereas, the Realme 7 Pro has a 64MP main shooter with an 8MP ultrawide lens, a 2MP Macro, and a 2MP depth sensor. Regarding the front camera, the Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite, and Realme 7 Pro features a single front camera with a 16MP sensor and 32MP sensor respectively, but the OPPO F17 Pro has a dual selfie camera including 16 MP main shooter and a 2MP depth sensor.
Processor
Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite and Realme 7 Pro is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 750G and 720G chipset respectively, whereas the OPPO F17 Pro is powered by MediaTek Helio P95 chipset. All these phones have Android 10 OS.
OPPO F17 Pro
RAM & Storage
Xiaomi offers two storage options for the Mi 10T Lite phone- 6GB RAM + 64GB of internal storage and 6GB RAM + 128GB of internal storage. Oppo F17 Pro offers 8 GB of RAM capacity paired with 128 GB of internal support and the Realme 7 Pro two different RAM variants of 6GB/64GB and 8GB/128GB. The internal storage can be expanded by an external microSD card up to 256GB.
Battery Capacity
Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite is backed by a 4820 mAh battery and supported by 33W of fast charging. The OPPO F17 Pro is supported with a 4,015 mAh battery capacity that will offer users with 30W VOOC Flash charge technology. The Realme 7 Pro has a Li-ion type battery having a capacity of 4,500 mAH, which supports fast charging, comes with a massive 65 watt super dart charger.
Realme 7 Pro
SIM Slots and Network
All the three phones have a dual Nano SIM facility and is supported with 5G network.
Price
The Xiaomi Mi 10T Lite is set to be priced at 279 Euros(Roughly Rs. 23,969). The OPPO F17 Pro has a price tag of Rs. 22,990 and Realme 7 Pro is priced at Rs. 19,999.
Now, this is totally your choice which one to consider and which one not to. Among these, devices all are around INR 20,000 price range.
The match was between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings. If you needed to pick someone who could have been the surprise factor for Sunrisers Hyderabad against Chennai Super Kings in this match, you would have surely gone for David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson & Manish Pandey. But IPL always gifts us some future stars and some unnoticed gems. In this match, it was Priyam Garg. He played a blistering knock of 50 runs in just 23 balls.
India’s Under 19 captain Priyam Garg and 20-year-old Abhishek Sharma made a 77 runs partnership in just 7 overs which is the lowest combined age for 50 runs stand in the IPL History.
The 19-year-old youngster from Uttar Pradesh was born in a very poor family. His father is a milk seller. But he has defied all odds and has shown the whole world his immense talent.
In an interview, Priyam said, “We couldn’t afford a television at home, so I used to skip studies to watch Sachin Tendulkar at a nearby ‘paanwala’ shop. That was a routine and I faced my father’s ire on a number of occasions. For him, cricket was not a priority.”
“My father did most of the hard work, he did all the odd jobs that you can imagine… selling milk, driving school vans, loading goods, he ensured that I got a good life. He went through all that just to see me become a cricketer one day. He took me to Meerut and made sure that I got into a decent academy.”, he added.
He was picked at INR 1.9 crores in the IPL auction by Sunrisers Hyderabad. If he continues to play like this he will surely catch the eye of Indian selector as well ver soon.
The Cupertino giant has already become a major player when it comes to making powerful SoCs and its latest A14 Bionic was the one that is hugely anticipated. Already the new chip from Apple has been detailed when it was launched alongside the new iPad Air and now we have the chip in action.
The new Apple A14 Bionic chip gives 40% better CPU performance & 30% better GPU performance than a much older A12 chip. In A14 Bionic, Apple has used 6 cores wherein 2 of them are high-performing cores while the other 4 are high-efficiency cores to handle simpler tasks.
Ice Universe has spotted the first Geekbench 5 score of the new Apple A14 Bionicon Twitter. It is indeed the iPad Air 4 running iOS 14, and it got a handsome single-core score of 1,583 while scoring 4,198 points in multi-core benchmarks.
A14's first Geekbench 5 results appeared, single-core 1583, multi-core 4198, still the king. pic.twitter.com/HXMgEfjSuW
This type of improvement is expected as this is the first 5nm SoC in the world making into the consumer space. Whereas if you compare with the leaked Snapdragon 875’s Geekbench scores (1,102 points in the single-core benchmark and 4,113 points in the multi-core test) on the Xiaomi Mi 11, you’ll see a why Apple still holds the lead.
Even my laptop powered by Ryzen 7 4700U is shy of Apple’s single-core performance to give you a reference. So, as Apple plans to use the A14X chip on the new MacBooks, it will easily offer superior performance better than many x86 CPUs out there in the market.
