JOSE MOURINHO brought up Alexis Sanchez’s whopping wage packet in front of jealous team-mates as a motivational tool, according to reports.
The Manchester United flop is heading to Inter Milan on loan to end a torrid spell at Old Trafford.
And The Athletic claims Mourinho dished out some Special treatment in a failed attempt to get the best out of Sanchez, 30.
Their report adds that he used to refer to the forward as “Chileno” instead of using his name.
Sanchez was an isolated figure at United but is set for a reunion with Romelu Lukaku, who he did get on with, in Serie A.
He earns around £505,000-a-week at Old Trafford and it is claimed the club will pay around 60 per cent of that for the duration of his loan.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is short of strikers and has seen Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba both miss penalties recently.
But the decision has been made to offload Sanchez and save some money on wages.
Chris Smalling is also off to Italy after agreeing a shock move to Roma.
Solskjaer shelled out £85million to sign Harry Maguire this summer in a desperate effort to fix a leaky defence.
