I've been playing since S20 and have been stuck in the lowest active league of my club's country. A look at all the leagues in the division above me point that my current team would become a punching bag if I ever make it up. Every season a rich club with players many times better at every position gets relegated into my league, and then move back up. And at least a few other teams in my league have been playing since S3. I'm dirt poor, spend anything I earn on arena, and pay some coin to maintain a team that wouldn't make me quit the game. What's the point playing a game for months/years with scrubs getting kicked around just to farm money/tanking?
So...
I make a point religiously slowly build up an arena I'm sure will be useful some day
And with the tiny money I earn I pay a level 4 trainer so I at least have something to look forward to every week (pops!!!) and not just beating scrub teams... and later thrashed by the team that got relegated here. I know sooner or later my trainees will be good enough to play in the league above me.. and so before then I'll bide my time nurturing them... and figure out a way to surround them with a better cast once we make it out.
Signed,
the guy who's plotting world domination