Manchester City were banned from any European competitions including the Champions League by UEFA in February. There were found guilty of breaching the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules and overstating the sponsorship deals.
City appealed the decision to Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) and they have lifted the ban and also reduced the fine from €30m to €10m. CAS found “most of the alleged breaches reported were either not established or time-barred”.
UEFA has released a statement after their decision was overturned by CAS: “UEFA takes note of the decision taken by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce the sanction imposed on Manchester City by UEFA’s independent club financial control body for alleged breaches of the UEFA club licensing and Financial Fair Play regulations.”
UEFA notes that the CAS panel found that there was insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold all of the CFCB’s conclusions in this specific case and that many of the alleged breaches were time-barred due to the five-year time period foreseen in the UEFA regulations.
“Over the last few years, Financial Fair Play has played a significant role in protecting clubs and helping them become financially sustainable and UEFA and ECA remain committed to its principles.”
LaLiga chief Javier Tebas was furious with CAS for overturning the ban imposed on Manchester City by UEFA. He told BBC: “We have to reassess whether the CAS is the appropriate body to which to appeal institutional decisions in football. Switzerland is a country with a great history of arbitration, the CAS is not up to standard.”
Tebas further wrote on his Twitter account: “UEFA is finally taking decisive action. Enforcing the rules of financial fair play and punishing financial doping is essential for the future of football.”
UEFA could potentially appeal the CAS ruling at the Swiss Federal Tribunal. But according to sports lawyer Daniel Geey, it is extremely unlikely that the decision would be overturned, so it’s a big victory for Manchester City.
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The world has gone crazy with AMD’s latest Ryzen 4000 mobile processors be it for gaming-focused H series or productivity-focused U series. We get a lot of comments regarding the latest AMD powered gaming laptops and so here we are with the MSI Bravo 15 – the all AMD powered machine.
The MSI Bravo is powered by the Ryzen 5 4600H and Ryzen 7 4800H processors along with AMD’s own 7nm based RX 5500M mobile graphics which is pretty strong as well. Both of the variants are available in the US via Amazon and the good thing is it can be imported to India at very low costs.
Talking of specs, the laptop features a 15.6-inch FHD IPS display with 1920*1080 resolution with 120Hz refresh rate and covers 45% NTSC colour gamut. Also, it has thin bezels around the corners making it look modern. You can choose between the 6-core Ryzen 5 4600H with 3.0GHz base clock speed and 4.0GHz boost clock speed or the 8-core Ryzen 7 4800H with 2.9GHz base clock speed and 4.2GHz boost clock speed.
Both the CPUs are very powerful and capable for intense gaming sessions and the Zen 2 architecture helps it consume low power and give extreme performance when required. The AMD Radeon RX5500M graphics with 4GB GDDR6 memory give almost GTX 1660 Ti level performance in games which is another plus point in the $1000 price mark.
You get 512GB NVMe SSD storage with both variants while the Ryzen 5 variant comes with 8GB DDR4 2666MHz memory while the Ryzen 7 variant features dual channel 16GB (8GB*2) DDR4 2666MHz memory. The best part is the laptop’s RAM can be upgraded easily with the two RAM slots as it has a max memory support up to 64GB.
MSI Bravo 15 Gaming laptop Specs
Display: 15.6″ 1920 x 1080 IPS-Level 120 Hz 45% NTSC Thin Bezel, Free-Sync support
GPU: Radeon RX 5500M 4 GB GDDR6
Processor: Up to AMD Ryzen 7 3rd Gen 4800H (2.90 GHz)
RAM: Up to 16 GB DDR4 RAM
Storage: 512 GB NVMe SSD
720p webcam
Red backlit keyboard
3-cell 51 Wh battery
4.1 lbs weight
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.0 + GbE jack
Ports: 1 x HDMI (4K @ 30Hz), 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type C, 2 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 & dual audio jacks
The performance of the laptop is undoubtedly one of the best, much like all other AMD Ryzen 4000H powered gaming laptops but obviously there are some pros and cons. These days many laptop vendors are equipping these laptops with low-quality displays even though having high refresh rates and there are some caveats which I guess will be cleared with Hardware Canuck’s this video about the laptop:
So if you are suitable with all its pros and cons, you can easily purchase the laptop via Amazon and the pricing is quite strange as there’s only $70 difference between two variants, which we also during launch and remains same during availability as well. I personally would go for the Ryzen 7 4800H powered variant with 16GB RAM for just $70 price difference.
