Barcelona fail again with bid for Valencia's Villa

Valencia president Manuel Llorente has revealed the club have turned down another offer from Barcelona for star striker David Villa.

Barca have long been linked to the Spain international but have yet to produce the "scandalous" offer Llorente has demanded and the Valencia president revealed his Barca counterpart Joan Laporta put in another bid on Wednesday night believed to be €42m.

"Laporta called me and I repeated to him that we are not willing to sell the footballer," Llorente told AS.

Reports in Spain suggest Villa himself is ready to pay the €7m difference between Barca's bid and the €50m Valencia want in order to secure a move to the Nou Camp.

The 27-year-old could relinquish part of his salary he is said to already have agreed with the treble winners to fund the deal.

Meanwhile, Barcelona ace Andres Iniesta insists his best is yet to come.

"I think that everything can be surpassed," he told Catalan radio station RAC1. "This year I lost two or three months in total because of injuries. I am 25 years old, I like how I am at the moment and I think the best is still to come."

Arch rivals Real Madrid have already splashed out over 200m euros on Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Karim Benzema and Raul Albiol as they look to build a squad capable of challenging Pep Guardiola's men.

Things have been much quieter at the Nou Camp where Maxwell is set to become Barca's first summer signing. However, Iniesta is unperturbed by the lack of reinforcements.

"People should continue having confidence in the team," he said. "There is still time left in the transfer market and I assume the club is working on it.

"But I think that there are players of a very high level in the team at the moment and I don't think we have to be jealous of anyone. (Kaka and Ronaldo) are players of a very high level.

"We have to see how they get on but we shouldn't forget that we have to look at ourselves and no-one else. We have shown that when Barca is good we don't have to pay attention to the rest."