Chelsea’s pursuit of Enzo Fernandez seems to be over, with the Premier League club failing to reach an agreement with Benfica. The manager of the club, Roger Schmidt, has also commented on the issue, saying that he now expects the midfielder to continue playing for the Portuguese side.
Fernandez made a huge splash at the 2022 World Cup, winning the young player of the tournament award. And despite only joining them six months ago, the Blues were interested in signing him.
Roger Schmidt expects Enzo Fernandez to continue with Benfica
“I’m glad this question is closed and now we can focus on football again,” the former PSV boss said after Enzo Fernandez scored in the team’s Portuguese Cup victory over second-tier side Varzim on Tuesday. “It was very important for Enzo to return to play with his team and for Benfica. Rumours of proposals and opportunities, that’s part of football.”
Enzo Fernández scores for Benfica as Roger Schmidt is trusting him again for the starting XI. “The story is closed, he is our player”, Schmidt said. 🔴🇦🇷 #Benfica
Chelsea have not returned as things stand — last round of talks was one week ago with €85m bid rejected. pic.twitter.com/NmKO2MW91e
“The important thing is how the player and the club deal with the situation,” Schmidt said. “It was all very open and sincere. I never had any doubts about his character, personality and attitude. An extraordinary player who loves to play football and for Benfica.”
The Argentine has a €120 million release clause in his contract with Benfica. Chelsea were first offering a fee in excess of that amount to be paid in instalments to sign him. But later, they lowballed their offer which was worth only €80 million, and was rejected by Benfica.
As a result, inspite of having an agreement with the Blues on personal terms, Fernandez was unable to seal a transfer away. And his celebration after scoring clearly suggested that he will be staying at Benfica for the foreseeable future.
Netflix explores the new trailer of the adventurous teenager drama film titled, ‘True Spirit’. The story of the film revolves around the true story lived by and penned into book form by Jessica Watson. The new film depicts the incredible undertaking of a 16-year-old who set out to make history as the youngest person to sail around the world completely on her own.
The trek unveils the young woman’s attempt the clocking in 23,000 nautical miles as she sailed around the world in 8 months. In this we’ve seen some of the action play out in the form of recently released stills, this is the first official teaser to drop for the upcoming film.
The new trailer reveals Tea
gan Croft’s take on Watson, as she stepped onto the tiny sailboat and entered into the deepest and darkest depths of the ocean. The adventure is full of dangers are an everyday event for the young woman. We can see that giant waves all. On taking over the small boat like she has made her way around the globe. After crossing the gray skies and crushing waters bits of the trailer reveal sunny days and nights filled with stars as the teen pushes forward in her journey. It seems she may be alone on her boat.
She has been surrounded by love and support from her family and friends back home with her sailing coach Ben Bryant, and her parents Julie and Roger Watson along with several odds came against her; Jessica trusts the will of rocking waters hoping to prove her skills to the world and herself.
The story of the film depicts the young Australian sailor has left the shoreline in 2009 while setting off on her exhausting and life-changing 210-day trip. By 2010, she had written her book True Spirit, which told the tale of her experiences while at sea in her tiny, yet formidable, pink sailboat.
True Spirit: Cast
The film features Croft, Curtis, Paquin, Lawson, Bridget Webb, Vivien Turner, Todd Lasance, and Stacy Clausen. Sarah Spillane (Around the Block) served the film as its director as well as penned it alongside Rebecca Banner and Cathy Randall. Debra Martin Chase, Susan Cartsonis, and Andrew Fraser joined as producers.
True Spirit: Release Date
The new adventurous drama film will hit on 3rd February on Netflix.
Lionel Messi is set to discuss a new contract with PSG in the coming days. The Argentine has won the 2022 World Cup, and will now decide his club future.
There were rumours that he was going to sign for Inter Miami in the MLS. But, he never reached a full agreement with the club to seal a transfer. PSG were also pushing to get the player to extend his stay. And now, there is a good chance that he could be offered a raise on his current €30 million per season.
