Yes. This is the Catch 22.
Do I/you tank to build an uber squad that just gets drawn against higher level teams?
Do I/you manipulate the draw to have an easier season?
Option 1, for me, will at least prolong entertainment until the top (or thereabouts) of the server is reached.
Option 2, is already becoming boring, and worries me (long term) that players who have been in game friends for over 2 calendar years will become tired of playing against me whilst I manipulate. Yes, yes, they can spend real money to buy tokens ( hooray shouts Nordeus) to buy/train players in an attempt to beat me - but they're not. They buy through negotiations and then don't train their players! So what they gonna do? Tank to avoid me? Quit?
I don't know if there is a viable answer for Nordeus, or us, the players. I just get the feeling that after a certain amount of time/seasons there's nothing left. Nobody ever looked at the roadmap and thought Top Eleven would get this far.