#817 · Other ways to show a summary of changes across players

Ross, on round 3: "I like the cards, i think these are really good", "I don't want every player listed in the improving/declining sections - we would just want highlights here", and "still not 100% sure on having them in the player picker". The per-player cards stay as they are in 817-tab-summaries.html. This file is six other places a summary of changes across the squad could live, none of them marks on the player picker.

Illustrative only. Nothing is computed and nothing clicks. The names are the save's; some facts echo the December capture (de Ligt +3, Sommer's Physical −3, Kukonki's new role, Martínez's new contract, Onana's December) and the rest are made up to fill the shapes. Every list is highlights: the top few, never the whole squad.

1 · Highlights page, before a player is picked 2 · A highlights strip 3 · What a capture changed 4 · Squad news 5 · A change map 6 · A movers chart How they fit together

Highlights page, before a player is picked

Player evolution · nobody picked yet, and a Highlights entry at the top of the rail

The cards you like, one level up: the same five, but across the squads ticked on the rail, each listing at most three players. It's what Player evolution shows before anybody is picked, which today is just "pick a player". One click on a name opens his Summary. The rail stays a plain list; the only addition is a Highlights entry at its top to come back here.

Highlights · First Team

Jul 25/26 to Dec 25/26 · the top three each way · pick a name to open his Summary

Improving most attributes

▲3Matthijs de Ligt Physical +2, Mental +1›

▲2Benjamin Šeško Technical +1, Mental +1›

▲2Mason Mount Physical +2›

and 3 more who moved up

Declining most attributes

▼4Jadon Sancho Mental −4 · Bravery›

▼3Yann Sommer Physical −3 · at 37›

▼1Casemiro Physical −2, Mental +1›

and 2 more who slipped by one

Form · December rating, the month alone

7.81André Onana 7.06 to date · Trabzonspor›

7.67Bruno Fernandes 7.28 to date›

6.57Bryan Mbeumo 7.00 to date›

Best roles new this season

No first-teamer has a new best role.

1 in the U18s: Godwill Kukonki

Moves & terms latest first

DecLisandro Martínez New contract to Jun 2030›

NovTom Heaton Left the club›

OctCasemiro New contract to Jun 2027›

For

The cards you already like, so it reads as one design: squad highlights here, his details on his Summary.
Highlights only, three a card, with a count of the rest.
Fills the empty "pick a player" state rather than adding anything to the rail.

Against

Once you've picked somebody it's a click away, not in view.
Squad-wide, so it overlaps Squad comparison's own Summary when that's built.

A highlights strip

Player evolution · one line above the rail and the tabs, always in view

One slim line across the top of the tab, holding the handful of things worth a look, each a chip that opens that player's Summary. It stays put whoever is picked. Two versions: the chips themselves, or just the counts until you open it.

a) The chips

This season ▲3de LigtPhysical +2 ▲2Šeško ▼4SanchoMental ▼3SommerPhysical ●Martínezcontract to 2030 7.81Onanain December +4 more ▾

b) Counts, opened on a click

This season ▲ 6 improving ▼ 5 declining 1 new contract 3 in form Show ▾

…and the tab under it, as today

rail · Kobbie Mainoo · Summary / Attributes / Statistics & metrics / Evaluation / History

For

Always in view, so it's obvious something has happened, whoever you're looking at.
Tiny: one line, and nothing on the player picker.

Against

Room for six or seven chips, so the wording has to be terse.
The same line repeats on every visit; it could become wallpaper.

What a capture changed

Data capture · straight after a capture, and kept for each one

The news arrives when the data does. Finish capturing December and the tab says what that capture changed across the squad, the top few of each kind, each linking to the player. Every past capture keeps its own, so November's is still there.

✓ December captured · 1 Jan 2026 · 85 players, attributes, statistics and metrics

players' attributes moved

new contract

new best roles

well off their season

Attributes, December alone all 14 ›

▲2Matthijs de Ligt▲ Physical +2Pace 15, Acceleration 13

▲1Kobbie Mainoo▲ Physical +1Pace 14

▼1Yann Sommer▼ Physical −1Stamina 11

Moves & terms

Lisandro MartínezNew contract to Jun 2030 · now Important Player

Form in December all ›

7.81André Onana7.06 to date · on loan at Trabzonspor

7.59Diogo Dalot7.16 to date

6.57Bryan Mbeumo7.00 to date

For

The moment you want to know is right after capturing, and that's where you already are.
One month at a time keeps it naturally short.
Nothing added to Player evolution at all.

Against

A month at a time: slow drift over a season (Sommer's three single drops) never stands out in any one digest.
It's on Data capture, away from where you look at players.

