Mourinho accepts tax blame and pays a fine to avoid prison LaLiga Has come to an agreement with Spanish tax authorities

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has accepted he is responsible for two crimes against the Spanish tax authorities and will pay a fine of 800,000 euros to avoid going to prison.

It comes after reaching an agreement with the authorities, though it is yet to be officially announced by Hacienda.

The news comes from El Mundo following an investigation by a Madrid court into a complaint against him which accused him of defrauding the state of 3.3 million euros from image rights during his spell as Real Madrid coach.

The complaint outlined two crimes against the state regarding a form of income tax in both 2011 and 2012, amassing to 3,304,670 euros owed (1,611,537 euros in 2011 and 1,693,133 in 2012).

Mourinho signed a contract in September 2004 which gave his image rights to Kooper Services in the British Virgin Islands, who then loaned them to Multisports & Image Management Limited, who themselves subscribed to Polaris Sports Limited, with the same registered address.

The Portuguese coach spoke in court on November 3, 2017, to claim that when he left Spain in 2013 he believed the situation to be "perfectly legal".