MANCHESTER United boss Jose Mourinho has called for football to be swept clean of corruption but demanded facts instead of rumours.
Mourinho said that anyone found to have taken bribes needs to be punished and outed in a bid to clean up the sport.
The Daily Telegraph has published the results of a 10-month probe into graft in football.
Several figures have faced allegations during a week which has raised questions over the state of the game.
Agent Pino Pagliara, a central figure in the newspaper’s probe, has admitted he lied about current and former Premier League managers taking bribes — and Mourinho is concerned the conjecture is hurting football.
“What I don’t like — to be honest I hate and don’t accept it — is the rumour,” Mourinho was quoted as saying.
“You cannot make fun with rumours and this is too serious to listen to rumours.
“You find a person, you prove a person guilty, and yes the world has to know and you don’t have to hide anything.”