Derek McInnes

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
140
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
120
World reputation
80
International appearances
2
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
53
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Mental
Preferred mentality
Balanced
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
Balanced
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness63 / 1003.5 / 5
Strength63 / 1003.5 / 5
GK shot stopping30 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)57 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (tactical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (technical)68 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)53 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)58 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall56 / 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
11
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 10
Judging player potential 15
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 11
Youngsters 11
Motivating 13
People management 16
Discipline 12
Mind games 5
Patience 10
Determination 16
Versatility 1
Buying players 13
Business 14
Resources 8
Interference 2

16 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, Eccentricity, Negotiating.

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 9
Defending 11
Technical 13
Tactical 8
Mental 15
Fitness 12
Attacking 9
Defending 11
Technical 13
Tactical 8
Mental 15
Fitness 12

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

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

Attacking 11
Directness 12
Tempo 13
Width 14
Depth 7
Pressing 13
Flexibility 3
Squad rotation 3
Set pieces 11
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, Flamboyancy.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 13 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 1988-08-13 1995-11-13 Ended
Rangers Player 1995-11-13 1999-12-27 Ended
Stockport County Player 1998-11-06 1999-05-06 Ended
Toulouse FC Player 1999-12-27 2000-08-10 Ended
West Bromwich Albion Player 2000-08-10 2003-06-30 Ended
Dundee United Player 2003-07-11 2006-06-30 Ended
Millwall Player 2006-07-03 2007-01-01 Ended
St Johnstone Player 2007-01-01 — Current
St Johnstone Manager 2007-11-26 2011-10-15 Ended
Bristol City Manager 2011-10-15 2013-01-12 Ended
Aberdeen Manager 2013-04-06 2021-03-08 Ended
Kilmarnock Manager 2022-01-04 2025-05-19 Ended
Heart Of Midlothian Manager 2025-05-19 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-05-19
Contract start
2025-05-19
Expires
2029-05-31
Weekly wage
£0

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 1573 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Disliked clubs

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
Thomas Boyd 60
Edward Henrik Larsson 25

Personal information

Date of birth
1971-07-05
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Paisley
Joined current club
2025-05-19

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 3
Ambition 18
Controversy 6
Loyalty 14
Pressure 8
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 14
Temperament 15