Elon Musk's stunning net worth amid Liverpool takeover claims and £4.3billion valuation

Elon Musk's stunning net worth amid Liverpool takeover claims and £4.3billion valuation

Liverpool have been the subject of speculation over a takeover from billionaire Elon Musk

Elon Musk has been linked with a possible takeover of Liverpool. (Image: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images )

Tech billionaire Elon Musk continues to be linked with a potential takeover of Liverpool after comments from his father fuelled speculation. The world's richest individual is said to want to purchase a stake in the Premier League leaders after links intensified in the past week.

The businessman is best-known for his roles in the companies, Space X, automotive company Tesla and X, formerly Twitter. In 2022, he acquired the social media platform for $44billion (£38.1bn) - merging it with his newly-created company X Corp which later saw the name of the social media network changed to X.

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Musk is said to top Forbes' rich-list with an estimated worth of around $421billion (£338bn) - surpassing Bernard Arnault of France, who is CEO of Louis Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy. Liverpool were valued as the fourth most valuable football club in the world in May at £4.3bn - just over one percent of the entrepreneur's total net worth.

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Speaking this week, his father, Errol, sparked fresh rumours when he revealed an interest in the club, however the Daily Mail rebuffed the claim suggesting that the Reds owners have no intention of selling the club and have had no approach.

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"I can't comment on that [Musk's interest in Liverpool]," said Musk Sr. "They'll raise the price. Oh, yes. But that doesn't mean he's buying it. He would like to yes, obviously. Anybody would want to so would I.

"His grandmother was born in Liverpool, and we have 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."

As of December 2024, Musk's estimated net worth had increased to $486bn (£390.2bn) and was first listed on the Forbes billionaire list in 2012 with a value of around $2billion - 10 years after he made $175.8million when PayPal was sold to eBay. Initially, he was accepted to a physics graduate degree programme at Stanford University but dropped out to found to technology start-ups during the 'dotcom boom' in the 1990s, one of which was an online banking company that became PayPal.

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Due to his role at Tesla and stocks within, it has been said that around 75 percent of his wealth is derived from the automotive company - which he owns 13 percent of.

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