Barcelona president Joan Laporta has hit back at LaLiga supremo Javier Tebas.

Tebas said that "right now Barça cannot sign, they know what they have to do" when asked about the Catalan club's interest in Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski.

It drew the following response from Barça president Laporta: "I would ask him to abstain from making comments in the sense of if Barça can or cannot sign a player because it's clearly damaging Barça's interests."

Laporta continued: "Furthermore, I don't know if he makes these statements voluntarily or involuntarily, but if he makes them voluntarily it is a clear sign that he wants to harm Barça's interests.

"And if he makes these statements involuntarily, it is further proof of his verbal incontinence and this desire of protagonism that he has."