The former player of Arsenal and the French national team Emanuel Petit has said that the departure of Messi in France where he was beating PSG has caused a decrease in the value of League 1 as opposed to the increase due to his presence
Messi left France last season heading to the United States where he joined the Inter Miami club
Petit believes Messi's departure has had a bigger impact than other stars like Neymar and Kylian Mbappe
"Ligue 1 has fallen in value commercially, it has no appeal in the market after Lionel Messi left"
"When he joined PSG, the league was down but within a short time the League got a lot of followers and TV people sold a lot of their ads"
"Now it has become different, the league is no longer commercially attractive. Neymar and Mbappe's departure has also contributed, but Messi is the one who is completely gone, no one is following anymore, most of them are with RSL and MLS, until those leagues have surpassed us," said Petit
