The problem is that not everyone can BUY the players the need for the upcoming season. Not all of us are blessed with the money needed to keep a world class team going season after season, and many of us have other needs for their money and feel that wasting it on a game like this is completely idiotic when there are other things in their lives that need the money more.
Congratulations on being blessed with the extra income for wasting on this game.
I recently started tanking because I couldnt compete with a 3/4 star team and tanked in order to have a 5 star team and lo and behold, won the Cup and tied for 1st in the league(lost on GD)this past season. Didnt spend any tokens and only have enough for 2-3 replacements every season, depending on how bad I get screwed in the auctions.
People who ignorantly just buy tokens have no clue about how to play the game frugally, and therefor have no clue about why to tank and the positives resulting from it. July and Sporny excluded of course.
DUH!
You can still have interest as you still play the cup and CL while you tank the league.