But in the original post you put "Said he had a lot of time on his hands in the build up to the World [Cup], so he might start learning some Spanish", that is no more "got spare time so going to learn spanish to speak in brazil" than it is "... in case real madrid snap me up". The only link...
Perhaps he thinks it will help improve his partnership with Suarez? Or just to engage more with the other spanish speaking players in the Liverpool squad. It's the most popular language for which he wouldn't need to learn a new alphabet. There are plenty of reasons to learn Spanish. Unless he...