Rumours surfaced this week claiming that billionaire Elon Musk would be interested in completing a full takeover of Liverpool. The claims were made by Musk's father, Errol, who gave an interview stating that his son would want to buy the Anfield club.

Fenway Sports Group have been the owners of Liverpool since completing a takeover in October 2010. It was in the winter of 2023 that the club were open to further investment into the club, but the idea of a full sale was never thought to be on the cards.

"I can't comment on that. They'll raise the price," Errol Musk told Times Radio.

"Oh, yes. But that doesn't mean he's buying it," he added when pushed if he believes his son, Elon, would want to buy Liverpool. "He would like to yes, obviously. Anybody would want to so would I."

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"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," Errol Musk added. "So, we are attached to Liverpool, you know."

With Musk - holding a current net work of $425.2bn (£343.8bn) - being linked with a potential takeover of Liverpool, our ECHO writers debate whether or not a sale to the Tesla owner would be in the best interests of everyone connected to the Anfield club.

Mark Wakefield

Usually, when the January transfer window opens, you see rumours of new players moving to the club or current members of the squad potentially departing. This time, though, the most prominent piece of speculation centres around Liverpool potentially being sold to billionaire Elon Musk.

Even though the rumours have stemmed purely from comments made by the Tesla founder's father, it has still done enough to get people talking. When one of the richest people on Earth gets linked to buying a football club, no matter how tenuous, it's bound to get attention.

Regardless, even if Musk was genuinely interested in completing a takeover of Liverpool, there are several reasons why it shouldn't go ahead. And in truth, what reasons are there that it should happen, other than ones that are purely based on finances?

FSG have had mixed reviews from Liverpool supporters during their 14 years as custodians at Anfield. What cannot be denied, though, is they have helped put the club in a much better place than when they bought it back in October 2010.

Liverpool was valued by Forbes at £4.3billion in May last year. FSG can't take all of the credit for that - with the success under former manager Jurgen Klopp playing a big role - but they deserve some of it.

With FSG at the helm, Liverpool have become one of the most valuable clubs on the planet and have enjoyed plenty of success on and off the pitch. It begs the question, therefore, do Liverpool really need Musk to take over the club? The answer: no.

Jack Flintham

Liverpool, like many football clubs, has been built on principle and the values of the fanbase. A lot of the time, these days, it feels like those principles are being eroded by owners up and down the land.

However, the Reds managed to stand up to greed and the exploitation of the fanbase when FSG committed to the European Super League. That was an exercise of lining the owners' pockets for their own gain and Liverpool's fans saw through that.

Musk buying Liverpool would be the exact same thing. He does not need the money and bar a tweet from two-and-a-half years ago suggesting he liked Manchester United as a kid, he holds no desire to purchase the club as a project of love.

So it begs the question exactly what his motives are for purchasing Liverpool should he put a proposal to FSG. Well, the answer is simple.

It would be for the same reason as he purchased Twitter (now X). To further his own brand and push his own agenda to a wider market.

Let's be frank, his political agenda at present is vastly against what the people of Liverpool stand for and nobody in the city would take kindly to the club being used as another arm for that. Plus, just because he is one of the richest people on Earth, does not mean he would be able to take Liverpool to even greater heights.

X continues to drain money as Musk puts his own self interests ahead of that of its users. Don't expect for a minute that as owner of Liverpool that would change.

The Reds must stay as far clear of a Musk takeover as humanly possible. In my view, it only spells bad news.

Isaac Seelochan

It's hard to see how Elon Musk would bring any positives to Liverpool apart from the obvious financial benefits.

His madcap ideas about the world would spell trouble for any club he took over. Renaming Twitter to X, for example, was a weird decision, particularly when everyone still calls it Twitter.

Twitter was far from perfect before he took over, but it has become infinitely worse. The site is now full of bots and spam posts, whilst the platform's idea of 'free speech' has been hijacked to become an excuse to send abuse.

Granted, his Tesla business has been a huge success, but you can't compare that to running a football club. Yes, FSG have plenty of detractors among the Liverpool fanbase, but their running of the Reds has been sensible, and it now looks like their decisions will pay off with a league title this season.

Kieran Horn

Liverpool should be staying as far away from Elon Musk as possible. While his success as a businessman cannot be ignored, how he portrays himself and exactly what has happened to the social platform X, which he now owns, is simply asking for trouble and it is controversy that Liverpool will want no part of.

It is perhaps no surprise there is an interest there given his billionaire status and the fact that football club owners very rarely make significant profit. FSG have been open to investment from elsewhere for some time and despite the fact no major progress has been made, discussions with Musk should not even be entertained.

The Trent Alexander-Arnold situation alongside the uncertain futures of Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah is already dragging down the club and in my opinion, only more problems would arrive as a result of Musk getting involved.

James Quinlan

For all the divisive decisions Fenway Sports Group take at Anfield, it would be a far cry from the chaos that Elon Musk would bring to the club. Stay well away, please.

Yes, he is a successful businessman and with his backing Liverpool would gain a financial might the likes of which have never been seen by a non state-owned club. That last part is critical - the club could never be forgiven for going down that route.

But a step down from that is Donald Trump's best mate. It is a major red flag, the way he's cozied up to the incoming president, the way Twitter was transformed into X and is now being run in his own self interests, and the way he throws money at all of his ventures like it grows on trees.

The man is literally creating AI robots for the service on mankind - all you film buffs like myself will know a certain 1984 blockbuster that presents just how bad an idea that is.

Things may have been off the boil for a few years now and when money isn't spent on new players they may attract justifiable scrutiny, but FSG are the perfect owners for Liverpool. They've maintained a balance and kept them in Premier League title fights for the best part of a decade now - long may it continue.