
Football Tribe Thailand
For Thai League clubs, foreign players are expected to be the difference makers – because why else would any team pay extra for someone to do what the locals could? And in the case of title challengers such as Buriram United, good foreign recruits can often be the difference between winning the league or missing out, as we saw in 2019.
And for every Diogo Luis Santo or Carmelo Gonzalez, many ended up as a complete disaster and left as soon as they arrived. Brazilian forward Ricardo Bueno and Argentine target man Bernardo Cuesta is Buriram attacking newcomer but rumors of changes in personnel are already circulated due to the two’s subpar start to the 2020 campaign. So in keeping with this theme, here are five South American talents who flopped miserably at the Thunder Castle.