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Yet he would never make an appearance for the La Liga club, instead spending the 2016/17 season on loan with FC Porto before making his first move to England with Wolverhampton Wanderers in the summer of 2017.

The then 20-year-old enjoyed an impressive campaign on loan at Molineux as he scored an eye-catching 18 goals from 46 games in all competitions to help Wolves win promotion back to the Premier League.

Inevitably, such form saw him snapped up permanently with it announced that a €14m deal had been agreed midway through their Championship-winning season.

Scoring nine goals in his first Premier League season, he shone in the second half of the campaign as he helped Wolves earn a surprise seventh-place finish to qualify for the Europa League.

Jota’s highlight of the campaign came as he scored a hat-trick against local-rivals Leicester City to earn a thrilling 4-3 victory, becoming only the second Portuguese player to achieve such a feat after Cristiano Ronaldo.

But he would also net in victories over Chelsea, Newcastle United, Manchester United (twice) and Arsenal.

It was a sign of things to come from a young forward who would later establish himself as the scorer of the biggest goals following his move to Anfield.

Thriving in Europe the following season, netting hat-tricks against both Besiktas and Espanyol to help Wolves reach the Europa League quarter-finals, Jota finished the campaign with 16 goals in all competitions as the West Midlands outfit qualified for Europe again.

But by this point, the Portuguese was already in the sight of Liverpool.

Against the odds, he helped a heavily-depleted Liverpool qualify for the Champions League and finished his first season with a respectable 13 goals from 30 games.

The 2021/22 campaign was Jota at his best as Klopp’s Liverpool came within a whisker of achieving the impossible and winning an unprecedented quadruple.

Scoring the Reds’ first goal of the season away at Norwich City, the big goals continued in what would end up as a 21-goal campaign.

Jota netted in the memorable 5-0 thrashing of Manchester United, opened the scoring in a 2-0 victory over former club Atletico Madrid, and also got on the scoresheet in memorable thrashings of both Arsenal and Everton.

By now he was a regular tormentor of the Gunners, as he would prove again in 2022 with a brace at the Emirates to send Liverpool to the League Cup final before scoring the opener in a vital 2-0 victory to put the Reds in the driving seat in the title-race.

In between, he’d also win his first trophy with the club courtesy of the League Cup final as Liverpool beat Chelsea on penalties with the Portuguese scoring in a mammoth penalty shootout.

But he had to rush back for the trip to Wembley after suffering an ankle injury last time out away at Inter Milan.

In truth, he struggled to maintain his form after the setback.

His last goal of the campaign came away at Man City in mid-April in a 2-2 draw between the two title-rivals as he cancelled out Kevin De Bruyne’s early opener.

But with the Reds going on to miss out on the title by a solitary point to City before losing 1-0 in the Champions League final to Real Madrid, his goals dried up at the wrong time for player and club alike - though he would win at least add a second winner’s medal courtesy of beating Chelsea in the FA Cup final as he came on as a first-half substitute for the injured Mohamed Salah.

He’d finish the campaign with 15 goals, but was once again stopped in his tracks by injury at the business end of the season.

A knee problem suffered against Brentford in February, at a time when he was in prolific form, ruled him out for two months and saw him miss the League Cup final, before a further setback following his return in April ruled him out for the final games of the campaign.

Yet the lasting image from his season was the sight of the forward sprinting over to the sidelines in October 2023 to get hold aloft Luis Diaz's shirt and dedicate his goal against Nottingham Forest to the forward, whose parents had been kidnapped in his native Colombia.

A leader in the Reds camp, it was a powerful image and a strong sign of unity and support.

He’d then mark his 100th start for the club with a winner away at Crystal Palace in early-October, only to be sidelined once again after suffering an upper body impact injury against Chelsea.

Ruled out for two months, he marked his return with a timely late equaliser against Fulham, before netting a vital leveller against Nottingham Forest in January 2025.

Top form eluded him during the second half of the campaign, but he still managed to score a stunning winner in the Anfield Merseyside derby against Everton as Liverpool marched towards the Premier League title.
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