Kevin
Dew.
If you are looking at staff employed by other managers in your league who are a higher level than you their staff may appear to you to have 6 red stars. My understanding is that the star rating is relative to the difference between the level of the staff member and the level of the manager who is viewing them.
For example... You are a L14 Manager, if you view the drivers of Aleman Gik (who is L16) you will most likely see Nikolay Zuibimov (L17) as having 6 red stars, but if Aleman views the same driver he will only appear to have 5 stars.
That explains it perfectly, thank you