Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been accused by a British MP of taking “blood money” in deciding to work as a World Cup pundit for Russian state-owned channel RT.
RT risks losing its licence to broadcast in Britain if UK authorities conclude that Moscow was behind a nerve agent attack in Salisbury, southern England that saw a Russian former double agent poisoned on March 4.
Mourinho’s television role at this year’s World Cup in Russia was announced a day after the Salisbury incident but the Portuguese boss has since repeatedly refused to answer questions about his position as a pundit.
Chris Bryant, an opposition Labour MP for the Welsh constituency of Rhondda, told Britain’s Press Association news agency on Tuesday: “To my mind, this is blood money, paid directly from the Russian state coffers.”
RT, formerly known as Russia Today, was set…
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