Barcelona in talks with Valencia over Villa

Barcelona are in talks with Valencia to recruit the club’s international striker David Villa, the president of the Spanish club, Joan Laporta, said Tuesday.

“We are negotiating and everything is on track. We trust that the issue will be resolved shortly,” he said in comments published on the club’s website.

Villa, 28, was the fourth best scorer in the Spanish league in the 2009-10 season, having scored 21 goals.

He had been coveted last year by both Barcelona and arch-rivals Real Madrid but the Catalan club finally secured the services of Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Inter Milan in a deal which saw Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o move to the Italian side.