Faubert Is Going To Be The Next Madrid God

If there is one thing that I have learned is that his­tory is a series of sequences in human exis­tence that have repeated them­selves time and time again because of our thick-headedness.

If my cal­cu­la­tions are cor­rect, Julien Faubert could be the next idol of Real Madrid.  Ok, he was a Plan T after they failed to get Wigan’s Valen­cia (actu­ally Vicente Boluda was promised a life­time sup­ply of Guin­ness if he accepted the option to buy after Faubert’s six –month loan expires) but that is nei­ther here nor there.

I have no hard evidence-statistics ot any­thing I can put on a chart that can con­vince you of such a thing.  Yet there is one thing that might help you slightly agree with me– Atlético Madrid snubbed him.

Yes.  The only thing I can say for this last-gasp acqui­si­tion is that their cross-town rivals decided to pass on him.  I know this is not much to go on, but for good­ness sake we all know that Aleti’s trash has become Madrid gold and there were two exam­ples that I found.

In the mid-80’s the reign­ing, Atlético Madrid gave away their goose that laid the golden eggs.  Aleti’s orig­i­nal Niño  was inex­plic­a­bly trans­ferred to Real Madrid and that gave way to one of the most spec­tac­u­lar careers in Span­ish foot­ball his­tory.  So after 205 goals and plenty of titles with Spain’s ver­sion of Murder’s Row, he was the most feared ele­ment in the leg­endary Quinta del Buitre.  He was argubly more feared y oppos­ing goals than Emilio Butregueño.   His name– Hugo Sánchez.

Almost a decade later, a young player arrives at the doorstep of Real Madrid after con­tro­ver­sial Atlético pres­i­dent Jesús Gil y Gil decided to get rid of their youth sys­tem. Atlético was enguil­fed in a seri­ous eco­nomic cri­sis and there were no signs of see­ing recov­ery in sight as there was no eco­nomic plan in place-ever.   Var­i­ous young­sters were let go and their dreams of play­ing at the Vicente Calderón were shat­tered. This one though, much to his father’s dis­like (as he was a Col­chonero through and through), went to Real Madrid and flew up the ranks until he made his debut with the big team in 1995 in a Cla­sico against Barcelona.  After that sub­sti­tu­tion, no one was able to get him off his spot.  His 307th goal will leave him atop the Real Madrid all-time scor­ers list along­side names like DiS­te­fano, Puskas, San­til­lana, Zamorano, and Sánchez.  His name– Raúl.

Holy crap, they tossed away almost 900 career goals.he reverse seems to have never occured, although there was one player that would kill my argu­ment.   No it’s not José Anto­nio Reyes.  It was Bernd Schuster.

Now Julien Faubert is nei­ther one of these play­ers, let’s be hon­est.  Fate makes it seem that he will never even touch the level below these two scor­ing leg­ends– or the one below that (or the one below that, or the one below that).

There is a good chance he could sur­pass the level of Christoph Met­zelder or Jonathan Woodgate… even José Anto­nio Reyes and Javier Savi­ola.  That would not be hard to do as all he would have to do is dress at that point.