Lyon owner John Textor promises the club won't be relegated amidst debt sanctions
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00:00Now, the DNCG will say, and it's clear that I say to the world,
00:05we're not getting relegated.
00:08No chance. It's not happening.
00:10What happened is a warning that if we don't do various things
00:15and we are not sustainable, that we will get relegated.
00:19Well, that is true in England for clubs.
00:22It's true everywhere around Europe for clubs.
00:25If you are not sustainable and you go bankrupt and you can't pay your bills,
00:29you deserve to get relegated.
00:31What I am concerned about is that we have profound optimism
00:35about our business model around the world.
00:37Sure, our share of skeptics because we do some very unusual things
00:41and the world is learning about our business model as we speak.
00:45But the idea that a warning of the possibility of us missing our numbers
00:52could lead to a relegation and making sure the whole world knows about it now,
00:57predicting future difficulty is not what I think
01:01the sustainability governing bodies should be doing.