Being a strong contributor and holding a spot in a team that makes a PF is worth more than doing so in a crap team. If he becomes an important player in a premiership team, then you'd have to say the trade was a success for you.
And I'm not getting involved in what at this point is a semantic argument about "trade value" vs the price at which buyer and seller align to allow any transaction to proceed. You're right, but they are also right that they don't HAVE to trade if they prefer to hold onto their asset in the hope of extracting better value.
2) Of course I'm right.
3) I never said they had to trade. Only that the market determines trade value.
