I agree with your points @MontyOnTheRun, however, the day before the patch, my players values were of normal value. Right after the patch, the same players in the same save game had their values dropped to abysmal levels. For example, 25-year old Foden transfer value dropped for me from 100+m (before patch) to 40m (after patch). And like I mentioned earlier, a 27-year old peak Trent is only valued at 55mil by AI now, and when you add as manager it drops to 25mil which does not even make sense in any world for me. Your transfer values you quoted from YOUR game seem normal to me. The ones in my save game are however, abnormal. I don't know if you read my whole post, but a max CA Saka is never only worth 40mil lol. You're quoting 100+mil for Odegaard when I'm saying my game's Saka is only at 40mil, kinda big difference?
Your save game seems like it was created AFTER the update, hence the different results. This is not a new save game created after the update. it was created way before the patch so I suspect this bug could only be affecting old saves.