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I think that every financial league ought to put some restrictions on roster moves for teams that are in the red. You really should not be allowed to maintain debt over several years. At some point, you have to actually pay your players! OOTP prevents you from making such trades in solo leagues, but online league commishes have the ability to override this.
However, I do believe it's not as simple as rejecting the notion of adding salary in a trade outright. It's a legitimate approach to add salary and then trade it later. In one league I'm in, we merely require that you enter the offseason with a positive cash balance, or penalties ensue. Penalties for a first offense are fairly minimal, but they escalate quickly with repeated consecutive offenses. The second consecutive offense is fairly strict, and the third is even stricter while also requirnig the GM to have their status in the league reviewed. This keeps teams honest but allows them to overspend in the quest for a title. Teams also respond to the strict penalties, we have yet to have a team reach a 3rd consecutive offense.
In accordance with this, we also limit the amount of money you can recieve via trade during the year. This stops teams from simply selling their way out of poor financial situations, but does allow smaller deficits to be covered fairly easily. We're using modern financials, and limit each team to a net of $3 million in trade coming from each other team in the league. So you can get a fair amount of money, but that requires involving numerous other teams. A trade-off that we feel is good for the league.
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