Paul Simonis

  • Netherlands
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
125
Potential ability
136
Home reputation
125
Current reputation
125
World reputation
95
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
40
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
Quickness32 / 1002.0 / 5
Strength32 / 1002.0 / 5
GK shot stopping29 / 1001.5 / 5
Defending (tactical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Defending (technical)54 / 1003.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)66 / 1003.5 / 5
Possession (technical)64 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)63 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (technical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Overall59 / 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
10
Hair length code
4
Skin tone code
2

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 12
Judging staff ability 10
Analysing data 10
Tactical knowledge 13
Hardness of training 12
Youngsters 14
Physiotherapy 15
Injury management 3
Motivating 14
People management 16
Discipline 13
Mind games 10
Determination 13
Eccentricity 8
Versatility 8
Buying players 8
Negotiating 7

18 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging team data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Patience, 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 12
Defending 8
Technical 12
Tactical 13
Mental 14
Fitness 2
Attacking 12
Defending 8
Technical 12
Tactical 13
Mental 14
Fitness 2

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 10
Directness 12
Tempo 12
Width 9
Depth 5
Pressing 12
Flexibility 8
Squad rotation 8
Set pieces 8
Dirtiness allowance 15

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

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Sparta Rotterdam Youth Coach 2005-07-01 2017-06-30 Ended
Sparta Rotterdam Manager 2017-07-01 2018-06-30 Ended
Sparta Rotterdam Manager 2018-07-01 2020-06-30 Ended
Go Ahead Eagles Assistant Manager 2020-07-01 2022-06-30 Ended
sc Heerenveen Assistant Manager 2022-07-01 2024-06-30 Ended
Go Ahead Eagles Manager 2024-07-07 2025-06-12 Ended
VfL Wolfsburg Manager 2025-06-12 2025-11-09 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
Dutch Yes —
English No 5
Spanish No 5
German No 2

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
Go Ahead Eagles 75

Liked people

Disliked people

PersonRating
Jonas Older Wind 50

Personal information

Date of birth
1985-02-14
Nationality
Netherlands
Birth city
Leidschendam
Joined current club
2025-11-09

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 7
Ambition 12
Controversy 10
Loyalty 12
Pressure 10
Professionalism 14
Sportsmanship 12
Temperament 12