Liverpool brag Arne Slot has released an affectional connection pursuing the decease of Diogo Jota.
In a connection released by the club, Slot said: "What to say? What tin anyone accidental astatine a clip similar this erstwhile the daze and the symptom is truthful incredibly raw? I privation I had the words but I cognize I bash not.
"All I person are feelings that I cognize truthful galore radical volition stock astir a idiosyncratic and a subordinate we loved dearly and a household we attraction truthful overmuch about.
"My archetypal thoughts are not those of a shot manager. They are of a father, a son, a member and an uncle and they beryllium to the household of Diogo and Andre Silva who person experienced specified an unimaginable loss.
"My connection to them is precise wide – you volition ne'er locomotion alone. The players, the staff, the supporters of Liverpool Football Club are each with you and from what I person seen today, the aforesaid tin beryllium said of the wider household of football.
"This is not solely a effect to tragedy. It is besides a absorption to the goodness of the radical progressive and the respect that truthful galore person for the boys arsenic individuals and for the household arsenic a whole.
"For america arsenic a club, the consciousness of daze is absolute. Diogo was not conscionable our player. He was a loved 1 to each of us. He was a teammate, a colleague, a workmate and successful each of those roles helium was precise special.
"I could accidental truthful overmuch astir what helium brought to our squad but the information is everyone who watched Diogo play could spot it. Hard work, desire, commitment, large quality, goals. The essence of what a Liverpool subordinate should be.
"There were besides the parts that not everyone got to see. The idiosyncratic who ne'er sought popularity but recovered it anyway. Not a person to 2 people, a person to everyone. Someone who made others consciousness bully astir themselves conscionable by being with them. A idiosyncratic who cared profoundly for his family.
"The past clip we spoke, I congratulated Diogo connected winning the Nations League and wished him luck for his forthcoming wedding. In galore ways, it was a imagination summertime for Diogo and his family, which makes it each the much heartbreaking that it should extremity similar this.
"When I archetypal came to the club, 1 of the archetypal songs I got to cognize was the 1 that our fans sing for Diogo. I had not worked with him antecedently but I knew consecutive distant that if the Liverpool supporters, who person seen truthful galore large players implicit the years, had specified a unsocial chant for Diogo, helium indispensable person peculiar qualities.
"That we person mislaid those qualities successful specified unspeakable circumstances is thing we person not yet travel to presumption with. For this reason, we request everyone astatine the nine to basal unneurotic and to beryllium determination for 1 another. We beryllium this to Diogo, to Andre Silva, to their wider household and to ourselves.
"My condolences spell to Diogo’s wife, Rute, their 3 beauteous children and to the parents of Diogo and Andre Silva.
"When the clip is right, we volition observe Diogo Jota, we volition retrieve his goals and we volition sing his song. For the clip being, we volition retrieve him arsenic a unsocial quality being and mourn his loss. He volition ne'er beryllium forgotten.
"His sanction is Diogo."
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