Lionel Messi to be offered new PSG contract
The player’s agent and father, Jorge Messi, will be in Paris in the coming weeks to discuss the new contract. The narrative that PSG are pushing for is to have Lionel Messi retire in Paris to dissociate his strong association with Barcelona. This is the aim even if he goes on to play in the MLS at a later date.
The club’s revenue increased €700 million in the very first season that Messi joined them. Shirt sales increased to over a million, with around 60% of them having Messi on the back.
The seven-time Ballon d’Or award winner has also attracted a range of new sponsors to the club such as Crypto.com, PlayBetR, GOAT, Snart Good Thins, Volt, Gorillas, Dior, Sports Water, Big Cola and Autohero.
Their sponsorship with Nike increased by 30-40%, with a deal worth €75 million in place until 2032. And having the 35-year-old’s commitment as a World Cup winner – they could receive an even higher revenue with more shirt sales and sponsors.
Messi has been taking time off from club football after winning the World Cup. And he is now expected to make his return, which could happen as soon as the game against Angers.
Prithvi Shaw who has been playing for Mumbai in Ranji Trophy scored 379 runs against Assam to become the highest individual run scorer for his team. Bhausaheb Nimbalkar is the highest scorer in the tournament with an unbeaten run of 443. He had a partnership of 123 runs with Musheer Khan, 42 runs with Armaan Jaffer, and 262 runs with Ajinkya Rahane.
On Day 1, Prithvi Shaw scored an unbeaten 240 runs off 283 balls, hitting 33 fours and a six. With this, Mumbai reached 397 runs. He’s the first-class cricketer in almost nine decades to score this highest individual score after Bhausaheb Nibalkar’s 443 for Maharashtra. His score came against Kathiawar in 1948-49.
He has been scoring a lot of runs for domestic cricket, sadly he has not been a part of the Indian team squad since July 2021.
Credits- ESPNcricinfo
Gautam Gambhir who was a former Indian cricketer requested the coaches and selectors to give him a place in the squad. Prithvi Shaw also scored good runs in every format of Indian cricket but still didn’t get good opportunities in the Indian national team.
The selectors are very confused to give him an opportunity in the cricket team as a lot of players are lined up already. Players like Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Shubman Gill are in the queue for the Test format.
Even after playing to the best of his potential, he has not been getting the best of opportunities to play for the Indian cricket team. He often posts cryptic stories on his Instagram stories for not getting selected for the national team. In a recent interview, he opened up by saying that it “hurts” him but he learned to not be bothered by it.
In the 2021-22 Ranji Trophy, he led Mumbai to the finale but still got defeated by Madhya Pradesh.
Noise’s new round-dial entry-level smartwatch – NoiseFit Twist is almost here. The brand is launching this today at a special price of Rs.1,999 only. Among the key features, the new Noise NoiseFit Twist is coming with IP68 Rating, Bluetooth Calling, a big round TFT display, and more. There are five colour options available – Jet Black, Silver Grey, Rose Pink, Space Blue, and Gold Wine. All the variants will be available via Amazon India and Noise’s official website from 12 noon onwards.
The New Hustler from Noise, the NoiseFit Twist packs all the basic features one can expect from a budget smartwatch, however, there is the highly demanded Bluetooth Calling facility as well. To back this feature, there is a built-in dialer, call history log, contact storage, and obviously, the microphone, speaker, and call receive/reject options.
You are getting a 1.38-inch TFT touchscreen display, with a max of 550 nits brightness, to play with all its offerings. This display is surrounded by a metallic finish body for a premium look which you can further enhance with the 100+ cloud-based watch faces available.
Noise Help Suite is added so that you can track your heart rate 24/7, manage stress, do some breathing exercises properly, measure SpO2, monitor sleep quality and female cycle too. 100 sports modes are there in the list including running, yoga, cycling, tracking, and so on.
Lastly, Noise claims the battery available inside can provide up to 7 days of battery life when Bluetooth Calling is disabled. With the calling feature, the same battery can go for up to 2 days.
