Wrong, again - I have a second team at level 2, currently 3rd in their league, not one token bought, and they're doing just fine. I CHOOSE to buy the odd few tokens, I don't NEED to - I put out 2 completely different teams yesterday for cup and league. That 8-0 win only featured one scout - the rest were trained up personally.
Your last statement is just pathetic. I would be in the same position with spending a cent, I know how to play management games, you won't see me whinging over losses. The only complaints I ever make are about faults with the overall game - Like why they won't allow friendlies to be a mutual agreement thing, why every new player you buy on the market has to suffer injury for 5 f&&&&&&ing days before playing proper ... grrr .... and why the mobile version is still missing a lot of options yet they thought it was such an amazing thing to add referals ... I hope nobody uses that feature. Why invite others to a broken game??
But on the playing your squad side, I'm not just semi-succesful - I am owning with a few scout players. I'd still be doing so without, I often rest those guys for weak league games.