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.

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.

Tributes poured in for Diogo Jota on Thursday after the Liverpool forward and his brother, Andre Silva, died in a car accident in northwestern Spain. Jota was just 28 and had recently married his