Cristiano Ronaldo has taken to social media to ‘firmly deny’ the rape allegations made against him.

The Portuguese forward was the subject of an investigation from German newspaper Der Spiegel and has threatened to take legal action for a story that was published last week.

Nevada police have since re-opened the investigation into the allegations made against the Juventus player while Ronaldo has taken to Twitter to issue a statement of his own:

“I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me.

“Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.

“Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense.

“My clear conscious [sic] will thereby allow me to await with tranquillity the results of any and all investigations.”