This game just become Pay to Win! No five star on market anymore

[Cat Harrison]

The OP said 23 SEASONS. Means he's near the top of the server, for sure. Which means less people above sellling, so less high star players for sale.
NOT necessarily the new market, even before new market happened the top of the server had a dearth of guys for sale.

(if the new market refreshes itself, too, he said when he refresh page.. more players.)

Everyone in that level on a server sees the same list. Does everyone in your League buy Scouts? Consider maybe taking over a lower level Team to jump down from the top of the server.

[Siddharth Shanker Singh]

I don't agree with Cat. Since till season 22 he had lots of 5 star players and come the season 23 and suddenly there are no 5 star players. It means he is definitely not at the TOP of server...

The only thing to be blamed here is NEW TRANSFER MARKET......

[OneI]

I had similar experience like a year ago. I bought 1 scout/season - rest i had to buy 4* players - for like 3-4 seasons coz there were no 5* on the market. I quit. Came back now - from start (4th season atm). Now I force myself no to buy any scout becouse I fear i'll loose 5* players on the market. So far, works just fine.
I was thinking that maybe this way they level the players a little, so no one gets to good.
I agree, that today no game like this would be success wo free players and market preasure is not the right answer how to push players to spend money - I spend less now ...