A former Inter Milan star has revealed the text messages Jose Mourinho used to send to Samuel Eto'o to keep him motivated.
Eto'o joined Inter in the 2009/2010 season after his 30 goals helped Barcelona clinch an historic treble the season before.
Marco Materazzi reveals it was not easy to keep the Cameroonian striker motivated after his fallout with Pep Guardiola at Barcelona.
"Eto'o had won the treble the previous year [with Barcelona]. Motivating him was not easy," Materazzi was quoted as saying by Mundo Deportivo.
"Jose, you know how many messages he sent to [Eto'o] say 'they [Barcelona] transferred you thinking of improving themselves, sending you here so that we don't win.' Then he came here and made us win the treble.
"I think that year he was willing to do anything. He has won two trebles in a row, things that perhaps do not happen to anyone.
"He did it with two different teams. Stuff of another level."
