Piers Morgan urges Elon Musk to steer clear of struggling Manchester United after billionaire jokes about buying club-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Piers Morgan warned tech billionaire Elon Musk about purchasing the club (Picture: TalkTV/Getty)

Piers Morgan has encouraged Elon Musk to avoid buying Manchester United after the tech billionaire jokingly announced his plans to purchase the team.

The Tesla entrepreneur quickly went viral on Tuesday after he posted a statement revealing his intentions to acquire the club, however he soon clarified that he was only having a laugh.

Writing to his 103million followers, Musk initially penned: ‘To be clear, I support the left half of the Republican Party and the right half of the Democratic Party!’

He then added: ‘Also, I’m buying Manchester United ur welcome.’

The post garnered a lot of attention, receiving almost 40,000 retweets and over 200,000 likes within a couple of hours.

Morgan was among those who responded to Musk’s proposal and urged the billionaire to steer clear of Manchester United, given the struggling Premier League club’s current troubles.

Musk joked that he was going to purchase the struggling Premier League club (Picture: Twitter)

Musk later clarified his comments saying that his plans were a ‘long-running joke’ (Picture: Getty)

Manchester United are bottom of the Premier League after losing their first two matches (Picture: Getty)

‘Trust me on this, Elon – you don’t want to go anywhere near them…,’ he penned. ‘If you want to buy a football team, try @Arsenal.’

However, Musk later clarified his post and stressed that he’s not buying any sports team.

‘No, this is a long-running joke on Twitter,’ he said when asked whether he was serious about purchasing the club.

‘I’m not buying any sports teams.

‘Although, if it were any team, it would be Man U. They were my fav team as a kid.’

Musk added: ‘And I’m not buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in, despite the extreme popularity of such a move.

‘Standup is my side-hustle.’

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It comes following the Tesla founder’s ongoing lawsuit with Twitter after he backed out of a $44billion (£36.3billion) deal to buy the social media platform.

Last week it was revealed that Musk had sold nearly $7billion (£5.8billion) of shares in Tesla ahead of legal battle, which is scheduled for October.

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