Agreed, purely because of how teams are paired.
I have a lot of teams (and I mean, A LOT) - main team being Charsenal FC. I buy tokens for Charsenal but not for the rest, but the rest are still winning trophies (not merely CL spots!).
Nordeus is putting token buyers with token buyers, or non-token-buying prudent spenders and farmers with token buyers in order for these people to slug it out, urging them to buy more and more so Nordeus makes more and more.
I say this because for my other teams, I have never encountered teams like my own Charsenal, with almost an entire team of 6 stars after 2 weeks due to training, and yet, these other teams are doing very well against the teams paired against them = mediocre teams.
I would love to take Charsenal FC out from the upper echelons, to make life easier and to lessen the need to spend real money on tokens... but am I too deep into the hole to pull myself out? I mean, if teams are grouped according to the managers' behavior and average rating and quality, then I would prefer to be grouped with non-spending managers. It was a mistake to start spending in the first place!