Ruben Neves was among the mourners in Gondomar on Saturday morning, attending the funeral of Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, following their tragic deaths in a car accident.

The untimely passing of Jota, 28, and Andre, 26, has prompted an outpouring of grief from Portugal, Jota's team-mates and the global football community.

Neves, who played alongside Jota at Wolves and for the Portugal national team, made the trip straight to Portugal just hours after playing for Al Hilal in the Club World Cup in America on Friday night.

Neves and Joao Cancelo, another of Jota's Portugal team-mates and also a current player of Al Hilal, were present at the funeral, with Neves serving as one of the pallbearers. Liverpool players and staff, including Virgil van Dijk and Arne Slot, also travelled to pay their respects.

The Al Hilal duo were visibly emotional during a minute's silence held in Jota's memory before their Club World Cup quarter-final tie against Fluminense.

Jota and Andre were laid to rest in a private ceremony in their hometown on Saturday, with hundreds of locals gathering outside the chapel to pay their respects. Neves and Jota had a long history together, having broken through at FC Porto before moving to Wolves in the same transfer window.

Among the many touching tributes paid to Jota over the past two days, Neves' stood out.

In a heartfelt message to his friend, he wrote: "Bro, wherever you are, I know you'll read this, we've never been this sloppy and maybe now I regret it a little, but you know what you mean to me as much as I know what I mean to you.

"More than a friendship, we're family, and we won't stop being that just because you've decided to sign a contract a little further away from us.

"When I go to the national team, you will continue to be by my side at the dinner table, on the bus, on the plane... you will always be there with me, as usual.

"Let's keep laughing, making plans, sharing our life with each other. I'm going to make sure you're always present and I'll make sure that your loved ones never lack anything while you're there, far away but thinking of us, waiting for us.

"Life has brought us together and now it can't tear us apart. We've achieved some great things together, we still have a lot to go, I know we can. From today on, you will enter the field with me and we will follow our path together, on the stage where we met.

"Diogoal, you are my favourite lemonade! ! Amo-te."