i would disagree with your bidding. personally look at trends in transfer activity, ive been playing for 2 months and i have noticed a time of day when bidding is particularly slow im in the UK and have found after 6pm gmt its very busy also weekends, you have a better chance of winning players outside of this time.
secondly if youve already bid 8 tokens why stop? its very rare you can win players in a bid for just 1 token. if youve spent 8 tokens then you may as well not waste those 8 and continue. everyone tries hard to be the last bidder in the qualifying round but thats not the best practice, if you can have someone bid after you it means you get the last bid in the rounds so if it goes on long you can get a last second bid in and snatch the player (ive done this multiple times)

id also suggest not bidding on a player if you have less than 5 tokens. chances are you'll just get out bid