As I already mentioned in the beginning, this NoiseFit Twist smartwatch with Bluetooth Calling will be available via Amazon India and Noise’s official website at just Rs.1,999. The sale will start at 12 noon today. There are five colour options – Jet Black, Silver Grey, Rose Pink, Space Blue, and Gold Wine.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s time at Chelsea has not gone as expected. The former Borussia Dortmund forward returned to the Premier League to reunite with Thomas Tuchel at Stamford Bridge.
However, shortly after, the German was sacked from his position leaving Aubameyang stranded. The player admitted that Tuchel was one of the main reasons behind his transfer to Chelsea. But, he has continued to remain professional even though chances have been very few under Graham Potter.
In spite of the injury to Armando Broja, the new manager has not turned to him in the centre-forward role. Kai Havertz has been the more trusted option for Potter, and the results have been very inconsistent to say the least.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has no way out of Chelsea this season
Aubameyang can’t play for any other club than Barcelona & Chelsea due to FIFA rules. 100% confirmed. 🔵🔴 #FCB
Been told Barça would love the idea to bring Auba back… but only if it’s 100% free transfer, different salary terms and only if Memphis Depay leaves (Atléti want him). pic.twitter.com/6pYlbDdd8R
According to FIFA rulings, a player cannot feature for three clubs in a single season. As a result, there is no way that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang can play for any club that isn’t Chelsea or Barcelona this year.
The Catalonian side are open to him returning, but only if Memphis Depay leaves. The Dutchman has been linked with a transfer to Atletico Madrid to replace Joao Felix, who left to join Chelsea on loan for the rest of the 22/23 season.
But, Chelsea would have to let him go for free if Barcelona are to sign him again for the remainder of the campaign. As of now, there have been no talks surrounding his situation. The coming weeks will reveal if he will end his spell at London for a move back to Spain by the end of the month.
After an early drop in form, Erik Ten Hag has managed to get Manchester United back to the level that is expected of them. The team is in fine form and is in contention for a return to the Champions League at the very least.
With the resources he has been provided, Ten Hag has managed to perform very well this season. And in the process, he has achieved some very interesting stats that we’ll take a look at in this article.
Erik Ten Hag’s incredible stats so far at Manchester United
Erik ten Hag has reached 20 wins faster than any manager in Man United's 145-year history 👏 pic.twitter.com/DQi36w8GAO
In his 27 games in charge of the club in 22/23, Erik Ten Hag has achieved a 72.1% win rate. This is higher than the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson, who spent the majority of his career with the Premier League giants and is responsible for a lot of their modern success. Ten Hag is also the fastest Manchester United manager to reach 20 wins.
They have also surpassed Manchester City and Arsenal in the most successful counter pressing figures, with their rate coming at just under 30%. United are also the only club this season to have won all 11 games where they have taken the lead first.
Erik Ten Hag’s side has achieved an eight-match winning run at home, which is their longest such streak since December 2017. And it will be very interesting to see how long they can keep this up as they attempt to end their drought for silverware.
SS Rajamouli’s Indian action-drama film now becomes an International hit turned global phenomenon. The film “RRR” was nominated for the two Golden Globes on Tuesday night. The movie may not become the best non-English-language picture in “Argentina, 1985” but nominated for the best original song and the viral sensation “Naatu Naatu.”
The song has come into the race like an underdog with the music superstars Rihanna, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga. The director-songwriter Guillermo del Toro also competes in the category. On Tuesday, the miracle happens as the awards show that interest in “RRR” has picked up in recent weeks as the crowd-pleasing action-drama-musical cult status achieved serious awards attention.
M.M. Keeravani was picked up the Golden Globe as a composer-songwriter of the cult song. For those, the credit goes to his lyricists, arranger, family, and director-writer S.S. Rajamouli. The song’s Globes achievement increases anticipation that “Naatu” will become the rare song by Indian composers to get an Oscar nomination later this month. It has already made the Academy’s 15-song shortlist.
