Elon Musk's father confirmed in an explosive interview that the billionaire tycoon has expressed interest in buying Premier League club Liverpool.
Musk, worth an estimated $418 billion, has become Donald Trump's right-hand man in recent months and reportedly donated around $270 million to the Republican Party before his election victory to help him. to return to the White House.
The couple has been photographed at multiple events since Trump's election victory in November, from celebrations at Trump's Mar-A-Lago base in Florida to attending UFC fights and college football games together.
But now it looks like Musk's attention could be turning to English sport. The 53-year-old, who already owns Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), is apparently looking to expand his business empire with one of the most storied teams in the world.
“Have you expressed your desire to buy Liverpool Football Club?” a journalist asked Errol Musk on Times Radio in London.
'I can't comment on that. They will raise the price,' the father of the richest man in the world said with a laugh.
Elon Musk's father confirmed that the billionaire expressed his desire to buy Liverpool
In recent months, Musk has become one of Donald Trump's closest allies.
When asked again, Musk admitted that his son had shown interest in buying Liverpool, although he remained coy about it and refused to declare any concrete negotiations.
'Oh yes. But that doesn't mean he believes it,” he replied. 'He would like it so, obviously. Anyone would want to do it, me too!
When asked why Musk is specifically interested in Liverpool, his father revealed that his family has generational links to the Merseyside city.
“His grandmother was born in Liverpool and we had relatives in Liverpool, and we were lucky enough to know the Beatles quite a bit because they grew up with some of my family. So we're linked to Liverpool, you know,” he told Times Radio.
Musk previously described his grandmother, who was born in 1923 and died in 2011 aged 87, as “an important part” of his childhood, which included time spent in Merseyside as a child on holiday.
“My Nana was one of those poor working class girls with no one to protect her who could have been kidnapped in modern-day Britain,” he said in X.
'She was very strict, but also kind and I could always count on her. “She grew up very poor in England during the Great Depression and was bombed in World War II,” he said.
“To earn money for food, I cleaned houses, leaving me with a lasting respect for those who do it.”
Elon Musk (second from left) at a family wedding in Canada attended by his British-born 'Nana' Cora (bottom row, far right) in 2001. He was born in Liverpool in 1923 and died in South Africa in 2011 , at 87 years old.
Cora Amelia (Robinson) Musk (left) with Musk's grandfather, Walter Henry James Musk (right)
The South African-born Tesla mogul once proudly declared that he was “of British/English origin, not Afrikaner.”
When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, the businessman paid tribute on Twitter (which he now owns and has renamed X) saying the late Prime Minister was “tough but sensible and fair like my English Nana”.
His grandmother, Cora Amelia Robinson, was one of five siblings born in the family's modest terraced house in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, in August 1923.
She grew up in pre-war poverty as part of a “proud, hard-working family” before leaving the United Kingdom to settle in South Africa, where she married Walter Musk in 1944.
The couple had a son, Errol, who had three children: Elon, his brother Kimbal, and his sister Tosca. As well as the North West, Musk also has relatives in other parts of England.
If Musk is serious about purchasing Liverpool FC, he will make an offer to current owner John Henry, who also owns the MLB team Boston Red Sox and the NHL team Pittsburgh Penguins.