I'm not sure the "trade rumor" stories are actually storylines - I'm pretty sure they were in the game before storylines came about.
Storylines actually have the ability to gauge whether or not a player's team is in his hometown, so if it were a storyline, it could be fixed to pay attention to that criteria. But I just think this is an unfortunate coincidence with the particular version of trade rumor text that was chosen for this article.
Aaaand.... injury log beats me to the punch.