AHEAD of their upcoming Champions League knockout tie, AC Milan’s midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng has claimed that Arsenal lacks the required experience to win trophies.
The Tottenham former man believes that Arsene Wenger’s side is incapable of performing to a high level on a regular basis, and is confident that the current Serie A leader will come out on top over the two legs.
“I’m not scared of Arsenal,” he told The Sun. “The problem with Arsenal is one day they play amazing football and then they play really badly. In the end they don’t have balance. They either play unbelievable football or they don’t know what they’re doing.
“It comes down to inexperience. Arsenal don’t know what you have to do to win titles - they’re always close but they break down. All their players are young, of course they’re hungry but they don’t know how to get this target.
“Without the experience it’s difficult - to take the last step, experience is what you need. To win the league or to reach the semi-final or final of the Champions League you need experience. There’s always something missing at Arsenal. That bit is the experience - we have so much of that at Milan and I think that’s what they need.”
The Ghanaian former international also feels that a lack of investment in the transfer market will continue to hamper the North London side, adding: “These days you must spend money if you really want to have success. At the end it doesn’t matter if you spend maybe £20 million too much - because you’re trying to win Cups.
“And if you want to win Cups you have to bring in fantastic players. Arsenal do have fantastic young players but, of course, if you bring two or three superstars it’s a lot different. Even the other teams get scared.
“If you see the opponent has all these big names you say to yourself, ‘Oh my God, who are we playing against today?’ They have fantastic young footballers, they play like Barcelona - one-touch football and movement off the ball - but at the end it’s always the weakness of inexperience.”
Despite criticising the Gunners, Boateng conceded that the Serie A giant will be weary of its opponents hitting form just in time for the return of the Champions League.
He said: “The problem when you have teams that are having their worst season is that they just wait for this one game to come out of the mess.
“For them to win in Milan will get them out of the mess. That’s what we have to be aware of because there is a team coming with fantastic young footballers. OK, they’re not having the best time but there’s always one game that turns the page over so they’re going to try to do everything to win.”
The Tottenham former man believes that Arsene Wenger’s side is incapable of performing to a high level on a regular basis, and is confident that the current Serie A leader will come out on top over the two legs.
“I’m not scared of Arsenal,” he told The Sun. “The problem with Arsenal is one day they play amazing football and then they play really badly. In the end they don’t have balance. They either play unbelievable football or they don’t know what they’re doing.
“It comes down to inexperience. Arsenal don’t know what you have to do to win titles - they’re always close but they break down. All their players are young, of course they’re hungry but they don’t know how to get this target.
“Without the experience it’s difficult - to take the last step, experience is what you need. To win the league or to reach the semi-final or final of the Champions League you need experience. There’s always something missing at Arsenal. That bit is the experience - we have so much of that at Milan and I think that’s what they need.”
The Ghanaian former international also feels that a lack of investment in the transfer market will continue to hamper the North London side, adding: “These days you must spend money if you really want to have success. At the end it doesn’t matter if you spend maybe £20 million too much - because you’re trying to win Cups.
“And if you want to win Cups you have to bring in fantastic players. Arsenal do have fantastic young players but, of course, if you bring two or three superstars it’s a lot different. Even the other teams get scared.
“If you see the opponent has all these big names you say to yourself, ‘Oh my God, who are we playing against today?’ They have fantastic young footballers, they play like Barcelona - one-touch football and movement off the ball - but at the end it’s always the weakness of inexperience.”
Despite criticising the Gunners, Boateng conceded that the Serie A giant will be weary of its opponents hitting form just in time for the return of the Champions League.
He said: “The problem when you have teams that are having their worst season is that they just wait for this one game to come out of the mess.
“For them to win in Milan will get them out of the mess. That’s what we have to be aware of because there is a team coming with fantastic young footballers. OK, they’re not having the best time but there’s always one game that turns the page over so they’re going to try to do everything to win.”
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