Backstage at the Globes, Keeravani was clearly processing the latest chapter of “RRR’s” unusual journey through Hollywood. “I feel amused, thrilled, excited,” he said. “I feel I am very grateful to the universe.”
Keeravani explained, “Naatu Naatu,”, and also added, “it’s a song of celebration. We all wanted to showcase in the song lots of stamina and energy.”
Ram Charan, S. S. Rajamouli, M. M. Keeravani, N. T. Rama Rao Jr. at the Q&A for “RRR” held at TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX on January 9, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.Gilbert Flores for Variety
The night before the Globes, Rajamouli, Keeravani, and the film’s two leading men, Ram Charan and N.T. Rama Rao Jr. convened in America for the first time at a raucous screening at the Chinese Theatre, sponsored by the American Cinematheque and Beyond Fest. The screening had sold out within just over 90 seconds. The audience whooped and screamed throughout the three-hour-plus film, with dozens taking to the floor in front of the Chinese’s IMAX screen for a “Naatu Naatu” danceathon, before the final settling down for a nearly hour-long Q&A with the four guests. Filmmaker J.J. Abrams was a surprise guest introducing the Chinese screening.
Chinese’s Abrams called “RRR” he also added, “a film I love and a filmmaker I so admire. … I love its exuberance. I love its friendship. I love its heart. I love what it says about fighting for what’s right. I love the music. I love the insanity. The fever-dream madness of this movie is more fun than you’ll have in a theater — (more) than I can imagine having in any other film.”
Keeravani said, “I did not guess there would be this kind of response for this song, even in my dreams,”. “But as a paradoxical statement, it’s a dream coming true.”
The “RRR” filmmaking team has TikTok to thank, in part, not just for the global popularity of the song but for how homemade clips set to “Naatu Naatu” propelled the movie’s U.S. domestic box-off success right out of the gate. Well before the film’s theatrical opening, TikTok users had latched onto a short clip of lead actors Ram Charan and N. T. Rama Rao Jr. doing the peculiar dance step that characterizes the choreography and attempting their own versions of it.
“When I envisioned the ‘Naatu Naatu’ song,” said Rajamouli, “while both of them are great dancers, I didn’t want the steps to be so complicated that people can’t do it. It should be like any two people — whether it be friends, mother, and daughter, father, and son, two brothers or two sisters — would see it and feel like, ‘Let’s try this.’ And they did; millions and millions of people were trying to do the steps and posting on it. It became such a big phenomenon when we released the song, and it clearly public interest in the film.”
Keeravani says the beat holds a great deal to do with the popularity, although it’s so fast that, like videography of a hummingbird’s wings, you almost have to slow it down to recognize it. “The beat is 6/8 — that’s not very frequently heard from the West, but more frequently heard from India and sometimes from Africa and countries like that,” said the composer.
“To be precise, it’s even a South Indian kind of beat, not so much North Indian. And in ‘Naatu Naatu,’ this beat took another dimension and another level of BPM (beats per minute) which is very rarely heard in the West. So that’s what primarily got the attention of the Western audience.” He also points to his singers: “I picked Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava to do justice to this melody and they gave their best. That’s why the song is what it is now.”
At the Chinese Theatre the night before the Globes, Keeravani took in the thunderous crowd response and said, “It’s true that I have composed music for the movie ‘RRR,’ but the best music I have heard today is your laughs and applause… I wish to listen to that music on and on, again and again, and forever.”
This Valentine’s Day, the love birds will get a surprise from James Cameron as the world’s blockbuster film Titanic returns to the big screen with a remastered version got celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary. Paramount Pictures confirms that the disaster movie once again will hit on-screen for a certain period before Valentine’s Day this year.
Paramount needed the domestic rights for the film last year just after Disney set an international re-release for the box office hit film for the fans in 3D 4K HDR along with the high-frame. Disney will re-release the film on 10th February this year in the honor of several Oscar-winning disaster film 25th anniversaries as celebrated in 2022.
