Elon Musk wants to buy Liverpool FC, billionaire’s father reveals – after he opened up on his ‘very poor’ working class grandmother’s roots in the city

Elon Musk’s father confirmed in an impressive interview that the billionaire tycoon has expressed an interest in buying Liverpool.

The discourse came amid reports that Tesla’s founder wanted to succeed the club’s controversial owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG).

The 53-year-old, who already owns Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), looks to expand his business empire by trying his hand in the sports world.

‘Has he expressed a desire to buy Liverpool Football Club?’ a reporter asked Errol Musk.

‘I can’t comment on that. They will raise the price,” the father of the world’s richest man said, laughing.

When asked again, Musk admitted that his son has expressed interest in purchasing Liverpool, still remains reluctant on the matter and refuses to enter into concrete negotiations.

Liverpool’s current owners, Fenway Sports Group, bought the club in 2010 for around £300 million.

‘Oh yes. But that doesn’t mean he buys it,” he replied. ‘He would like that, of course. Everyone would want that – me too!

When asked why Musk is specifically interested in Liverpool, his father revealed that his family has generational ties to the Merseyside city.

‘His grandmother was born in Liverpool, and we had family in Liverpool, and we were lucky enough to know a lot of the Beatles, because they grew up with part 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, including time spent on holiday on Merseyside as a young child.

“My Nana was one of those poor, working-class girls who had no one to protect her and who could have been kidnapped in today’s 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 but was bombed in World War II,” he said.

“To earn money for food, she cleaned houses, leaving me with an abiding respect for those who do so.”

The South African-born Tesla magnate once proudly declared that he was “of a British/English background and 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 at 87 -year age.

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 been renamed X – saying the late Prime Minister was “tough but sensible and honest, just like my English grandmother”.

Cora Amelia Robinson, one of five siblings, was born in August 1923 in the family’s modest terraced house in Mossley Hill, Liverpool.

She grew up in pre-war poverty as part of a “proud, hardworking family” before leaving Britain to settle in South Africa, where she married Walter Musk in 1944.

The couple subsequently had 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.