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Paul Pogba: Manchester United re-sign France midfielder for world-record £89m 31 minutes ago From the section Football 257 Share this page pogba Pogba has won 38 caps for France and the Serie A title with Juventus four times Paul Pogba said "the time is right to go back to Old Trafford" after completing his world-record £89m transfer to Manchester United. The 23-year-old midfielder returns after four years away, having left United for Juventus for £1.5m in 2012. Pogba, who signed a five-year deal, added: "This is the right club for me to achieve everything I hope to." ADVERTISEMENT Manager Jose Mourinho said the France international could be "the heart of the club" for the next decade. United will pay the Italian champions 105m euros for Pogba, plus 5m euros (£4.5m) in performance-related bonuses and other costs, including 5m euros if Pogba signs a new contract. It surpasses the £85m that Real Madrid paid Tottenham for Wales forward Gareth Bale in 2013. The announcement was made by United just after 00:30 BST on Tuesday, with a glossy video showing the player - with a red devil marked into his hair - emerging from the shadows. It was followed by a series of sponsor videos, including one with English rapper and grime artist Stormzy, whose most successful song to date is 'Shut Up'. 'Pogba gives Man Utd fear factor' Is the midfielder Man Utd's most expensive mistake? Listen: Pogba, the story so far Pogba, who helped hosts France reach the Euro 2016 final, has won the Serie A title in each of his four seasons at Juventus. He is Mourinho's fourth signing at United, after Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly, Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Armenia forward Henrikh Mkhitaryan. It will be the first time in 20 years an English club has set a world-record transfer fee, after Newcastle United paid £15 to sign England striker Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers for £15m. Pogba joined United from French club Le Havre in 2009 as a 16-year-old, but made just a handful of appearances before his contract expired in July 2012. He has made 178 appearances for Juventus, scoring 34 goals, and helped the club reach the 2015 Champions League final. The Serie A side had offered him a new contract, while Real Madrid were also interested in signing him. Pogba said his mum told him he would return to Old Trafford and that it was his "destiny", adding: " Speaking to MUTV he added: "I just came back to Carrington. It was like I'd just come back home. I just went for a holiday." In a series of messages to Juventus supporters on social media, Pogba said: "Goodbye means nothing, it is the time we spent together that matters. I will bring with me a piece of you and leave you a little piece of me." Pogba scores for France at Euros The summer's most protracted transfer The move has rumbled on all summer, with the back pages of the newspapers featuring reports of deals done, deals delayed, counter-bids from big-club rivals, denials and intrigue over agents' fees. At Mourinho's first Old Trafford news conference on 5 July he said he wanted to sign four players and had secured three. Many believed the fourth was Pogba. It has taken more than a month since then for the Portuguese to get his man. On 9 July, United finally declared their official interest but there were rumours the player preferred a move to Real Madrid. Following's France's Euro 2016 final defeat by Portugal, Pogba went on a long holiday to the USA. His agent Mino Raiola said a number of clubs were interested in his client and continued to deny a deal with United had been agreed. On Saturday, Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri summoned Pogba to training, but just a day later United announced the player would have a medical - and on Monday he arrived in Manchester. But it took until the early hours of Tuesday BST for the deal to finally be announced, a delay that Pogba called "annoying". Writing on Instagram he said: "This transfer took so long because it was a huge decision and involved lots of thinking and work." Why did Pogba leave Manchester United? Juventus' Paul Pogba accuses former club Manchester United of "disrespect". Archive: Man Utd disrespected me - Pogba speaking in 2014 Pogba claimed he left the club "frustrated" and "disgusted" because former manager Sir Alex Ferguson did not play him. Ferguson said he "distrusted" Pogba's agent, Raiola, and alleged an agreement with Juventus had already been made. He gives his full reasons in the video above. How good is Pogba? Former France striker Thierry Henry believes he can go on to become "one of the best in history" while fellow World Cup winner Patrick Vieira described him as an "extraordinary player" and said it was a "mistake" for Manchester City not to sign him from United United legend Ryan Giggs said Pogba "has got everything" France legend Zinedine Zidane thinks Pogba is a "complete player" Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said in May 2015 that Pogba "needs to stop showboating in midfield" and that he makes "avoidable" mistakes Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger claims Pogba is in a "maturing period" and will not find his best form until the age of 26 Former England striker Gary Lineker asked during Euro 2016 if he was "the world's most overrated player" Ex-United midfielder Paul Scholes had questioned Pogba's reported £86m valuation, saying he was "nowhere worth that kind of money yet" What did Juventus say? The Italian giants thanked Pogba for "four years of triumphs lived together", which included nine trophies in total. They released a statement 'Merci Paul', which said Pogba would remain "etched in the collective imagination". It also said that the club had made 72.6m euros (£61.9m) profit from the deal, after various deductions including wages and "related charges". Other