I had no idea, he had Voronin firing on all cylnders in Germany.
Not sure what to make of the fact we had two managers now who signed Andriy Bleedin' Voronin!!!
Revealed: How Andriy Voronin helped Jurgen Klopp blossom as a manager
COLIN BELL will tap a best wishes message into his mobile phone and ping it onto Jurgen Klopp this morning, even though he knows luck is the last thing in which the German deals.
By PAUL JOYCE
PUBLISHED: 07:30, Sat, Oct 17, 2015 | UPDATED: 10:35, Sat, Oct 17, 2015
“When Borussia Dortmund won the league two times, they didn’t just win it they annihilated every other team,” said Bell.
“They were miles ahead.
“I remember there was a survey done which showed that the English Premier League was quicker, had more sprints than in the Bundesliga and the speed of the passing was much higher.
“These were the aims Jurgen had at Dortmund: to try and get his team to the level of the Premier League. And that is why they annihilated the Bundesliga for two years.
“It was not by chance what they did.”
Born in Leicester, this is an Englishman who has spent the majority of his career in German football, including four years as reserve team coach at FSV Mainz 05 when Klopp made the transition from dressing room to dug-out and cut his managerial teeth.
He has followed with interest his friend’s Anfield ascension and will be intrigued to see whether Liverpool hit the ground running under their new manager when his reign begins at Tottenham today.
Yet he has few doubts that over time Klopp’s philosophy will successfully shape Liverpool’s fortunes as it did Mainz and then Dortmund as he offered an insight into his methods.
“One of his traits is that in every training session there has to be high quality with a very good speed and tempo and very good exercises,” said Bell, now in charge of women’s side FFC Frankfurt, the current Champions League holders.
Colin Bell was part of the management setup when Klopp was at German outfit Mainz
“You get the quality in training first of all and then his philosophy is that the team would be prepared to run more and work harder than any other team on the pitch.
“The first aim was to destroy the opponent’s game and when you do that, you can get your own game through.
“He likes to defend quite high, the back four pushing up, which meant the goalkeeper had to playing like the libero, the sweeper.
“He relied on very tall central defenders who had pace because if balls are getting played over the top, you need players who can try and get back as quickly as possible.
“And the work started, the defending started, with the strikers who had to be prepared to work very, very hard.”
Former Liverpool player Andriy Voronin was an influential player for Klopp when he joined Mainz
It was in his first seasons at Mainz that a blast from Anfield’s past helped the evolution of Klopp’s side.
Andriy Voronin’s spell on Merseyside under Rafa Benitez was short-lived and best forgotten, yet at Mainz he proved integral to Klopp.
“We had Andriy up front,” recalled Bell. “He came from Borussia Monchengladbach and he didn’t really make it at first.
“He trained in the first team but played in the reserves. He was obviously a team-mate of ‘Kloppo’ and he could see what talent this player had.
“He gave him his chance and Andriy took off. He scored 20 goals in the season Mainz were denied promotion to the Bundesliga on the final day of the campaign against Berlin, but it was more than his goals.
“Andriy worked so hard as well and when you do that, you have a chance with ‘Kloppo’. I remember one game against Bielefeld who were about to score on the counter-attack and it was Andriy who produced the last-ditch tackle.
“He had chased all the way back and that is what you have to be prepared to do. It was that sort of approach from the striker that rubbed off elsewhere.
“’Kloppo’ has a very very good sense of man-management. He can win players over and there were a lot of players at that time at Mainz who didn’t make it at other clubs.
“There was a group of players who found themselves as outcasts so to speak and ‘Kloppo’ did a perfect job in not just forming them into a perfect group but a real body.
“Everyone was looking after each other and so it was possible then to achieve greater goals and play in the Bundesliga.”
There is an obvious warning within the story to dissenters.
Bell continued: “If a player wasn’t prepared to go the whole way, then you had no chance. Jurgen would talk to you in a good and loving way, but if you showed this resistance and that you are not prepared to go over the next higher hurdle you have got no chance.
“That is very important. He has this charisma. He is a very nice, outgoing guy and he walks into a room and you have fun straight away because he always has some good sayings on his lips and he laughs very much.
“But he is a hard worker and he wants to win and that is what he hammers into his players so if you are not prepared to do it, you are out.
“When he went to Borussia Dortmund, he took the same philosophy but had a higher quality of players so the team then performed much more effectively with the ball.”
Throughout the conversation it is not Jurgen but ‘Kloppo’ to which Bell refers; a sign that the man in charge is not self-absorbed.
“Jurgen is Kloppo to everybody. There is no problem with that,” he said. “Sometimes you have a feeling as a coach that you have to be called ‘boss’ because you don’t get the respect from the players otherwise.
“That might be the case for certain managers, but Kloppo is Kloppo. He doesn’t need people to call him boss and the players will realise what he is all about.
“I just think that he will do a good job at Liverpool because it is his kind of club with tradition and the values that Bill Shankly brought in in the 60s.
“I remember growing up as a young boy and loved watching them play. I loved Shankly.
“When a rival team scored at Anfield there was that sense of ‘How dare you!’. Kloppo is like that.
