@htomufc I don’t know how you got this out so quick, great breakdown as always H!
my only concern with the signing is the lack of height in our midfield in set pieces and with winning those first/second duels
@htomufc I see your point with Baleba, and wanted him last summer but can’t help question the mentality after last season. Especially the pressure cooker that comes with playing for united.
Also, with Baleba, Mainoo and Bruno, is the lack of height in our midfield going to be a concern?
🚨Why United Have Spent £35M On Tielemans 🚨
— Can He Work WITH Mainoo & Santos?
— Weaknesses & Concerns With Injuries + OOP
— Potential Uses As A 8/10?
— What The Third Midfielder Needs To Be
— Emery's Style Similar To Carrick's?
Out now, watch below! 👇📎
@p_ackage For the sake of not writing a lengthy response, it is wild to me you can pinpoint so much of a team’s shortcomings on one player instead of looking at the environment and structure the team is playing in. How you blame Bruno and not the manager/coaching staff, truly baffles me
@htomufc would love to know your thoughts on Ayyoub Bouaddi and whether his profile fits what united need? Trying to see if there are any viable midfield solutions still available at a decent price
91 year old legendary Argentinian journalist Macaya Márquez was in press conference, covering his 18th (!) World Cup 🐐
“Let me ask you… will Messi play against Jordan or not?” 😬
“I’d never reply to any journalist on this topic now… but it is coming from you, and so I tell you: Messi will not start” 👏🏼
“I respect you too much, I’m proud to see you here”, added.
Scaloni then went to hug Márquez and took a picture 🫂🥹
Two absolute legends. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐮𝐲. 👏🏼
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A PlayStation engineer named Mark Cerny built a chip whose only job is unpacking compressed game files, and it does the work of nine full processor cores at once. That single chip is the reason GTA VI can drop you into Vice City with almost no wait.
The problem it fixes is old. The PS4 used a spinning hard drive that read about 100 megabytes a second. Loading one gigabyte of game world could take 20 seconds, which is why open-world games hid the wait behind elevator rides and slow doors. When Cerny ran the same fast-travel jump in Spider-Man, the PS4 took 15 seconds. The PS5 did it in 0.8 seconds, about 19 times faster.
The number everyone quotes is the storage speed. The PS5 reads raw data at 5.5 gigabytes a second, more than twice as fast as the Xbox Series X. But raw speed was never the hard part. Modern games ship everything squeezed down to save space, so the console has to open that data back up to full size before the game can use it. On a normal computer that unpacking would eat most of the processor. So Cerny gave the PS5 its own unpacking chip running a method called Kraken, and it matches what a CPU would need nine of its cores to do. Once the data is opened back up, the console moves it at 8 to 9 gigabytes a second, and on files that squeeze down well it can briefly hit 22.
The rest of the design exists to stop that flood from breaking everything after it. One chip acts like a traffic director and decides where each piece of data lands in memory. Two more small processors handle the file requests and keep track of the memory. Data comes in so fast that the graphics chip would normally trip over old leftover data sitting in its memory, so Sony added cleanup tools that wipe only the exact spots being replaced and leave the rest alone.
All of it is invisible to the player. A developer just asks for the next stretch of city and it shows up. That is why GTA VI launches November 19, 2026, on PS5 and Xbox Series X only, with nothing for older machines. The game expects a level of storage speed that a hard drive cannot give it, and the loading screen you grew up staring at quietly goes away.
In 2014, during the FIFA World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo showed up with a Z shaped haircut and was brutally trolled by the media. A lot of people made fun of this haircut without knowing the actual reason.. It was a tribute to Erik Ortiz, a 10 month old child who had surgery for cortical dysplasia which resulted in a scar on his face (Z shaped) for the rest of his life. His family and friends were trying to raise money to pay for the surgery, which cost around $83,000. However, they weren't able to raise the funds. They requested Cristiano Ronaldo to donate a pair of cleats and a jersey to auction and raise funds for the treatment. But when Cristiano Ronaldo heard about this he decided to pay for the entire surgery. What a guy🐐❤️
Before this conversation, I thought I understood Bruno Fernandes.
I knew the numbers. The goals, the assists, the leadership, the criticism he’s faced over the years at Manchester United.
But I didn’t understand the mentality behind it.
Bruno has arguably become United’s greatest player of the post-Ferguson era, carrying their creativity season after season.
He’s won more club player of the year awards than Ronaldo, and only five players have scored more than his 70 league goals.
So I went to Manchester United Training Ground to ask him questions the footballing world wants to know.
Bruno spoke about growing up in Porto, watching his father sacrifice his own football career to provide for the family. He told me his dad never praised him for scoring goals. Instead, he’d point out the small things he still needed to improve.
And somehow that mindset shaped one of the most resilient athletes in world football.
We spoke about:
- Why he believes character matters more than talent in elite teams.
- How dressing room culture determines whether talent succeeds or fails.
- Why taking risks is essential if you want to create anything extraordinary!
- His honest opinion on pressure and why he thinks it’s a privilege.
- His thoughts on having Michael Carrick as a manager.
- Addressing Roy Keane’s criticism.
When you listen to Bruno speak, you understand that what makes him exceptional isn’t just technical ability. It’s his standards.
The standards he holds himself to.
The standards he expects from teammates.
The standards he believes define culture.
I really respect how Bruno chose to join United during instability because he believed in rebuilding something meaningful rather than joining an “easy” project.
I saw a much softer and more thoughtful side of Bruno that I don’t think people will expect. So, thank you Bruno for taking the time to sit down with me and for being so vulnerable.
Even if you don’t care about football, there��s a huge amount to learn from this conversation about leadership, resilience and high performance.
🚨🎙️ Ian Wright defends Bruno Fernandes from the harsh criticism of Roy Keane
“No bro, not Bruno! Come on Roy, if you’re gonna dig someone out, don’t dig him out every single time. Who brought them back into the game when things were looking dead? It’s not Bruno, – when we’re talking about someone who can actually do something to save you lot, it’s Bruno! Yeah, maybe he’s not that captain like Tony Adams, Roy… but what he’s doing week in, week out is saving you – those killer passes, the goal, the vision. If Bruno’s not there, United are deep in the relegation places, trust me! You can talk about mentality and leadership all day, but the lad is a footballing genius who’s carrying this team.”