At that point of the game i didnt buy any tokens but i was getting many tokens through watching the videos. I still get a lot of tokens by that method, so for me I don't need to purchase lots of tokens to have a strong squad at that level, I actually swapped 85T for in game cash at L2 because there wasn't many opportunities to make my club rich to buy good players and also because I saved up the tokens to do so.
You will be in a league of players of 17.0 quality next season in L3.