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@@ -288,3 +288,46 @@ family (consumablesContract/Fitness/Healing/Position/Training/Formation plus
 
 `GET /club?type=` has only ever been observed with two values: `player` (paged,
 start=N&count=11) and `manager` (count=200, from the STAFF tab).
+
+---
+
+# CONFIRMED LIVE 2026-08-05: managers and the four coach families
+
+All five non-player card tables render correctly in game. Nothing here is inferred.
+
+## Coaches: 34 staff cards, ZERO DB Error
+
+Served subtypes 5/6/7/8 (headcoach, gkcoach, physio, fitnesscoach) from ids read out
+of the game's own dumped tables. Every id hit its table on the first attempt:
+A Shaikh 80, J Kim 77, M Kuhn 80, P Trenouth 80, C Duke 74 and the rest, ratings
+55..80, with real face photos and their bonus percentages (+15% SHO and so on) drawn
+by the client. The whistle / gloves / heart icons distinguish the families.
+
+That is the payoff from enumeration over probing. The miss-fill exists and is loud
+("DB Error", rating 0x32), and it never fired once, because the ids came from reading
+the database rather than sweeping for it.
+
+## Managers: 10 of 10 resolved, and the template paints OUR fields
+
+Luis Enrique 88, Conte 87, Wenger 86, Klopp 84, Koeman 82, Pardew 80, Di Francesco
+78, Maes 75, Wdowczyk 70, Canning 65. Every nation and league is historically right:
+Conte/Wenger/Klopp/Koeman/Pardew all Premier League, Di Francesco Serie A, Maes
+Jupiler, Canning Scottish.
+
+RESOLVED, previously TODO/CONFIRM: the manager card template DOES paint record+0xde
+(nation) and record+0xe0 (league). The Luis Enrique card draws the Spain flag and the
+words "LaLiga Santander"; the Premier League managers draw their flag and "ENG 1".
+Neither field is written by the merge (FUN_1801356c0 does not touch them), so nothing
+but our own JSON could have supplied them. That is the cleanest possible proof that
+those two offsets are ours.
+
+NOT confirmed: negotiation at record+0xe3 is NOT on the card front. The card shows
+"CONTRACT 7" there instead. FUN_1800e5940 does read +0xe3 and publish it as
+ATTRIB_CONTRACT_NEGOTIATION, so it surfaces somewhere else or not at all.
+
+## Why managers needed the coaches beside them
+
+A wrong manager carddbid is completely SILENT: FUN_1801356c0 has no else-branch and
+writes no miss-fill, so a bad id and a bad wire shape look identical. The coaches were
+put on the same screen precisely because their miss IS loud. Nothing failed, but the
+test was designed so that a failure would have been diagnosable rather than mute.