Real Madrid fined Federico Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni €500,000 each following their brawl incident..

Real Madrid announced on their official website on Saturday that captain Federico Valverde and midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni have each been fined €500,000 for violating disciplinary rules.

According to Real Madrid's official statement, the club immediately launched an internal investigation after the brawl between the two players. Both cooperated with the investigation, explaining the reasons for the physical altercation and expressing regret for their actions.

They have also apologized to the management, teammates, coaching staff, technical staff, and each other, and stated their willingness to accept any disciplinary sanction.

As a form of punishment, the club's disciplinary committee decided to fine Valverde and Aurélien Tchouaméni €500,000 each. However, in order to promote peaceful resolution, neither will face any sporting sanctions.

Tchouaméni is still eligible to play in this weekend's El Clásico against arch-rivals Barcelona, while Valverde is confirmed to be missing the match due to a concussion and brain injury sustained in the incident.

Following the incident, both Tchouaméni and Valverde apologized to fans via their social media accounts, reiterating their desire to move on and focus on the upcoming crucial La Liga match. However, neither statement contained any genuine apology to the other.

Meanwhile, Sky Sports' Chief News Repoter, Kaveh Solhekol, also faced renewed criticism from several colleagues for deliberately blaming the reasons that these recent scandals which plagued Real Madrid were because Kylian Mbappé has been made a scapegoat.

Chief among them, the company's renowned Italian transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano, slammed Solhekol via his paid column by saying that no one had ever attributed the Valverde-Tchouaméni brawl to Mbappé, nor had anyone said that "the latter was made a scapegoat for the reasons behind this brawl."

Romano added that the brawl between Valverde and Tchouaméni was an isolated incident, and the scandal of Antonio Rüdiger slapping his young teammate Álvaro Carreras was another isolated incident from several months ago.

These two incidents are completely isolated from the incident where Kylian Mbappé's alleged poor attitude drew the ire of the Real Madrid coaching staff.

At most, the only thing these players might have in common is their deep dissatisfaction with interim head coach Álvaro Arbeloa's tactical philosophy.

Solhekol's theory of alleging that "Mbappé was made a scapegoat behind this brawl" is pure speculation, an unacceptable act of deliberately stirring up trouble for clicks.

It's worth mentioning that, upon investigation, this is actually the second time in two weeks that Solhekol has gotten into trouble for his incoherent statements.

Last week, he was also heavily criticized for making unfounded and personal opinions on topics such as "Iran, their tense political situation with the United States, US President Donald Trump, FIFA, its president Gianni Infantino, the 76th FIFA Congress, and whether Iran will be disqualified from the 2026 World Cup," resulting in all related videos being removed from all of Sky Sports' official platforms.

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