No talks with Barcelona over Bender, insist Leverkusen

ve contacted me,” the Leverkusen director told Bild.
“And we have no intentions of making any changes to our squad at the moment.”
Schade admits, however, he is happy to see Leverkusen’s best players being linked with Europe’s top clubs, with Arsenal also having been linked for the midfielder.
“I would start getting doubts if our players weren’t linked to big clubs,” he admitted. “We’d have done something wrong if that wasn’t the case.”
Bender has a contract with Leverkusen until June 2019.