Report – Some Real Madrid players openly mock Arbeloa with a nickname

Report – Some Real Madrid players openly mock Arbeloa with a nickname

Real Madrid’s dressing room is currently in a state of complete turmoil.

The latest incident involved a training-ground fight between Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni, which ended with the Uruguayan being taken to hospital and facing a spell out of action for 10-14 days.

This is one in a series of in-fighting incidents within the locker room that has come to the fore, with manager Alvaro Arbeloa also being involved in some verbal altercations with players.

So much so that, it has been reported that the Spanish core of the squad has problems with the former defender-turned-manager.

Arbeloa nicknamed the ‘Cone’

In fact, according to Manolo Lama of COPE, some of the Spanish players who are not featuring regularly have been openly mocking Arbeloa from the bench, calling him ‘the cone’.

“Many of the problems stem from the fact that the Spanish players who aren’t playing, when they’re on the bench, keep calling Arbeloa  ‘the cone,'” the journalist and commentator revealed.