Jürgen Klopp

That was the saddest day of last year.

And how do you replace somebody like Diogo?

It's not about the player itself, it's about the guy he was.

He was good with absolutely everybody, absolutely everybody.

He arrived, he had no real, I think he was a bit surprised that we approached him, that we asked for him and then he came and then he delivered from day one.

I remember still when I saw him the first time playing for Wolves.

He said, phew, what's that?

You always hear these stories when people tell me, and it's true that Mo Salah, they had to convince me and stuff like this.

Not convinced that I'd take him, but it was like there were other players as well, and Mo was one of the others, and we decided all together for Mo, but it's fine.

But this, nobody came to me and told me.

Come on, let's have a look at Diogo Jota.

I saw him and I said, please, give me more material, I have to see him.

And he excelled all the expectations as a guy, super smart, super teammate.

And now...

He sits in a dressing room, and I cannot imagine right now the dressing room without him being there.

It's so hard.

I still cannot speak properly about it.

It's really like that.

It was an incredible shock, and that's for the boys as well.

I could think we don't speak about it because otherwise some bad journalists make a story of it, what I said about him and what it means.