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.

Jota perished in a fiery Lamborghini wreck with his brother Andre Silva, who was also a professional soccer player, along a Spanish roadway. On July 5, the brothers' funeral was held in Portugal and they were surrounded by members of professional soccer.