Is a joke now serious? Twitter boss and Tesla founder Elon Musk is said to have a genuine interest in buying top English club Manchester United.
Manchester – Is a joke now actually serious? Twitter boss and multi-billionaire Elon Musk (51) is said to be genuinely interested in buying the top English club Manchester United have. However, time is pressing.
Will Elon Musk (51) soon own a coveted football club? © Carina Johansen / NTB / AFP
This is reported by the British newspaper Daily Mail, citing sources close to the potential mega deal.
Accordingly, the Tesla and SpaceX founder is monitoring the situation at the “Red Devils” very closely and would apparently be willing to make a short-term offer for the Premier League giants.
At the end of November, the Glazer family, who currently own United, put the club up for sale.
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The fun is said to cost the equivalent of a whopping five billion euros, which would make Musk one of the few people who could even afford the club. The fortune of the 51-year-old entrepreneur is estimated by “Forbes” magazine at around 188 billion euros.
However, the moody entrepreneur only has until Friday to submit his offer to the American brothers Joel (55) and Avram Glazer (62), because then the deadline will expire.
In addition to Musk, about a dozen other parties are said to have expressed their interest, including conglomerates from Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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Manchester United is still owned by the brothers Avram (62, left) and Joel Glazer (55). © OLI SCARFF / AFP
The South African-born magnate’s intention to buy does not come as a complete surprise, because Musk commented on the subject last August as a result of the protests by numerous United supporters against the Glazers – at the time it was still joking.
On Twitter, he added the sentence to a political debate: “I’m also buying Manchester United, you’re welcome.”
However, he then quickly made it clear that the tweet was just a running gag and that he was not in the process of acquiring a sports team.
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Nevertheless, he fueled the speculation with another Twitter message: “Although if it were any team, it would be ManU. They were my favorite team as a child.”
Should Manchester United go over the counter for more than 4.26 billion euros, the third-placed table in the English House of Lords would become the most expensive sports club in the world and oust the Denver Broncos from the throne.
That was only about six months ago NFLfranchise has been sold to the Walton-Penner Group for the sum stated.
