"Owners are mainly criticised, like managers, but the way they've handled this situation by paying his wife and his children all the money from the contract is -- maybe people think it's normal, but it is not in football."
"How many flowers there were, all the memorials, I can almost get emotional thinking about it."
"It's unbelievable what our fans have done and our players as well, the way they have conducted themselves in and around the funeral."
"And then we have to train again. There are moments where I feel 'what must his wife and his children feel now?' It sounds so hard but our life continues."
Liverpool will pay the remaining two years of Diogo Jota's contract to his family following his death in a car crash aged 28 alongside his brother André Silva on July 3. Jota had married Rute Cardoso 11 days earlier and leaves a wife and three children. Reds manager Arne Slot confirmed the ownership's decision, describing the payment as exceptional in football and praising supporters and players for their memorials and conduct around the funeral. Slot acknowledged the emotional difficulty for Jota's family and noted that while mourning continues, team training and daily life must go on.
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