Mark Edward McGhee

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
90
Potential ability
115
Home reputation
90
Current reputation
90
World reputation
55
International appearances
4
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
64
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Attacking
Preferred mentality
Attacking
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness52 / 1003.0 / 5
Strength52 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)61 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)60 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)67 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Overall55 / 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
17
Hair length code
6
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 17
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 16
Youngsters 15
Motivating 11
People management 11
Discipline 18
Mind games 12
Determination 13
Buying players 9

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 14
Defending 11
Technical 10
Tactical 11
Mental 9
Fitness 8
Attacking 14
Defending 11
Technical 10
Tactical 11
Mental 9
Fitness 8

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 16
Directness 11
Tempo 16
Width 11
Depth 12
Pressing 12
Flexibility 9
Flamboyancy 16
Squad rotation 6
Dirtiness allowance 6

10 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Set pieces.

Career spells

Marked current: 9 of 21 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
Greenock Morton Player — — Current
Newcastle United Player 1977-12-30 — Current
Aberdeen Player 1979-03-28 — Current
Hamburger SV Player 1984-05-21 — Current
Celtic Player 1985-11-06 — Current
Newcastle United Player 1989-07-10 — Current
IK Brage Player — — Current
Reading Player 1991-05-10 — Current
Reading Player / Manager 1991-05-10 1994-12-14 Ended
Leicester City Manager 1994-12-14 1995-12-07 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Manager 1995-12-13 1998-11-05 Ended
Millwall Manager 2000-09-25 2003-10-15 Ended
Brighton and Hove Albion Manager 2003-10-28 2006-09-08 Ended
Motherwell Manager 2007-06-17 2009-06-10 Ended
Aberdeen Manager 2009-06-10 2010-12-01 Ended
Bristol Rovers Manager 2012-01-18 2012-12-15 Ended
Motherwell Manager 2015-10-13 2017-02-28 Ended
Barnet Manager 2017-11-13 2018-01-15 Ended
Barnet Director of Football 2018-01-15 2018-03-19 Ended
Eastbourne Borough Manager 2019-02-19 2019-01-07 Ended
Stockport County Coach 2021-01-27 — Current

National-team spells

National-team spells from person_nation_contract.
NationRoleFromToStatus
Scotland Assistant Manager 2013-01-18 2017-10-12 Ended

Club contract

Joined
2021-01-27
Contract start
2021-01-27
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£800

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 720 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —
German No 10

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Celtic 100
Aberdeen 70

Disliked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
Gordon Strachan 100
Wolfgang-Felix Magath 100

Disliked people

PersonRating
— 100
— 80

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation England 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1957-05-20
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Glasgow
Joined current club
2021-01-27

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 15
Ambition 18
Controversy 8
Loyalty 6
Pressure 10
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 10
Temperament 9