The economy is tuned so a mid-table club’s wages and maintenance eat 70–85% of its income. Health comes from CHOICES: sell a star at the right time, invest in the academy, hunt a better sponsor, price your tickets honestly. One bad season hurts. Two force sales. Bankruptcy is possible — and always your own doing.
Money in
- Sponsors — real contracts with per-match, per-goal, per-win and clean-sheet bonuses.
- Gate receipts — attendance × your ticket price. Greedy pricing empties the stands.
- Prize money, promotion windfalls, relegation parachutes, and a weekly federation grant that scales by division.
- Transfer sales and your fan-shop network.
Money out
Player wages and staff wages land every Thursday. Stadium maintenance is weekly; expansions, academy investment and transfer buys are the big strategic spends.
The market in one paragraph
Transfers run through open timed auctions with visible bids and anti-snipe extensions — but winning the auction only buys the right to negotiate. The player decides, with his whole career in view; his agent broadcasts mood signals (eager / open / reluctant / hostile) before you commit. Unhappy players accept more; a settled club legend is nearly unsellable. Free agents take direct offers, loans exist for development minutes, and every deal must sit inside a fair-value band — the league would never ratify a rigged one.
And the law above all of it: real money never buys gameplay advantage. Not now, not ever — it is enforced by tests in the codebase.