Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he was joking when he tweeted on Wed was going to buy English Premier League giant Manchester United.
“No, this is a long standing joke on Twitter. I don’t buy anything sports teams Musk is the world’s richest person, when a user asked him if he was serious about buying it club.
Almost four hours Earlier, Musk had tweeted: “I’m buying Manchester United You’re welcome,” without providing any details. Some Manchester United fansindignant before them, club’s declining fortunes of Late, Musk already urged on Twitter to consider buying club.
The tweet turnaround comes as Musk seeks to exit a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter just four months after the announcement on The platform he wants buy The social media The company that took him to court.
hold him history of Being funky and posting irreverent tweets, sometimes making it hard to tell if he’s flirting.
“Then I buy Coca-Cola to put in the cocaine back intweet on April 27, two days later on Twitter board Before introducing the junk to buy company.
Musk’s tweets about potential acquisitions have landed in Hot water with American organizers in The past.
In 2018, he tweeted that there was “secured funding” for A $72 billion deal to acquire Tesla privatebut why move Before with Show. Musk and Tesla each paid a $20 million civil fine — and Musk’s footsteps down As president of Tesla – to resolve The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that Musk defrauded investors.
The Securities and Exchange Commission did not immediately respond to the request for comment on Musk’s tweet that he was buying club outside usual business hours.
Musk’s ambitions range From colonizing Mars to creating a new sustainable energy economyAnd the in operation, has built more valuable car a company in The worldelectrical vehicle Maker Tesla, rocket company SpaceX, and a great many of small companies. One is a tunnel maker called The Boring Company.
Manchester United one of The most famous names in world football but he currently in crisis on field amid angry calls from fans for The club’s current Owners, American Glazers familyTo pull out.
Headquartered in Northern England team she has more from 32 million followers on that it main Musk’s Twitter account first Tweet about club It garnered nearly 400,000 ‘likes’. on podium within four hours.