Buy the Ryzen 7 4800H variant with 16GB RAM & 512GB SSD ($1,073.50): https://amzn.to/2Ol9KEG
If you are an Indian and look for this laptop, don’t worry you can get the laptop with a shipping fee of just about $150 which is cheap enough than many other laptops in this price segment. Also, the ultimate price will almost like it’s in India after applying GST but you can wait for the Indian variant as well whose availability as for now is unknown.
UEFA found Manchester City guilty of breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, earlier in February. They were accused of over-inflating sponsorship deals to disguise funds which were pumped into the club by owner Sheikh Mansour.
Manchester City were banned from all European competitions including the UEFA Champions League for the next two seasons and was also fined €30 million. But, City has always stated that they were not guilty of breaching the FFP rules. They appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) against the ban imposed by UEFA.
CAS has now given the verdict in favour of Manchester City. The European competitions ban has been lifted and the penalty of €30 million has been reduced to €10 million. City are second in the Premier League table, which means they will be allowed to take part in the Champions League next season.
Manchester City released a statement: “Whilst Manchester City and its legal advisors are yet to review the full ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Club welcomes the implications of today’s ruling as a validation of the Club’s position and the body of evidence that it was able to present.”
“The Club wishes to thank the panel members for their diligence and the due process that they administered.”
There were speculations that if the club was banned from European competitions, many top players would have left. So now as the ban has been lifted, Guardiola would feel a sigh of relief and start preparing for the Champions League last-16 second leg against Real Madrid, where they have a 2-1 advantage.
After missing out on the Premier League title to Liverpool, Manchester City now has eyes on the Champions League trophy.
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Last year Vodafone Idea announced its RedX plan which is basically a postpaid play providing unlimited data with higher speed, unlimited calling, international roaming, and more benefits. On the other hand, Airtel Platinum postpaid Plans which is also announced last week promised to provide priority services to the customers.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) sends letters to both these two Network Service Providers saying to halt their upper mentioned plans. TRAI also through a question of whether the overall network speed of normal customers will be degraded due to these premium plans or not.
A spokesperson stated to Business Standards, “We wanted to keep raising the bar for our post-paid customers in terms of service and responsiveness. This is an ongoing effort at our end;”. Besides as per a spokesperson from Vodafone side, “Vodafone RedX plan offers a range of benefits including unlimited data, calls, premium content, international roaming pack etc. for our valued postpaid customers who want more.”
An unknown source from Vodafone said to the Business Standards that the network provider authority was surprised to get the writings from TRAI and as per their knowledge they are not violating any of the tariff regulations. We have to wait for further information about the postpaid plans.
Redmi Note 9 is the latest addition in the Note 9 series of the brand after the Redmi Note 9 Pro and Note 9 Pro Max that was launched a few months ago in India. The company has announced today that it will unveil the Redmi Note 9 on July 20 a 12 noon. The following tweet from the company shows a Champion’s belt where “9” is embedded in the middle and at the sides, we can see “REDMI” and “NOTE” which clearly indicates the launch of Redmi Note 9.
The website of the company has created the landing page for this device where “Notify Me” is there, it will notify the subscribers before the launch. Note 9 is the downgraded version of the Redmi Note 9 Pro. It will have a punch-hole cut display along with a quad-camera setup. Last month this device was already unveiled globally where we have seen the global specification of this device.
