Thomas Buffel
Attributes
Technical
- Corners— 14
- Crossing— 14
- Dribbling— 14
- Finishing— 13
- First touch— 14
- Free kicks— 5
- Heading— 11
- Long shots— 12
- Long throws— 6
- Marking— 4
- Passing— 14
- Penalties— 12
- Tackling— 3
- Technique— 15
- Versatility— 15
Mental
- Aggression— 3
- Anticipation— 14
- Bravery— 5
- Composure— 12
- Concentration— 14
- Consistency— 11
- Decisions— 14
- Determination— 7
- Dirtiness— 8
- Flair— 17
- Important matches— 14
- Leadership— 5
- Off the ball— 12
- Positioning— 7
- Team work— 11
- Vision— 15
- Work rate— 14
Physical
- Acceleration— 15
- Agility— 12
- Balance— 8
- Injury proneness— 16
- Jumping reach— 7
- Natural fitness— 13
- Pace— 14
- Stamina— 11
- Strength— 6
Positions
- GKGoalkeeper1awkward
- SWSweeper1awkward
- DLDefender Left—not recorded
- DCDefender Central—not recorded
- DRDefender Right—not recorded
- DMDefensive Midfielder—not recorded
- MLMidfielder Left—not recorded
- MCMidfielder Central—not recorded
- MRMidfielder Right—not recorded
- AMLAttacking Midfielder Left12competent
- AMCAttacking Midfielder Central20natural
- AMRAttacking Midfielder Right12competent
- STStriker16accomplished
- WBLWing Back Left—not recorded
- WBRWing Back Right—not recorded
Best roles
| Role | Duty | Suitability |
|---|---|---|
| Inverted WingerAML | Support | 14.4 / 20 |
| Attacking MidfielderAMC | Attack | 13.9 / 20 |
| WingerAML | Attack | 13.8 / 20 |
| Advanced PlaymakerAMC | Support | 13.8 / 20 |
| Inside ForwardAML | Attack | 13.6 / 20 |
| Advanced ForwardFC | Attack | 13.5 / 20 |
| Shadow StrikerAMC | Attack | 13.3 / 20 |
| Complete ForwardFC | Support | 13.2 / 20 |
The FMDB's own figure, not a game scouting star: the weighted mean of the recorded attributes for each role, on the source's own 1–20 scale, with a role's key attributes counted 2× its preferable ones. Roles are offered only for positions with a recorded competency of at least 10, and a role scored from under 70% of its attributes is withheld rather than published from a handful of values.
Personal information
Club contract
- Squad
- KSV Cercle Brugge
- Squad number
- 8
- Type
- —
- Squad status
- —
- Joined
- 2008-07-01
- Contract start
- —
- Expires
- 2010-06-30
- Weekly wage
- £14,000
- Estimated value
- —
- Transfer status
- —
- Asking price
- —
Joined is the club-join date on the person row. Contract start is the date the current contract was last signed, as the modern export records it; CSV-era versions record only the join date. Type comes from person_contract_detail where the version decodes it.
Player profile
- Current ability
- 128
- Potential ability
- 150
- Home reputation
- 125
- Current reputation
- 116
- World reputation
- —
- Personality
- —
- Media handling
- —
- Favourite squad number
- 8
Ability and reputation are stored on the game's internal scale, which runs to about 200, and shown unchanged; the stars in the header are that figure out of five.
Home-grown and training
| Trained in | Days | Since |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | — |
- Home-grown at club
- —
- Home-grown in nation
- —
- Trained in the EU
- —
- Qualifies as
- —
Modern exports include training days and recorded trained status. This panel has not integrated them; eligibility must respect the recorded rule and location type.
Personality
Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes. A dash is a value the export did not record.
Feet
Goalkeeping
No goalkeeping attributes recorded
Shown only when at least one value in player_goalkeeper_attributes is recorded.
