My first 5 seasons i was in a league with two token buyers who had there whole team 1 or 2 red stars and guess what i won 3 out of the 5 leagues and was runner up twice & beat them in the CL each season.

I have not tanked but been very shrewd with my tokens and skill packs also snapping up as many decent free agents as i can to raise funds.

The best free way i have found is if you can get on an ios device and download some app's via tapjoy and other offers then do the same for an android device and finally on your pc watch video's , survey's so far this season i would say i have earned over 250 tokens via this method.