Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp admitted that the close-knit nature of his squad helped Luis Diaz a great deal.

The winger had to suffer an ordeal in the past week, with both his parents being kidnapped.

While his mother was soon released, Diaz had to wait a week for his father's release days ago.

"I don't know how to describe it, it's difficult in a different way," Klopp said to reporters on Thursday, when Luis Manuel Diaz was released.

"I always know that there are more important things than football, I never forget that. It's just that during the games, from time to time, you forget that but around that it is always clear. The priority is always clear.

"And so I've never had a situation like that. We've had different situations in life and family members who get ill or stuff like this. Over the years we have that from time to time and you don't want that but you have to deal with it or even grandparents or passing die, you have that as well.

"But this [was] a situation which ends in a specific moment and then we have to deal with it but this is different because it is ongoing and you never know. You want to help but you can't help and that makes it really special.

"You are always afraid for his dad in this case and he is a friend of ours and that is the difference. But the only way I understand is that Lucho has to make the decision, Lucho has to tell me: 'I want to train, I will do that'. I have never done that before for such a long time, at least, so it's new but that is why we dealt with it like we did.

"I understand that we talk about it and that we worry but what else could it mean? It's really not important. This group was very together before and at the moment it is just good that we are that [close] together and everyone is really caring.

"Lucho knows that and there's nothing else that I want to take out of it. I said in the first game (against Forest) that we had to fight for him but it was not that I wanted any extra fire, I just needed to find a way to get focused on the next game because that was super difficult the first game we played without him. It didn't feel right that we play football at all at this moment, it didn't feel right, but we had to do it, so we did it and the boys found a way."