The Richest man in the world, Elon Musk has come out to say that he is buying English football club, Manchester United.

He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

Tweeting at midnight, he wrote, “Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome.”

However, minutes later, he clarified, “No, this is a long-running joke on Twitter. I’m not buying any sports teams.”

“Although, if it were any team, it would be Man U. They were my fav team as a kid.”

WOW.

Elon Reeve Musk FRS is a business magnate, industrial designer and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; early investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. Also that year, he was ranked 25th on the Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. A centi-billionaire, Musk became the richest person in the world in January 2021.

Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but raised in South Africa.

His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer.