Breaking - Elon Musk says he will not buy Manchester United
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he's an idiot
Pretty sure his family money came from blood diamonds.
He pressed people to go back to the factory during Corona, endangering their lives and those of their loved ones.
These are just some examples, just so people are clear we are not dealing with a grey character but very much with a arsehole on the arsehole scale.
I reckon his dad and Giggsy would get along just fine.
I wasn't going to mention that because it was his dad, not him but yeah....
You wonder about his actual wealth though. Was surprised how much he had to struggle to buy Twitter. Asset rich but poor liquidity?
Well he did sell 5.2bn worth of Tesla stock last week.
Poor liquidity ?
He should've tweeted about 4 hours ago, would've sent twitter into a frenzy.
Exactly. Astonishing how much our woe is making the world look at us.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
It's annoying cos he's one of the few people in the world that could actually and easily do it
Instead it's just for laughs... Great, I'm laughing my tits off
Instead it's just for laughs... Great, I'm laughing my tits off
Just when you wonder how we could become even more of a fecking soap operaTo be fair though I’ve now seen Elon musk say more publicly about Manchester United than any of the glazer family.
But if you think about it -- would Elon even noticed whether Chelsea or City had lost 3 games in a row?
I would not worry about his actual wealth. Other things to worry about with him, but not that.
I doubt he even knows now. He gets thousands of lunatics tweeting him BUY MAN UNITED every day - he’s done this for attention. No coincidence it’s done with a tweet of his showing how “moderate” he is politically.
Arnold must be loving the engagement on social now.
He's not dumb -- cunning yes. Not many people have had multiple hits with start-ups. Gates had one basically, Marc Andressen had one.
This box of rocks has had multiple. Granted, he isn't the CTO or the inventor of the technology -- he normally comes in when the technologist is struggling and then he pumps in the money or strategic dirction and helps it take off. Like in stage 1 1/2 of the product lifecycle.
Thats no different to what Apple does and that's why investors love Apple -- they are almost never the inventors of the product segment. But like the 3rd or 4th or 5th enterant. From phones to iPods. They just always marketed themselves as the innovators or pour in so much money in ranging that you associate te product with the company. But I cannot think of one product that they invented.
Musk is like that.
Where his family money came from is on his dad too surely?
What he has done with that money, in the pursuit of renewable energy and exploration, is a fairly noble turnaround in my book. I'm not saying he's a saint, and I don't know enough about that Covid factory story to comment, but there are far worse things people who come from bad money have chosen to do with their lives.
After all, we all support a team from a country who's Queen has a tower full of blood stones and other such colonial loot.
He could buy Manchester united 10 times and wouldn't notice it that much.
So we're all agreed this is happening? cool, let's go.
Yes please, he can launch Space-X from Tesla Stadium as well just get rid of the Glazers.
Politically he is a nutjob -- an attention whore.
It would surprise me that in 10yrs time, he would have 'lobbied' enough congresspersons to change the constitution that would allow him to run as POTUS. The dumb electorates who love their billionaires will worship him.
A bit weird.
He’s an attention seeker
As I said, guy's an idiot but he's got marketing power - quite like United in that sense.
Elon Musk says he’s buying Manchester United — but if it’s a joke, the SEC is unlikely to laugh: https://on.mktw.net/3doIvZx
Elon Musk says he’s buying Manchester United — but if it’s a joke, the SEC is unlikely to laugh: https://on.mktw.net/3doIvZx
If you like your soap operas then having Musk own United will mentally break a few caftards.
Its a shame he doesn't do that more often with his women.
So what does that make him an amazing innovator when young? Lucky? Successful? And of course many will hate him?
Personally I have not thought about him too much until his fake tweet that he's buying my beloved United! haha
I've disliked him the last couple of years and his Model 3 that I have is getting dumber by the day, but if it were a choice between him and an oil nation, I guess I'd take Musk. But knowing him he'd probably back out last minute like the Twitter purchase. Or he's just changing the narrative before something negative is about to break on him or TSLA
Imagine if he meant it as a joke but then decides to go through with it to avoid another bollocking from the SEC.
I'm so excited at the thought of this being true. Will be devastating if it's all just a joke
Why is it a joke? What other club gets this much attention? Would he care if it was Arsenal?
Just thinking the same
He absolutely would love the attention of owning Manchester United mind.Even if he were serious - which he clearly isn't - then there's no chance the Glazers would sell; Musk would fail just as bad as anyone else who tried to buy the club.
August 22nd
Manchester United and Liverpool walk out into a raucous Old Trafford, the crowd is electric as the teams line up by the half way line. A mixture of hatred at what has gone before in the 10 years since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement with an outpouring, a pleading for ONE performance. Just one thing to hold.on to through a.turbulant rebuilding process.
The players.go to shake hands. BUT! The lights go out.
Confusion.
Quiet Panic.
....
The speakers break the now hushed theatres silence .....
Manchester United and Liverpool walk out into a raucous Old Trafford, the crowd is electric as the teams line up by the half way line. A mixture of hatred at what has gone before in the 10 years since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement with an outpouring, a pleading for ONE performance. Just one thing to hold.on to through a.turbulant rebuilding process.
The players.go to shake hands. BUT! The lights go out.
Confusion.
Quiet Panic.
....
The speakers break the now hushed theatres silence .....
Elon would be a great owner. He would do what he does with all his projects, which is hire top people to run it and back them up. Owning this team is not a task for the ordinary.
Well it's making the news.
The drama of being a United fan.
There may be another possibility. Maybe in his billionaire/private equity circles, he has heard that the Glazers have been trying to flop off United?
Tesla would be the coolest sponsor in the league.
Its like adding 'Ronaldo' to the club but from the financial/corporate side. Imagine Ronaldo on the footballing side (for clicks and publicity) and Elon from the corporate/financial side.
We will be a super-club.
Please don’t be hanging onto a flippant comment, let’s just hope glazers sell. That would solve everything
Crap car. Lots of marketing spin behind tesla.
Polestar's a better built/quality.
Never happening in a million years.
I don't know if that's a sadly or not. There's no guarantee of him (or anyone else) putting the right football people in place to make us actually function properly.
I don't know if that's a sadly or not. There's no guarantee of him (or anyone else) putting the right football people in place to make us actually function properly.
Wake up with insomnia to see this. First Casemiro, then Felix, now this. What the hell is going on...
Murtough is already working the 16 hour days in prep like all Musk employees. Maybe it is true.