Elon Musk says he was joking about buying Manchester United

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, tweets on Wednesday that he was joking when he said that he would buy a Manchester United PLC English football club.

“No, this is a joke that has been running for a long time on Twitter (Nyse: TWTR). I did not buy a sports team,” Musk said, when asked by the user whether he was serious about buying a club.

About four hours earlier, Musk had tweeted: “I bought Manchester United UR (SIC) Welcome,” without offering any details. Some Manchester United fans, who were not satisfied with the wealth of their clubs which were declined lately, had previously urged Musk on Twitter to consider buying a club.

Tweet turnover came when Musk tried to get out of the $ 44 billion agreement to buy Twitter only four months after announcing on the platform he would buy a social media company, which had taken him to court.

Musk has a history of being unconventional and posting an impolite tweet, so sometimes it is difficult to know when he is joking.

“Next I bought Coca-Cola (Nyse: Ko) to re-enter cocaine,” he tweeted on April 27, two days after the Twitter council received his offer that was not asked to buy a company.

Tweet Musk about the potential for acquisitions has landed in hot water with U.S. Regulators. in the past.

In 2018, he tweeted that there was a “secured fund” for an $ 72 billion agreement to take Tesla (Nasdaq: Tsla), but did not move forward with an offer. Musk and Tesla each paid $ 20 million in Civil Fines – and Musk resigned as Chair of Tesla – to complete the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as claimed that Musk deceived investors.

SEC did not immediately respond to requests to comment on Musk’s tweet that he bought a club outside of ordinary working hours.

Musk’s ambitions range from colonizing Mars to creating a new sustainable energy economy, and in the process he has built the most valuable car company in the world, Tesla electric vehicle makers, Spacex rocket companies, and many small companies. One of them is a tunnel maker named The Boring Company.

Manchester United is one of the most famous names in world football but is currently in a crisis on the field in the middle of an angry call from fans for the club owner today, the American Glazer family, to withdraw.

The northern -based team has more than 32 million followers on its main Twitter account and Musk’s first tweet about the club has collected nearly 400,000 ‘like’ on the platform within four hours.