Liverpool players must be given time and space to grieve | OneFootball

Liverpool the city, the football club and the wider community across the globe is still reeling with the tragic loss of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva.

Their deaths seem incomprehensible, and they are a demonstration of the fragility of life. The void they leave behind is devastating. To us fans, to their colleagues, their teammates and most importantly to their families.

This is a grief that will not go away. Something like this stays with you for a lifetime. A wound that you can never get rid of.

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For so many of us, Jota meant so much joy and brought so many positive memories. Some of the happiest moments of our lives watching Liverpool were watching him on the pitch.

He meant so much to us fans, and he meant even more to those who knew him more intimately. His teammates, the club's staff and anyone who interacted with him on a daily basis.

This is a really important thing to comprehend as we approach the coming days, weeks and months.

The team will be mourning, the players, the coaches and everyone in the staffroom will have lost someone close to them. Someone who was an important part of this team.

At a time like this, Liverpool need to be given space and time to grieve. The players must be free of judgement. No matter what happens on the pitch, nothing actually is important.

Football is insignificant.

All we can do as fans is to give them space and to support them in any way we can.

More importantly, in their private lives we must understand these icons, heroes that we look up to are first and foremost human beings just like us.

Everyone reacts differently to tragedy. Everyone will have their own different ways of mourning. Already criticism has been aimed by some social media trolls at the people who did not attend Jota's funeral.

This is unnecessary, some of the Liverpool team may not have been able to attend due to other extenuating circumstances. For others, the pain might have been too difficult to bear. And some may have not wanted to draw more attention from the media in what was already supposed to be a private event.

As a site, all we can ask is for the media, the fans and everyone around Liverpool to go easy on the players and to let them grieve and mourn the loss of a dear teammate in peace.

This is not a time to talk about trophies, about transfers. All that matters is that everyone in the team is given the proper support and care that they need.