1) Austrian-made

Austrian-born, Hütter played his entire career in his native country. After making his first-team debut at Grazer AK in 1988 - the first of three spells there - he made his name as a central midfielder with SV Austria Salzburg, now known as Red Bull Salzburg. He brought down the curtain on his playing career with the club - then known as Red Bull Juniors - in 2007 due to a persistent Achilles injury, and immediately swapped his place on the pitch for one in the dugout as assistant coach to first-team boss Lars Sondergaard.

During his coaching career, his ideas on how his teams should play have changed. 

"Earlier, I was all about possession and wanted to see nice football back to front, moving the ball so our opponents didn't touch the ball once," explained the second Austrian to coach Monaco after Anton Marek (1956-58), who now has a much more dynamic, direct style. "Personally, I don't like to play the ball around with horizontal passes in our own half."

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2) (Young) Boys to men

After various coaching roles, including winning the Austrian title in his one season as first-team coach at Red Bull Salzburg in 2014/15, he moved to Switzerland to take charge of Young Boys in the capital Berne.

"It was a magnificent day," explained Hütter of the moment he guided YB to the Swiss title for the first time in 32 years in 2017/18 following two runners-up finishes. "We changed a lot of things to achieve that goal, bringing through young players and playing an attractive style of football."

It ended a run of eight successive titles for Basel, and established a new dynasty with Young Boys winning five of the last six Swiss league crowns.

3) European pedigree

"Today, I think everyone at the club wants to get back into European competition", said Hütter when he was presented to the media as Monaco's new boss.

Having "recharged my batteries, I have lots of energy to be on the pitch with my team and staff" following his departure from Borussia Mönchengladbach at the end of the 2021/22 season, Hütter can also use his European pedigree to get the principality outfit back onto the continental scene.

Having succeeded a former Monaco boss, Niko Kovac, at Eintracht Frankfurt at the start of the 2018/19 season, he guided the team through the Europa League group stage unbeaten - the first German club ever to do so - before eventually falling to eventual winners Chelsea in a semi-final penalty shoot-out.

4) Hurdling the language barrier

Hütter gave his 'unveiling' press conference in very good English, but is looking to give his French a Monet-esque brush-up as soon as possible.

"I always want to be able to say to the players 'Je suis content avec la performance' (I'm happy with the performance), I had some French lessons when I was in Switzerland with Young Boys, but I didn't have it in school," he explained. "So I tried to learn a couple of words that you need on the pitch, but I want to improve it, I want to learn it much much better. We mostly speak English here, but I want to learn French much better. But I know it's not easy."

He can rely on some familiar faces in the Monaco dressing room to help him out having coached the multi-lingual Denis Zakaria at both Gladbach and Young Boys, and he also knows Breel Embolo (Gladbach) and Takumi Minamino (RB Salzburg). Communication, for Hütter, is everything.

"I don't always manage to speak to all the players in a way that they are all happy," he explained earlier in his career. "But I try to do my best."

While at Frankfurt, he had former Rennes man and Switzerland international Gelson Fernandes in his squad. "I would have liked to have been Gelson Fernandes, I'm even a little bit jealous," Hütter said. " I'm impressed by how many languages he speaks; he can talk to anyone. I think that's brilliant."

5) In the name of the…grandmother

"When I was born, of course my parents wanted to christen me differently," explained Hütter, whose full first name, Adolf, has obvious connotations. "My father's brother died aged 27 in an avalanche, and my grandmother absolutely wanted there to be another Adolf in the family."

He added: "On the one hand, it's tragic, it would have been perhaps better to have another first name. But from the first day, my mother called me Adi, and in general, nearly everyone calls me Adi."

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