The American-born Italian youth international joined the Red Devils from Parma last season, and is being tipped to go out on loan this season, but ex-Red Devils Ritchie sees the rumours linking him with the Tykes as idle speculation.
Ritchie said: "I did do an interview with MUTV a while ago but it was just a general piece about the strikers at United and how they fared through the season. Rossi's name was mentioned but only in that context.
"There was nothing said at all about him coming to Oakwell or anything at all in that context."