Chelsea to donate Club World Cup bonus to Diogo Jota's family

Chelsea are set to donate a portion of their Club World Cup bonus to the family of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva, after the Liverpool forward and his sibling were killed in a car accident earlier this summer. Chelsea won the expanded Club World Cup in July, defeating Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in New Jersey to secure a win that delivered a substantial prize fund. A significant portion of the players’ bonuses will be redirected to Jota’s family, with the donation equal in size to a single player’s portion and subject to standard tax and social security deductions.

Chelsea’s windfall from the tournament was reported as around £84.4 million, with the players eligible for a combined bonus of £11.4 million for winning the competition. The decision to allocate an equal share of that sum to Jota’s family has been described as a joint decision between the club and the players. In one outline of the arrangement, each player who took part in the tournament would receive roughly £368,000, while the same amount would be paid to Jota’s widow and family. The overall effect is to ensure the family receives a sum equivalent to a single player’s earnings from the bonus pool, before...