Except Hyperloop which was propaganda.
Breaking - Elon Musk says he will not buy Manchester United
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You know an idiot is defined as a stupid person? He's lots of things, but stupid is probably not one.
He's the Mark Cuban of the corporate world. Gets more fines than any CEO alive?
I don't think he'd do it, but it's still good for us. It brings publicity and attention towards our ownership and that's exactly what we need.
One of my least favourite American Oligarchs.
Fingers crossed it’s true
It's not that he struggled to buy Twitter, it's that Twitter is way overvalued and not at all profitable. Turns out that a huge majority of that site are bots and he chickened out since other than a source of information, it's not exactly anything he can use in a business sense. At least with United he won't have that problem and we'd be waaaaaaaay cheaper, BUT I don't see an actual businessman buying a football club. He has no need for it.
Maybe guys have one hit only. He is smart enough to probably recognise that and then moved into a different role of the startup. Other than his first startup, the rest of his startups were never his ideas or his inventions.
So like in starts, you require smarts -- that's a required ingredient for all for sure but most of all its about timing, funding network and luck.
I'm not concerned with the mistakes or tombstones he's left in his wake. If you live life the right way you're gonna have enemies, triumphs, and failures. People judge, but most cannot see what is important and get hung up on nonsense.
Dear God I just used 20% of my post allowance on a pipe dream thread. What is wrong with me.
I am sure there is a part of him who will love to have the attention-generating machine that is United. Its not that expensive vis a vis his actual wealth.
Cheers, thanks for the feedback
Don't really care about that. I'm literally saying the sponsor would look good on the jersey. Saw a mock up once and it looked good.
Post-Fergie, the entire club structure has been poor. No point trying to run the club like it was in the 90-00s, the whole football world/economy is different now, and we’ve managed this poorly by bringing in and retaining people with limited vision.
I’m not a fan of Elon, but if it meant radicalizing the entire structure of the club and how it is run, I’m all for it, it can’t get any worse than this.
I’m not a fan of Elon, but if it meant radicalizing the entire structure of the club and how it is run, I’m all for it, it can’t get any worse than this.
If he buys, he expect the best. Utd will be top club in the world in 5 years time. I pray that he is serious.
I'm taking that this is complete BS, but is there anyway that this could be a positive in terms of reducing/increasing the value of the club temporalily to force the hands of the Glazers?
8 or 9 out of 10 start-ups will fail within 24 months. If you do startups, you will fail more than you will succeed. Fact.
Thats the difference.
You learn to brush off the failure and get up and fight another day. Most can't do that.
Doesn't really warrant a thread.
He's one of the richest men in the world. Buying Manchester United should be something he'd do on a Tuesday night while bored.
Only problem I heard that he doesn't like bots.
We've got a lot of em.
We've got a lot of em.
Its a dream. You are still asleep.
Seems like that's pretty much what is happening
If Michael knighton can have one...
It's ok. Sure @Hectic hasn't been seen in ages.
I must have taken the wrong meds....
Yep, he is trying to back out of Twitter acquisition, it's going to be a long soap opera in court and it's not clear if he can succeed.
As for why... good luck figuring that out. Twitter share price never actually tanked, so that's not the reason.
Tesla stock isn't doing particularly well in the last months so maybe he regretted committing to sell a sizable chunk of his shares to fund the acquisition...
Else, he got bored , or never really meant it in the first place, or whatever goes on in his mind.
If this is not the heights of Banter FC I don't know what is.
Absolutely. More chance of Elon Musk buying Man United than Michael Knighton buying a new season ticket.
He's cash poor (in relative terms). He'd need to put together a consortium, finance the acquisition with debt, or sell a bunch of the stock he has in his companies.
It's totally fine. Was at a high close to 1200$ or so, now at 920$ or so.
We used to be allowed to post semi-dressed women on the Caf. So count yourself lucky with this wastage of 20%.
That tweet will inflate share price and feck our chances of getting the leeches out wtg blood diamond boy
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/elon-musk-sells-792-million-tesla-shares-worth-69-billion-sec-filing-2022-08-10/#:~:text=Aug 10 (Reuters) - Tesla,with the social media platform.
He can easily buy the club if he wanted to.
Question is, does he really want to ?
He's probably trolling and thought we were private.
Get it done! Done! Done!
anything is better than glazers right now.
Do it, Elon. ( I know he's joking)
Do it, Elon. ( I know he's joking)
He’s just an attention seeking as*hat. It is pathetic really.
I'll believe it when i see it. The fecking tease
people taking this seriously