Paul Christopher Lambert

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
110
Potential ability
145
Home reputation
120
Current reputation
110
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.

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 12
Judging player potential 13
Judging staff ability 10
Tactical knowledge 10
Hardness of training 18
Youngsters 13
Motivating 8
People management 11
Discipline 14
Mind games 8
Determination 15
Eccentricity 10
Buying players 15
Negotiating 10

14 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Versatility, 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

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

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

Career spells

Marked current: 1 of 15 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
St Mirren Player 1985-07-01 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
Borussia Dortmund II Technical Director 2025-01-27 — Current

National-team spells

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

Club contract

Joined
2025-01-27
Contract start
2025-01-27
Expires
2027-06-30
Weekly wage
£3,315

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 121201 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
English Yes —

Retirement

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

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Motherwell 75
Borussia Dortmund 75
St Mirren 60
Celtic 60

Liked people

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

Disliked people

Other relations

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

Personal information

Date of birth
1969-08-07
Nationality
Scotland
Birth city
Paisley
Joined current club
2025-01-27

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 16
Ambition 17
Controversy 8
Loyalty 5
Pressure 12
Professionalism 15
Sportsmanship 13
Temperament 11