Michael Wimmer admits he was shocked by the power and passion Scottish Football has to offer as he took a sneak peak at some of the rivals he’ll be taking on with Motherwell.

Now the German gaffer hopes to use the energy from the Fir Park stands to supercharge his new side’s bid for the top six. The former Austria Vienna boss has been brought in after predecessor Stuart Kettlewell opted to quit when a small but vocal section of the support blew a fuse over a downturn in results and what they felt was a substandard brand of football.

A run of five league games without a win has now seen Motherwell drop out of the top six for the first time since August. It’s only goal difference keeping them in the bottom half of the table but worryingly, second bottom Dundee sit just four points back in the relegation play-off spot.

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Wimmer knows it’s his job now to get Well surging back up the table. But having sampled his first experience of Scottish football at Tynecastle this weekend, he believes his high-voltage system can do the trick for Well once they plug themselves back into the passion provided by the punters.

Wimmer - who saw a move to Bristol Rovers collapse just before New Year after he was denied a work permit - said: “I know things about the UK football. I know many coaches who have worked in the English Championship. For example, I know Tim Walter [former Stuttgart boss who had a five-month stint at Hull] very well so I’ve followed UK football, but I also followed Scottish football and I like it.

“I like the intensity, the honesty from the football, and I like the passion. I like also the fans. They are passionate. This is crazy.

"On Sunday, I watched Hearts against Rangers. I was also surprised by the energy and the power in this game. I'm looking forward to my first game with this weekend against Dundee United. I like it to work in the traditional club because, in my opinion, the fans and also the club have this passion, and I like it.

“On Sunday, you saw that the fans, in my opinion, they live for football. In Germany you would say this is perfect. I think we should give the fans, with our performance on the pitch, this passion back to confirm this passion. Do you know what I mean?

"To confirm this passion by giving everything on the pitch, showing our heart, by going into each duel and playing with intensively. The result, I don't know, in football everything can happen — but you can always bring the best performance, you can always bring the best effort in the 90 minutes.”

Wimmer and his right-hand man Ahmet Koc got down to work with their players yesterday morning for the first time after being given the thumbs up for their work permits. They don’t have long to get to grips with their new squad before Saturday’s trip to Tannadice.

But the ex-Stuttgart caretaker believes that once he gets his message across to his new team, they can begin their climb. He said: "If you see the table, from third place down to 11th, there are only 11 points between them. So the table are very tight and everything is possible.

“But to talk about the aim, I think it's too early. Perhaps I can talk later after the split. The next aim is to implement my idea, slowly but gradually bringing it into the club, bring it into the team, and to achieve sixth place. This is the aim to get in the top six.”

WImmer built his success in Austria on an aggressive, high-pressing game plan. But insists he’s not an unbending Ange Postecoglou-type zealot who will refuse to compromise his believes. “Me as manager, I’m not the important man, it's the players who are important,” he explained.

"And I'm not here and say, ‘We have to do this and this and this. This has to work’. If the players do not feel confident, then we have to adapt, make the changes slowly. But they also have to know the idea of what I want to see from them, which is to play aggressive, to press. But you can also adapt this to make a lower block instead of press high. So I can be flexible.

“I want us to play proactive football, to play within our principles, to be dominant also and have high ball wins. And my building blocks are to have control, to be dynamic, to be goal-oriented.

"Hopefully this can bring energy into the club, energy and atmosphere to the fans. I think it's a traditional club, and a traditional club needs intensity.”

Wimmer spent 18 months in charge of Austria Vienna, taking them into Europe in his first season in charge before suffering a second term downturn as the capital club narrowly avoided relegation. He also has a wealth of coaching experience with spells as an assistant and youth coach at the likes of Stuttgart, Augsburg and FC Nurnberg, where he helped develop £50million-rated French kid Enzo Millot and new Manchester City striker Omar Marmoush.

His job now will be to ensure Fir Park wondered Lennon Miller continues his own meteoric rise - and provide the Well board with a potentially lucrative future windfall. He said: “I like to develop players. I worked in Nuremberg in the academy with many players. Also in my time in Stuttgart, we have many young players like Enzo Millot who came through. I think this could be one aim of the club, to develop players, and perhaps to sell them, and to get money.”