Nigel Graham Pearson

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
130
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
130
Current reputation
130
World reputation
70
International appearances
0
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
55
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness53 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength53 / 1003.0 / 5
GK shot stopping35 / 1002.0 / 5
GK handling35 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)74 / 1004.0 / 5
Defending (technical)68 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)69 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)64 / 1003.5 / 5
Overall59 / 1003.0 / 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
3
Hair length code
5
Skin tone code
4

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 14
Judging player potential 16
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 16
Motivating 15
People management 15
Discipline 18
Mind games 5
Determination 16
Buying players 15

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

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 13
Defending 15
Technical 6
Tactical 12
Mental 13
Fitness 7
Attacking 13
Defending 15
Technical 6
Tactical 12
Mental 13
Fitness 7

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

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.

Attacking 12
Directness 10
Tempo 16
Width 15
Depth 14
Pressing 17
Sitting back 15
Marking 14
Offside 8
Use of playmaker 10
Use of subs 19
Free roles 8
Flexibility 10
Flamboyancy 12
Squad rotation 10
Dirtiness allowance 12

16 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 17 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
Heanor Town Player — 1981-11-12 Ended
Shrewsbury Town Player 1981-11-12 1987-10-16 Ended
Sheffield Wednesday Player 1987-10-16 1994-07-19 Ended
Middlesbrough Player 1994-07-19 — Current
Carlisle United Manager 1998-12-17 1999-05-17 Ended
Stoke City Coach 1999-07-01 2001-06-25 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Assistant Manager 2004-11-01 2006-09-18 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Manager 2006-09-18 2006-10-16 Ended
Newcastle United Assistant Manager 2006-10-19 2007-07-20 Ended
Newcastle United Coach 2007-07-20 2008-02-08 Ended
Southampton Manager 2008-02-18 2008-05-30 Ended
Leicester City Manager 2008-06-20 2010-06-29 Ended
Hull City Manager 2010-06-29 2011-11-15 Ended
Leicester City Manager 2011-11-15 2015-06-30 Ended
Derby County Manager 2016-05-27 2016-10-08 Ended
Oud-Heverlee Leuven Manager 2017-09-22 2019-02-03 Ended
Watford Manager 2019-09-07 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
England Coach 2007-02-01 2007-06-30 Ended

Club contract

Club
Watford
Joined
2019-09-07
Contract start
2019-09-07
Expires
2020-06-30
Weekly wage
£50,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 732 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —
French No 5

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Disliked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1963-08-21
Nationality
England
Birth city
Nottingham
Joined current club
2019-09-07

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 8
Ambition 17
Controversy 20
Loyalty 12
Pressure 17
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 4