I experienced what Ponzu says 2 seasons ago. I did not blame it on token spending as it happened to me just 1 day after I bought 5 scouts. I just think Nordeus decide, at some point, that you will not going to win. It is very frustrating and can make you do stupid things. My advise is: be low profile and wait for the storm to calm down. Easy to say ? I know that the (huge) difference between you and me is that it happened to me early in the season so I did not lose much as you did. Except my sense of humour. At some point, the engine started roaring again and I became unstoppable. This season I'm under much more pressure: everything goes like a dream, treble is in sight ! If something like this happens to me again, I am dead. But what I am sure of, is that this "valley of dispair" crossing has nothing to do with tactics or form or whatever: during this period, I played great games against strong teams (and won) and awful ones against weak ones (and lost) - all of them playing the same way! In my case, there was a huge difference between league and cup games. League seems to obey a kind of hidden rule in which Nordeus make life difficult for the best team (me, most of the times) to finally letting it win the title after a huge fight. Artificially, some weak team keep winning early in the season and suddenly collapse, just when you were beginning to think: it's dead for me this season.