Kevin John Russell

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
120
Potential ability
130
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
120
World reputation
55
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
—

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.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
0
Hair length code
4
Skin tone code
6

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 10
Judging player potential 10
Tactical knowledge 6
Hardness of training 11
Youngsters 16
Motivating 12
People management 12
Discipline 12
Mind games 2
Determination 10
Buying players 5

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 10
Mental 12
Fitness 11
Attacking 14
Defending 11
Technical 10
Tactical 10
Mental 12
Fitness 11

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 6
Tempo 8
Width 15
Pressing 6
Flexibility 4
Flamboyancy 10

7 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Depth, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 9 of 24 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
Portsmouth Player 1984-07-01 — Current
Wrexham Player 1987-07-01 1989-07-01 Ended
Leicester City Player 1989-07-01 — Current
Cardiff City Player 1990-07-01 — Current
Peterborough United Player 1990-07-01 1991-01-01 Ended
Hereford United Player 1991-01-01 1991-07-01 Ended
Stoke City Player 1991-07-01 — Current
Stoke City Player 1992-07-01 — Current
AFC Bournemouth Player 1993-07-01 — Current
Burnley Player 1993-07-01 1993-07-01 Ended
AFC Bournemouth Player — — Current
Notts County Player 1994-07-01 1995-07-01 Ended
Wrexham Player 1995-07-01 — Current
Wrexham Assistant Manager 2001-10-01 2007-01-20 Ended
Peterborough United Assistant Manager 2007-01-20 2009-11-10 Ended
Preston North End Assistant Manager 2010-01-06 2010-12-29 Ended
Peterborough United Assistant Manager 2011-01-11 2014-07-05 Ended
Stoke City Coach 2015-08-18 2016-06-30 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2016-07-01 2018-01-21 Ended
Stoke City Coach 2018-01-22 2018-07-08 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2018-07-08 2022-06-30 Ended
Stoke City Manager 2022-07-01 2023-06-30 Ended
Cheltenham Town Assistant Manager 2023-07-22 2023-10-10 Ended
Huddersfield Town Manager 2024-01-15 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2024-01-15
Contract start
2024-01-15
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£1,500

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 664 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked people

PersonRating
Darren Ferguson 90

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation (object type 8) England 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1966-12-06
Nationality
England
Birth city
Portsmouth
Joined current club
2024-01-15

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 10
Ambition 9
Controversy —
Loyalty 14
Pressure 14
Professionalism 16
Sportsmanship 6
Temperament 6