Ibrahimovic struck a penalty in Milan's 4-0 Champions League round-of-16 first-leg victory over the Gunners at San Siro on Wednesday.

The heavy defeat means Arsenal are highly likely to exit the competition, leaving the FA Cup their only realistic hope of ending a seven-year trophy drought.

Van Persie has been tipped to leave the club at the end of the season in search of major honours - the Netherlands international has only the 2005 FA Cup to show for his eight years in north London.

By contrast, Ibrahimovic has won eight consecutive league titles in the last eight seasons, and he believes Van Persie should quit Arsenal in search of similar success.

"When you don't win anything for years, people understand why you leave, like Cesc Fabregas," Ibrahimovic told The Sun.

"Football is all about winning. If you don't win you want to go. I don't know Robin personally but I remember him from Holland and what a talent he was - now he is complete."

"I don't know what he is thinking but I know what I would do. I have made a lot of moves in my life - I take it as a challenge, an adventure."

"But if you stay in one place all your life it is easy to play football. You are at home, you are in the comfort zone."

"But if you move to five different places it is a real test. If you succeed that's when you become a real champion, that's when you get more respect."

In a separate interview this week, Ibrahimovic said Milan deserve more praise for their comprehensive victory in midweek, which some observers have attributed largely to Arsenal's failings.

"Everybody says it was easy because it was 4-0," he told Goal.com.

"Afterwards people said they hadn't expected it to be so easy, but if you go through the game it wasn't easy even if it was 4-0."

"Normally at 1-0 or 2-0 you could relax and play out the result, but we wanted to continue."

"We had the engine going on, and for 90 minutes we continued. I have been here a year and a half, and it's probably the best I have ever seen us play as a team, as a collective."