Arne Slot, Liverpool’s manager, paid tribute to Diogo Jota in an interview released on Sunday saying the Portugal forward was a ‘champion’ in everything he did. 

Father of three, Jota, died alongside his brother on July 3 after their Lamborghini came off the road and burst into flames in northern Spain. 

“I think what I take comfort in is that in the last month of his life he was a champion in everything,” Slot told the Liverpool website ahead of Sunday’s friendly against Preston North End.