Liverpool Owners Honour Diogo Jota With Full Contract Payout

• Liverpool manager Arne Slot confirmed Fenway Sports Group will pay the remaining two years of Diogo Jota’s contract to his wife and children.
• Slot praised the decision as highly unusual in football and said it showed the club’s commitment to supporting Jota’s family after his tragic death.
• The Dutch coach also highlighted the remarkable response of Liverpool fans, describing their tributes and memorials as “unbelievable.”

Liverpool’s owners will pay the final two years of the late Diogo Jota’s contract to his family, manager Arne Slot has revealed. Jota, 28, died alongside his brother André Silva in a car crash on July 3, just 11 days after marrying his long-term partner Rute Cardoso.

Reports in Portugal initially claimed Fenway Sports Group had pledged to honour the deal, which was due to run until the end of the 2026-27 season. Speaking to TNT Sports, Slot confirmed the commitment.

“I said how proud I felt about how the fans reacted and the ownership,” Slot explained. “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.”

The Liverpool boss also commended the club’s supporters for the way they came together to mourn Jota’s passing. “How many flowers there were, all the memorials, I can almost get emotional thinking about it,” he said. “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.”