Don't really understand what you are doing here, or why the two of you need to collude between you for one to try to win the league and one to go for knockouts. Even if you are in all three competitions together, you might only play each other twice all season, so how will that work for the rest of your games?

And if it benefits you to tank a season in order to build up packs and tokens, why don't you both do the same thing?

League and CL are against same level teams, so you should be able to compete well even if there are one or two scout buyers and a trophy is possible, certainly a medal, especially as you are low level players. Cup on the other hand is based on quality rating, so if you've not got a great team that also works in your benefit - it's actually token spenders who suffer a bit here, because they'll get higher level teams in their competition

Perhaps you didn't explain yourself well, but from what I understand your strategy is bizarre