AC Milan hero Alessandro Nesta admits players left the club in recent years due to a lack of ambition.

Nesta discussed Silvio Berlusconi's sale of Milan with Gazzetta dello Sport.

“In recent years there was a lot of chaos and the club wasn't used to operating in emergency conditions

“There was confusion about roles in the club, and the Coaches were changed so many times. It was always them who paid, unfairly.

“I wonder, if the fourth or fifth Coach doesn't work, maybe you should think that it's not always the fault of the person on the bench?

“Now they have to change gears from the past. I don't know [the Chinese owners], to judge them we first need to understand how they work.

“I still have a feeling of perplexity though, it seems to me that Inter's owners are more active. It'll certainly be tough to return Milan to the Champions League, they'll have to spend a lot.

“I'd build from a group of mentally strong Italians, and whoever comes in lines up behind them. That's how it was in my time, and that's how it is at Juve now.

“The secret of that Milan was mentality, more than technique. We were always ready to play big games like Athens. We were always ready for the highest tension and knew how to handle it.

“What changed? It's simple: players age and you need to have the strength to replace them with players of the same level.

“If you can't afford them, you start losing ground. A bad signal, for example, was the transfer of Ibra [Zlatan Ibrahimovic] and Thiago Silva.

“I and many others stopped for personal reasons, they left because of the club's financial choices. A sign of weakness."