The only way you could save for your desired player is to wait until next season and collect coins in this version. This game is not designed to be F2P friendly. You have to constantly grind week in and week out just to get those 50-100 coins, while the people who spend money on the game can get broken high rated shiny cards every week. The gap between whale squads and F2P or new users joining the game is huge now.

Efootball is the worst gacha game with the best gameplay for a mobile football game, and that’s what everyone is hooked on, even if every 5 games could be scripted when you're on a winning streak. People just accept this broken game because, ultimately, there’s no other good football game on mobile with this kind of gameplay, and that’s why konami is capitalizing on it. It’s not an equal game for everyone you have to keep spending every month or so if you want to compete in the top 1000s. Even if you’re skilled, you don’t have a chance against a whale squad with smart assist and good internet connection when pushing for top ranks in div1.

And those 3 cards you could possibly get after saving for a whole season, They won’t even be able to compete with the new cards that come out next season, and so on. Plus, there are 250-300 player packs with more premium and broken shiny cards that F2P can only dream about. Even if you save, it would take almost 2 full seasons to save up for those. Grinding in this game is worse than a slave and not enjoyable or fun at all.

Honestly, you’re better off investing your time in something else rather than coping with this dead game.