After FC Bayern Munich's rapid start to the season, sports director Hasan Salihamidzic praised coach Julian Nagelsmann, but also the newcomers Sadio Mané and Matthijs de Ligt.

In the top Bundesliga game this Saturday (6.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky) against second-placed Borussia Mönchengladbach, Salihamidzic is hoping for the next football spectacle from the leaders in the home arena.

"I think everyone can be satisfied with the start," said Salihamidzic: "We scored a lot of goals and played attractive football." Nagelsmann "pressed the right buttons" in preparation, the 45-year-old praised: "If If you look at the training sessions, it's really fun.

I hope that we can repeat the performance against Gladbach.”

Squad corresponds to Nagelsmann's ideas

Bayern have won all of their first three league games, scoring 15 goals and conceding just one.

"We're not only up front, we're twice as good in every position," emphasized Salihamidzic.

Looking at the competition, he remarked: "It's difficult for the coach to field the starting eleven.

But that's the interesting thing.

The season is long – we need everyone.”

The club put together the squad in the summer "in line with the coach's ideas," said the sports director, who was praised for the transfers: "It was also the task that we all make the right decisions together.

We will know at the end of the season whether that is the case” – based on the title haul.

"We made sure that the boys are good guys, that they have a top mentality and identify with FC Bayern," said Salihamidzic about the new professionals around star striker Mané and defensive ace de Ligt, who together have 100 million euros transfer had cost the most: "They burned from the first second in the talks for FC Bayern."

FC Bayern not only spent a lot of money on new professionals this summer, but also generated proceeds of around 100 million euros through numerous player sales.

The most recent candidate for sale is striker Joshua Zirkzee, who is said to be moving to Bologna in Italy's Serie A for a reported €8.5 million.