Jota looks comfortable in "genius" Liverpool group as transfer question posed

Diogo Jota's name is the one that is currently sung the most often on the Kop, and it is easy to see why.

It was around the time of last month's brace in the 2-0 Carabao Cup semi-final win at Arsenal that Liverpool supporters' new Jota song really took hold, and now there is no Liverpool game that goes by without the catchy ditty booming down from the stands.

There are players who spend the best part of a decade at the club and never get the ultimate honour of a song from the fans, but 18 months into his Anfield career here Jota is. Listen to the noise. Look at him go.

The Portuguese has become such a reliable force in front of goal in a red shirt that over a month without Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane has gone by and Liverpool scarcely noticed it. What's more Roberto Firmino only scored one goal in that month, and it was against Shrewsbury Town.

Jota is the poacher who looks to be key to Liverpool 2.0, and he took his place among some of the greats in club history with his second goal against the Foxes, the finely taken strike that was teed up by Joel Matip.

That made it 30 goals in his first 60 games for the club, and he's the ninth Liverpool player to achieve that feat.

The first eight? Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, John Aldridge, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen, Fernando Torres, Daniel Sturridge and Salah. Some list.

Jota wasn't expected to be rubbing shoulders with such names when he arrived from Wolves in that surprise £41m deal, but Liverpool knew what they were getting.

Okay, maybe they didn't expect him to be this good, but they knew the raw materials were there.

"The second goal is a brilliant goal," said Jurgen Klopp after the game.

"A counter-press. I love it. Jota with a little genius moment to put it into the right spot. The first goal is really when you are in a goal-scoring moment then you are there. He is in that. Really happy for him and for us."

When pressed on if he knew he'd be this level of success, Klopp added: "We had a sense it could happen.

"He is not a bargain or whatever and we did not get him for free! But we hoped.

"He is still a young lad. We create more chances than Wolves did in all respect. We really thought he would be an outstanding player. He was already but he has improved for sure."

There is indeed that room for improvement, so much so that others should be aware as Jota takes his place in the side along with Liverpool's new generation of attacking stars in Luis Diaz and Harvey Elliott.

Commentating for BT Sport from the win over Leicester, Glenn Hoddle stated his belief that Jota is Klopp's best Liverpool signing to date, an accolade usually reserved for the likes of Salah, Mane, Virgil van Dijk and Alisson.

The Portuguese has already muscled his way into one list of Liverpool greats, and he's making a strong case to top another.