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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 Livepool 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.

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