Eric Blahic

  • France
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
127
Potential ability
135
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
85
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.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
60
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
—
Preferred mentality
—
Preferred playing style
—
Preferred pressing style
—

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
9
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
5

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

Tactical knowledge 13
Youngsters 14
Motivating 14
People management 14
Determination 14

5 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging player ability, Judging player potential, Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Hardness of training, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Discipline, Mind games, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Buying players, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Attacking, Defending. Coaching: 4 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Axes omitted because the value is not recorded: Attacking, Defending.
4 of 6 recorded Not recorded: Attacking, Defending
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking Not recorded
Defending Not recorded
Technical 9
Tactical 13
Mental 15
Fitness 13
Technical 9
Tactical 13
Mental 15
Fitness 13

4 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Attacking, Defending.

Tactical style

A staff_tactical_style row exists, but none of its 17 values are recorded.

Career spells

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Amicale Sportive Ginglin-Cesson Player 1980-07-01 1987-06-30 Ended
Stade Malherbe Caen Player 1987-07-01 1991-06-30 Ended
Stade Malherbe Caen Player / Manager 1987-07-01 1991-06-30 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Player 1991-07-01 1995-06-30 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Player / Manager 1991-07-01 1993-06-30 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Player / Assistant Manager 1993-07-01 1994-06-30 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Player / Manager 1994-07-01 1995-06-30 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Manager 1995-07-01 1999-02-15 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Assistant Manager 1999-02-15 2002-06-30 Ended
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard Assistant Manager 2002-07-01 2005-06-30 Ended
Paris Saint-Germain Assistant Manager 2005-12-27 2007-01-15 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Assistant Manager 2007-10-17 2016-05-30 Ended
FC Girondins de Bordeaux Assistant Manager 2016-05-30 2018-01-18 Ended
En Avant Guingamp Assistant Manager 2018-11-12 2019-05-24 Ended
— Assistant Manager 2023-03-29 2024-09-21 Ended
FC Nantes Assistant Manager 2025-12-11 2026-03-10 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
French Yes —

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

PersonRating
Jocelyn Gourvennec 85
— 80
— 75
— 75
— 75
— 75
Stéphane Carnot 75
— 60

Personal information

Date of birth
1965-05-02
Nationality
France
Birth city
Saint-Brieuc
Joined current club
2026-03-10

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 —
Ambition 12
Controversy 6
Loyalty 16
Pressure 15
Professionalism 17
Sportsmanship 17
Temperament 17