Elon Musk 'buying Manchester United' football club Rocketry, energy, automotive, AI, tequila, tunneling and (maybe) social media entrepreneur Elon Musk has proclaimed his intention to buy Manchester United — the organization often cited as the world's most supported football club. Musk revealed his "intentions" in a tweet, of course. Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur …
United are hardly slouches in the transfer market! Over the last 10 years only Chelsea and City have spent more then them and not by much.
Yes the Glazers take out a lot of money each year, but that doesnt particularly stop them buying whoever they want, and that has been the Problem for years at Man U. They havent had any sort of team or transfer philosophy in place, and so they buy whoever is considered hot regardless of whether they would fit in the team. They then sack the coaches when things dont go to plan. So now they have a team who have no idea how to play together, have no spine, no desire, and are happier on Social Media than on the pitch. Hmmm, seems like Musk would fit in quite well...
"...that doesnt particularly stop them buying whoever they want, and that has been the Problem for years at Man U. They havent had any sort of team or transfer philosophy in place..."
That sums it up nicely. They've spent over a billion pounds on 'flavour-of-the-month' players, mostly chosen by the purse-holders and against the wishes/recommendations of the managers/coaches, and selected mainly for the potential to increase the club profile and sell shirts rather than how they fit into the team. They keep offering gigantic contracts to rubbish players to "keep their value" rather than have them run down their contracts and leave for free, but in reality these are paper-only assets since no other club is willing to buy a Man Utd reject nor pay their massive wages.
Given the situation there, it will get a lot worse before it gets better (if it ever does - note the 30 years that Liverpool spent out in the cold)... which is great for neutrals!! It will never not be funny to see them swatted aside by a team put together at a tenth of the price !!
everywhere these days. After his apparent conversion to the Republican Party (GOP) and Manure play mostly in Red then why not?
As for the comment about being stoned. In his new home state, Texas, weed and the possession thereof is still a crime but for the ultra-mega-super rich then money can buy everything (Sic)
Americans reckon that there is "good value" in Premiership and Championship teams, based on how relatively cheap the clubs can be bought for and the rewards available.
When I say relatively cheap, it's relative to the cost of purchasing NFL teams and the rewards on offer there.
I'm sure this will come as no surprise to anyone - but that particular reference can get you into some fairly heated (on one side at least) arguments where you have a participant going through incredible mental and conversational contortions trying to avoid the 'b' word but still telling you are are wrong.
When asked in the ensuing twitter thread if he was serious, his reply was:
"No, this is a long-running joke on Twitter. I'm not buying any sports teams"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1559760618537848832
El Reg creating click-bait articles based on nothing??
There was 6 hours between the Tweets. More than enough time for an article to be written and published based on the first one, before Musk added his "clarification"...
Dont attribute to "Click-bait" what can easily be explained by Time passing between Tweets...
> There was 6 hours between the Tweets. More than enough time for an article to be written and published based on the first one,
Welcome to 21st century "journalism", where a 160(?) characterUnicode code point sentence on the internet gets converted into thousands of 500 word articles seconds later.
I'm sympathetic with Newcastle fans who had to put up with "Fat Cashley" for so many years, and absolutely understand the relief and even happiness at someone, anyone else taking over. Even more so someone with deep pockets.
I have absolutely zero sympathy for those Newcastle fans dressed up as sheikhs and waving Saudi flags. They have no say in who took over the club, but they can at least support their club without helping their new owners' sportswashing project.
To be fair, Man Utd are self-sustaining and profitable and could be bought for a snip at a mere handful of billion pounds ( estimates vary between 2.6 and 6 ).
He grew up a United fan. What's the point in becoming the world's richest man if you don't buy your football team?
(Although he won't. And as a United fan I hope he doesn't. He might be a good owner, or he might be an awful owner. Nothing inbetween. ).
F football. F musk and F u all. The fact he even still uses Twitter is indication enough that he has lost his mojo.
Twitter is Win95 of social. dull, dull dull. Instagram is more fun for occasional and business use.
but f me with a stick, comments on blog posts are DOS-like. Stop it and move with the times. this is like a 20 year time warp on the odd occasion i dip my tow into the smug waters of you old has-beens.
christ have mercy on their pitiful souls for still commenting on blogs. BLOGS! It 2022 for goodness sake. i dont care 1 bit but if you cd all just remove urself for the net we can move things forward much quicker - especially the ugly ones which will e most of you.
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