The global version of Note 9 has a MediaTek Helio G85 processor along with a Mali-G52 GPU. The phone is available in two RAM and storage variants. It will be powered with a 5020mAh battery which is largest among all the Redmi devices until now. It is a budget-oriented device and is expected to price lower than the Redmi Noe 9 Pro.
Redmi Note 9 (Global version)
Pricing for the new Redmi Note 9 starts at $199/€183 (approx Rs.14,900) for the 3GB + 64GB model, there’s also a 4GB + 128GB for $249/€230 (approx Rs.18,700).
FC Barcelona are one of the most iconic clubs in world football. Club captain, Lionel Messi has been the centre of attraction in the last few years.
The Catalans had many great players over the years with the likes of Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Puyol, Xavi, Iniesta among many others to have worn the Blaugrana shirt. But there are some players as well who made it big after Barcelona sold them or wanted a transfer away from Camp Nou. Barcelona definitely regret selling those players.
Here’s a list of the top 10 players Barcelona regret selling:
10. Michael Laudrup
The Danish international joined Barcelona in the 1989-90 season and played 5 seasons for them before joining their arch-rivals Real Madrid. Laudrup said about his time at the Camp Nou: “I think we played some very good football, and I think most of all we demonstrated that even without getting the ten best players in the world, you can have the best team. Because everybody talked about Begiristain, Bakero, Guardiola, Stoichkov, and Koeman, but when we started none of us was a best player, then we became maybe the best team in the world, together with AC Milan in that period.”
In 1994, Laudrup left Barcelona after a reported fight with Johan Cruyff. Laudrup went on to win the LaLiga with Real Madrid that ended the Barcelona’s stranglehold. He is the only player ever to win the Spanish league five times in a row playing for two different clubs.
Laudrup said about his move to Real Madrid: “People say I wanted to go to Real Madrid just to get revenge. I say revenge from what? I’ve had a perfect time; five fantastic years here [at Barcelona]. I went to Madrid because they were so hungry to win, and they had four or five players who went to the World Cup. I said this would be perfect; new coach, new players, and hungry to win.”
9. Luis Suarez Miramontes
Luis Suarez played for Barcelona since the 1954-1955 season. He formed a deadly duo with Hungarian trio Ladislao Kubala, who is the club’s fourth-highest goalscorer. Luis Suarez has recently surpassed him to be the third-highest goalscorer in Barcelona’s history.
Suarez was so good during his time at Barcelona that he won back-to-back LaLiga titles and was voted as the Ballon d’Or winner in 1960, beating Real Madrid’s Ferenc Puskas. But in 1961, Barcelona sold him to Inter Milan for £142,000, which made him the world’s most expensive footballer and the first £100,000 transfer.
The Spanish international was even more successful at Inter. He won three Serie A titles, two consecutive Champions League and two Intercontinental Cups.
8. Luis Figo
The Portuguese international formed a formidable attack at Barcelona along with Rivaldo and Patrick Kluivert. His career graph was beginning to rise. But surprisingly, in July 2000, Figo made a controversial €62 million move to Barcelona’s bitter rivals Real Madrid.
Real Madrid gave out his release clause to bring him to the Santiago Bernabeu and started the Galacticos era. Figo won the Ballon d’Or in 2000.
Barcelona couldn’t have done anything as Real Madrid paid out his release clause, but they would have definitely liked if Figo continued to play at the Camp Nou.
7. Diego Maradona
Regarded by many as the greatest ever player, Barcelona couldn’t handle the Argentine. Maradona was involved in a mass brawl in a Copa del Rey final with Athletic Bilbao in 1984. One Barcelona executive stated: “When I saw those scenes of Maradona fighting and the chaos that followed I realized we couldn’t go any further with him.”
