you say you don't have much money, but your 250k average gate receipt and 19k seat arena suggest otherwise. admitting your players are highly valuable bolsters that idea.
maybe if you'd lost a couple more games in the regular season and drawn like the 3 seed in the red side, it might've been different, but maybe not even then. i think as soon as you picked up robuste and huaibin (and were able and willing to afford to take the subsequent over-extension tax), it was over.
not to mention, 750k in xfer fees is also pretty significant. i don't have 750k in the bank. i don't have 500k, much less to additionally afford another 200k/wk in salary and the over-extension tax that accompanies it.
don't get me wrong, you've been a great manager this season, all the props, but i think you might be a little out of touch with the average d3 player's struggles if you don't think you have much money. in order to afford the moves you've made this season, you had to have a lot of money (value) relative to the rest of the league. well, rest of the division.