Elon Musk needs to purchase Liverpool FC, billionaire’s father reveals – after he opened up on his ‘very poor’ working class grandmother’s roots within the metropolis

Elon Musk‘s father confirmed that the billionaire tycoon has expressed an interest in buying Premier League team Liverpool in a bombshell interview.

Musk – worth an estimated $418billion – has emerged as Donald Trump‘s right-hand man over the last few months, reportedly donating around $270million to the Republican party prior to their election victory to help his return to the White House.

The pair have been pictured at multiple events since Trump’s November election win, from celebrations at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago base in Florida to attending UFC fights and college football games together. 

But it now appears Musk’s attention could be turning to English sport. Already the owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter), the 53-year-old is seemingly looking to expand his business empire with one of the most storied teams in the world. 

‘Has he expressed a desire to buy Liverpool Football Club?’ a reporter asked Errol Musk on Times Radio in London.

‘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. 

‘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’.

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’.

His grandmother, Cora Amelia Robinson, was one of five siblings 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 elsewhere in England.

If Musk is serious about buying Liverpool FC, he will be making an offer to current owner John Henry – who also owns MLB team Boston Red Sox, and NHL side Pittsburgh Penguins.