Diogo Jota, Liverpool and how football clubs handle grief and trauma: 'It never leaves you - there's so many small things that take you back to that place'

There aren’t many managers who can relate to the cruellest complexities of Arne Slot’s work since that terrible July morning when Diogo Jota died. Winfried Schafer can get far closer than most.

He knows that initial sense of disbelief. The senses of confusion and pain that tear through a squad. The little reminders that can stab at a brain during quiet hours.