Despite scoring 38 goals in 58 games in two seasons with the club, Maradona was sold to Napoli for a world-records fee of £6.9 million. He won 2 Serie A titles and 1 UEFA Cup with Napoli and became a club legend there.
6. Samuel Eto’o
Samuel Eto’o won 3 LaLiga titles and 2 Champions League in his 5 seasons at the Camp Nou. He scored goals in each of the two Barcelona’s Champions League final win. He was an instrumental player in the Barcelona squad.
But strangely in 2009, Pep Guardiola wanted an exchange in between Barcelona and Inter Milan. He wanted Zlatan Ibrahimovic to join the club in exchange for Eto’o and €46 million.
Eto’o had a hugely successful first season at Inter winning the Serie A and Champions League, the third of this career. Ibrahimovic never became a success like Eto’o in Barcelona, so Barcelona really regret selling the Cameroon international.
5. Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima
The Brazilian Ronaldo played only one season at Camp Nou. He scored an astonishing 47 goals in 49 games in his first season at Barcelona, but there were disputes over his contract extension and Inter Milan took the opportunity to bring him to Milan.
Inter Milan signed him in the summer of 1997 for a then world-record fee of $27 million. His career graph never went down after that. He had a successful time at Inter which earned him a move to Real Madrid where he was a part of the Galacticos era of global stars signed by the club every summer, which included Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham. He also won the Ballon d’Or during his time at the Santiago Bernabeu.
4. Thiago Alcantara
Alcantara is a product of Barcelona’s famed youth academy, La Masia. Pep Guardiola knew the potential he would reach one day. So when Guardiola left for Bayern Munich in 2013, he wanted Thiago to join him at the Allianz Arena.
Guardiola told: “I spoke to the club [Bayern Munich] and told them about my concept and told them why I want Thiago. He is the only player that I want. It will be him or no one.”
When Pep Guardiola wants a player or nothing, you can definitely guess how good a player he will transform into. Instead of holding onto him, Barcelona sold the Spanish midfielder to Bayern for around €25 million. He has won his seventh consecutive Bundesliga title this season with Bayern. The 29-year-old is wanted by all the top European clubs.
3. Adama Traore
Traore is also a graduate of La Masia. In 2013, Traore played his first LaLiga game at the age of only 17, replacing Neymar late on in the 4–0 home win over Granada CF. He made his first appearance in the UEFA Champions League on 26th November, coming on for Cesc Fabregas in the 82nd minute of a 1–2 defeat away to AFC Ajax in the group stage. He scored his first goal for the Blaugrana’s main squad on 16th December 2014, playing 16 minutes and contributing to an 8–1 home demolition of SD Huesca in the Copa del Rey.
Barcelona thought he doesn’t have the potential to make it big and sold him to Premier League club Aston Villa in 2015. He now plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers and on his day, the Spanish winger is almost unstoppable. He has blistering pace and great physical which gives him a massive advantage as a winger.
The Catalan club doesn’t have a proper winger now, so if they hadn’t sell Traore back in 2015, he would have definitely helped this Barcelona side.
2. Arthur Melo
Barcelona has swapped the 23-year-old Brazilian midfielder for Juventus’s 30-year-old Miralem Pjanic and €10 m. The deal has been agreed and the players will be exchanged at the end of this season.
Pjanic may become a hit at Barcelona but considering their ages, letting Arthur go, who has so many years left in his career is definitely going to make Barcelona regret at some point of time.
Barcelona signed Neymar from Santos in 2013. The young Brazilian quickly adapted to life at the Camp Nou. The attacking trio of Messi-Suarez-Neymar was considered the best during those days. They conquered Spain as well as Europe.
In 2017, Neymar decided to move to Ligue 1 side Paris Saint-Germain for a record transfer fee of €222 million. But since leaving Barcelona, Neymar has publicly regretted his move.
As Messi is entering the dawn of his career, Barcelona also wanted somebody to carry on the mantle and who could probably be better than Neymar for that role! In every transfer window, there’s a rumour of Neymar returning to the Camp Nou.
