Tchouameni can play Clasico despite Valverde clash: Real Madrid's Arbeloa

Real Madrid coach Alvaro Arbeloa said Aurelien Tchouameni will be in his team's squad to face Barcelona on Sunday in La Liga, despite his confrontation with team-mate Fede Valverde.

The Uruguay captain was treated in hospital for a head injury and will miss up to a fortnight while he recovers, after the two players argued at the end of training on Thursday.

Real Madrid fined France international Tchouameni and Valverde on Friday and said both midfielders had apologised to each other and the club, fans, staff and team-mates.

If Real Madrid fail to beat Barcelona, the Catalans will be crowned Spanish champions for a second consecutive season.

"Tomorrow Tchouameni will be in the squad," Arbeloa told reporters, when asked about the Frenchman's availability for the Clasico at Camp Nou.

Arbeloa, who replaced Xabi Alonso in January of a troubled season for Madrid, said he had accepted both players' apologies for the incident.

"I'm very proud of the club's decisiveness, speed, and transparency, and that the players have acknowledged their mistake, expressed their regret, accepted the consequences of what they have done, and asked for forgiveness," said Arbeloa.

"For me, that's enough. What I'm not going to do is burn them at the stake in public, because they don't deserve that... because of what they've shown me over these four months and over these years.

"They've shown they understand what it means to be a Real Madrid player, their commitment, their effort, their love for the shirt, and I'm not going to forget that."

Arbeloa said what was more troubling to him was that somebody would leak the details of the row to the media.

"That things are leaked that happened in the dressing room, to me is a betrayal of Real Madrid and the club badge," said the coach.

Arbeloa was at Liverpool in 2007 when Welsh striker Craig Bellamy hit team-mate John Arne Riise with a golf club.

A few days later Bellamy celebrated scoring against Barcelona at Camp Nou in the Champions League with a golf swing celebration.

"I had a team-mate who smacked another one with a golf club," remembered Arbeloa.

"For me, the thing that hurts me the most is that what happens in the Real Madrid dressing room should stay in the Real Madrid dressing room.

"Situations that don't represent Real Madrid, or any club, situations that shouldn't happen between team-mates, have always happened, everywhere, but I'm not justifying it."

Arbeloa added that it was "not easy" for the players to be at Real Madrid and on the verge of not winning a major trophy for two consecutive seasons.

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said the situation at Madrid is one that sometimes occurs in a dressing room, even though it was not "normal".

"It happens around the world, so it's not only a thing at Real... was I surprised? Maybe a little bit," Flick told reporters.

"But in the end, I don't care about that, because it's not my club, it's not my team. So I don't have to think about that."

The German coach said at Barcelona everybody is on the same page.

"The most important thing, and what I really appreciate a lot in this club, is that we are all going the same way," he explained.

"When something happens, we are talking in the same way. Everyone is (doing) this. These things happen in football, in life.

"I will not say it's normal, but it could happen. But you have to manage it, and then you have to speak. In the end, it's better to communicate."

Flick said despite Madrid's internal conflict, they would be determined to stop Barca winning the title this weekend.

"For them, it's also a Clasico, everyone will be 100 percent focused on that and they want to win also," said the coach.

This weekend Barca could become the first team to clinch La Liga in a Clasico since 1932, when Madrid won their first Spanish league.

"We want to win the title, the second in a row," added Flick.

"It's amazing, not normal, here in Spain. So this is what we want to do, nothing else, nothing more."