Now taxman is after Jose

– Spanish prosecutors said yesterday they had filed a claim against Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho on two counts of tax fraud dating back to when he coached Real Madrid.

The Portuguese manager owes Spanish tax authorities €3.3 million, a Madrid prosecutor said in a statement, adding it had presented a claim to a local court.

Mourinho (above) left Real Madrid in 2013 to manage English club Chelsea for a second spell before joining United in 2016.

Prosecutors said he had failed to declare revenues from his image rights in his Spanish income tax declarations from 2011 and 2012, “with the aim of obtaining illicit profits”.

They said Mourinho had already settled a previous claim relating to his Spanish taxes, which resulted in a penalty of €1.15 million in 2014. But tax authorities later found some information presented in the settlement was incorrect, the prosecutors said.

The claims against Mourinho come amid a lengthening list of tax fraud cases involving football stars in Spain.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo has been called to testify on July 31 on allegations that he hid income from authorities between 2011 and 2014, according to a report in the El Confidencial

newspaper yesterday. –