Billionaire Elon Musk shocked social networks again when he said he was buying the famous British football team Manchester United (Man Utd).
“Hello everyone! I am buying the Manchester United football club” – the American technology billionaire wrote on his personal Twitter page on the morning of August 17.
After only 3 hours of sharing, the message of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tesla Group attracted more than 320,000 “likes”, nearly 30,000 shares and more than 20,000 comments, according to Reuters news agency .
“Buy now, save us from the Glazer family. I think, you will never regret this deal. Help Manchester United regain its glory” – an excited comment later. shared by billionaire Elon Musk .
Meanwhile, thousands of other people urged Tesla CEO to quickly put down money to complete the acquisition of the football team.
Billionaire Elon Musk said he is buying the Manchester United football team. Photo: Reuters
However, there are still many people who think billionaire Musk is just joking with Manchester United fans.
“Elon Musk announced he would buy Twitter but withdrew with unconvincing reasons. Manchester United is much cheaper than the $44 billion price to own Twitter. However, Musk is having enough trouble with the court so don’t think that he can buy the club now” – a comment under Elon Musk’s post was skeptical.
Some others believe that Musk may have actually bought Manchester United shares when the price was low. However, after just one tweet, the British football team’s stock price will skyrocket, so this is essentially just another business deal of billionaire Elon Musk.
The announcement to buy Manchester United by the billionaire who owns assets of up to 270 billion USD (according to Forbes) was made in the context that he was involved in a lawsuit to cancel the 44 billion USD deal with Twitter. Therefore, it is understandable that fans are skeptical about Elon Musk’s “seriousness” with the acquisition of the English team.
Manchester United is one of the most famous names in world soccer. However, this team is facing a crisis on the field and fans voiced their anger calling for the current owner to withdraw. The owner is the American
While Rugby fanatic soccer skeptics jibed what good might come of it when way more people watch American Football than Soccer that’s just glorified jogging. Soccer fans pointed out that Manchester United alone has over 300 million fans globally and can brim any stadium in the world to its capacity. However another user later pointed out that 300 millions fans might just be in Asia, the actual figure worldwide is over 1.1 billion.
The riled up Rugby fan retorted that over 10 billion fans watched Georgia vs Alabama in the national championship with many dubbing it as the greatest moment in human history.
Why do men have to tell who’s got the bigger one like all the time? It was just a tweet. And a joke. Elon Musk clarified for the unversed that it was a long running joke on twitter. Earlier the billionaire had joked about buying Coca Cola and putting Coke back in the beverage stating it would give Red Bull run for the money.
Can y’all retreat to your existential cubicles now? Calm down every time Elon tweets or your favorite club shatters your heart or someone disses your favorite sports as a mere glorified jogging!
