Diogo's legacy will live on, and if players are struggling, the club, city and the community will lift them. That is Liverpool... no one ever walks alone

IN the plethora of beautiful, moving, heartfelt tributes to Diogo Jota, a common theme was legacy.

- ANDY DUNN

Understandably so.

But Liverpool boss Arne Slot, in his own poignant words, was right when he said now was the time to mourn the loss of a "unique human being".

It is still time to grieve.

For his family, that time will never elapse.

The grief for all of us who only knew Diogo Jota the footballer - not Diogo Jota the man, the father, the husband, the son, the friend, the teammate - will subside. And that is when we should talk about making sure his legacy lasts.

Grief will subside, remembrance will not.

Liverpool Football Club and their fans will make sure Jota - and all that he represented - is not forgotten.

Right now, the way in which that is done is irrelevant.

Having said Jota's No.20 shirt will be "rightly immortalised", the club might decide to retire the jersey.

There are other tangible methods of remembrance - his name and image will, in some form, be etched into the fabric of Anfield.