{"id":615551,"date":"2022-08-02T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=615551"},"modified":"2022-08-02T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T15:34:08","slug":"liverpool-forward-diogo-jota-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/02\/liverpool-forward-diogo-jota-new-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Forward Signs New Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/07\/01\/liverpool-forward-mohamed-salah-contract-extension\/\" target=\"_self\">Liverpool<\/a> striker Diogo Jota has put pen to paper on a new contract with the club. The news was announced on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.com\/news\/diogo-jota-signs-new-long-term-contract-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">club website<\/a>, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1554422687820398594?s=20&amp;t=xF1FnadKpCEeEiW4CQ31JQ\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano reporting<\/a> that the deal will run until 2027.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are delighted to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiogoJota18?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DiogoJota18<\/a> has signed a new long-term contract with the Reds \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Liverpool FC (@LFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LFC\/status\/1554421579181867008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Diogo Jota Signs Contract Extension With Liverpool<\/h2>\n<h3>Jota says Signing was a &#8216;No-Brainer&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>In an interview on the club website, the Portuguese international said that the decision to sign a new contract was &#8220;a no-brainer&#8221;, saying: &#8220;Obviously [this is] one of the best clubs in the world. Last year was good for me and for the team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attacker <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/11\/29\/jota-latest-liverpool-transfer-genius\/\" target=\"_self\">signed from Wolves<\/a> in 2020 for \u00a340 million and made an instant impact in the Liverpool frontline. With ten minutes left, he came off the bench to bag a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aZKbW8L3O-8\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debut goal<\/a> and clinch a 3-1 win against Arsenal. Last season, Jota netted 21 times in a Liverpool shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Jota faces a setback heading into the new season, having missed the pre-season with a hamstring injury. In an interview with the club, Jota said: &#8220;Unfortunately for me, I had an upset in pre-season because I got injured playing with Portugal. Coming back in pre-season, I felt it a little bit again. So it will be a few more weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official. Diogo Jota has signed a new long-term contract with Liverpool, as confirmed by club statement. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diogo Jota\u2019s new deal with LFC will be valid until June 2027. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sOVztlZ5Xv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/sOVztlZ5Xv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1554422687820398594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, with the additions of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/30\/liverpool-sign-luis-diaz\/\" target=\"_self\">Luis Diaz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/09\/darwin-nunez-liverpool-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Darwin Nunez<\/a> to the frontline, Jota will return with competition for places as hot as ever. When questioned about the quality of his peers, Jota added: &#8220;I think it makes everyone better each day when you go out there and you have world-class quality all over the place. It helps you and we all get better each day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the striker is ready to fight again. He continued: &#8220;When you fight for everything, like we did last year, you just want to do it again and to do it better because it\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That drive is in me and I know it\u2019s in my teammates and all the staff. We have everything to fight for those titles out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool striker Diogo Jota has put pen to paper on a new contract with the club. The news was announced on the club website, with\u00a0Fabrizio Romano reporting that the deal will run until 2027. We are delighted to announce that @DiogoJota18 has signed a new long-term contract with the Reds \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9 &mdash; Liverpool FC (@LFC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4226,"featured_media":615574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2,30,3],"tags":[1556],"class_list":["post-615551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool","category-featured","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-diogo-jota"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}