Liverpool 'to pay up Diogo Jota contract' as players arrive for funeral

Liverpool will reportedly offer the wages remaining on Diogo Jota's contract to his grieving family. The Portuguese star and his brother Andre died in the early hours of Thursday morning following a car crash in Spain.

After signing for Liverpool in 2020 in a £41million deal, the forward was offered a contract extension two years later. He was said to be on wages of around £140,000-a-week plus bonuses. At the time of his passing, he'd scored 65 club goals in 182 appearances.

According to Record, Liverpool now intend to pay up on the final two years of his deal to Jota's family. Only last month, he married long-term partner Rute Cardoso, with the couple having three children together.

The news comes on the day that the funerals of the two brothers take place in Gondomar in Portugal. A host of Liverpool players and Jota's former team-mates have been filmed arriving at the church this morning, the club captain Virgil van Dijk carrying a No.20 shirt with him.

Former captain of the Reds, Jordan Henderson, is also among the mourners while manager Arne Slot walked into the church with current first-team players Joe Gomez, Ibrahima Konate and Endo.

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