Michael Andrew Martin O'Neill

  • Northern Ireland
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
133
Potential ability
155
Home reputation
175
Current reputation
175
World reputation
65
International appearances
31
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
48
Reputation
Continental 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
GK shot stopping31 / 1002.0 / 5
GK handling31 / 1002.0 / 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
2
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 12
Judging player potential 15
Hardness of training 13
Youngsters 14
Motivating 18
People management 18
Discipline 9
Mind games 9
Determination 16
Buying players 11

10 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Tactical knowledge, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

A staff_coaching row exists, but none of its 6 values are recorded.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1
Goalkeeper handling 1
Goalkeeper distribution 1

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.

Squad rotation 14

1 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Attacking, Directness, Tempo, Width, Depth, Pressing, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flexibility, Flamboyancy, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 16 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Coleraine Player — 1987-10-01 Ended
Newcastle United Player 1987-10-01 1989-08-15 Ended
Dundee United Player 1989-08-15 1993-08-20 Ended
Hibernian Player 1993-08-20 1996-07-26 Ended
Coventry City Player 1996-07-26 1998-09-18 Ended
Aberdeen Player 1998-01-22 1998-02-22 Ended
Reading Player 1998-03-02 1998-05-31 Ended
Wigan Athletic Player 1998-09-18 2000-08-18 Ended
St. Johnstone Player 2000-08-18 2001-01-31 Ended
Portland Timbers Player 2001-02-01 2001-11-01 Ended
Clydebank Player — 2002-05-31 Ended
Glentoran Player — — Current
Ayr United Player — — Current
Cowdenbeath Assistant Manager 2005-07-01 2006-07-01 Ended
Brechin City Manager 2006-07-01 2008-12-15 Ended
Shamrock Rovers Manager 2008-12-15 2011-12-15 Ended

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Northern Ireland Manager 2011-12-28 — Current

Club contract

Club
—
Joined
2011-12-15
Contract start
—
Expires
2024-07-11
Weekly wage
£0

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 785 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Shamrock Rovers 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-07-05
Nationality
Northern Ireland
Birth city
Portadown
Joined current club
2011-12-15

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 17
Ambition 16
Controversy 6
Loyalty 16
Pressure 14
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 14
Temperament 12