Player Rating decreasing after transfer.. fixed?

I'm not sure if any of you have experienced this.... well let me just tell the whole story:
This was while doing a manager career mode with Queens Park Rangers: i purchased Simao (74 ovl, 22, high expectations) from Panathinaikos for pennies, thinking i got the deal of the century to upgrade my crappy midfield. At the sign the player screen though i notice that Simao's rating is now listed as a 68, 6 points lower than what it said when i scouted him. Hmmm... "probably because they're playing him out of position or something" i think to myself. Well anyway he comes on board and i stick him straight into the starting line up at CDM (his prefered position), lo and behold it rates him there as a 68. Weird.. the number above his stat card on the right still says 74, but no matter what position i put him in he's never above a 68 on the squad list. Now I can't remember what all his individual stats were so i can't confirm if he actually has gotten worse or if the game is just being glitchy, but "f-it" i say i'll play him anyway.
So the season goes by and he plays well (actually i'd say hes the best CDM i've had on a team.. maybe not rating wise but actual game play wise. for some reason he's the only one on any team i've used that can reliably intercept the AIs long balls.), but i notice that after a while the rating above his stat card on the right of the squad list is now a 68 as well :) . By seasons close he's one of my mvps but only gains 1 point (putting him at a 69). QPR get promoted to the prem and the moneybags in charge give me a nice kitty to play with in the transfer window. I end up using some of this money to buy Andreas Granqvist from Groningen as a sort of replacement at CDM, but it doesn't really work out because Simao still plays better in the actual games. .. eventually i lose interest and start a new CM with Genoa.
A week or two later i get an update download/patch/whatever it was. No explaination was given as to what it did.
Anyway fast forward another week: i load up my QPR CM to continue where i left off, go into the team management menu to tinker with the formation and what do i find? Simao is now rated a 75! wtf? In both the squad list and on his player card. Weird! It's almost as if the game suddenly realized "oh wait.. he's awesome" while i was busy elsewhere. In addition Emiliano Moretti, who ironically i bought from Genoa, had been demoted from a 76 to a 73 in the same fashion had had his rating restored as well. So yea, i'm pleased but really puzzled. Is this something the update was supposed to fix? what gives?
Anyone else had a similar situation?

Semi-related aside: I also had a career mode with St. Etienne that i hadn't played in a few weeks, when i went back to it after the update i had about 24 million MORE dollars in the Transfer Fund (!!?). I know what you're thinking, but no i definetly did not have that much before. So was that also some sort of weird by product of the update or did i just pick up the right Community Chest?|||Interesting. Yes, the patch was to fix the player Growth in CM but I didn't think it would shoot players up like that. I'll have to check my Wigan season tonight to see if N'Zogbia, Di Santo, Moses or McCarthy have grown at all!|||Ahhh.. that makes a lot of sense then. I hadn't noticed specifically but now thinking about it all my midfielders have been getting better over the past few days when previously i guess they weren't so much. Playing one season with Genoa over the last week and all 3 of my starting midfielders (the forth is the VP) gained 2 points a piece, which isn't shabby.
Prehaps the update simply returned Simao to his rightful rating (+1) as part of a glitch fix for the CM progression....|||The patch did not change growth in any way. It just rectified the fact that some players got negative numbers because of display issues (i.e. like you said, his actual OVR and picture OVR were wrong).
That's what you're seeing, just some players being corrected. Nothing was altered in the growth code, they've admitted that. Players do not grow 'more' after the patch.|||Ahh, well then that makes sense too.
Guess my CMs were just going through a growth spurt then :) I'll take it either way.