Elon Musk wants to buy Liverpool, says father
Elon Musk’s father has claimed his billionaire son is interested in buying Liverpool.
Errol Musk said his son, the world’s richest man who is embroiled in an extraordinary feud with Sir Keir Starmer’s Government, was eager to add the Premier League leaders to his business empire.
“He would like to yes, obviously,” Musk Snr told Times Radio. “Anybody would want to – so would I!”
Musk Snr’s mother – his son’s paternal grandmother – was born in Liverpool before leaving the UK to settle in South Africa.
He added: “His grandmother was born in Liverpool, and we have relatives in Liverpool, and we were fortunate to know quite a lot of The Beatles because they grew up with some of my family. So, we are attached to Liverpool, you know…”
He had earlier been coy about his son buying Liverpool, saying he feared current owners Fenway Sports Group would “raise the price” if they knew of the interest.
The idea of Musk buying Liverpool received a backlash from Ian Byrne, the Labour MP for Liverpool and Hillsborough campaigner, who referenced coverage of the disaster and claimed the city “knows all about billionaire media moguls using untrammelled power to create lies and smears”.
Posting on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, Byrne said: “In Liverpool we know all about billionaire media moguls using untrammelled power to create lies & smears to build a false narrative to destroy & divide communities like Murdoch did in 1989 after Hillsborough.
“Maybe Musk has shown the folly of Governments of all colours allowing these individuals that untrammelled power in hope of gaining their support.”
Musk previously joked about buying Man Utd
This is not the first time Musk has been mentioned regarding owning a football club. In 2022, he said a suggestion that he wanted to buy Manchester United was a “joke”.
Some fans had urged the billionaire tech entrepreneur to buy United after a 4-0 humiliation at Brentford in only the second match of former manager Erik ten Hag’s spell in charge.
Musk tweeted: “I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome.” [sic] – a comment that quickly set the football world abuzz. The original post received almost 40,000 retweets and over 200,000 likes within a couple of hours.
But he later clarified that he was joking. In his reply to a comment on the tweet, he wrote: “No, this is a long-running joke on Twitter. I’m not buying any sports teams.”
He added: “Although, if it were any team, it would be Man Utd. They were my fav team as a kid.
“And I’m not buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in, despite the extreme popularity of such a move.”
Musk Snr was speaking on the same day his son said his paternal grandmother might have been abducted by a grooming gang if she had been born in modern Britain. Recent weeks have seen the tech billionaire repeatedly post on his own social media platform, X, about the rape and sexual abuse of large numbers of vulnerable girls by gangs of mainly British-Pakistani men.
Cora Amelia Robinson, his paternal grandmother, was born in Liverpool in August 1923. She married South African Walter Musk, who was transferred to British intelligence towards the end of the Second World War, in 1944. She then gave birth to Elon’s father in 1946.
Former Formula One driver Martin Brundle, meanwhile, labelled Elon Musk an “interfering d---” on X.
Brundle competed between 1984-96 and has become a major part of Sky Sports’ coverage of the sport. He said on X that he is contemplating leaving the platform because of its owner.
He wrote: “I’m conflicted. I like Twitter/X and it has served F1, Sky, me, and people around me, very well for a good while. But @elonmusk is such a daily globally interfering d--- I feel the need to go somewhere else.”
