Globalization, the internet and cheap travel have made it so much easier to conduct the business of crime at one remove. We can't operate in isolation; we have to build up alliances in other countries.
We have many programs that cost us more ... to operate than we take in, ... It's never been our mission to be run totally like a business.
If you allow good players time and space in which to operate then they have the ability to hurt you, as Arsenal proved against Real.