Barcelona are looking to strengthen their defence in the transfer market afterclub president Joan Laporta claimed they had seen Cedric Mullins Jersey off competition from Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain for Robert Lewandowski.The Catalan giants have made several additions as Xavi bids to better last seasons second-placed league finish, acquiring Milan midfielder Franck Ke sie, Chelseas Andreas Christensen, Leeds Uniteds Raphinha and Bayern Munich great Lewandowski.Barca finished some 13 points behind rivals Real Madrid last season, although that represented an achievement of sorts with the Catalan giants having sat ninth in LaLiga when XavireplacedRonald Koeman.In an interview with Hristo Stoichkov for TUDN during Barcas pre-season tour of the United States, Laporta saidtheir busine s is not yet complete.Now we are going to work on the defence, Laporta said Jose Iglesias Jersey .Xavi has us oriented with a series of players and I hope that the Catalans will have new joys, because the Catalans like Lewandowski.This team gives you a guarantee of work, it gives you a guarantee that the players have a profile that is hungry, and we are trying to ensure that they have a better environment.Xavi knows what the fans want, so that when we go to the stadium we have a good time and see that genuine style, playing football with maximum expre sion and also with goals.Verticality, pre sure, po se sion, control of the ball, all this Xavi wants to implement at its maximum expre sion. Barcelona have been strongly linked with moves for Chelsea duo Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso after boasting just the sixth-strongest defensive record in LaLiga last season, conceding 38 goals (more than Sevilla, Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Villarreal).Meanwhile, 12 teams in the Spanish top flight bettered Barcas tally of 11 clean sheets last season.The signing of Lewandowski, who scored 50 goals in all competitions during his final season with Jesus Sucre Jersey Bundesliga champions Bayern, represents the biggest coup of the transfer window for Barcelona, and Laporta claims they were not the only party pushing hard to sign him.We made a first offer and it ended at 45 million euros , plus five. Its within our po sibilities, the player has also adjusted his salary to be within our po sibilities and the Catalans are now very happy, Laporta added.We have competed with teams like PSG and Chelsea, and the player wanted to J.J. Hardy Jersey come to Barca.This is what I like.As Johan Cruyff said, I want players who want to come to Barca, and we have to thank him because he has been earning le s and enduring great pre sure from Bayern, for whom I have great respect.Barca needs, like any great team, a goalscoring striker. He is a goalscoring machine gun.This player has been awarded the golden boot several times, if you look at his record he guarantees a goal, and every great team needs a striker who guarantees you goals.I think that Johan would likeLewandowski he is a goalscoring striker, different from others we have had.Also, with Ousmane Dembele, Raphinha, Ferran Torres, who for Mark Trumbo Jersey me is a player who has a goal and has a lot of potential, all of them and Ansu Fati , Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang its going well, its progre sing very well, we have a forward line with guarantees of putting on a show and scoring goals.I want Barca to become a world reference again. In the economic sphere, we are recovering the club, we are achieving it, although we have to work more.But the football side of things does not wait andI think we are doing a good job.