When I was level 16 I pretty much had no motivation to play the game. What I did was login only once each day, and TOTALLY NOT USING ANY TOKEN. My self-imposed limit was so complete that at one time my team only had one foreign player, everyone else was spawned from my academy.

My money grow to 2.1b max in less than 3 seasons once I sold out all but one of my foreign players, and the max cash stayed there for many seasons to come. I wish I could buy something without using token, there is none so I end up paying max bonus to the players in every game. Still, it just won't drop, as youths are very cheap to use and I have to sell 2 players per season due to new academy spawns.

From there I learned many things by playing a low quality team. With 5~15q deficit for nearly every game, I perfected my tactics and managed to level up once every 2 seasons.

Despite being a 35-token player with no farming, eventually I have enough tokens and money to buy a whole team of scouts. But what did I do?

I bought 5 players for 5 tokens and proceed to win the league with it.
There is nothing more satisfying than consistantly beating teams full of 5* and a few scouts using mostly 4* players.

Now I don't buy scouts like I once had, it will spoil my fun