Elon Musk’s father confirmed that the billionaire tycoon has expressed an curiosity in shopping for Premier League group Liverpool in a bombshell interview.
Musk – price an estimated $418billion – has emerged as Donald Trump’s right-hand man over the previous couple of months, reportedly donating round $270million to the Republican occasion previous to their election victory to assist his return to the White Home.
The pair have been pictured at a number of occasions since Trump’s November election win, from celebrations at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago base in Florida to attending UFC fights and faculty soccer video games collectively.
Nevertheless it now seems Musk’s consideration may very well be turning to English sport. Already the proprietor of Tesla, SpaceX and X (previously Twitter), the 53-year-old is seemingly trying to broaden his enterprise empire with one of the storied groups on the earth.
‘Has he expressed a need to purchase Liverpool Soccer Membership?’ a reporter requested Errol Musk on Instances Radio in London.
‘I am unable to touch upon that. They’re going to increase the value,’ the daddy of the richest man on the earth mentioned, whereas laughing.
Elon Musk’s father confirmed that the billionaire has expressed a need to buy Liverpool
In the previous couple of months, Musk has emerged as considered one of Donald Trump’s closest allies
When requested once more, Musk conceded that his son has proven curiosity in buying Liverpool, nonetheless remaining coy on the matter, and refusing to declare any concrete negotiations.
‘Oh, sure. However that does not imply he is shopping for it,’ he replied. ‘He wish to sure, clearly. Anyone would wish to – so would I!
When requested why Musk is particularly eager about Liverpool, his father revealed that his household have generational ties to the Merseyside metropolis.
‘His grandmother was born in Liverpool, and we had kinfolk in Liverpool, and we have been lucky to know numerous the Beatles as a result of they grew up with a few of my household. So, we’re connected to Liverpool, you realize,’ he informed Instances Radio.
Musk has beforehand described his grandmother, who was born in 1923 and died in 2011 aged 87, as ‘an essential half’ of his childhood, which included time spent on Merseyside as younger youngster on vacation.
‘My Nana was one of many poor working-class ladies with nobody to guard her who might need been kidnapped in current day Britain’, he mentioned on X.
‘She was very strict, but in addition form and I may at all times depend on her. She grew up very poor in England through the Nice Melancholy solely to be bombed in WW2’, he mentioned.
‘To earn cash for meals, she cleaned homes, leaving me with a long-lasting respect for individuals who achieve this’.
Elon Musk (second from left) at a household wedding ceremony in Canada attended by his British-born ‘Nana’ Cora (backside row, far proper) in 2001. She was born in Liverpool in 1923 and died in South Africa in 2011 aged 87
Cora Amelia (Robinson) Musk (left) with Musk’s grandfather, Walter Henry James Musk (proper)
The South African-born Tesla tycoon as soon as proudly declared he was ‘from a British/English not an Afrilkaner background’.
When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, the entrepreneur paid tribute on Twitter – which he now owns and has rebranded as X – saying the late Prime Minister was ‘powerful however wise and truthful like my English Nana’.
His grandmother, Cora Amelia Robinson, was considered one of 5 siblings born within the household’s modest terraced home in Mossley Hill, Liverpool in August 1923.
She grew up in pre-war poverty as a part of a ‘proud, hard-working household’ earlier than leaving the UK to settle in South Africa the place she married Walter Musk in 1944.
The couple went on to have a son Errol who had three kids of his personal – Elon, brother Kimbal and sister Tosca. In addition to the north west, Musk additionally has kinfolk elsewhere in England.
If Musk is critical about shopping for Liverpool FC, he might be making a suggestion to present proprietor John Henry – who additionally owns MLB group Boston Crimson Sox, and NHL aspect Pittsburgh Penguins.
