"“I don't even have four strikers and I never said such a thing,” he had said in his pre-match remarks."
"“I understand that many of these things might seem like news,” Arbeloa told reporters. “Everything he said in the mixed zone was something he had already spoken to me about beforehand. I approach it much more naturally because, as I always tell my players, I've been there and I know what they feel in any situation. I know what it's like to play every day, I know what it's like to play less, and I know what it's like not to play at all."
"“I see everything that has happened these days as very normal, and my relationship with Mbappe remains the same.”"
"“I have no problem at all with Arbeloa. You have to accept the coach's philosophy and I have to do better to play ahead of Vini, Gonzalo, and Mastantuono,” he said, adding that the decision had to be respected even if he was ready to start."
Kylian Mbappé publicly claimed that Alvaro Arbeloa told him he was the fourth-choice forward behind Franco Mastantuono, Vinicius Junior, and Gonzalo Garcia, after appearing as a 69th-minute substitute in a 2-0 win. Arbeloa rejected the framing, saying he did not even have four strikers and that he never made such a statement. He said Mbappé’s comments in the mixed zone were matters already discussed beforehand, and he described understanding players’ feelings from personal experience of playing, playing less, and not playing. Mbappé responded by saying he had no problem with Arbeloa and would work to earn a starting role ahead of other forwards.
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