“You need someone on the sidelines with that total charisma. Kloppo is a perfect match for a club like Liverpool
Not sure what to make of the fact we had two managers now who signed Andriy Bleedin' Voronin!!!
Revealed: How Andriy Voronin helped Jurgen Klopp blossom as a manager
COLIN BELL will tap a best wishes message into his mobile phone and ping it onto Jurgen Klopp this morning, even though he knows luck is the last thing in which the German deals.
By PAUL JOYCE
PUBLISHED: 07:30, Sat, Oct 17, 2015 | UPDATED: 10:35, Sat, Oct 17, 2015
“When Borussia Dortmund won the league two times, they didn’t just win it they annihilated every other team,” said Bell.
“They were miles ahead.
“I remember there was a survey done which showed that the English Premier League was quicker, had more sprints than in the Bundesliga and the speed of the passing was much higher.
“These were the aims Jurgen had at Dortmund: to try and get his team to the level of the Premier League. And that is why they annihilated the Bundesliga for two years.
“It was not by chance what they did.”
Born in Leicester, this is an Englishman who has spent the majority of his career in German football, including four years as reserve team coach at FSV Mainz 05 when Klopp made the transition from dressing room to dug-out and cut his managerial teeth.
He has followed with interest his friend’s Anfield ascension and will be intrigued to see whether Liverpool hit the ground running under their new manager when his reign begins at Tottenham today.
Yet he has few doubts that over time Klopp’s philosophy will successfully shape Liverpool’s fortunes as it did Mainz and then Dortmund as he offered an insight into his methods.
“One of his traits is that in every training session there has to be high quality with a very good speed and tempo and very good exercises,” said Bell, now in charge of women’s side FFC Frankfurt, the current Champions League holders.
Colin Bell was part of the management setup when Klopp was at German outfit Mainz
“You get the quality in training first of all and then his philosophy is that the team would be prepared to run more and work harder than any other team on the pitch.
“The first aim was to destroy the opponent’s game and when you do that, you can get your own game through.
“He likes to defend quite high, the back four pushing up, which meant the goalkeeper had to playing like the libero, the sweeper.
“He relied on very tall central defenders who had pace because if balls are getting played over the top, you need players who can try and get back as quickly as possible.
“And the work started, the defending started, with the strikers who had to be prepared to work very, very hard.”
Former Liverpool player Andriy Voronin was an influential player for Klopp when he joined Mainz
It was in his first seasons at Mainz that a blast from Anfield’s past helped the evolution of Klopp’s side.
Andriy Voronin’s spell on Merseyside under Rafa Benitez was short-lived and best forgotten, yet at Mainz he proved integral to Klopp.
“We had Andriy up front,” recalled Bell. “He came from Borussia Monchengladbach and he didn’t really make it at first.
“He trained in the first team but played in the reserves. He was obviously a team-mate of ‘Kloppo’ and he could see what talent this player had.
“He gave him his chance and Andriy took off. He scored 20 goals in the season Mainz were denied promotion to the Bundesliga on the final day of the campaign against Berlin, but it was more than his goals.
“Andriy worked so hard as well and when you do that, you have a chance with ‘Kloppo’. I remember one game against Bielefeld who were about to score on the counter-attack and it was Andriy who produced the last-ditch tackle.
“He had chased all the way back and that is what you have to be prepared to do. It was that sort of approach from the striker that rubbed off elsewhere.
“’Kloppo’ has a very very good sense of man-management. He can win players over and there were a lot of players at that time at Mainz who didn’t make it at other clubs.
“There was a group of players who found themselves as outcasts so to speak and ‘Kloppo’ did a perfect job in not just forming them into a perfect group but a real body.
“Everyone was looking after each other and so it was possible then to achieve greater goals and play in the Bundesliga.”
There is an obvious warning within the story to dissenters.
Bell continued: “If a player wasn’t prepared to go the whole way, then you had no chance. Jurgen would talk to you in a good and loving way, but if you showed this resistance and that you are not prepared to go over the next higher hurdle you have got no chance.
“That is very important. He has this charisma. He is a very nice, outgoing guy and he walks into a room and you have fun straight away because he always has some good sayings on his lips and he laughs very much.
“But he is a hard worker and he wants to win and that is what he hammers into his players so if you are not prepared to do it, you are out.
“When he went to Borussia Dortmund, he took the same philosophy but had a higher quality of players so the team then performed much more effectively with the ball.”
Throughout the conversation it is not Jurgen but ‘Kloppo’ to which Bell refers; a sign that the man in charge is not self-absorbed.
“Jurgen is Kloppo to everybody. There is no problem with that,” he said. “Sometimes you have a feeling as a coach that you have to be called ‘boss’ because you don’t get the respect from the players otherwise.
“That might be the case for certain managers, but Kloppo is Kloppo. He doesn’t need people to call him boss and the players will realise what he is all about.
“I just think that he will do a good job at Liverpool because it is his kind of club with tradition and the values that Bill Shankly brought in in the 60s.
“I remember growing up as a young boy and loved watching them play. I loved Shankly.
“When a rival team scored at Anfield there was that sense of ‘How dare you!’. Kloppo is like that.
“You need someone on the sidelines with that total charisma. Kloppo is a perfect match for a club like Liverpool
