Former Black Stars player Odartey Lamptey revealed that Ghanaian players do not make it in Europe because they are not up to scratch.
The former Anderlecht star is self isolating due to the spread of the coronavirus in Ghana. There has been over 200 positive cases so far.
Lamptey said that the players do not take their time to nurture their talent locally before making the move abroad.
“now the situation we find ourselves in is since there isn’t much money in the system, players hastily leave the local league for greener pastures abroad without fully nurturing their football talent.”
“This is one major reason Ghanaian players are struggling in Europe because we are below the required standard. So after 6 months or the first year in their contract they are released and they return home," he told Ahomka FM.
“Plenty of them have failed to make an impact abroad unlike the 1990’s when the likes of Abedi Pele and Tony Yeboah and others who went abroad and make a mark. Now it is not like that, he emphasised.