But that's very clearly not what happened here.
What happened here for anyone paying attention is Wolves had an asset whose head had been turned and no longer wanted to play for them and was on a ticking clock contract situation.
They had to bench him when he's been a regular there, many Wolves fans referred to him as their best player.
We can get into debates about whether their best player is Neves or whatever, the point is Traore was a very important player for them.
So anyway, Levy aware that Traore wants out does what Levy always does, he tries to play brinksmanship until the very last second to slash a couple of million off.
He's done this so many times now and its cost us getting players like Tomiyasu.
Then before Levy gets a chance to see if Wolves will cave into this particular game of chicken Barca recognise there is a bit of talent they can try on a loan with no obligation to buy and they step in.
At which point obviously any lingering deal with us is toast for two reasons, they are a bigger draw and at this point Levy looks a cunt if he goes back in with a better offer.
The club then puts out a bit of spin through the likes of Gold that Traore never wanted to play RWB, when in the past two months he's been "very receptive to joining us"
It's obvious what's happened, whether you wanted Traore or not (he seems to be marmite on here) let's not let Levy off the hook for fucking up another deal.