Dreaded Walrus

If you're like me, then chances are, you like to invest in the long-term stability of your club by bringing in youngsters. Often, you will loan these out, either to willing clubs who put in an offer, or by sending them out to feeders, particularly if you bring in non-EU youngsters.

While these players are out on loan, I like to keep track of their progress to see how they've been performing at that level, and to see what their strengths and weaknesses are in a match environment.

However, doing this requires a lot of clickwork. I have to find the player first of all, then look on their statistics, or their form screen if I want more detail. If I want to watch the highlights of any given match they were in, or look at the report of that match, I have to go to the fixtures screen of their team, scroll through the results to find the date of the match/es they've played in, click on it, and then finally get to view it. If I have a lot of players, it can take a long time to do this each week, and it can become quite a chore to find out how my players are doing, so often I end up just giving up on it, and waiting for the all-too-brief and undetailed end-of-loan newspiece for the player.

However, there is one thing that I would like to see that would make all this much easier: A loan overview screen.

It would be similar in intention to the Transfer Centre screen, in that it puts lots of information in one single place, presenting it in an easily-sortable, and filterable manner.

You could, via this screen, get a list of that player's stats over their loan spell so far (similar to the "Selection" or "Stats>Overall" views on the team overview screen), and by clicking on that player, see a list of the games they have taken part in, complete with a summary of important events for that player, such as scoring a goal, getting an assist, or getting a booking, or you could click through straight to the relevant match screen.

You would be able to sort the screen by club (if you have multiple players at the same club, and want to see how they are working together), or by performance, and so on.

Has anyone else been wishing for a similar feature at all, or is it just me?

Dreaded Walrus

Oh, and I meant to add, I know that at this time of the year I should really be complaining about how the patch has utterly destroyed my life, and calling for the heads of SI, but I had held this thread off long enough due to laziness as it is.

Si BHA

Did you know you can get a member of staff to report back after every game your player plays? Right click on your players name and its one of the options I believe.

Dreaded Walrus

Yes!

I do like to do that, and that's the next closest thing at the moment, but it can occasionally clog up my inbox (especially as there is a limit of 150 messages in the inbox at any time, and I like to do searches through the inbox to find recent newspieces on certain players).

Admittedly, this probably isn't a pressing issue, and something that should be a top priority. It's just one of those things that would be "nice to have", like the ability to put in enquiries for multiple players via the multiple player selection feature.

Si BHA

I would suggest saving the reports when they come back as notes. That way you access them all whenever you want.