Real Madrid have punished Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni with a €500,000 (£432,100) nice each after their training ground fight this week.
Valverde was sent to hospital on Thursday after he clashed with Tchouameni within the dressing room following a dispute through the training session.
The Uruguay international hit his head on a table through the confrontation and suffered a cut which was treated by medical staff in hospital. He’ll now miss Madrid’s game against Barcelona in La Liga on Sunday.
A press release from Madrid on Friday read: ‘Real Madrid C. F. pronounces that, following the events that led to the disciplinary proceedings initiated yesterday against our players Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni, each appeared today before the investigator assigned to the case.
‘During their appearance, the players expressed their complete remorse for what happened and apologized to one another.
‘Moreover, they prolonged their apologies to the club, their teammates, the coaching staff, and the fans, and each have made themselves available to Real Madrid to just accept whatever sanction the club deems appropriate.
‘Under these circumstances, Real Madrid has decided to impose a financial penalty of 5 hundred thousand euros on each player, thereby concluding the corresponding internal procedures.’
In his statement, Valverde insists he was not struck by Tchouameni and told Madrid supporters he’s ‘truly sorry for this example’.
‘Yesterday, I had an incident with a teammate stemming from a play during training, a situation where the fatigue of competition and sheer frustration caused every thing to get blown out of proportion,’ Valverde said.
‘Today, we had one other run-in. Throughout the argument, I by chance struck a table, sustaining a small cut on my brow that required a routine visit to the hospital.
‘My teammate [Tchouameni] didn’t hit me, nor did I hit him. Although I understand that for you it is perhaps easier to consider that we beat the hell out of one another or that he intentionally injured me, that just isn’t what happened.
‘I’m truly sorry for this example. It gives me pain. It hurts to see what we’re currently going through.
‘Real Madrid is one of the necessary things in my life, and I cannot remain indifferent to it. This final result is the culmination of assorted aspects that ultimately resulted in a senseless altercation, one which damages my popularity and leaves room for doubt, allowing for fabrications, defamation, and the sensationalizing of what was merely an accident.’
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