After seeing eight coaches came and left in less than 10 years, Manchester United fans knew their fake dawn. Wednesday gave a different dispute at a giant soccer club: Elon Musk said he bought it – and then said it was all jokes.
Musk, the richest person in the world, said on Wednesday earlier that he was not serious when he tweeted the previous time that he would buy Manchester United PLC, now languishing in the foot of the English Premier League because fed-up fans are urged at this time the owner, the American Glazer family for sell.
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 posted when asked by the user whether he was serious about buying a club when he had posted, “I ‘I bought Manchester United UR ( sic) welcome. “
Although, if it is any team, it will be human,” he added, rubbing salt into wounds for some people: “They are my favorite team as a child.”
Some Manchester United fans had previously urged Musk on Twitter to consider buying a club, complaining of what they saw as lack of investment in one of the biggest football clubs in the world. United have not won the English League from the legendary day Sir Alex Ferguson claimed the last record of their 20 wins in 2013, despite the efforts of eight permanent coaches and temporarily since then.
In the initial reaction before Musk said he was just joking, some users by mocking comparing his tweet by running in trouble buying Twitter, or seemed to consider it nothing more than a joke.
The northern British -based team has more than 32 million followers on its main Twitter account and Musk’s first tweet about the club collects more than 500,000 ‘like’ on the platform within six hours.
After Musk said he was joking, Manchester United Hungarian fanatical club said, “This is just a tweet from someone who doesn’t always think twice before writing something (sic).”
Manchester United fan club Kolkata said: “Once again returns the fact that Elon and his tweet are just a tip. The whole base of fans is fed up and bored with Glazer.”
Musk is now trying to get out of the $ 44 billion agreement to buy Twitter only four months after announcing on the platform he will buy a social media company, which takes him to court.
He has history to be unconventional and post 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.
Referring to the post, on Wednesday he tweeted: “And I didn’t buy Coca-Cola to re-enter cocaine, although it was very popular from such a step.”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.
Side from fans and experts for changes in ownership in the winners of the European Cup three times, the most prestigious clubs are competing.
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