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Valverde wants further signings to make Barcelona ´more competitive´


Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde needs more signings previously the move window shut keeping in mind the end goal to influence his group "to better and more aggressive". 
The Catalans made it two wins from two in LaLiga on Saturday with a 2-0 triumph over Deportivo Alaves, with Lionel Messi scoring twice after the break having missed a first-half punishment. 

The win, in which Paulinho made his presentation in the end minutes, topped a positive week for Barca that saw them affirm the club-record marking of Ousmane Dembele from Borussia Dortmund for an underlying expense of €105million. 

Barca keep on being connected with a last endeavor to sign Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool and are likewise supposedly inspired by Chelsea's Willian, as they hope to contribute the €220m earned from Neymar's turn to Paris Saint-Germain straight once again into the squad. 

Also, regardless of the entry of France universal Dembele, Valverde is interested in one final enlistment drive amid the last seven day stretch of the window. 

"We want to have a superior group on the 31st," he revealed to Barca TV. "We trust that, when the most recent day of the market comes, we have a superior and more aggressive group. That is clear." 

Alaves created an energetic execution at Mendizorroza and just fell behind when Messi's low shot was avoided past goalkeeper Fernando Pacheco, before the Argentina star scored his 351st objective in the best flight after Paco Alcacer blocked Alexis Ruano's leeway. 


It was an empowering show from the 30-year-old in the midst of theory that he is uncertain about marking the new contract he concurred with the club a month ago. 

Valverde was glad for the way his players battled for their triumph and trusts they have turned out to be unaffected by reports of the squad getting to be plainly disrupted in the wake of their 5-1 total misfortune to Real Madrid in the Supercopa de Espana. 

"It was an extremely precarious diversion, troublesome on the grounds that they shut the amusement down with almost no space," he said. "They sat profound and it was hard to discover spaces. 

"We must be extremely understanding. It was likewise hot, yet we could get things right. 

"Leo had opportunities to score more objectives, he had the misfortune of missing the punishment. We're at a point where Barca are talked about a great deal and it appears like that can have an impact, and the group demonstrated that that isn't the situation. 

"We've experienced troublesome minutes and we've defeated them. We have six focuses and we go on."

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