WAYNE ROONEY HAS hit back at media reports which claimed that he removed references to Manchester United from his Twitter profile.

It was reported yesterday that the striker deleted the words “Manchester United player” from his bio on the social networking site and replaced them with “@NikeUK athlete”.

Responding to the reports, Rooney issued a statement tonight and insisted that there was never any mention of Manchester United in the first place.

“There’s a load of rubbish being written about me changing twitter bio saying I have deleted Manchester United from it,” he said.

I have never deleted Manchester United from the bio whatever the papers are saying because it was never on there.

All that happened was that I was asked by Nike to add @nikeuk to it – the same as many other sportspeople they sponsor.

Funny, no-one’s written about that though!

That change was made THREE weeks ago and yet people are talking about it as if its something that was put up yesterday.

A spokesperson for Nike confirmed: “In April, we asked Wayne Rooney and other Nike sponsored athletes to add @nikeuk on to their profiles due to changes in ASA guidelines relating to athletes and social media.”

Nothing to see here, so. Move along.

Is this the playlist for Alex Ferguson’s final game at Old Trafford?

Want to see an absolute wonder goal from the halfway line?