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Caoimhin Kelleher, pictured with Diogo Jota during last summer's tour of America, has paid tribute to his friend and former Liverpool team-mate(Image: Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

The tributes have continued pouring in for Diogo Jota from a grieving Liverpool squad still coming to terms with their team-mate's death.

The Reds striker was travelling with his younger brother, Andre Silva, in northern Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning when his car was involved in a fatal crash.

It's been reported the accident, on the A52 known Palacios de Sanabria, near the city of Zamora, was the result of a blown-out tyre as Jota and Andre, himself a player for Portuguese side Penafiel, were making their way towards a ferry that was bound for the UK ahead of a return to pre-season training.

Tributes, inevitably, poured from various high-profile football names across Thursday including Jurgen Klopp, Jota's former manager at Anfield, and Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portugal international's Seleccao colleague.

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The Liverpool squad themselves started adding their own personal tributes to the wave of online sentiment early evening on Thursday, with Reds skipper Virgil van Dijk leading the way alongside Andy Robertson, Ryan Gravenberch and former vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Those touching tributes came alongside words from club owners Fenway Sports Group, sporting director Richard Hughes and CEO of football Michael Edwards and head coach Arne Slot, who described Jota "the essence of what a Liverpool player should be".

Luis Diaz posted: "I have no words.

We laughed and talked about it lots.

"You were a special player, a special guy, a true legend Diogo.

It’s gonna hurt for a long time and I’m gonna miss you so much but I feel so lucky to have got know you and have such a good friend.

Love you Diogo."

Conor Bradley explained how Jota - a respected gamer - showed him no mercy when they agreed to play a match on the wildly popular FIFA franchise.

Bradley wrote: "Where do I start what an incredible footballer but an even better person, I feel really lucky to have spent a few years with you.

“Was always nice coming into the changing room in the morning and seeing you smiling and laughing and consistently calling me a hanger.

“Always remember the first time you invited me to your room to play Fifa I think everyone knows where this is going, we was playing and by half time I’m pretty sure I was 5-0 down that was the last time I was ever falling into that trap.

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“When I first moved up from the academy you were always there for me and always helped me settle in with the lads which I’ll be forever grateful for.

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“My thoughts are with your wife, children and family for losing both Diogo and Andre.