Tebas hopes Barcelona can pen with Lewandowski

president

Javier Tebas

claims that he hopes

can sign

Robert Lewandowski

from

. The striker has one year left on his deal with the

champions and has shown his desire to depart the club and join Barcelona on multiple occasions, saying “something has died” within him and his time at the Bundesliga club is “over”.

Bayern Munich, however, do not want to lose the striker, who has met the back of the net 50 times and contributed six assists across all competitions last season.

Barcelona are eager to pen with him and they are raising funds by cashing in on other players and cutting some salaries, with Tebas saying that Barca need to part ways with some prize assets to be able to sign the 33-year-old: "they know what they have to do: sell assets".

Barca president Joan Laporta was angry at the suggestion and accused Tebas of wishing harm to Barcelona, but the La Liga chief insisted that he is keen on the Polish striker joining Camp Nou.

Speaking at an event in Madrid, Tebas said:

"I hope Lewandowski plays for Barcelona and has a good campaign.

"I hope that the [economic] levers Laporta has activated will allow the player to make it to Barcelona, because he is a legend of Bayern Munich and European football.

"If they execute what they approved in the assemblies, he will be able to play for Barcelona.

"There is interest and if they execute those levers then they will be able to sign him."

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