Ruben Amorim gave the Rossoneri a perfect score for their summer business ahead of Milan's trip to face Juventus, calling the mercato "10/10" and describing the fixture as a genuine test of how far his side have come.
Both teams arrive at the Allianz Stadium with two wins from two, so a place at the top of the table is on the line for a squad reshaped over the summer and now facing its first heavyweight opponent under Amorim.
Speaking at Milanello on Friday afternoon, Amorim was unequivocal about the recruitment. "I need to give a vote? 10/10. My players are the best ones in the world. Every player that we signed is perfect for our team," he said. He returned to the theme of alignment that has guided the club's approach: "All the players who arrive need to be aligned. If that's not the case, it's not worth going for a certain player. This is a very important evaluation."
He also explained the decision to keep Fikayo Tomori after the defender had looked set for an exit. "About Tomori, it's simple. We had an issue with Gabbia. I don't know what's going to happen on that front. We will soon have four games in ten days, so we need to be prepared," Amorim said. "Then I had the feeling that Tomori was training well and was in good shape, and above all, he was still our player. At the end of the day, we have to think about our team. For our team, the best thing was to take Tomori back. It was a simple decision, a technical and tactical one."
On the attacking options, Amorim made clear he intends to give Francesco Camarda room to grow while keeping his front line flexible. "We need to give space to Camarda. I think that we can play with three players in front who can rotate," he said, noting that the amount of man-to-man marking in Italy means shifting Christian Pulisic into a central role can help unsettle opponents.
Amorim declined to reveal his XI but confirmed Zachary Athekame's compatriot options are opening up, with Moreira and Adrien Rabiot both in contention. "We'll see tomorrow, I'm not going to give you the starting eleven today," he said. "Moreira has been in training for two weeks, so he's more prepared now if you compare with last week. He's an option, just as Rabiot is an option."
The coach batted away Cristian Chivu's suggestion that Juventus-Milan is not a Scudetto game, turning it instead into a wider point about the club's recent record. "If we need words from him to win titles at Milan, then there's something wrong with us," Amorim said. "The biggest concern is winning just two Scudetti in 20 years. Milan is a very historic club with seven Champions League trophies, but in 20 years, they have zero Coppa Italia trophies and two Scudetti. Something's wrong. I don't care what Chivu says."
His confidence rests on a familiar reading of where Milan have dropped points before. "Milan's problem has not been the so-called big games, but the small games. I'm excited and not concerned," he said. That framing was borne out by the Venezia game, where Amorim admitted the transition control that worked against Torino slipped, and he wants tighter concentration in the moments after losing the ball.
He also faces the reality of four matches in ten days, a schedule he says he has never had in his career, not even in the Premier League. Rotation, he confirmed, is why the squad has been built with this much depth.
From here, the answers come on the pitch at the Allianz Stadium, where Amorim finds out whether his 10/10 mercato reads the same after facing Luciano Spalletti.