Across versions
| Version | Current ability | Potential ability |
|---|---|---|
| CM0203 Release | 122 | 140 |
| CM0304 Release | 142 | 160 |
| CM0304 Update | 142 | 160 |
| FM05 Release | 138 | 158 |
| FM05 Update | 145 | 158 |
| FM06 Release | 140 | 150 |
| FM07 Release | 144 | 150 |
| FM07 Update | 144 | 150 |
| FM08 Release | 126 | 150 |
| FM09 Release | 128 | 150 |
| FM09 Update | 127 | 150 |
| FM10 Release | 125 | 150 |
| FM10 Update | 128 | 128 |
| FM11 Release | 128 | 128 |
| FM11 Update | 125 | 150 |
| FM12 Release | 122 | 150 |
| FM12 Update | 121 | 150 |
| FM13 Release | 122 | 150 |
| FM13 Update | 125 | 150 |
| FM14 Release | 126 | 150 |
| FM14 Update | 124 | 150 |
| FM15 Release | 121 | 150 |
| FM15 Update | 120 | 145 |
| FM16 Release | 119 | 145 |
| FM16 Update | 119 | 145 |
| FM17 Release | 121 | 145 |
| FM17 Update | 124 | 144 |
| FM18 Release | 122 | 144 |
| FM18 Update | 121 | 144 |
| FM19 Release | 117 | 144 |
| FM19 Update | 117 | 144 |
| Version | Weekly wage | Estimated value |
|---|---|---|
| CM0203 Release | £0 | — |
| CM0304 Release | £0 | — |
| CM0304 Update | £0 | — |
| FM05 Release | £0 | — |
| FM05 Update | £14,000 | — |
| FM06 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM07 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM07 Update | £14,000 | — |
| FM08 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM09 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM09 Update | £14,000 | — |
| FM10 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM10 Update | £14,000 | — |
| FM11 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM11 Update | £14,000 | — |
| FM12 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM12 Update | £14,000 | — |
| FM13 Release | £14,000 | — |
| FM13 Update | £12,100 | — |
| FM14 Release | £12,100 | — |
| FM14 Update | £12,100 | — |
| FM15 Release | £12,500 | — |
| FM15 Update | £12,500 | — |
| FM16 Release | £8,000 | — |
| FM16 Update | £8,000 | — |
| FM17 Release | £8,000 | — |
| FM17 Update | £11,500 | — |
| FM18 Release | £9,500 | — |
| FM18 Update | £8,469 | £1,392,000 |
| FM19 Release | £10,000 | — |
| FM19 Update | £8,977 | £400,200 |
Attribute summary
Percentile wheel
Injuries
| Injury | From | Returned | Side | Severity | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — | — |
Clauses and bonuses
| Clause | Amount | Applies |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | — |
Recorded clauses come from person_contract_clause and clause_type. Modern person_contract_bonus rows, where a contract has them, are counted here and wait for clause-specific interpretation before any amount is shown.
International
- Senior caps and goals
- 29 caps
- Under-21
- —
- Youth
- —
- Declared for
- —
- Eligible for
- —
- Debut
- —
- First goal
- —
Caps, goals, previous nations, debut and first goal come from person_international_record where the version exports it; debut and first-goal dates are decoded in FM24 and rarely elsewhere. Versions without the table show senior caps from the player row only. Eligibility lists the nations person_nationality marks eligible-for. No export establishes youth-level records. Missing fields stay blank.
Honours
FM24 exports achievements with event codes and date precision in starting_person_history and starting_person_history_date. Other versions remain unsupported, and this panel still needs validated event interpretation. A club spell during a winning season does not prove a personal medal. The awards panel below shows recorded placings.
Career
| Club | Role | From | To | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — |
- Career apps and goals
- 205 (72)
- Clubs
- —
- Loans
- 0
- First professional contract
- —
Career appearances and goals combine the recorded player_history rows this page has checked do not overlap: every detail row, plus a summary row only where no detail row covers the same season at the same club. The clubs count is the distinct clubs in the career spells above. The date of a first professional contract is not derivable from the earliest history row.
Season record
Season record
One row per season as the export recorded it. A transfer fee is shown where a figure was stored; where the source recorded only a sentinel — "Undisclosed fee", "Unknown fee" — that sentinel is printed instead. A fee of zero is a fee of zero, not a missing one.
| Season | Club | Division | Apps | Goals | Transfer fee | Joined | Left |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999–00 | Feyenoord | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2000–01 | Feyenoord | — | 0 | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2000–01 | SBV Excelsior | — | 31 | 12 | — | — | — |
| 2001–02 | SBV Excelsior | — | 32 | 15 | — | — | — |
| 2002–03 | Feyenoord | — | 31 | 18 | — | — | — |
| 2003–04 | Feyenoord | — | 34 | 14 | — | — | — |
| 2004–05 | Feyenoord | — | 15 | 2 | £2,300,000 | — | 2005-01-05 |
| 2004–05 | Rangers | — | 15 | 4 | — | 2005-01-05 | — |
| 2005–06 | Rangers | — | 29 | 4 | — | — | — |
| 2006–07 | Rangers | — | 17 | 3 | — | — | — |
| 2007–08 | Rangers | — | 1 | 0 | £0 | — | 2008-07-01 |
| 1998–99 | KSV Cercle Brugge | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Similar players
| Player | Club | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Hernán Pablo Losada | RSC Anderlecht | 88.5% |
| Honour Gombami | KSV Cercle Brugge | 88.0% |
| Lukas Zelenka | KVC Westerlo | 87.7% |
| Marco Taddei Né | G. Beerschot Antwerpen | 86.9% |
| Stijn De Smet | KSV Cercle Brugge | 86.8% |
Nearest recorded attribute profiles among 120 players in Belgian Pro League within 15 current ability, compared on the attributes both record. Not a whole-database search. The match is the mean absolute difference over those attributes expressed against the 1–20 scale; an attribute only one of the two records is left out rather than counted as a gap of fourteen.
