Chelsea head coach Maurizio Sarri is yet to decide whether Kepa Arrizabalaga will start in goal in Wednesday's Premier League clash with Tottenham after his refusal to be substituted in Sunday's Carabao Cup final.
Kepa refused to be go off against Manchester City and was on Monday fined one week's wages for the incident which angered Sarri.
'I have to decide, maybe yes, maybe not,' said Sarri, when asked if Kepa would feature.
'It will be a decision for the group. For all the players.'
The Chelsea hierarchy took the decision to fine Kepa, Sarri revealed.
The 60-year-old added: 'I spoke with the goalkeeper, with Kepa, of course. Then we spoke altogether, because he said sorry to the technical staff, but it was not enough.
'Then he said sorry to his team-mates, to the club. I think he made a big mistake, but we need to be taller. We don't want to kill him. So there is a position from the club.'
Sarri initially interrupted questions on Kepa, insisting not everyone was interested, saying: 'Everybody? No. In my family, no.'
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This has happened before, Messi also did this but nobody cared. This exact same situation happened with Netherlands 2014 world cup though. Kepahad a clean sheet and just wanted to finish the game. He should have respected sarris wish but still this has happened before. We also do not know what has happened in outside the stadium. Sarri doesn't seem like a leader in terms of Klo and zidane. He needs to get respect of players and needs to be able to change thing when they don't work but sarri won't. Player are going to stop wanting to play for him and leave. Like mo under man u. All players stopped playing. If we sack sarri then Chelsea will play properly.
Arshian
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Kepa doesn't deserve all this criticism literally.