Superleague
Bakabou for Olympiakos at noon in Athens
Cedric Bakabou is expected to arrive in Greece around 12:20pm on Thursday afternoon (15/09) to complete his transfer to Olympiakos.
His transfer is in the final sprint Cedric Bakabu to Olympiakos as the 31-year-old Congolese striker arrives in Athens on Thursday afternoon (15/09) to complete his move to the Red and Whites.
Bakabou will be taken on by Olympiakos as a free agent from Marseille despite having a two-year deal with the Sealers. AHe mainly competes at the front of the attack while he has also played on the left side of the attack at times.
He started his career in Sossos academies and reached their first team. In the summer of 2014, Bursaspor bought him for €1.8m and a year later sold him to Villarreal for €7.5m.
He stayed there for 2.5 years when Beijing paid Guoan 40 million euros to bring him to Beijing. He played in China until January 2022 when Marseille took him there where he will not continue as everything shows his career.
He played until the France U20s and then chose the Gongo national team, with whom he has 40 appearances and 13 goals. At the same time, at the collective level, he has 363 appearances, 151 goals and 38 assists.
Last year in Marseille he played in 24 games in six months and had four goals and two assists.
Source: sport 24
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