While an altercation reportedly broke out between the two Real Madrid midfielders on Thursday on the sidelines of a training session, influencer and blogger Aquababe has gotten involved in the matter, claiming to have exchanged messages with Aurélien Tchouaméni, with screenshots to back it up.

Real Madrid may be experiencing the most tumultuous period in its recent history. From the anti-Mbappé petition to Antonio Rüdiger's slap of Alvaro Carreras, not to mention Jude Bellingham's enigmatic Instagram stories, the Merengue dressing room has imploded in recent days. The final blow came from the violent altercation between Aurélien Tchouaméni and Federico Valverde , which occurred this Thursday at the Valdebebas training ground, resulting in the Uruguayan midfielder being hospitalized with a head injury.

While disciplinary proceedings have been opened by the club against the two players and the Madrid management has launched a search for "the mole", a new improbable element was added to the list at the end of the day on Thursday, involving… Aquababe, a well-known internet blogger and influencer.

Accustomed to revealing scoops about reality TV stars and social media personalities, Aniss Zitouni , his real name, quickly took to social media to deny reports in the Spanish press about an altercation between Tchouaméni and Valverde. "The fight is completely false, according to confirmation from both parties. Absolutely nothing happened between them," he wrote shortly after 1:30 PM, providing further details in the early evening. "Aurélien Tchouaméni didn't punch him; Federico Valverde fell and his head hit the ground hard," the influencer claimed, announcing that both players would speak out "to deny the information from Marca," which only the Uruguayan international ultimately did.

"I didn't punch him."

But while the involvement of an influencer repeatedly targeted by the authorities for his dubious methods in Real Madrid's affairs was already surprising, he added fuel to the fire that evening. Accused of spreading false information by numerous internet users, Aquababe responded by publishing screenshots of private conversations allegedly held with Aurélien Tchouaméni.

Several messages from the former Monaco player have been made public: "Something happened but I can't say anything," he reportedly wrote. "I told you nothing happened yesterday in the sense that there was no fight. I didn't punch him, that's not true, that's all I can tell you. His head hit the ground," according to these screenshots attributed to Tchouaméni, which should be taken with a grain of salt.

"I'm just putting this here, I'm not a liar. Now if Aurélien lied to me it's not my fault sorry footballers," the blogger said to accompany these photos, even revealing a video screen recording to prove, according to him, the veracity of the exchange.

This sparked a veritable tidal wave on social media. Viewed nearly 8 million times since Thursday evening, Aquababe's post has been commented on as far away as Spain, with many followers questioning Tchouaméni's decision, if it's true, to entrust such important information to a controversial influencer at a time when the Real Madrid dressing room is fracturing over the search for a mole leaking information about the club's inner workings to the media…