A trade matches salary. A transfer pays a fee and clears a player.
The window, the clearance, and the import quota as gates, then a fee, on one KR scale.
No cap. No salary match. Three gates, then a payment.
A domestic trade lives or dies on the salary match. The international market opens three gates first, and only then does a fee or buyout enter. A composite EuroLeague-to-NBA move.
The international market is never forced into a salary-matching mold it was never built for. Its actual laws run as they are, and the payment that market uses is what gets priced. Same company, two completely different rulebooks.
Illustrative read on the real international-market structure (window, FIBA clearance, import quota, fee or buyout). Composite player, generic leagues, demonstration figures.
His rating does not change when he crosses an ocean.
This is the part every other tool gets wrong: it re-scores a player when he changes leagues. KR does not. An 85 is an 85 in the EuroLeague and the NBA alike; only the legend label and the salary change. Same composite player, two leagues.
The 85 never moved. It carried a EuroLeague Starter label at EUR 2.1M and now an NBA Rotation label at $14M, because the same ability means a different role and price in a different league. A EuroLeague guard and an NBA guard compare on the same scale, honestly. Two engines, one currency, and this is the currency crossing a border.
Illustrative read on the real universal-KR structure (one number, re-read against each league's legend and salary). Composite player, generic leagues, demonstration figures.
Legal and available is not the same as worth it.
A player who cannot legally move is not priced. Once a target clears, the same check runs: fit against the diagnosed need, fee against the value. Three targets for a club that needs a stretch big.
One target never reaches the value read because he cannot move; one is a clean buy; one is a name the market loves and the math does not. Chase the justified transfer, walk away from the expensive one. Clearance is the gate. Fit and fee are the grade.
Illustrative read on the real clearance-gate and fee-vs-value structure. Composite targets, generic leagues, demonstration figures.
One scale reads every market, because KR is one currency and only the law around it changes.
Every market has its own laws. One currency reads them all.
Run the international rulebook, and price the move on the universal KR.