reaction Paul Pogba: Is Man Utd midfielder world class? Match of the Day presenter and former England striker Gary Lineker tweeted: "The signing of Pogba by Man Utd is a watershed moment for the Premier League. First time a huge foreign star in his prime has come to England." He added that the wealth of the Premier League meant "more of the greats will come here and not just to Barca and Real Madrid". When challenged about other big names such as Sergio Aguero, Alexis Sanchez, Yaya Toure and Angel Di Maria, Lineker responded: "Either Barca cast-offs, not genuine superstars or built their reputation here". Earlier, former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville had said: "I think it is a big fee, but the Premier League was losing players left, right and centre to Spain - all the grade A players. "We couldn't entice players to come here and we couldn't keep them when we had the best ones. At least now it looks like we are signing a player who would be regarded as a top signing of the summer." Mino Raiola Pogba's agent tweeted at 00:25 BST on Tuesday, shortly before the deal was officially confirmed by United Pogba's honours Under-20 World Cup winner and player of the tournament (2013) 4 Serie A titles (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) 2 Italian Cups (2015, 2016) 2 Italian Super Cups (2014, 2015) Most recent five times the world transfer record was broken Hernan Crespo's £35.5m move to Lazio from Italian rivals Parma in 2000 was the last time a club other than Real Madrid broke the world record for a football transfer fee. 2013 - Gareth Bale £86m (Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid) 2009 - Cristiano Ronaldo £80m (Manchester United to Real Madrid) 2009 - Kaka £56m (AC Milan to Real Madrid) 2001 - Zinedine Zidane £46m (Juventus to Real Madrid) 2000 - Luis Figo £37m (Barcelona to Real Madrid)

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Sooner than anyone expected, Nvidia has rolled out its latest uber graphics card. It’s the new Titan X. It’s undoubtedly the fastest and bestest PC graphics board ever and probably by some margin. And it will cost you $1,200 and probably a similar post-VAT sterling figure back in the old, disintegrating empire. Call me a desiccated old cynic, but this is getting silly… Before I invite a comment-thread flaming with my philosophical observations, let’s get a sense of Nvidia’s new pixel-pumping machine courtesy of the speeds and feeds. The latest Titan X – for it is thee, there’s no ‘GeForce’ or ‘GTX’ branding – is part of the new 16nm Nvidia Pascal family and thus closely related to the GeForce GTX 1080 I had a sniff around a few weeks ago. Where the mere £600 / $600 GTX 1080 has 2,560 pixel-prettifying shaders, the new Titan X has 3,584. Nvidia hasn’t dished the details on some of the other specifics including things like texture units and pixel outputs. Be we do know it has a large if conventional 384-bit memory bus hooked up to 12GB of 10GBPS GDDR5X memory. For context the old GTX Titan X from the now defunct 28nm Maxwell family of chips rocked 3,072 shaders and 12GB of memory, albeit much slower 7GBPS memory. Oh and Nvidia has bumped the GPU speed versus the old Titan by nearly 50 per cent to a peak clockspeed of 1,531MHz. Beautiful board, beastly price… When you throw numbers around like that, it all gets a bit baffling. So, for a rough feel of the raw computational impact of this new chip, try this for size. It’s good for 11 TFLOPS of simple number crunching prowess. One can argue the toss over the relevance of that figure for rendering and indeed playing games. But it’s still bloody impressive and not far off twice the 6.6 TFOPS figure attained by the old Titan X, which was not exactly a slouch. As it happens, the question of whether this board is really for gamers or number crunching of a different kind is where things get complicated with the new Titan X. It seems that it’s based on an entirely new and separate GPU from the GP100 monster that Nvidia revealed back in April as part of its new Tesla P100 compute board. If we are to believe Nvidia, and at this stage I wouldn’t entirely take everything at face value, the GP100 chip in that Tesla board is a 15-billion transistor hunk where the new Titan X uses a hitherto unseen chip known as GP102 with 12 billion transistors. For the record and at risk of getting swept away by a torrent of codenames, the GTX 1080 uses yet another chip called GP104 that clocks in around the seven billion mark. The new Titan has 40 per cent more, er, rendery bits than the feeble GTX 1080 Anyway, the point is that at first glance the latest Titan looks like a pure graphics product without any of the compute-centric features of some earlier Titans. However, for the first time, Nvidia is touting this card’s INT8 performance, which is a measure of neural network or so-called deep learning performance and thus very much a non-graphics application. The messaging, then, is a little mixed – is this an out and out gaming card or something else? Whatever it is, you’re getting 40 per cent more functional units than a GTX 1080 for 100 per cent more money. If that doesn’t sound like a great deal, the new Titan X also has a lower GPU clock than the 1080, so in at least some situations you won’t even get 40 per cent more performance. The Titan X does have 50 per cent more memory bandwidth than the 1080. But however you slice it, the value proposition looks laughable. I doubt, for instance, that even this new Titan X will prove a total single-card solution for 4K gaming. Oh my god, it’s full of shaders That’s even more true when you consider the likely manufacturing cost of the new GP102 chip. At 471mm2, it’s much smaller than the 601mm2 of the old Titan X. In fact it’s nearer in size to the GM104 chip in the old GeForce GTX 980, which comes in at 398mm2. The point is that, generally, the bigger the chip, the more costly it is