For your kind information, this is not the first time the fans are going to witness the sinking love story of Jack (Leonard DiCaprio) and Katie Winslet. In 2012, the touchy romantic film was also released in the theatre with a record-breaking $67 million with the opening week in 2017. Titanic was a massive hit on the big screens once again on its 20th anniversary. After that they tend of celebrating the anniversary has been continued. This time it will be remastered for a 4K 3D high-frame rate.
The entire fans will once again witness the marvelous cast and crew as it has been directed by James Cameron and featured Oscar winners Leonardo Dicaprio. The two Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
The movie was first released in 1997, Titanic made a new record at the global box office and currently ranking as the third highest-grossing film in the world. Titanic conquered a record 11 Academy Awards containing Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Song, Best Sound Effects Editing, and Best Visual Effects.
James Cameron: Titanic Oscar Speech
James Cameron is one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He has provided some major classics like The Terminator and Aliens, and those aren’t even his movies that are included in the Top 10 highest-grossing films list. This week, Avatar: The Way of the Water became the seventh highest-grossing film of all time, and the list also includes Avatar in the number one spot and Titanic in the number three spot. Back in the day, Cameron’s Oscars speech was pretty infamous and he mentioned it as “cringe-worthy”
Cameron stated, “Mom, dad, there is no way that I can express to you what I’m feeling right now,” Cameron said during his speech. “My heart is full to bursting, except to say, ‘I’m the king of the world!'” Of course, the last bit is an iconic quote from Titanic, and many thought quoting it in his speech was arrogant. However, Cameron says that wasn’t his intention. “I was trying to express the joy and excitement that I was feeling in terms of that movie – and the most joyful moment for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Titanic character was when he was free and at the bow of the ship,”
“What I learned is you don’t quote your own movie to the Academy if you win, because it’s cringe-worthy,” Cameron continued. “It makes the assumption that you didn’t win by a narrow margin, but that every single person sitting in the audience on that night at the Kodak Theatre saw and loved Titanic. And we’ll never know how much we won by, but it might not have been a landslide at all.” He added, “I took flack for all 25 years after that … You do have to be careful what you say in your acceptance speech, me and Sally Field, we have a little self-help group together on this.”
Along with the director James Cameron, Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, Gloria Stuart, David Warner, Victor Garber, and Bill Paxton.
The Oppo Reno 8T 4G and 5G variants will soon be available in the global market. The Reno 8T 5G will run Android 13 out of the box and be powered by a Snapdragon 695 5G chipset, LPDDR4x RAM, UFS 2.2 storage, a 6.67-inch OLED 10bit display with 120Hz refresh rate, a 4800mAh battery, and 67-watt wired fast charging.
Oppo Reno 8T specifications
It will also have a 108MP Along with the Mediatek Helio G99 processor, Mali-G57 MC2 GPU, 8GB of RAM, 33-watt wired fast charging, and Android 13 out of the box, there will also be an Oppo Reno 8T CPH2481 4G edition. It’s good to know that Android 13 will come pre-installed on the Oppo Reno 8T 4G and 5G models.
Additionally, a 4G Oppo Reno 8T version was seen on BIS (Bureau of Indian Standard). We can anticipate that Oppo Reno 8T 4G under the Oppo F series might launch in India as Oppo F23 or F22 while Oppo Reno 8T 5G will launch as Oppo F23 Pro in India but has not yet been seen on the BIS Indian certification website. Oppo generally does not launch the Global Reno T series in India; instead, Oppo launches the Global Reno T series in India with a different name.
As with the Oppo Reno 7 4G and Oppo A1 Pro 5G, the Reno 8T 4G model will have a faux leather back. The Reno 8T 5G variant will have the same design as the Realme 10 Pro+ 5G and Oppo A1 Pro 5G. The Reno 8T 4G and 5G variant will presumably go on sale in the final week of this month, and we may anticipate an Indian debut the following month.
