I think this is one of the reasons why this game is good - each player has a different way of playing the game. I'd never dream of trying to develop academy players and release the one that costs tokens, while selling the other. However, it works for you and you have a great player out of it.

For me, its easier for me to just go onto the market and pick up a 5 star player rather than spend time/packs developing them. I agree with you that spending real money on this game isn't needed - even more so if you can farm lots of tokens for free. For those that don't have that option, its interesting reading how they go about improving their team.

No rights or wrongs, I just suppose we have different methods in improving our teams