Jose Mourinho has offered to help former Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs in the early days of his foray into management with Wales, according to reports.
The 44-year-old took his first job since leaving Old Trafford, where
he was assistant to Mourinho’s predecessor Louis van Gaal, when he
accepted the Wales job back in January.
And now, despite a somewhat fraught relationship with Mourinho due to comments made about United last season, The Sun claim he will be allowed to visit United’s Carrington training base.
Mourinho has not only invited Giggs to observe training, but will
also have a one-on-one chat with the Welshman over becoming a manager
and tactics in general.
There is still a lot of respect and admiration for Giggs at United,
and the club are happy to help him in any way possible as he looks to
make his mark in management.
Giggs has previously criticised United’s play under Mourinho, which
the Portuguese reacted angrily to, but he has buried the hatchet and is
looking forward to watching Giggs’ career unfold.
Speaking after he left United in 2016 along with Van Gaal, Giggs
said: ‘There was no offer from Jose Mourinho. No offer. It was my choice
to go.
‘As soon as Louis was going I had made my decision to go. I had done
two years and I wanted to do three years under Louis. It didn’t happen.
‘That was my plan to do my three years and see what happened after
that. Unfortunately, that was cut short. It happens. That’s football.
But I didn’t really feel I could go on at the club in any other capacity
apart from manager.’
Liverpool are ready to put improved terms to Sadio Mane, according to the Liverpool Echo.
His current deal is already set to run until 2021, but the Reds are
prepared to discuss a new deal after seeing the Senegalese star become a
key figure alongside Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.
Manchester United have identified Real Madrid's Toni Kroos as their top target for the summer transfer window, reports The Independent .
Jose Mourinho has admitted that he will be in the market for a new midfielder, as Michael Carrick prepares to head into retirement.
Kroos is considered to be the ideal candidate to fill that role, with
the World Cup winner having been a long-standing target for those at
Old Trafford.
Getty Images announced
today that it has come to an agreement with Google that includes a
global licensing partnership between the two companies and accompanying
changes to Google Images.
If you search for images on Google
Images right now, you may click on the "view image" button on the
results page to load (an often) larger version of the linked image
directly.
Getty Images lodged anti-competitive complaints against
Google in the European Union and the United States for including
functionality on Google Images to download high-resolution stock
photography on the site.
Users can view and download images on Google Images without ever visiting the site the photo was posted on in first place.
The
official announcement on Getty Images press site reveals little about
the agreement but an email sent to companies and photographers who
cooperate with Getty Images provides details on the agreement.
Getty Images notes in the email, seen by Peta Pixel,
that the company withdrew its complaint because Google recognized the
company's concerns. Google agreed to make changes to its image search
engine to address Getty Images' concerns according to the email, and
that it would benefit all image owners globally".
Google will remove the "view image" button and make copyright notices on Google Images more prominent on top of that.
While
it is unclear right now whether the change will affect only Getty
Images images on Google Images or all images, it is quite possible that
Google will remove the functionality completely from its image search
engine.
This is all speculation right now, however, as Google has
not landed the changes yet that it promised to make as part of the
agreement that it entered with Getty Images.
Here is a short list
of Google Images alternatives that you may want to use if Google pulls
the functionality from its image search engine completely.
Bing Images
is Google Images biggest rival in the United States. Click on a result
to view a larger version of the image which you can save by
right-clicking on it and selecting the "save image" option from the
context menu.
Startpage
comes with image search functionality. Simply type a search term and
switch to images to use it. It features a "view image" link that opens
the image anonymously.
Yahoo Images is another big image search engine. It features a "view image" button to display the linked image directly in the web browser.
Now You: What's your take on the upcoming changes to Google Images?
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, an extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla that's been in his care since birth. When a rogue genetic experiment goes wrong, it causes George, a wolf and a reptile to grow to a monstrous size. As the mutated beasts embark on a path of destruction, Okoye teams up with a discredited genetic engineer and the military to secure an antidote and prevent a global catastrophe.
A bitter pill to swallow - that's my best description of this game for Manchester United.
I was confident going into this game but Spurs outplayed us. We were poor on the ball and made countless misplaced passes.
1-0 down after 10 or 11 seconds is the worst nightmare for any manager, team or fan and it happened today.
Our best period of the game was, in my opinion, the 5 minutes after their opening goal. We created chances and could have got a quick equaliser but we didn't.... instead Spurs got their second goal from a Phil Jones OG.
It was one of those days where nothing worked for us and everyone had an off day - apart from De Gea and maybe one or two others.
We are still second in the league and I feel confident that will be our position after 38 games.
Let's forget this game and this poor performance and keep putting trust and support into the players and the manager.
Game of Thrones. Proceed at your own risk.
Despite his limited time in the show, Bran has always been at the
centre of much speculation and wild theories, including one which sees
him warging into icy Viserion.
But — rest assured — the latest theory to make the rounds on social media is the most mind-blowing to date.
What if Brandon Stark is actually the Night King? What if everything that has ever happened in Westeros is Bran's fault?
Even if you hate Ned Stark's son, this theory — which has actually
been popular for a while — is pretty wild, isn't it? Let's begin by
piecing together all the evidence.
