I think the daily free rewards are rather unnecessary, but perhaps that's just me.

As for Associations prizes, I can understand that those prizes can be rather high. Perhaps Nordeus overestimated how many teams would place highly in Associations. However, I don't think fixing this required such a wholesale change that changes the whole complexion of the game. It is one thing to make the game more difficult in which to buy expensive players, but another thing to completely remove the Manager-to-Manager Auction dynamic. It is removing something that comprised the heart and soul of the game.

I honestly think that, if there was a way to buy and sell players in an Auction format from other managers, that I would be much more likely to be okay with this new format.