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Real Madrid’s Fede Valverde was taken to infirmary to person stitches aft a 2nd confrontation pinch teammate Aurélien Tchouaméni successful 2 days, arsenic nan club’s illness into chaos continues.
Players held an an emergency gathering and Real person opened disciplinary proceedings aft a punch was thrown, humor was spilled and Valverde was taken for treatment, initially successful a wheelchair. It is nan latest section successful a catalogue of problems astatine nan club; they will almost surely extremity a 2nd successive play without a trophy, Álvaro Arbeloa will not proceed arsenic coach, and nan dressing room disagreement widens by nan day. Real recreation to Barcelona for nan clásico connected Sunday.
Valverde and Tchouaméni almost came to blows during an statement successful training connected Wednesday which continued into nan dressing room, pinch teammates intervening to abstracted nan brace arsenic they pushed each other. Then, 24 hours later, nan sports newspaper Marca revealed that connected Thursday Tchouaméni had punched Valverde. The Uruguay world fell and deed his face, opening up a gash.
Valverde was taken to nan aesculapian section astatine Valdebebas and from location to nan adjacent Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas, wherever he was fixed stitches. Cameras caught nan 27-year-old’s car going backmost and distant from nan training ground, though nan Uruguay midfielder was not visible inside.
The incident began erstwhile Valverde refused to shingle Tchouaméni’s manus arsenic he arrived astatine training, accusing him of having leaked nan communicative of nan erstwhile day’s fight. The France midfielder denied doing truthful and insisted that nan accusations had to stop, but Valverde persisted. With Valverde not letting up, moreover arsenic different players tried to calm nan business down, Tchouaméni deed him. Valverde connected pinch nan area of a array arsenic he fell.
As he was taken for treatment, an emergency gathering was held successful nan dressing room. Valverde was backmost astatine location connected Thursday afternoon. The nine captain, Dani Carvajal, was seen returning to Valdebebas for further discussions pinch members of nan club.
The incident comes a fewer days aft left-back Álvaro Carreras confirmed that he had been deed by Antonio Rüdiger successful an incident he said had been “resolved”. Kylian Mbappé confronted a personnel of Arbeloa’s backroom unit during different caller convention and had to take sides himself against criticism that he travelled to Italy pinch his girlfriend while he was recovering from injury. Midfielder Dani Ceballos has been near retired of nan squad aft a confrontation pinch Arbeloa, and nan opening of nan extremity for nan erstwhile caput coach Xabi Alonso came erstwhile Vinícius Júnior stormed disconnected during nan clásico successful October.
Back past Real were 5 points clear of Barcelona astatine nan apical of La Liga. Going into this Sunday’s crippled they are 11 points down their bitter rivals pinch 4 matches remaining. If they do not win, Barcelona will beryllium crowned champions.
