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.

This is one of those sentences you can’t believe you’re typing. In the early hours of this morning, Diogo Jota, Liverpool’s Portuguese forward, died in a road traffic accident in Spain. He was 28. His brother, Andre Silva, pictured below, was with him in the car and suffered fatal injuries, too.

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