Piers Morgan has told Elon Musk he should steer well clear of any potential purchase of Manchester United after the billionaire caused a huge stir on Twitter on Tuesday night.
The Tesla owner, who is worth a whopping $219 billion (£181 billion), tweeted his "intentions" to buy the club and fans of the Red Devils flocked to the post to urge the 51-year-old to firm up his offer.
The club's supporters have been extremely vocal in their opinion of their current owners the Glazer family and are desperate for them to sell up. Many were in dreamland after the SpaceX CEO's latest message, but he quickly confirmed he was joking after he was asking if he was serious.
However, presenter Piers had already moved to tell him he would be much better looking elsewhere if he was serious about venturing into English football.
The original tweet by Elon - which appeared to be tongue in cheek - followed a political post and read: "Also, I'm buying Manchester United ur welcome."
And while some got excited at the thought, Piers quote tweeted the businessman and said: "Trust me on this, Elon - you don’t want to go anywhere near them… if you want to buy a football team, try @Arsenal."
The Gunners fan, 57, was met with an influx of jokes about his own club following his response, with one user tweeting: "Nice try but he only associates himself with global world brands come on Elon do it."
Another added: "He doesn't even know what an Arsenal is," while a third joked: "If he wanted a London club he'd be aiming a bit bigger than Arsenal."
If Elon - or any other potential buyer - was serious about buying the 20-time English champions from Manchester it would take a huge sum to do so. As per Reuters, the club currently has a market capitalisation worth $2.08 billion.
The latest rumour came after Elon previously agreed to purchase social media site Twitter before sensationally backing out. Elon walked away from the £36.5 billion merger last month, leading the company to sue him.
The billionaire is alleging Twitter broke the acquisition agreement when it fired two top managers and laid off a third of its talent-acquisition team, but the chair of Twitter’s board, Bret Taylor, said the board had filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery "to hold Elon Musk accountable to his contractual obligations".
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