Perhaps, JJ, but people are making a much bigger deal about it than it really is.
A few years ago, I was offered a job in Ukraine that would have doubled my salary, improved benefits, given me tons of responsibility, and might have let me in on the ground floor of a huge IPO. Of course I was flattered, and of course I thought about it for a while... I even had a conversation with one of my bosses about my current role at the time. But I was never actually close to leaving my job here in Moscow to move to some podunk town in Ukraine.
Thankfully, that didn't happen under the microscope of the media and sports fans, or else people would have been awaiting my public statement and questioning my loyalty to my employer