I feel you man. It can be a real pain to acquire good players from the TL. It takes a lot of time and patience, and I've missed out on a couple of great buys because of a last minute bid while I was doing something else for a moment. I'm lucky though that I work on a laptop all day and got plenty of time to check and bid on players, but for those that can't spend a lot of time on the game, I understand the bidding process is a big hurdle.
But, it's very hard to have a fair and at the same time easy system. Maybe a blind bid system would be something to think about. Every can submit a price they're willing to pay, and nothing is shown until the deadline, at which the highest bidder gets the player. Problem then is reserving the cash that is spend on bids; you don't know wether you currently have the highest bid so you cannot spend your money otherwise as long as you have a bid on a player, even when it's not the highest.