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Yesterday, Ubisoft hosted its launch event in the form of Ubisoft Forward 2020 online as there will not be any E3 due to the pandemic. There were a lot of announcements but the main features were the three games: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Far Cry 6 and Watch Dogs Legion.
So here are all the announcements made:
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Obviously, this game is getting all the hype and why shouldn’t be as it’s the continuation to one of the most popular game series in history. It was shortly revealed at the Xbox Series X game reveal and its trailer was shown by AMD as it will bundle the game with select Ryzen 3000 and 3000XT CPUs.
The 30-minute gameplay revealed a lot about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed game and shows the game’s onset and background, characters and a bit of its story as well. The graphics look great and truly, gamers will enjoy another title of this massive franchise.
Ubisoft has confirmed the fact that the game will be launched on November 17, 2020, for all platforms including Xbox One X, PS4, and PC although for the next-gen consoles it sates ‘Coming Soon’ which is quite strange.
Far Cry 6
Another exciting title is from Ubisoft is obviously the Far Cry 6 which is the continuation to its another very popular gaming series. Most of the Far Cry series games have been known for its good storyline, gameplay and obviously the graphics.
Far Cry 6 is set on a fictional Caribbean island-inspired by Cuba, ruled as a dictatorship by “El Presidente” Anton Castillo, voiced and modelled after Giancarlo Esposito, better known for his role as Gus Fring from Breaking Bad. He is raising his son Diego, voiced by Anthony Gonzalez, to follow in his rule.
Far Cry 6 will be made available by Ubisoft from February 18, 2021, for all platforms including Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, Xbox One X, PlayStation 4, PC, and the online gaming platform Google Stadia.
Watch Dogs Legion
I personally have been a fan of this series because of its uniqueness and the game itself, so Ubisoft will be launching its next instalment Watch Dogs Legion as early as October 29, 2020.
The gameplay overview trailer shows the intense background of London and the game’s story focuses on the efforts of the London branch of hacker group DedSec in combating a dystopian surveillance state that has taken control of the United Kingdom. The storyline is again very unique with lots of characters, surprisingly, you can even play as NPCs in the game and it undoubtedly has an enthralling graphics.
The next game from the Watch Dogs franchise will make its way to all current platforms including Xbox One X, PlayStation 4, and PC butas for now, the game for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 is ‘coming soon’.
Hyper Scape
This is Ubisoft’s new Battle Royal game, rules are quite similar to the ones in the market, where there will be another 99 players you need to compete with and a team can be formed with a maximum of three members.
After landing to the battleground, you have to look for the weapons, medical kits, and all to eliminate enemies until you or your team become the last one standing there. You can check out all the details of the game from here.
Details of other titles include:
Assemble your team and get ready to fight in Tom Clancy’s #EliteSquad! Coming to mobile soon, pre-register now 👇 #UbiForward
Realme is launching another smartphone accessory on July 14 and this time it is a 30W Dart Charge capable power bank that can provide the output of up to 30W for your device. The launch will take place tomorrow from 1 PM onwards. There is no other news about any other product launch for tomorrow, but CEO Madhav is already hinting some product from his tweets.
Realme 30W Dart Charge 10000mAh Power Bank is a two-way charger that means it can take both input and output at the same 30W power. The claims that this power bank will be able to fully charge a Realme device in roughly 1 hour 40 minutes and same goes for the power bank as well, the 1000mAh battery fully charges within 1 hour 36 minutes.
One more surprise for #realme fans and it’s all about power! realme 30W Dart Charge 10000mAh Power Bank is launching tomorrow at 1 PM on our official channels.#DartToFullPower
There is a “Notify Me” button in Realme website by clicking on it users can view all the details of the launch tomorrow. Last month Realme launched the 18W two-way Power Bank 2 (10000mAh) is India which is available at Rs.999. The Realme 30W Dart Charge 10000mAh Power Bank is priced in China at CNY 199 (roughly Rs.2,100) for both Black and Yellow colour options. So we can expect that it will be priced around Rs.2,000 in India.
