Elon Musk ‘buying Manchester United’ football club
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/08/17/elon_musk_buys_manchester_united/
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Must revealed his "intentions" in a tweet, of course.
Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [1]August 17, 2022
Whether Musk is serious or not is impossible to divine – he has a long history of Twitter japes. And of course he also has recent form announcing, then backing away from, a planned purchase of Twitter itself.
Musk's only previous known involvement in football was building an unasked-for submarine to help rescue a children's team from a cave in Thailand in 2018. And when the offer was declined he [2]slurred one of the actual rescuers.
But that lack of a round ball background won't stop some fans from hoping Musk's tweet expressed a genuine desire to acquire the team, which has performed modestly for years as its owners kept spending on new players low. Rival teams, meanwhile, used their owners' oil riches to hire the planet's top talent and win trophy after trophy as Man U's trophy case gathered nought but dust.
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The club's fortunes hit a new low in recent weeks with a 0–4 loss to Brentford – a team that brings a teensy bit more relevance into this tale. Its home ground anchors one end of the UK's "M4 Corridor" – which houses a great many technology companies.
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Brentford is, however, a footballing minnow.
Losing to Brentford – plus other recent losses and reported disharmony in the playing squad – has enraged fans to the point where some would surely welcome Elon Musk as owner, even if his only contribution is providing a one-way trip into space for some coaching staff and players.
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Or perhaps Musk fancies sending Man U to Mars, where the club would be undisputed champions of an entire planet.
Another scenario could see Man turn out a team of [8]humanoid Tesla robots – which are presumably more easily rebooted than the club's misfiring players, and could compete in the [9]Robot World Cup .
Just Read The Instructions [10]pic.twitter.com/BWYzSEE0Q8 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [11]August 14, 2022
If all else fails, fans could just drown their sorrows in [12]Tesla tequila .®
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[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1559691922725281800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/07/elon_musk_defamation/
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offbeat/bootnotes&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Yvy8SRDWbHgW5Czd9wBCAAAAABU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/14/elon_musk_hints_at_aged/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/49ers_ransomware_blackbyte/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/12/footballer_data_trade_case/
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/05/tesla_musk_robot/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2012/08/31/build_your_own_robot_soccer_world_cup_winner/
[10] https://t.co/BWYzSEE0Q8
[11] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1558636751370928128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[12] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/06/tesla_tequila/
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No, it will entirely be how f@#$ing stoned he is at the time. He's not smart enough to parse how funny it is. It will be 'how funny is this after I've done 20 bonghits?' - and almost anything is funny at that point.
420 hahaha
69 hahaha
Memes hahaha
Oh Elon, you're so funny and cool.
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...
I have no great love of the beautiful game, and a scant understanding of the rules, but Elon Musk is only the answer if the question was "what could be worse than the Glazer's"
Just because I found it funny, here is the answer my Manc friend had when told about Musk's tweet:
"Great just what we f%&ing need! Replacing the current double glazing salesmen, with a bloody used car salesman..."
"...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 !!
Yeah good luck with that mate
Then he'll back out because it's a crap deal and spend months whinging in bad faith about how MU's spam levels aren't what he though they were even though it has nothing to do with what he signed while bodaciously stoned.
He is such a f#$ing twit.
Re: He is such a f#$ing twit.
Worse than that, he's a fucking twat.
Musk sees Red
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)
Strangely I feel an urge to mis-quote Martin Sheen in Wall Street
"he's in it for the lolz, and he don't take prisoners"
I'm unaware that Musk has any interest in any athletic pursuit (outside of "horizontal aerobics").
But the whole "Champions of Mars" thing might work........
Re: Strangely I feel an urge to mis-quote Martin Sheen in Wall Street
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.
Ignoring his very next tweet
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??
Re: Ignoring his very next tweet
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...
An improvement ...
From the ownership of Newcastle.
Riots incited might have been a problem though.
On a serious note
I doubt that any for any business trying to be bought by "paedo guy" Musk would be anything other than laughed out of existence after his Twitter "buyers remorse" thing.
And as for the meme pic, what is "econonmy"?
I'm sure they'll find a way to lose if they're the only team on Mars as well.
"But that lack of a round ball background won't stop some fans from hoping Musk's tweet expressed a genuine desire to acquire the team"
I'd have thought that it would be reassurance that however bad things are, they're not as bad as they could be.
Whether Musk is serious or not is impossible to divine
Serious is easy - he never is.
Whether he'll actually try to buy the club will mostly depend on how funny it would be.