In Season 6, if you recall, the Three-Eyed Raven taught Bran how to
finesse his Greenseer abilities to drift freely through time — past,
present and feature — at will.
Bran has also the ability to warg into people's consciousness, just like he did with Hodor.
According to some fans, those two abilities — greensight and ability to warg — make Bran even more powerful to the Three-Eyed Raven.
However, the Three-Eyed Raven — that omniscient killjoy — promptly
warned Bran that "the past is already written" and "the ink is dry".
Also, he warned Bran that the more time you spend inside someone else's
body, the more difficult it is to leave.
"It is beautiful beneath the sea; stay too long and you drown," he says.
Now, if you remember the Tower of Joy flashback in Season 6, episode
3, it seems pretty clear that Bran has the power to influence the past
as well as watch it.
As explained by Mashable's very own Sam Haysom, just look at the confusion on Young Ned Stark's face after Bran calls out to him:
The Three-Eyed Raven certainly looked nervous in the flashback when
Bran yelled "father;" it was as if he knew what the consequences of the
boy's actions could be.
Other evidence, in both the books and show, point to the fact that
the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, became mad after Bran attempted to warn
him about the White Walkers.
"Burn them all," was the Mad King's final order, which might be Bran warning him about the White Walkers.
suggested he may in fact be one of the legendary Brandons he hears
about in Old Nan's stories (Brandon the Builder — who built both the
Wall and Winterfell to shield off the White Walkers, Brandon the
Shipwright, etc.).
In a nutshell, according to these theories, Bran keeps travelling
back and forth in time in a bid to fix things, and destroy the White
Walkers once for all.
But the most important piece in the puzzle is when Bran has the
vision of when the Night King was Born, as explained by YouTuber Game of Theories a few months ago.
Thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones take place, the Children of the Forest were at war with the First Men, who almost wiped them out of their sacred weirwoods.
In desperation, they captured one of the First Men and inserted
dragonglass into his chest with a ritual on a weirwood tree. That's how
the first White Walker, the Night King, was created.
As noticed by many commentators, Bran's real body in the Three-Eyed Raven's cave winces and clenches his fists. As if he's experiencing the pain. As if HE is in the Night King's body.
Bran warged into that man in an attempt to persuade them not to go
through the process that would create the White Walkers. But since "the
ink is dry" that means he cannot change the past through time travel,
only fulfil it:
Image: reddit/screengrab/turm0il26
From
that moment, Bran got stuck in the past and became the Night King,
while the future Bran keeps moving in time in a desperate attempt to
warn people about the Long Night.
The theory would explain how the Night King is always at the right place and the right time:
Image: REDDIT/SCREENGRAB/TURM0IL26
All the events happening in Game of Thrones,
then, just originate from Bran, and will lead to Daenerys and Jon Snow
fighting together to defeat him stuck inside the Night King.
This is how the show will end, according to the Redditor:
This theory also parts with Jon snow being the prince
that was promised, who eventually has to kill his little brother Bran
(Night king cannot kill Jon Snow at Hardhome then, can he?), giving us a
bittersweet ending.
The title of this year's Game of Thrones season finale has been revealed, sending fans into a flurry of excitement: The Dragon and the Wolf.
Fans have been quick to suggest that it could refer to Jon "the White Wolf" Snow (Kit Harington) and Daenerys "Mother of Dragons" Targaryen (Emilia Clarke),
with more than one guessing that it could mark the blossoming of a
fully-fledged romance between the characters following the build-up of
their relationship through the series. The fact that Jon is Daenerys's
nephew isn't necessarily an obstacle – Game of Thrones has certainly
never shied away from incest in the past.
However
others have pointed out that it could just as easily refer to Rhaegar
Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, Jon Snow's parents. The finale could
see another flashback, revealing more of the events surrounding Jon's
birth.
There
would be a precedent for this: the finale of season six featured a
flashback to the Tower of Joy, in which the truth about his parentage
was revealed.
On the other hand, it's possible – though unlikely – that
the title has a more literal meaning. This week's episode saw the death
of Daenerys's dragon Viserion, which has since been brought back to
life by the Night's King. If ice-dragon Viserion (or one of its
siblings, Rhaegal and Drogon) is the dragon of the title, could the wolf
be an actual wolf? After all, the whereabouts of Jon's direwolf Ghost
are currently unknown. One thing's
for certain: this season finale will give viewers plenty to get their
teeth into. HBO have announced that the episode will clock in at a
weighty 79 minutes, making it the longest finale in the show's history
With
their headquarters destroyed and the world held hostage, members of
Kingsman find new allies when they discover a spy organization in the
United States known as Statesman. In an adventure that tests their
strength and wits, the elite secret agents from both sides of the pond
band together to battle a ruthless enemy and save the day, something
that's becoming a bit of a habit for Eggsy. Kingsman 2: The Golden
Circle is the second exciting chapter in the Kingsman trilogy.
American
Assassin tells the story of legendary CIA agent Mitch Rapp. Long before
he began hunting terrorists, Rapp was a gifted college scholar/athlete.
Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation's most
elite covert operations program. After completing training designed to
teach the kind of lethal skills necessary to target our most dangerous
enemies, here and abroad, he is a man reborn with a mission of
retribution.
