As one of many richest individuals on the planet, Tesla boss Elon Musk is understood to splash the money. He lately bought $6.9 billion in shares to fund a seemingly ill-fated try to purchase Twitter.
However might he now have his sights set on the world of sport? Nicely, possibly.
Musk tweeted within the early hours of Wednesday morning that he was “shopping for Manchster United,” including “ur welcome.”
The comment got here as a part of a sequence of tweets through which he joked about his political preferences, however when he was requested immediately if it was true, Musk conceded that “no, this can be a long-running joke on Twitter. I’m not shopping for any sports activities groups.”
Nonetheless, it did not cease followers of the English Premier League workforce from reacting enthusiastically to the thought.
“You’ve completely no thought the sheer quantity of hope you simply must 1,000,000 followers worldwide” wrote one Man U supporter on Twitter.
“Pls do it, we badly want a very good businessman proprietor and extra importantly we’d have the good soccer workforce proprietor EVER!” wrote one other.
So who owns Manchester United now?
Manchester United are one of many world’s most profitable and standard groups.
They’ve been champions of England a report twenty occasions and been topped champions of Europe 3 times.
The Glazer household purchased the membership for US$955.51 million in 2005, however a motion to oust the People has grown over the previous yr because the membership struggled on the pitch.
Musk is at present attempting to again out of a US$44 billion settlement to purchase twitter, with the social media firm taking him to court docket.
Manchester United opened the brand new Premier League season with a pair of lacklustre losses below new head coach Erik ten Hag and are at present backside of the desk.
Star striker Cristiano Ronaldo additionally mentioned within the low season he wished to depart the membership, citing a need to play Champions League soccer.
