I believe the same, Nordeus changed the transfer system so that more people buy tokens with real money but not all the people have the ability or want to buy tokens.
With the previous auction system I could buy 99% players with a few token and have a decent team to compete on the league and when I level up again I could buy new ones and not spend all my tokens. Since now you have to spend all your tokens to get two three players tanking is the only solution. If you tank for a year (12 seasons) and manage to stay in Platinum division that's 1200 tokens. Not bad.