All you need to know about Jurgen Klopp's first 'signings' Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz

Zeljko Buvac is Jurgen Klopp's 'twin' on the sidelines

NEWS NEWS BLOG SPORT takes an in-depth look at Jurgen Klopp's newly-appointed right hand men.

 

Jurgen Klopp was revealed as Liverpool boss yesterday and has wasted no time clearing out the dead wood and bringing in his own staff members.

Last Sunday assistant manager Sean O'Driscoll left the club just four months since his arrival while Gary McAllister was relieved of his first-team coaching duties and moved into an ambassadorial role.

In their place comes former Dortmund duo Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz, but just who are they?

 

Zeljko Buvac

The 54-year-old is Klopp's right-hand man and has rarely been far from his side in recent years. The pair were team-mates at Mainz over 20 years ago.

When Klopp took over at the German club in 2001 he called upon Buvac, who at the time was trying his hand at management in the fourth-tier of German football with SC Neukirchen. 

The two have been together ever since, working in tandem to guide Mainz back into the top tier of German football before moving together to Dortmund in 2008.

The relentless high pressing and swift counter attacking style of football that came to define Dortmund was partially moulded by Buvac, who Klopp has previously described as the "brains" of his operation.

Former Liverpool loanee Nuri Sahin, noted once: "Zeliko Buvac is basically Klopp's twin, and he will be on the bench. Both of them see football in the exact same way."

 

Peter Krawietz is nicknamed 'the eye' because of his attention to detail

Peter Krawietz

Krawietz has no history in the game as a player, but his skills as an analyst and a scout have seen him become one of Klopp's top members of staff.

Like Bovac, he has been with Klopp since their days at Mainz, and he is credited for developing the German manager's obsessive attention to detail, earning him the nickname 'The Eye'.

Former Dortmund midfielder and Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert, was full of praise for the 43-year-old, saying: "He was great with me when I was over there and showed me how it worked on the analysis side of it.

"Peter is a big part of his team and he was at Mainz with him. He knows him really well and is someone who he trusts to be very analytical about the game. He's someone he'll lean on."

Primarily a chief scout at Mainz, Krawietz's role developed at the Dortmund, where video analysis and rigorous preparation made him an indispensable member of the backroom staff.