Sevilla attacker Lucas Ocampos says claims of a physical clash between Isco and Monchi doesn't come as a surprise.
Both men have confirmed they physically confronted eachother last season as Isco complained to sporting director Monchi over the way he had been treated at the time. Isco has since left for Real Betis, while Monchi is now with Aston Villa.
Ocampos told El Desmarque: "The two of them will know what happened. The truth is I wasn't there, otherwise I would tell you that I was, or avoiding the question, but I wasn't there and I don't know what happened.
"They can tell me a lot of things in the locker room, but you have to listen to both teammates, and I didn't talk to Isco. For me, Isco is super identified with Madrid more than with another club, I don't think he would do such a thing because he goes to Betis. If he did it, he will know.
"Everyone does what they want, what they feel at the time and maybe they needed time to tell it and they talked about it when they felt comfortable, or not and they did it with something behind them, I don't have the slightest idea. I am not speaking so that it is not misunderstood after what happened with Isco and Monchi."
The attacker himself acknowledges that something similar happened to him too: I have had fights with colleagues, almost coming to blows or I have come to blows, because we live in tension, at a mile an hour, and then we were eating together. I have played with a player in Marseille, who also played in Sevilla, with whom I get along very, very well, and in training we clung to each other, not wild either. He separated and that's it. At the end of training, we take a shower, we go to eat together."
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