In a Liverpool season littered with disappointment, it’s hard not to feel sorry for Diogo Jota.
The Portuguese had enjoyed the campaign of his life in 2021/22 as the Reds went agonisingly close to winning an unprecedented quadruple, scoring an impressive 21 goals along the way. Such form would even earn him a new long-term contract, but injuries would ensure he never had the opportunity to build on such a return in 2022/23.
Joining from Wolves in the summer of 2020, the popular forward has essentially done the unthinkable at Anfield by breaking up the previously untouchable attacking triumvirate of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, and Sadio Mane. But his reward for his goalscoring heroics was seeing Jurgen Klopp bring in first Luis Diaz in January 2022, then Darwin Nunez in a potential club-record deal last summer following the departure of the Senegalese.
