Wayne Rooney will tell David Moyes that he wants to stay at ­Manchester United, the Sunday Mirror reports.

Both Rooney and new United boss Moyes are scheduled to ­return from holiday this week – and are heading straight for talks that will decide the striker’s future at Old Trafford.

Rooney’s message will be that he believes Sir Alex’s retirement can give him a new lease of life at the club he has now served for nine years. He will make it clear to Moyes that at no time towards the end of last season did he tell ­Ferguson that he wanted a transfer.

But Wayne Rooney has also been linked with a sensational £90 million swap deal involving Portuguese striker Ronaldo between Manchester United and Real Madrid, the Daily Star reports.

New United boss David Moyes is planning to meet his former Everton player this week for heart-to-heart talks about his future.

Moyes would love Rooney to stay at Old Trafford and offer him the chance to start afresh after his much publicised fall out with former United chief Sir Alex Ferguson.

But if Rooney, 27, decides to call it a day there will be no shortage of takers for the England striker, the newspaper said.

Rooney’s preference would be to join Jose Mourinho at Stamford Bridge if he decides to end his nine-year Old Trafford stay after his showdown with Moyes.

But now the hot money is on a switch to Madrid for Rooney, valued at around £30m, with both Real Madrid and Chelsea easily capable of matching his £250,000-a-week wage demands.

Real’s new boss Carlo Ancelotti has been a long-time admirer of Rooney and would be happy to sacrifice Ronaldo if it meant he could sign the United star.

The Daily Mail is also reporting that Arsenal are willing to follow up their prospective £22million signing of Gonzalo Higuain from Real Madrid with an audacious £20m bid for Wayne Rooney - with Arsene Wenger keen on playing Manchester United’s England star in an attacking midfield role behind the Argentina striker.

Higuain is the deal Arsenal are now most confident of securing, with Carlo Ancelotti’s long-awaited announcement as  manager of the Spanish giants due to come tomorrow, leaving the club hopeful that the impasse will be broken as Real Madrid move for their own targets and confirm the player’s departure from the Bernabeu.