Mourinho declares tax fraud case 'definitively closed'

Jose Mourinho is ready to return to Manchester United.

On Friday, Mourinho settled a case of tax fraud in Spain and, according to the Guardian's Sid Lowe, paid €3.3 million in fees after appearing in court in Pozuelo de Alarcon, a half-hour drive from Madrid. The Special One reportedly accepted arguments that Spain's Tax Agency put forward and paid the fees to settle the charges.

Mourinho was accused of €3.3 million in tax fraud relating to image-rights payments from his time as Real Madrid manager in 2011 and 2012. A state prosecutor accused the Portuguese manager of using offshore companies - in Ireland, the British Virgin Islands, and New Zealand - to conceal his earnings.

Per Reuters, Mourinho failed to declare €1.6 million in taxable income in 2011, and €1.7 million in taxable income in 2012.

"I left Spain in 2013 with the information and the conviction that my tax situation was perfectly legal," Mourinho told reporters. "A couple of years later I was informed that an investigation had been opened. They told me that to regularise my situation I had to pay X amount. I didn't answer, I didn't argue, I paid, I signed the papers with the state that show my conformity and that everything is definitively closed. That's why I was here for five minutes to tell the judge exactly what I am telling you now."

United will invade Chelsea on Sunday boasting a four-point advantage on the Blues in the Premier League.