I wouldn’t normally be for retiring numbers. Greats leave the club and retire and someone new comes along and takes up that jersey and all that might come with it but as you say this is different as it’s his current number.
Nobody is going to want to take his number at least not in the foreseeable future. Maybe someday someone might comes along who requests it in order to pay homage to Diogo, a fellow countryman perhaps. If that were to happen then the possibility of reintroducing the number could maybe happen but till then we should, as a mark of respect for him, retire the number.
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Helped us winning #20 with the #20 on his back. I’d say retire the #20 for 20 years.
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Still doesn’t feel real.
RIP Jots, our greatest finisher since Fowler.
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Yes, I agree. To retire the number for a generation seems appropriate and fitting.
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Very touching
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Heysel, Hillsborough, Parade on the waterfront incident and now DJ. Has so much happened to a club more than ours.
Shocked is the word I can only describe, forget Mo, Diogo was our most clinical finisher and suffered a lot with injury last year, felt sorry for him last season. Now sorry even more for him.
Condolences to his family and young children. LFC have done well with paying his contract to those he left behind.
I’d retire the shirt.
DIOGO YNWA
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It does feel like there’s so much tragedy that follows this club, along with the joy and success
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Fly high Jots…fly high…no.20 fly high…
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For many kids, it will be the first time they’ve had to learn to cope with such a tragic loss. Understanding that a loved one is simply no longer here and then having to continue living with the pain. This will be a difficult time for a lot of families and our youth academy, too. I send everyone a hug. 
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I believe in the power of Anfield to get us through this.
The friendly vs Bilbao and the matchday 1 vs Bournemouth will be special.
Matchday 14 (at Anfield vs Sunderland) will be played in the first week of December. Hope that match will be scheduled on the Thursday which would be Diogos birthday.
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Mourniho’s comments about Jota were very poignant. Hated Mou as an opponent, but I respect him as a man.
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I hate how cynical a coach he is because he clearly understands what football can be at its best so how well said his comments were doesn’t surprise me
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These are my favourites, him just being his funny cheeky self with his football brothers.
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My opinion on him changed after watching the Bobby Robson documentary.
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