Elon Musk to buy Liverpool? Ugh. Sounds like a load of rubbish, and there’s no way the weekend sport would break such news. Related to that, I think Musk himself might have a platform to get the news out? I don’t believe it, at all.
Now, with serious hat on, I tried it on mentally, with a what if?
I would hate it, and I wouldn’t want it, but it would not stop me from supporting Liverpool F.C. A human rights abusing nation state is more where the line is, although Musk, by himself, is almost a nation state and he is doing a lot to make the world a worse place.
Years ago I liked him, and thought there was a lot of substance there. But he has been a cock for quite some time, and I just can’t be doing with him.
Thinking about things from FSG’s perspective, the principal people are getting on in years, so they are either going to bequeath the organization to their heirs, or sell it. It is just a matter of timing.
John Henry will be well aware that selling to a Middle East nation state would cause uproar in Liverpool and there would be so much flak flying that it would become a toxic situation and a sale would be difficult, on all sides, even if he wanted to do it.
So now the question arises, who has the dough to be throwing at a football club? There could be consortiums and so on, but the amount of multi-billionaires who are interested enough in football to turn the head of a John Henry with what they would offer for LFC… well, there’s not too many of them about.
If there was any truth in the rumor at all - and it will get legs if there is, then of course Elon Musk had the money to buy the club, satisfy Henry and FSG, and potentially use it as a vehicle to try to improve his deteriorated global image.
Ugh.