I gueninely don't understand why football wouldn't be roughly 'net immigration neutral', with footballers joining clubs from the EU being balanced by those 'going back home' when their contracts end.
Eh? Russia is sanctioned by the EU, and even yesterday there were reports that 1 of their 2 sovereign wealth funds which was to be used to pay pensions was being diverted to cover budget short falls elsewhere. This fund will be empty sometime in 2017, and who knows what happens in Russia when...