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Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the company would buy football club Manchester United.
"Buying Manchester United is welcome," Musk tweeted.
Musk has a history of profane tweets and it was not immediately clear if he intended to go ahead with the deal.
Manchester run by the American Glazer family・United did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The football club had a market capitalization of $2.08 billion at the close of trading on Tuesday.
In recent years, Manchester United fans have criticized the Glazers, who bought the club for £790 million ($955.51 million) in 2005, citing the team's struggles on the pitch. are protesting.
The anti-Glazer movement gained momentum last year after being implicated in United's failed exit from the European Super League.
($1 = £0.8268) (Reporting by Juby Babu of his in Bangalore, Editing by Aditya Soni)
