Financial update was delayed almost 3 hours... so it's a disadvantage for me.
It's a 17k disadvantage, true. That's not the point I was making. The point is that if having to pay a player's $17k salary is causing you hardships, the problem isn't the economic update, the problem is that you've purchased a player whose salary you can not afford. If the 17k is an annoyance but doesn't cause any real significant problems, that's a player you can afford and while that 17k is annoying it won't be significant in any way. The only exception is if you were going to try to use the buy/fire exploit to try to finance a Cup win, but you paid too much for that guy for that to make any sense so I wouldn't accuse you of that type of behavior.