Jurgen Klopp has empathised with the “impossible” job Liverpool had to face after the tragic loss of Diogo Jota, asking: “How do you replace somebody like Diogo?”Jota and his brother Andre tragically passed away in July, leading to an overwhelming outpouring of tributes from across the sport and beyond.Liverpool’s No. 20 was a much-loved figure inside the dressing room and on the terraces, a player that Klopp brought to the club in 2020, and it was not in the plans to replace him.But that is what tragically faced Richard Hughes and Co. this summer, and on the incredibly delicate subject, Klopp, as he often does, found the words to describe the “impossible” situation in an interview on The Diary Of A CEO.“I’m pretty sure one specific moment changed the whole transfer window [for Liverpool]. That was the saddest day of the last year,” Klopp started. “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 continued: “We could think [about it] but we don’t speak about it otherwise some bad journalist will make a story of it, ‘What I said about him and what it means’.“Nobody at Liverpool will ever use it as an excuse [for bad form], but it is the situation where you walk every day into this room where he was omnipresent.“To talk about him, he was so close with James Milner, they’re not the same age group and have nothing the same. On the same, he was so close with Kostas Tsimikas. That’s like the moon and Mars.“Dealing with that on a personal level is not easy, impossible.“And now as a club take all the emotional stuff out and think, ‘How do we replace him?’ Wow, that’s difficult, impossible I would say.“Now we judge the transfer window where they buy the players, it was not the plan, I’m pretty sure.“You cannot be prepared to deal with things like that,” Klopp added. “Today we talk about the transfer window of Liverpool that would have looked completely different.“You have to sort the things that you never expected that you have to think about. Everybody wanted this boy to play the next 10 years at Liverpool, all-around player, can play all positions, football smart.”Klopp didn’t need to be ‘convinced’ to sign JotaOn signing Jota, Klopp said: “He arrived and was a bit surprised we approached him, that we asked for him; then he came and delivered from day one.“I remember still when I saw him play for the first time for Wolves.“You always hear these stories when people tell me – it’s true – that Mo Salah they had to convince me [about] as there were other players as well, and we decided all together for Mo.“But for this, nobody came to me and told me, ‘C’mon, let’s have a look at Diogo Jota‘. I saw him and I said, ‘Please give me more material, I need to see him’.“He exceeded all expectations, a super smart guy and a super teammate, 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 was an incredible shock, and that’s for the boys as well.”Klopp opens up on learning the tragic newsKlopp also spoke openly about the moment he was told the tragic news, saying: “I got a message in the morning, ‘Boss, I have bad news’.“Then I got a message from a friend from Liverpool. I could not believe it. It was not possible. I heard it and I knew what it meant, but I could not believe it.“The whole story, I saw all the pictures from the wedding and the boys were there. I know exactly where I was, I know exactly how long I sat there without speaking a word.“It’s [like losing] a family member, it’s exactly like that.”