Adi Hütter has not yet earned a point or even a competitive win in his new role as coach of Borussia Mönchengladbach, but that did not prevent the supporters from the Lower Rhine region from celebrating the Austrian on Saturday.

“Aaaadi Hütter” shouted the people after just a few minutes of the friendly against FC Groningen, which the Bundesliga club won 2-1 in the end.

“That was good, of course,” said the Austrian newcomer later politely, but he was not entirely at ease with the reception: “We are measured when it comes to points, and I would prefer if we win a lot of games and they use the name then call. ”The former trainer from Eintracht Frankfurt had certainly also heard the expletives with which his predecessor was insulted.

Marco Rose no longer has any friends among the fundamentalists of the Gladbacher Nordkurve after he defected to BVB with the help of an exit clause.

That Hütter's move to Borussia followed similar mechanisms - what the heck.

Emotions quickly boil in Mönchengladbach, that is what Hütter knows at the end of this preparation for the season.

Many other questions are still open before the first competitive game next Monday (8.45 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the DFB Cup, on ARD and Sky) in the DFB Cup at 1. FC Kaiserslautern.

EM driver back shortly

Apart from 18-year-old Joe Scully, FC Groningen was not only played by the strongest team available at the moment, but also by an ensemble that could have played the same way last year.

Nine of the eleven starting eleven have been with the tribe for two or more years, and the 4-2-3-1 system is also very familiar to the public.

It would not be surprising if this team played in Kaiserslautern next Monday and also reminiscent of the recent past in terms of style.

"From the head" his team was already ready to play the more aggressive and perhaps more risk-taking football that he had in mind, said Hütter.

But because the many EM participants have only been there for a few days and have to catch up on their training deficit, this will only gradually become more apparent.

Like so many of his colleagues across the continent, Hütter first has to be patient. In the first tests he had to improvise due to the thinned out squad, and against Groningen Borussia "ran after the ball too often, I didn't like that very much," complained Hütter. In his first few weeks at Borussia, the Austrian got to know talents like Scully, Rocco Reitz and Keanan Bennetts, but is happy that “everyone is now there to work on many of the screws that we still need”. Although that is not entirely correct. Because it is still quite unclear where in the squad there will be changes.

Sports director Max Eberl is actually a very far-sighted planner, in the past he had usually completed all the important transfers in the spring and was able to relax and watch in the summer weeks how the competition concluded increasingly nervous deals.

The fact that currently only Paris St. Germain and the traditionally very late-acting English clubs are spending larger sums paralyzes the whole business this year, because for many transfers only the fresh money from Manchester, London or Liverpool is fed into the system got to.

Hütter still maintained that he himself was quite relaxed, “if Max is a little more impatient, who doesn't even know it in the form”.

Who has which offers?

So far, only smaller deals are about to be concluded. It is becoming apparent that the 18-year-old full-back Luca Netz from Hertha BSC is coming to the Lower Rhine for a fee of four million euros. Nobody wants to officially confirm this, but the new Berlin manager Fredi Bobic told the Berliner Kurier: “It's going in that direction. We wish him all the best. ”But other calibers are more important for the character of the future squad.

There are rumors about offers for Denis Zakaria, Jonas Hofmann, Alassane Pléa, Matthias Ginter and Florian Neuhaus. Only with large income from these players could more prominent successor candidates be financed. The French winger Romain Faivre from Stade Brest, whose market value is around 13 million euros, is mentioned again and again, but everyone is still standing still. In Mönchengladbach, not only the first games in Kaiserslautern and against FC Bayern at the Bundesliga start will be interesting, but also Eberl's upcoming transfer market activities.