National-team spells
Bans and absences
| Type | From | To | Matches | Competition | Nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — | — |
Awards
| Season | Award | Placed |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | — |
Likes and dislikes
- Favoured clubs
- —
- Disliked clubs
- —
- Favoured people
- —
- Disliked people
- —
Other relations
| Target type | Target | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| — | — | — |
Familiarity
| Target type | Target | Level | Linked |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — |
Preferred moves
The source records preferred moves as bits. Names need a validated export mapping.
Data wishlist for this page
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person_days_at_location, person_trained_statusTraining days and recorded home-grown status Exported; UI pendingThe modern schema includes days, age bands and trained-at-club or trained-in-nation relationships. Rule codes and target kinds must be respected; these rows do not prove eligibility under every competition rule. -
person names, date_of_birth, height_cm, weight_kgNames, birth date, height and weight Now liveRecorded identity and measurements are displayed; missing values stay blank. -
export_meta.reference_dateAge at the in-game date No reference dateThe base .dat source does not store an authoritative reference date. Birth year alone cannot establish an exact age. -
person_nationality, person.declared_nation_uidAdditional nationalities and declared nation Now liveSecond, third and resident nationalities with their source relationship labels, and the declared nation, are displayed where the version exports them; CSV-era versions say so. -
person_contract_detail, person_club_statusContract type, squad status and explicit unattached status Partial exportContract type is displayed where contract_status is decoded (FM24); the FM26 exports carry the column as NULL on every row. squad_status has no lookup table and has_no_club is not yet used; a missing contract is not evidence of free agency. -
playing-time promises and market statusPlaying-time promise, transfer or loan listing and asking price Needs source dataThese facts are not established by the current contract-detail or club-status columns. -
person_contract_clause, person_contract_bonusContract clauses and bonuses Partial exportRecorded clauses are displayed. Starting-contract bonus rows are counted with their raw type codes; cash and misc need clause-specific interpretation before any amount or condition is shown. -
agent identity and representationAgent Needs source dataThe current catalog has no agent identity or representation relation. -
player attribute tables and PlayerRolesRole suitability Now liveFMDB calculates its own weighted attribute scores for competent positions, with coverage thresholds; these are not stored scouting stars. -
attribute tables in the previous version of the same gameAttribute changes since the previous version Now liveComparisons distinguish a changed value, newly recorded data, missing data and off-scale values. -
player and person_club_contract across versionsAbility, potential, value and wage across versions Now liveCharts use recorded values after identity checks in each target database. Missing values and coded potential are not invented chart points. -
person personality attributes; preferred_move.bit_indexPersonality, media handling and preferred-move labels Needs validationPersonality scores and move bits are recorded. Validated labels and era-specific mappings are still missing. -
person_international_recordSenior and under-21 goals, caps and debut details Now liveSenior and under-21 caps and goals, previous nations, debut and first goal are displayed where the version exports them; CSV-era versions fall back to senior caps from the player row. Youth categories are not established. -
starting_person_history, starting_person_history_datePersonal honours and milestones Partial exportFM24 achievements include record_type, job, flags and date precision. Other versions remain unsupported; the page still needs validated event interpretation. Club membership in a winning season does not prove a medal. -
player_historyCareer totals and recorded season history with fees Now liveTotals use bounded history and exclude overlapping summary rows. Coverage depends on the selected player and version. -
player attribute vectors within a bounded division cohortSimilar players Now liveFMDB compares shared recorded attributes within the documented ability band and candidate cap; this is not a whole-database search. -
award_history_winner and person relationship tablesRecorded awards, liked and disliked clubs and people Now liveOnly resolving identities are linked; missing relationships remain missing. -
explicit youth and first-professional-contract eventsYouth club and first professional contract Needs source dataAn earliest career row, current contract start or forced initial contract date does not establish either fact.