Topic: Trading, global "market"?

I played just a few games with trading and i wonder why i could trade just with specific players. This has some disadvantages in my opinion, mostly related to games with more than 2 players:

• you have to remember the name of the player
• you have to remember which player plays which tribe
• you have to remember if the players tribe has wares which are compatible with your own wares

Is there a specific reason why one could make a trade only with one specific player?

Or the other way around: Why is there no "global" market? A "global" market i think of is a "place" where a player can make a trading offer in a global scope (not tied to a specific player). Each player can look into this global market and should be able to accept a trading offer.
A bit more sophisticated would be to make no complete trading offer ("i want to exchange this with that"), instead a player can just offer, or desire, wares and wait for a trading proposal of an other player, e.g.:

• player1 (starts in a jungle): "Hey i have logs, who want logs?"
• player3 (start in mountainious region): "I have coal and will give player1 one coal for three logs"
• player6 (starts at a big ocean): "I have fish and give player1 two fish for two logs"

Now player1 can decide which trading offer he can accept (or maybe accept both?).

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