In my case, my team depends on a couple factors:

1: How many players do I want to keep from the previous season? I will keep all my players that perform well even if they are 3-4 stars

2: How many fast training Nordgens was I able to get early in the season? If i grab a bunch of them, I'll have lots of 6 stars quickly.

So if there is a lot of case 2 and not case 1, then I look like a scout team, even tho I've only bought 1 scout in 12 seasons. I've gotten some 7 star before via power training.
Which goes back to my previous point, quality managing will beat the ones that just throw money at the game in the long run.

The scary ones are the ones that spend lots of money AND know what they are doing, luckily there aren't too many of those, at least I haven't seen that many.