Why does Elon Musk want to buy Liverpool football club?

How foolish was I to think that football - with it’s multitude of state-controlled clubs, an unpredictable leader saying he ‘feels like a refugee’, lack of women’s investment, rampant racism, stadium workers' deaths and all the rest - was mad enough?

It turns out, very foolish indeed. Because this is not the end of the road, and I don’t even know when we passed the starting line; I could tell you where we’re all headed for, but AS USA happily welcomes plenty of younger readers.

Back to today’s goings on. Elon Musk, or rather his father, has told a British radio journalist that his son would “obviously” like to buy Liverpool Football Club.

Yes, you read that right: the Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter owner, the man who wants to send people to Mars, sit on Donald Trump’s White House Cabinet, create hydrogen/electric vehicles and pump far-right propaganda all at the same time, would love nothing more than to see an AI robot in the red shirt of the 19-time English champions stick a free-kick past Leeds United at Anfield.

Musk ‘obviously’ wants to buy Liverpool FC

When asked by Kait Borsay of Times Radio, Errol Musk said that he couldn’t comment on the question of whether Elon plans to buy the club as “[FSG] will raise the price” in a potential negotiation, while adding that “anyone would want to” buy the club.

This is not the first time Elon has made the news regarding England and the United Kingdom as a whole. The owner of Twitter, now rebranded as X, has been vocal online regarding the politics of the place he has nothing to do with, as well as EU matters.

He has retweeted anti-BBC propaganda and repeatedly endorsed the far-right, including news outlet GB News and the political party Reform UK, a group with a heavily anti-immigration outlook, despite their leader’s wife and children reportedly holding EU passports. He has also criticised the current Labour government and called for the prison release of Stephen Yaxley, also known as Tommy Robinson, an anti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK’s most prominent far-right activists.

For now, Liverpool fans, Musk is not buying Liverpool. However, the noises he continues to make in Europe and across the UK are very loud indeed, and it remains to be seen just how much of a role he plays in Donald Trump’s upcoming White House cabinet later this month. And if he does end up buying Liverpool, someone really ought to tell him just what the folks over in England’s northwest think about Farage and Mr Robinson.

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