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Elon Musk could be obliged to liquidate $5 billion to $10 billion in Tesla stock next week in order to close a $44 billion buyout of Twitter, Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a Friday note.

Musk currently owns $12.5 billion lined up in debt financing, but he's counting on outside investors to come in and help add the other $32 billion left to finalize the deal. The currently sluggish stock market environment forces Musk's sell to investors about the potential for Twitter that much harder.

"It's pretty simple, the more investors that bail on this deal is the more money that Musk needs to contribute and therefore sell more Tesla stock," Ives said. The deal has a completion deadline of October 28, which means Musk is facing a make or break week ahead and any selling of Tesla shares is likely to happen next week.

Ives described the situation as "brutal" for Tesla investors, as they will ultimately have to "bear the burden" of Musk's potential stock sales.

The stock sales by Musk would come at a time when the electric vehicle company is considering its first ever stock buyback of between $5 billion and $10 billion, as mentioned on Wednesday's third-quarter earnings call.

But any such stock buyback by Tesla would seem to be washed out by the potential for a similar amount of stock sales by Musk. What’s worse, according to Ives, is that Musk's deal to buy Twitter isn't a good one based on its current price tag.

"The $44 billion Twitter price tag is simply a train wreck for an asset that we peg fair value in the $30 billion range best case in the midst of Everest-like uphill growth challenges," Ives said. Musk agrees, saying on Wednesday that he is "obviously" overpaying for the company.

Recent reports suggest Musk could cut down Twitter's headcount by as much as 75% once he takes over the social platform, but Ives is skeptical that such deep cuts would make the deal any better.

"Clearly, massive headcount cuts and expense controls need to take place on a leveraged $44 billion deal and Twitter is long overdue for expense reductions given the lack of growth. However, Musk cannot cut his way to growth with Twitter and a number in the 75% zip code would be way too aggressive in our opinion out of the gates and potentially set back this core platform for years," Ives said.