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Jose Mourinho was left visibly emotional while discussing Diogo Jota’s tragic death, saying the Liverpool forward not being here is “hard to understand”. Jota, 28, was killed in a road traffic accident alongside his brother, Andre Silva, 25, in the early hours of Thursday, July 3.

The Portugal international had been travelling by car to Santander, Spain, to catch a ferry back to Merseyside for the start of the Reds’ pre-season.

His death shocked the footballing world and beyond. The Reds star had just won his first Premier League title with Liverpool, lifted the Nations League trophy with Portugal and married his childhood sweetheart, Rute, just two weeks prior.

One of the many people deeply saddened by his passing is his compatriot and former Chelsea and Manchester United manager Mourinho.

The 62-year-old was interviewed on Portugal’s Channel 11 programme ‘Futebol Total’ on Tuesday night and became emotional when speaking about Jota.

Mourinho said: “I greeted Jota twice. Once when we played Tottenham-Wolverhampton, and again at one of the Federation’s ‘Galas das Quinas’. Although I didn’t know him, I know him so well… his agent is the same as mine. Image rights, managers…

“My new collaborator, Antonio Dias, worked with him at Wolverhampton for a number of years. In other words, I know him well without ever having met him.

“Everyone spoke of that boy with love. He was the player, the team player, the boy, the family man, the way he interacted with the organisation.”

Liverpool’s Diogo Jota will be sorely missed by his friends, family and everyone in football(Image: Getty Images)

Mourinho went on to say: “He must have been a really fantastic boy. I keep saying that I hope one day, but only in 40 or 50 years’ time, I’ll realise why these things happen. It’s hard to understand.”

The Fenerbahce boss is one of countless figures to issue a tribute to Jota following the devastating news of his passing. He previously told Sky Sports: “When people leave this world, normally we all say, ‘Such a nice guy’. Diogo was really a nice guy.

“People in Liverpool know what I’m saying is true. He is a kid who nothing was easy for him, he had to fight to arrive where he arrived. Three kids without a dad, a young woman without her husband, the parents lose both sons… it’s crazy.

“It happened with me many, many years ago when I was working at Porto with Mr [Bobby] Robson. One of our boys, a loved boy, died in a car crash.

“Instead of the boys suffering alone it was like the group suffered together and trying to fight for his memory. It was a boy, Rui Filipe, and we were champions, I think, for him.

“In Liverpool they’re going to suffer together. The club is a fantastic club. I think they are deciding to take away the shirt number 20. At Anfield, he will always be part of the family and maybe they lose a player but maybe they win even more soul than what they have.”