Roy Aitken

  • Scotland
Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
126
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
160
Current reputation
120
World reputation
80
International appearances
57
Coaching qualification
1

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
58
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness80 / 1004.5 / 5
Strength80 / 1004.5 / 5
GK shot stopping68 / 1003.5 / 5
GK handling68 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Defending (technical)74 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)74 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Overall64 / 1003.5 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
6
Hair length code
5
Skin tone code
1

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 16
Judging player potential 17
Tactical knowledge 11
Coaching 17
Youngsters 17
Physiotherapy 1
Motivating 18
People management 18
Discipline 17
Mind games 5
Patience 12
Determination 14
Business 1
Resources 1
Interference 10

15 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Injury management, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 12
Defending 14
Technical 14
Tactical 10
Mental 14
Fitness 16
Attacking 12
Defending 14
Technical 14
Tactical 10
Mental 14
Fitness 16

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 12
Goalkeeper handling 12
Goalkeeper distribution 12

3 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 10
Directness 15
Pressing 12
Sitting back 10
Marking 17
Offside 17
Use of subs 17
Free roles 14

8 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Tempo, Width, Depth, Use of playmaker, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Celtic Player 1975-06-05 1990-01-10 Ended
Newcastle United Player 1990-01-10 1991-08-24 Ended
St. Mirren Player 1991-08-24 1992-06-27 Ended
Aberdeen Player — 1995-02-06 Ended
Aberdeen Player / Assistant Manager 1992-06-27 1995-02-06 Ended
Aberdeen Manager 1995-02-06 1997-11-21 Ended
Leeds United Manager 1999-09-15 2004-06-17 Ended
Aston Villa Assistant Manager 2004-06-17 2006-07-19 Ended
Aston Villa Manager 2006-07-19 2006-08-03 Ended
Birmingham City Assistant Manager 2007-11-28 2010-07-07 Ended
Al-Ahli Club (UAE) Assistant Manager 2010-07-07 2011-04-22 Ended
Al-Ahli Club (UAE) Director of Football 2011-12-08 2013-06-30 Ended

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Scotland Coach 2007-01-29 2007-11-27 Ended

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
Arabic No 10

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Hands-on-role non-player retirement 2013-07-01

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Celtic 80

Liked people

PersonRating
— 80

Personal information

Date of birth
1958-11-24
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Irvine
Joined current club
2013-06-30

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 10
Ambition 13
Controversy 8
Loyalty 13
Pressure 14
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 4