Foxy Ferguson sends off mixed Rooney messages

ALEX FERGUSON last night ruled out the prospect of Wayne Rooney making a sensational Champions League return at Old Trafford tonight.

Ferguson said the striker had “no chance’’ of starting in tonight’s Champions League quarter-final second-leg where United will be looking to overcome a 2-1 first leg deficit, before seemingly contradicting himself by offering the tantalising prospect of Rooney being among the subs.

The Manchester United boss claimed last Friday that the 34-goal striker would be missing for between two to four weeks with the ankle injury he suffered in the last minute of last week’s first leg. Rumours surfaced pretty quickly that Rooney could be in action far quicker than that.