You do not need to spend any real money on this game, its personal choice. Yes players can be expensive (especially scouts) to non-token buyers running off a tight token budget that don't get many videos to watch from the free offers.

Prices of tokens are very expensive I do agree because for the cost of 500T, you can buy Football Manager 2013.

I personally think 50T for a scout player is worth the while, they can remain a squad player for at least 4 seasons if bought at the right time of the season (day 1) and have a quality rating close to 7* and are also on the younger end of the scout age range from 22-29 years.

Servers come down now and again, they are technical errors and if compensation was handed out, then Nordeus would have give out freebies all the time, Its only major issues like the last game of last season when games were pre-simmed that Nordeus would feel they had to hand out any compensation to players. The game is run by computers and servers so they are bound to be errors.