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.

Hundreds gathered in the Portuguese town of Gondomar to pay respects to Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva, both professional soccer players.

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.