Michael Beale

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
100
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
42
Reputation
National 0.5 / 5 stars
Coaching style
General
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Less Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness60 / 1003.5 / 5
Strength60 / 1003.5 / 5
GK shot stopping54 / 1003.0 / 5
GK handling54 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)67 / 1003.5 / 5
Defending (technical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)65 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)63 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)81 / 1004.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)80 / 1004.5 / 5
Overall61 / 1003.5 / 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
6
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 16
Judging player potential 15
Judging staff ability 12
Analysing data 15
Tactical knowledge 17
Hardness of training 15
Youngsters 19
Physiotherapy 3
Motivating 17
People management 17
Discipline 12
Mind games 6
Determination 17
Eccentricity 6
Versatility 5
Buying players 8

16 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Injury management, Patience, 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 17
Defending 10
Technical 16
Tactical 17
Mental 1
Fitness 10
Attacking 17
Defending 10
Technical 16
Tactical 17
Mental 1
Fitness 10

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 8
Goalkeeper handling 8
Goalkeeper distribution 8

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 9
Directness 10
Tempo 4
Width 5
Depth 9
Pressing 6
Flexibility 17
Flamboyancy 4
Squad rotation 12
Set pieces 6
Dirtiness allowance 10

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

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 10 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
Chelsea Youth Coach 2002-07-01 2012-08-30 Ended
Liverpool Youth Coach 2012-09-01 2014-08-14 Ended
Liverpool Manager 2014-08-15 2016-12-06 Ended
São Paulo Futebol Clube Assistant Manager 2016-12-12 2017-06-30 Ended
Liverpool Youth Coach 2017-09-18 2018-06-06 Ended
Rangers Coach 2018-06-07 2021-11-11 Ended
Aston Villa Coach 2021-11-11 2022-06-01 Ended
Queens Park Rangers Manager 2022-06-01 2022-11-28 Ended
Rangers Manager 2022-11-28 2023-10-01 Ended
Sunderland Manager 2023-12-18 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2023-12-18
Contract start
2023-12-18
Expires
2026-06-30
Weekly wage
£20,000

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 722 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Chelsea 100
Rangers 80

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
— 90

Personal information

Date of birth
1980-09-04
Nationality
England
Birth city
Bromley
Joined current club
2023-12-18

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 20
Ambition 15
Controversy 4
Loyalty 10
Pressure 10
Professionalism 13
Sportsmanship 14
Temperament 8