to produce. But in this instance, Nvidia has released a smaller chip and then ramped up the price. Actually, that’s exactly what it did with the GTX 1080, too. The chip in that measures just 314mm2. Admittedly, there will be variables with new processes, but the pricing of this new GPU family looks positively punitive to me. At this point I was planning on penning a semi-serious dissertation about what I think is going wrong. It would involve near negative real-world interest rates, quantitative easing, epic inequality and how this thing strikes me as being the graphics card Donald Trump would sell you. Instead I’ll recall how excited I used to be when a mega new GPU was launched. I remember when the GeForce 6800 Ultra was launched with 16 – yes, 16! – pixel pipes. Even then it was known Nvidia didn’t always play a straight bat, especially not after the partial-precision / four or eight pixels per clock / leaf blowing shenanigans of the FX 5800 series. In the good old days, men were men and graphics cards had pixel pipes But somehow it was so much easier to rejoice in the sheer technical majesty of a GPU capable of smoothly rendering Far Cry’s stunning vistas at 1,600 by 1,200 pixels. That was way back in 2004. Adjusted for inflation, at most that was a £600 graphics card. There’s actually a parallel to be drawn with my other occupational muse, the car market, in which wheel-heeled punters beat eat other to a metaphorical pulp to sign on for the latest limited-edition Porsche, paying 200,000 euros for cars which are so over subscribed that they’re worth three times that much on the open market the moment the first examples are delivered. It’s total madness, which is where all that cheap money I mentioned comes in. But maybe I’m just a desiccated old hack. Maybe I should be celebrating the mere existence of master works like the Nvidia Titan X and Porsche 911R. On the other hand, surely there’s a point when the price gouging becomes so vulgar you just have to gag? I don’t know about you, but £1,200/$1,200 for a graphics card certainly sticks in my throat. Or maybe cards like this just aren’t relevant to PC gamers and are best ignored? The problem with that notion is that the whole market is being dragged upwards. The new high end is £1,200, the new enthusiast is £600 and the new mainstream is nigh-on £300. I have a hands-on with the new GTX 1060 in the works and a jolly nice mid-range board it is, too, in many ways more impressive than the GTX 1080. But it’s 300 bleedin’ pounds for the version I have and even the cheapest 1060s are well over £200. AMD to the rescue with the Radeon RX 480? Hold that thought…

Japan's Emperor Akihito has strongly indicated he wants to step down, saying he fears his age will make it difficult to fulfil his duties. The revered 82-year-old emperor's comments came in only his second-ever televised address to the public. Emperor Akihito did not explicitly say he wanted to abdicate as he is barred from making political statements. PM Shinzo Abe said the government would take the remarks "seriously" and discuss what could be done. "Upon reflecting how he handles his official duty and so on, his age and the current situation of how he works, I do respect the heavy responsibility the emperor must be feeling and I believe we need to think hard about what we can do," he said. Ten things you may not know about the emperor Emperor Akihito's speech in full Japan watches the emperor's speech In pictures: Akihito's reign Akihito, who has had heart surgery and was treated for prostate cancer, has been on the throne in Japan since the death of his father, Hirohito, in 1989. In his 10-minute pre-recorded message, he said he had "started to reflect" on his years as as emperor, and contemplate his position in the years to come. Why can't the emperor abdicate?Abdication is not mentioned under Japan's existing laws, so they would need to be changed for the emperor to be able to stand down. The changes would also have to be approved by parliament. What do the public think? Most support the emperor's desire to step down - a recent survey by the Kyodo news agency found more than 85% saying abdication should be legalised. But the move is opposed by some more conservative sections of Japanese society. Is this the first time a revision of the law has been discussed? A debate about whether or not a woman would be able to ascend the throne was triggered in 2006 when the emperor had no grandsons, but was postponed after a boy was born to the imperial family. What does the emperor do? The emperor has no political powers but has several official duties, such as greeting foreign dignitaries. Japan's monarchy is entwined in the Shinto religion and the emperor still performs religious ceremonies. He also plants and harvests a small rice paddy inside the palace while the empress raises silkworms. If he were to abdicate, it would be the first time a Japanese emperor has stepped down since Emperor Kokaku in 1817. The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says right wing nationalists who support Mr Abe's government do not want any change to the current law, which insists emperors must serve until they die. Emperor Akihito said he hoped the duties of the emperor as a symbol of the state could continue steadily without any breaks. He said one possibility when an emperor could not fulfil his duties because of age or illness was that a regency could be established. But he suggested this was not the ideal outcome, saying: "I think it is not possible to continue reducing perpetually the emperor's acts in matters of state and his duties as the symbol of the state." Akihito's eldest son, 56-year-old Crown Prince Naruhito is first in line to the Chrysanthemum throne, followed by his younger brother Prince Akishino. Women are not allowed to inherit the throne and so Princess Aiko, the daughter of Crown Prince Naruhito, cannot succeed her father.