Zaragoza cannot stay in the third tier, former player Delio Toledo is reported to have said

Delio Toledo, who is reported to have played for Real Zaragoza earlier in his career, has reportedly said that the club cannot remain in the third tier of Spanish football. Zaragoza, in his telling, has to go up.

That is the claim, and it comes from one outlet.

It is the kind of line that former players are asked for and duly deliver, and it is worth noting how little work it usually does. A club of Zaragoza's history belongs higher: nobody has ever said otherwise, least of all at the moment somebody is holding a recorder. What gives the remark whatever weight it has is the speaker, a man who wore the shirt and is presumably not guessing about what the place expects of itself.

What the report does not carry is almost everything around it. There is no date attached to the comment and no setting for it. There is no indication of what Toledo is doing now. And, most usefully for anyone trying to place the remark, there is no statement of which category Real Zaragoza are currently competing in, only Toledo's own framing of the division he says they must leave.

So the headline fact is a former player's opinion, single-sourced, floating free of its context. Read it as that.