3 weeks ago
Álvaro Arbeloa insisted Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni should beryllium fixed nan chance to “keep fighting for nan badge” aft a 2nd dressing-room bust-up successful 2 days near nan Uruguayan connected nan level and needing to beryllium taken to infirmary for stitches successful his head.
The greeting aft Real Madrid fined nan players a grounds €500,000 each for nan incident and nan greeting earlier they look Barcelona successful nan clásico, nan coach gave an bonzer property convention successful which he claimed nan dressing room was “healthy”, said that he was “proud” of his footballers and insisted that he would not let them to beryllium “burnt astatine nan stake” for what they had done, saying that everyone makes mistakes, moreover nine fable Juanito who famously stamped connected Lothar Matthaus’s head. He besides said he had besides seen worse, recalling nan nighttime successful 2007 that Craig Bellamy attacked Liverpool teammate John Arne Riise pinch a play club.
While Valverde has been told to enactment astatine location because of nan “craniofacial trauma” suffered successful nan fight, nan coach confirmed that Tchouaméni will beryllium successful nan squad to look Barcelona. If Madrid do not triumph nan clásico, their top rivals will beryllium crowned champions.
Arbeloa deed retired astatine what he called nan “lies” told astir his players but he besides described dressing-room leaks arsenic a “betrayal”, concluding: “I americium responsible for what happens astatine Real Madrid and if you want to person personification to blame, present I am.”
“I person 2 things to say,” Arbeloa began. “I americium very proud of nan decisiveness, transparency and velocity pinch which nan nine has acted. And, two, that nan players person expressed their regret, they person admitted their error, and they person accepted nan consequences of their actions. They person said sorry to nan fans, nan nine and nan dressing room, and that’s capable for me. They do not deserved to beryllium publically burnt astatine nan stake. Fede Valverde nor Aurélien Tchouaméni person shown each time what it intends to beryllium a Real Madrid player, pinch their committedness and effort, and I americium not going to hide that.”
“If location is simply a subordinate that represents Real Madrid, that is simply a paradigm of what Madrid is, it’s Juanito. And did Juanito ne'er make mistakes?” Arbeloa went on. “Anyone tin make mistakes but Fede Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni are 2 players who correspond very good what Real Madrid is, who merit a chance to move nan page, to support fighting for this badge.”
“I will not let group to usage this to mobility my players’ professionalism, because location are a batch of lies being told – a batch of lies. It is mendacious that my players are not professional. It’s mendacious that they person shown a deficiency of respect towards me; not moreover once. It is mendacious that their manner is not what nan manner of a Real Madrid subordinate should be. I americium not going to let that [to beryllium said] because it is not conscionable untrue – it’s an absolute lie. Our fans tin remainder assured erstwhile it comes to nan dressing room.”
“It is not easy to assimilate 2 years without winning a title and everything that has happened,” nan coach continued. “It is not an easy business for each of us. [But] I spot a patient dressing room. Nothing successful these 4 months makes maine opportunity I americium unhappy pinch this dressing room.”
Well, not nothing, exactly. The first norm of conflict nine is you don’t talk astir conflict club. “Look, I had a teammate who sewage a play nine and whacked different teammate,” Arbeloa said. “For me, nan astir superior point and what hurts astir is that what happens successful nan Madrid dressing room should enactment successful nan Madrid dressing room. Situations that should not hap betwixt teammates person ever happened everywhere. For things that hap successful nan dressing room to beryllium filtered retired is simply a betrayal of Real Madrid and it is thing that saddens maine a lot.”
Asked if he had detected nan leaks, Arbeloa replied: “No. I don’t activity successful nan CIA aliases thing for illustration it. I americium not accusing nan players, aliases anyone, because I can’t. There are tons of group astir nan Real Madrid first squad and I americium not present to constituent an accusing digit astatine anyone.”
“It is not a pleasant business and nan players cognize they made mistakes but that has to beryllium an illustration to everyone that we move nan page, study and do not hide that tomorrow there’s a Barcelona-Real Madrid. At times, vexation and anger tin bring astir situations we don’t want but we tin usage that power to play a awesome crippled tomorrow.”
