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The club, fans and football as a whole are in mourning after the 28-year-old Portugal forward and his brother Andre Silva were killed in a car crash in Spain in the early hours of Thursday.

Players were due back this weekend to begin the preliminaries of pre-season.

However, the first tranche of the phased return scheduled for Friday has been postponed.

“I am truly lost for words.

Until yesterday, I never thought there would be something that would frighten me of going back to Liverpool after the break,” Salah wrote on social media.

“Team mates come and go but not like this.

You always wanted to have a laugh and were a pleasure to be around.

“I know how much Rute and your family meant to you and I know you will always be looking down on them.

Thank you for everything you brought into this world, we will all miss you.”

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot said everyone associated with the club owed it to Jota to “stand together and be there for one another”.

“For us as a club, the sense of shock is absolute.

But I can’t see it!”

Liverpool, who are supporting Jota’s family, have opened a book of condolence, both physical in the Anfield Road Stand and online, lowered flags to half-mast and closed all stores and the museum and suspended all tours until Monday.

Fans continue to leave flowers, scarves and shirts outside Anfield and there are similar scenes at Wolves’ Molineux Stadium, where Jota spent three years before his move to Liverpool.