Squad news

A feed, newest first · on Squad comparison's Summary, or a panel of its own on the dashboard

The squad's story in order, like FM's inbox: one line per thing that happened, newest month first, filtered by kind. "Highlights only" keeps each month to its few biggest; turn it off for everything.

AllAttributesRolesFormMoves & terms

First TeamU21sU18s Highlights only

December

▲

Matthijs de Ligt Pace 15, Acceleration 13

▲ Physical +2

✍

Lisandro Martínez New contract to Jun 2030 · now Important Player

Contract

↑

André Onana 7.81 in December, his best month · on loan at Trabzonspor

In form

November

▲

Kobbie Mainoo Concentration 13

▲ Mental +1

▼

Yann Sommer Stamina 11 - his third physical drop this season

▼ Physical −1

⇥

Tom Heaton Left the club

Left

October

▼

Jadon Sancho Bravery 3 · on loan at Aston Villa

▼ Mental −4

✍

Casemiro New contract to Jun 2027

Contract

September and August below…

For

Tells it in the order it happened, so "what's new lately" is the top of the list.
One feed covers attributes, roles, form and contracts together.

Against

Over a season it gets long, so it leans on a rule for what "highlights only" keeps.
A month at a time, like idea 3, so slow drift needs its own line (as Sommer's does here).

A change map

Squad comparison's Summary, or a "Squad" view on Player evolution

The whole squad on one grid: a row per player, a column per Settings category, then role, form and figures. Each cell is coloured by how far it moved, so the eye goes straight to the colour. "Movers only" folds everyone with nothing to show into one line, and the biggest movers sort to the top. Click a cell to open that player's tab.

First TeamU21sU18s Movers only

This seasonLast three monthsLast month

Player	Technical	Mental	Physical	Goalkeeping	Best role	Form, Dec	Figures
Jadon Sancho M (RL), AM (RLC)	·	−4	·		·	+0.13	·
Matthijs de Ligt D (C)	·	+1	+2		▲1	+0.10	▼1
Yann Sommer GK	·	·	−3	·	·	+0.38	–
Benjamin Šeško ST (C)	+1	+1	·		▲1	−0.13	▲2
Kobbie Mainoo DM, M/AM (C)	·	+1	+1		▲1	−0.05	▲1 ▼4
Mason Mount M (C), AM (RLC)	·	·	+2		·	+0.21	▲1
Casemiro DM, M (C)	·	+1	−2		·	−0.02	▼2
Luke Shaw D (L)	−1	+2	·		·	+0.20	·
and 20 more with nothing to show this season - Bruno Fernandes, Diogo Dalot, Harry Maguire, …

up, deeper the furtherdownboth ways· nothing moved · blank: not his category

For

The whole squad at a glance, and the colour makes it obvious who's moving.
The categories you liked on the cards become the columns, straight from Settings.
One look shows a player moving on several fronts at once (Mainoo up on attributes, down on figures).

Against

A grid, not highlights; "Movers only" is what keeps it short.
Columns in different units (attributes, a rating, quarters) need care so the colours mean the same thing.

A movers chart

Squad comparison's Summary, or a graph placed from Graph setup

Two of the cards on one chart: attribute change across, form up the side. Each corner says something different: improving and in form, declining but still playing well, and so on. The app's scatter charts already have quadrant labels, so this could be a graph placed like any other. Only the outliers get names; click a dot to open his Summary.

Worth a look

Improving, and in form

Mount ▲2, 7.03 against 6.82

Declining, but in form

Sommer ▼3 Physical, 7.38 against 7.00 · Sancho ▼4

Off his season

Mbeumo 6.57 against 7.00, attributes level

Loanees in amber. Dots without names: no change worth one.

For

Two signals at once, and the combinations are the interesting part (Sommer declining but playing well).
It's a scatter like the app's others, so it could be stored and placed through Graph setup.

Against

A senior squad piles up on the zero line, since most first-teamers' attributes don't move in half a season.
Needs both statistics and attributes, so no U18s.

How they fit together

My pick for Player evolution is 1, the highlights page. It's the per-player cards one level up, top three each way, and it lives in the tab's empty "pick a player" state rather than on the picker. With it, the rail's arrows and the Moving most group can go.

5, the change map, is my pick for Squad comparison's Summary, the squad-wide view the issue already has there ("Improving most and declining most"). 3, what a capture changed, is cheap and sits well beside either: the news at the moment the data arrives.

2, the strip, and 4, the feed, overlap 1 and 3; 6, the chart, is a graph, and could be placed through Graph setup whichever way the rest goes.