Man City's Guardiola named in Pandora Papers

Man City Manager Pep Guardiola "failed to declare to Spanish authorities that he had opened an offshore bank account while playing in Qatar," according to the Pandora Papers leaks. Guardiola is said to have "kept almost £500,000 in an Andorran bank account," which remained open while he was manager at Barcelona. Spanish outlets El Pais and La Sexta claim Guardiola opened the offshore account to "deposit wages" from his two years playing for Saudi club Al Ahli, where he was "being paid in the region of £1.7million a year from 2003 to 2005." There is "no allegation of legal wrongdoing by Guardiola," whose legal advisor Lluis Orobitg has said that the account was opened due to the "impossibility of obtaining a residence certificate in Qatar, where he would not have to pay tax" (London TELEGRAPH, 10/5).