According to Portuguese outlet Record, Liverpool intend to honour the final two years of Jota’s contract by paying the full amount to his family. In a sport often consumed by headlines and transfer figures, such a gesture speaks to something far deeper than the business of football.

The Portuguese press reports that the English club will make this gesture to Jota's family. Following the tragic death of the footballer Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva, Liverpool, the club where he played,

Liverpool star Diogo Jota has died in a car crash, according to local reports in Spain. The 28-year-old Portuguese forward died in a crash near Zamora, in northwestern Spain, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.