The way the fans and players conducted themselves ...I get emotional thinking about it

ARNE Slot has confirmed that Liverpool's owners, Fenway Sports Group, paid out Diogo Jota's contract in full to the Portuguese's family following his tragic passing at the start of July.

- By THEO SQUIRES ECHO Reporter

The forward was killed in a car crash, along with his brother, Andre Silva, when travelling across Spain in order to catch a ferry to return to the United Kingdom for the start of preseason.

Jota had two years left on his Reds contract at the time of his passing, with reports in Portugal earlier this summer claiming that the club would honour the entirety of his contract.

And Slot has now confirmed such a gesture as he reflected on the forward's death, revealing that FSG had paid out on his contract in full to support the player's family.

"Unfortunately we had to bring one player more in than we were... than what was the plan," he told Ally McCoist in an interview with TNT Sports.

"That's why our spending was higher than intended.

"The grief of the city, that is what makes it for me so special to work at this club. To work at a club where there is success and there is a parade, of course this parade is bigger than any parade everywhere around the world.

"But the way they conducted, the fans themselves, after that tragedy. How many flowers there were, all the memorials, I can almost get emotional thinking about it. It's unbelievable what our fans have done.