Specification of Realme 30W dart Charge 10000mAh Power Bank:
As mentioned by the company’s website Realme 30W Dart Power Bank will come with a carbon-fiber body and will have a capacity of 10,000mAh. It will support multiple fast-charging solutions such as Dart, VOOC, QC, and so on. The company has not revealed all the solutions but these are the few mentioned on the website. The power bank will also feature 15-layer charging protection.
There will be a low current mode on the Realme 30W Dart Power Bank, just like the Power Bank 2 (10,000mAh), to charge Bluetooth-enabled devices such as Truly Wireless earbuds, speakers, and more or to be exact AIoT devices.
It will support charging of two devices simultaneously through its USB Type-C and USB Type-A ports. Realme claims that this power bank can charge Realme 6 up to 65 percent in just 30 minutes and the power bank itself can be fully charged within 1 hour 36 minutes. Realme 30W Dart Power Bank further has LED lights to indicate its battery level.
Lionel Messi has turned into an equally impressive playmaker from an out and out goalscorer, since the departure of Xavi and Iniesta. The little magician has matured over the years and now almost single-handedly carries Barcelona.
Last Saturday, Messi gave an assist for Vidal to score the lone winning goal against Real Valladolid. With that assist, Messi has created history. It was his 20th assist of this season. He has now equalled Xavi’s record of most assist in a single LaLiga season and you can definitely bet Messi is going to break the record in the last two remaining matches of this season.
Lionel Messi this league season:
⚽️ 22 goals 🅰️ 20 assists
Last player to to reach 2️⃣0️⃣➕ in goals and assists in one season: @ThierryHenry (2002-03)*
The Barcelona captain has also made another record with that assist. Messi has 22 goals and 20 assists in this season. He has become the second player after Thierry Henry to have more than 20 goals and 20 assists in a single top-five European league season in the 21st century.
In the 2002-03 season, Thierry Henry scored 24 goals and provided 20 assists for Arsenal in the Premier League.
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When it comes to computer hardware, especially in terms of internal components, there are hardly any Indian companies out there. I feel proud to write about AstraTech, an Indian startup, who has launched a new NVMe SSD series amidst this #BoycottChina movement.
The name “Astra” itself brings an Indian feel to it and under this branding exciting products for all PC users will be launched which will be “inspired by our rich heritage, perfected by technology.” The words by the company seem to be promising and it shall launch a lot more products in India but starting off with SSDs.
Obviously, SSDs have become an integral part of our life and all laptops and PCs are powered by SSDs but most of them are not by any Indian brand actually and getting imported from other countries increases pricing. Coming to NVMe SSDs, the read and write speeds on budget NVMe SSDs are not that great, so higher-end variants are out of league for a lot of users.
However, AstraTech’s first product Astra KD350X Series of blazing-fast NVMe SSDs promises read speeds of up to 3500 Mbps and write speeds up to 3000 Mbps, also its based out of PCIe Gen 3 x 4 interface. Even though the SSD is Made in Taiwan but it is completely designed in India.
The company is also kind enough to provide you with 5 Years limited replacement warranty. Also, it states that the SSDs will be at affordable price points, which is again a good sign for all gamers and PC enthusiasts.
Introducing KD350X aka the Kapi Dhwaja | inspired by heritage, perfected by technology.Now experience speed and…
If you need a lot of SSD storage, worry not, the KD350X NVMe SSD range will come with storage starting from 256GB, to all the way up to 2TB! The brand promises to gear up the availability of these SSDs as they have partnered with a bunch of Indian retailers and their first batch of SSDs have already arrived and will soon be available in India. Read their Facebook article and show some love to them.
