And despite scoring three times in his previous two matches for club and country, that did not stop wild theories being spouted about the 26-year-old being unhappy and regretting his decision to remain at Anfield this summer.
"Some of the nonsense being spouted about unfair doing this and that, well, I think it's a little unfair that you should ask teams to come up from the Championship and play against teams that have spent £400m-£500m over the last few years".
So much pseudo-medicine is spouted about nutrition, usually as a cover for picky eating, that not rolling up your sleeves and wading in requires a self-restraint I simply do not have.
When we visited the 75-year-old founder and chairman of MTS, which runs the Tower Records chain, he was spouting about his personnel department.
Famous Sydney eateries, such Quay and Tetsuya's, are featured on San Pellegrino's 2012 list of the world's best restaurants, and the terms "locavore", "paddock-to-plate" and "organic" are spouted regularly about town.
More scandalous was Bill McKibben's takedown in The Guardian, arguing that Trudeau may actually be worse than Trump on the issue of climate change because where Trump is at least honest that he doesn't care about the environment, Trudeau is spouting off about sustainability as he doubles down on pipelines and the tar sands.
The $90 million in green pork Ryan was spouting off about didn't seem to affect him.
The nuns and priests are spouting off about saints and miracles and, in a way, she's a representative on earth of all that, but they can't see it.
Making fun of how another language sounds and using that to imply that the speaker is spouting gibberish is about as boorish and racist as it gets, and a California State Senator of Chinese descent, Leland Yee, demanded an apology.
Two minutes before a race, Henry would be spouting off about form but I just picked names that had family connections.
