As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.