In my opinion it is wrong to approach a sports-manager game first from its economic standpoint.
The "global" economy is one of the most important things to consider - not from a manager point of view, but from developer side...
Also the sports Management part is embedded to business decisions, that - in General - are influenced by the economy. we have to make decisions like buying trainees or already trained Players, invest in arena and so on...
Größter Knecht aller Zeiten aka His Excellency aka President for Life aka Field Marshal Al Hadji aka Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas aka aka Conqueror of the Buzzerbeater Empire in Europe in General and Austria in Particular