Manchester United suffered their most humiliating defeat for 50 years on Saturday and the world's richest man Elon Musk, worth an estimated $250 billion, tweeted that he was going to buy the club just three days later. It is never dull reporting on United.
"Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome," Musk nonchalantly tweeted at 1:01 AM BST. The tweet has over 500,000 likes but it didn't take long for the South African and CEO of Tesla to retract his statement "This is a long-running joke on Twitter. I’m not buying any sports teams," Musk added four hours later. "Although, if it were any team, it would be Man U. They were my fav team as a kid."
Musk acted swiftly to clarify his initial tweet, but supporters have continued to message him in their thousands, pleading with him to free the club from the Glazers' shackles. Musk is an investor in private spaceflight and he enjoys making dreams a reality. United fans woke up on Wednesday morning with hope that Musk would make their dream of freeing their club from the Glazers a reality.
