"Not buying any sports teams": Elon Musk after the Manchester United purchase tweet

New Delhi, Aug 18: After Tesla Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk tweeted about buying the Premier League football club Manchester United, he clarified that he said that he is not buying it and it is a long-running joke on Twitter.

 

 

Earlier, he had tweeted, "To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party,". And shortly after this tweet, he said, "Also, I'm buying Manchester United ur welcome."

 

 

One can never know how serious Musk is when it comes to his Tweets but the hint of this news left Manchester United fans buzzing. When a user asked him if he was serious about his intentions to purchase the club, Musk replied, "No, this is a long-running joke on Twitter. I'm not buying any sports teams."

 

 

In another reply to the user, however, Musk said that if he was to buy any team it would have been Manchester United since it used to be his favorite team as a kid. "Although, if it were any team, it would be Man U. They were my fav team as a kid," he said.

 

 

Notably, these tweets come when 'The Red Devils', as the club is known among its fans, have made a terrible start to their Premier League 2022-23 campaign. They have lost their first two games and are currently sitting at the 20th and the last position on the points tally.

 

Apart from this, Elon Musk is locked in a court battle with Twitter over a failed acquisition bid that Twitter now intends to force through. The microblogging website and the world's richest man are now heading to trial after Musk sought to abandon his deal to acquire Twitter over what he says is a misrepresentation of fake accounts on the site. Twitter is trying to compel Musk to follow through on the deal while accusing him of sabotaging it because it no longer served his interests.