Buriram United F.C.

His first game with Al Nasser and Cristiano Ronaldo in the Champions League Elite.

And Curtis Goode starting in the back line for Buriam as well.

The game that Matt has currently got on his second

screen.

I completely

forgot that

he'd actually moved to Buriam.

He was in the team against City in the Champions League Elite last year.

Jacob and I are none the wiser at the moment.

Um, but, uh, a little other, not technically an Aussie, but Aussie adjacent, uh, Mark Jackson, uh, which we spoke last week about his move away from Buriram United on the eve of the season despite winning a treble.

Uh, that's two trebles back to back.

Uh-

... against Melbourne City in the Champions League elites last season as well, Jacob.

It's just kinda weird to me though that he's going from Champions League Elite down to, to Champions League Two.

Um, and you know, Buriram United as well, very well-respected club in Asia.

Um, you know, obviously been Thailand's strongest club for A long time.

I remember he went back when Kofu were in the ACL.

He went to Thailand for their game at Buriram United.

And that was just after Yuki Stealth had taken over as the under 20, the Thailand under 20s coach.

And he managed to get in touch with Stealth and they met up and he did a video interview with him.

Now, I'm in a country and in a league, in a team where we are really powerful.

I wouldn't say we're not like a Johor or a Buriam where we're spending that much more than anyone else, but I think we've recruited extremely well.

We've had the same players now for multiple years.

The coach is really good and we're set up for a lot of success, similar to my Gunners.

It just mentally destroys teams.

And I think that in the league is a massive advantage.

And even we showed in the Shopee Cup last year, we matched it with Buriam.

And in the Champions League too, we did really well.

I know

Buriram are quite successful and dominant, but I don't think they're quite that dominant that they get invited to play in European competitions.

Not yet, anyway.

I did see a crazy post recently that said if they do well, I think, in the Champions League this year or even on their past record, they could qualify bizarrely for the World Club Championship.

That'll be Thailand in 10 years' time because 2036 or whenever, the league as we know it will have been going for nearly 30 years.

And that's long enough, isn't it, to establish these kind of things.

That's when teams like, you know, Mungtong, United, Buriram, John Burry, Port, all these clubs who were in at the beginning will have that or I like to think they would have that by then.

I'm

We hadn't bought a shirt by that point.

And Jan watched the full game of Buriram.

against the Compton on their wonderful pre-season tour.

We'll touch on that deal later.

It always leads to somewhere.

The key player for Nakhon Patom United, and I have sources, and he showed it.

And before I go to the crescendo, Dale, before I mention this gentleman's name, we will talk about Buriram.

And that's friendly.

Yeah, bro, for sure.

We had Appleyard on the pod before or long before Buriam.

I think it was still 2025 when he was talking about how Pedro Acosta signed for Ducati, Cuadraro to Honda.

He spoke a lot about all of this.