Paul Christopher Lambert

  • 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
105
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
105
World reputation
95
International appearances
40
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
51
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Cautious
Preferred playing style
Direct
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness61 / 1003.5 / 5
Strength61 / 1003.5 / 5
GK shot stopping28 / 1001.5 / 5
GK handling28 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)64 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)63 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)59 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (tactical)52 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)51 / 1003.0 / 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
15
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 13
Judging player potential 13
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 18
Youngsters 12
Motivating 9
People management 9
Discipline 14
Mind games 8
Determination 15
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 8
Defending 14
Technical 10
Tactical 11
Mental 12
Fitness 12
Attacking 8
Defending 14
Technical 10
Tactical 11
Mental 12
Fitness 12

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 7
Directness 14
Tempo 17
Width 9
Depth 12
Pressing 15
Flexibility 7
Flamboyancy 8
Squad rotation 12
Dirtiness allowance 11

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

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
St. Mirren Player — 1993-09-07 Ended
Motherwell Player 1993-09-07 1996-06-30 Ended
Borussia Dortmund Player 1996-07-01 1997-11-07 Ended
Celtic Player 1997-11-07 2005-05-31 Ended
Livingston Player 2005-06-01 2006-02-11 Ended
Livingston Player / Manager 2005-06-01 2006-02-11 Ended
Wycombe Wanderers Manager 2006-06-30 2008-05-20 Ended
Colchester United Manager 2008-10-09 2009-08-18 Ended
Norwich City Manager 2009-08-18 2012-06-02 Ended
Aston Villa Manager 2012-06-02 2015-02-11 Ended
Blackburn Rovers Manager 2015-11-15 2016-05-31 Ended
Wolverhampton Wanderers Manager 2016-11-05 2017-05-30 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2018-01-15 2018-05-18 Ended
Ipswich Town Manager 2018-10-27 2021-02-28 Ended

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

No club contract is recorded in person_club_contract for this person.

Languages

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

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2006-06-01

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
— 90
Martin O'Neill 90
Stuart Taylor 90
Neil Francis Lennon 80
Gary Holt 75
— 75
— 70
Ian Culverhouse 60
Gary Karsa 60
Michael Henke 60

Disliked people

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation England 100
— — 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-08-07
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Paisley
Joined current club
2021-02-28

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 14
Ambition 17
Controversy 8
Loyalty 5
Pressure 12
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 11