Liverpool Owners Reportedly Have No Interest In Selling Club to Musk
Yesterday at 09:38 AM
Wondering where on earth the Elon Musk links to Liverpool came from and what, if anything, they mean? It's probably nothing, but we'll try our best to explain.
Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group have no interest in selling the club and have had no contact with Elon Musk or his representatives regarding doing so. That's the latest in a story nobody can say they saw coming that came out of nowhere over the last week linking the exploding car and flailing social media magnate with the storied football club.
For most of the club's fans, that will bring a sigh of relief. For some, more than anything today they may wonder how or why this story came to be, what it all means, and if there's reason to believe Musk might actually be interested or if it's a viral nothing of a story fuelled by the need for news churn and some of the more reactionary corners of the club's online fanbase.
The short version has Musk's father, in an interview with Times Radio, talking about the family's connections to Liverpool the city and, when pressed on it, that perhaps his son might like to buy the club given said connections. That snipped was latched on to hopefully by online Liverpool fans who have positioned themselves as "FSG Out" at any cost, and in turn that helped fuel a wider news story.
The slightly longer version is that following Musk's success backing Donald Trump in the recent American presidential elections, the highly polarizing billionaire and professional engagement farmer has begun to shove his way into European politics with attacks of late most notably on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
As a man with a lot of money, naturally there is an expectation he might want to use some to dabble in the sportsball, whether for the simple thrill or to further advance his goals of shoving his way into politics—sportswashing, albeit on a more personal level perhaps than Abu Dhabi's state-backed purchase of Manchester City or Saudi Arabia's of Newcastle.
Add a grandmother born in Liverpool and, perhaps inevitably, someone decided it'd be fun to ask Musk's father, Errol Musk, if his son maybe wants to buy Liverpool Football Club. His father said "he would like to" but "that doesn't mean he's buying it." In a rambling interview his father also claimed friendships with "quite a lot of the Beatles" and proposed jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson would make an ideal UK Prime Minister.
The younger Musk, for his part, has in the past praised former Tory Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, who more than a decade after her death may plausibly remain the most reviled human being or ex-human being on Merseyside. After recently backing far right leader Nigel Farage, Musk has of late fallen out with the Reform leader.
"Ten years ago, who could have imagined that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany," said French President Emmanuel Macron of Musk's recent attempts to manipulate European politics.
But all of that probably hopefully doesn't have to matter to Liverpool fans, at least as it applies to the future of the football club, as FSG—who may not be perfect but at least aren't Elon Musk—aren't looking to sell and haven't talked to Musk or anyone connected to him about selling and all of this has bubbled out of a leading question to Musk's father and a fairly offhand response.
Now if we could all just somehow find a way to get on with our lives without Musk seeking to shove his greedy, manipulative, destructive ego into other parts of it, that'd be swell.
