High rated player at beginning of season

I noticed that a few teams have players that are rated around 125-130% in the 1st week of the season. Is this likely because they are paying tokens for the personal trainer? The cost in tokens is crazy so if this is the case they must be spending a lot of real money.

If not personal trainer then they are manually training up with green packs that would be time and likely money intensive as well. Is there another way they could be have these quality players without using these two training styles?

Tanking most likely. :D
Everyone is at it.
Means the rest of us have to tank to compete also.

Yeah you're right. I looked at the squads that had these good players and none of them had one any honours in the previous season. Suggests they tanked yeah.

You don't need to tank or buy tokens to have 130% team.
Simple math... collect for whole season or two rests and use them on first day of the season... the best way is to use them on fast trainers so you will have strong young team:)
Or If you lazy : tank😅