Elon Musk‘s father confirmed that the billionaire tycoon has expressed an interest in buying Liverpool in a bombshell interview.
The discourse came amid reports that the Tesla founder wanted to succeed the club’s controversial owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG).
Already the owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), the 53-year-old is seemingly looking to expand his business empire by trying his hand in the sporting world.
‘Has he expressed a desire to buy Liverpool Football Club?’ a reporter asked Errol Musk.
‘I can’t comment on that. They’ll raise the price,’ the father of the richest man in the world said, while laughing.
When asked again, Musk conceded that his son has shown interest in purchasing Liverpool, still remaining coy on the matter, and refusing to declare any concrete negotiations.
Elon Musk’s father confirmed that the billionaire has expressed a desire to purchase Liverpool
Liverpool’s current owners, Fenway Sports Group, bought the club for around £300m in 2010
‘Oh, yes. But that doesn’t mean he’s buying it,’ he replied. ‘He would like to yes, obviously. Anybody would want to – so would I!
When asked why Musk is specifically interested in Liverpool, his father revealed that his family have generational ties to the Merseyside city.
‘His grandmother was born in Liverpool, and we had relatives in Liverpool, and we were fortunate to know quite a lot of the Beatles because they grew up with some of my family. So, we are attached to Liverpool, you know,’ he told Times Radio.
Musk has 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 on Merseyside as young child on holiday.
‘My Nana was one of the poor working-class girls with no one to protect her who might have been abducted in present day Britain’, he said on 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 only to be bombed in WW2’, he said.
‘To earn money for food, she cleaned houses, leaving me with a lasting respect for those who do so’.
The South African-born Tesla tycoon once proudly declared he was ‘from a British/English not an Afrilkaner background’.
Elon Musk (second from left) at a family wedding in Canada attended by his British-born ‘Nana’ Cora (bottom row, far right) in 2001. She was born in Liverpool in 1923 and died in South Africa in 2011 aged 87
Cora Amelia (Robinson) Musk (left) with Musk’s grandfather, Walter Henry James Musk (right)
When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, the entrepreneur paid tribute on Twitter – which he now owns and has rebranded as X – saying the late Prime Minister was ‘tough but sensible and fair like my English Nana’.
Cora Amelia Robinson, one of five siblings, was 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 UK to settle in South Africa where she married Walter Musk in 1944.
The couple went on to have a son Errol who had three children of his own – Elon, brother Kimbal and sister Tosca.
As well as the north west, Musk also has relatives in Gloucestershire.