Managers who buy scouts every season and have a poor trophy cabinet I know enough of. But they don't manipulate draw... I know one player who buys 11 scouts every 2 seasons and knew another one (I think he stopped playing by now) who bought 11 new scout players every season.
Yet they didn't win that much and most of the times a place in the middle of the table was their reward for spending around 50$ on the game every month...

I wonder how these players keep their motivation to keep on spending money, buying scouts and not trying other things like dropping quality or if they spend money, buy rests and train younger players..