But that's not true ! I bought 3 18-years old for 4 tokens in TOTAL. Two of them have 3 positions and 1 has SA on top. Sure, as you said, I also witnessed ridiculous token wars for average players and we are at season's end.
One has just to be patient. The amount of tokens available in the whole game remains the same. At some point, crazy bidders will be broke and clever managers can make a move and get what they want. Just think the list refreshes every 4 minutes instead of 2.5 hours before. And no, the lists are not the same for everyone (I compared in real time with my two teams, which play in the same sever, and we saw different players). So we are certainly not competing against all managers.