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Villarreal’s Bakambu on imminent life-changing move to China

Villarreal attacker Cedric Bakambu has revealed that he is close to a life-changing switch to Chinese Super Lig side Beijing Guoan.

Earlier this week, the Yellow Submarine boss Javier Calleja revealed that Roger Schmidt’s side were willing to match Bakambu’s €40 million release clause.

And ahead of his move to the Workers' Stadium outfit, Bakambu expressed mixed feelings as he awaits both clubs to finalise all formalities.

“It’s all closed, almost everything has been done. Now I’m waiting for the two clubs to resolve things and that’ll be it,” Bakambu told AS.

“Things change really quickly, but I’ve had this offer for a while and I didn’t want to say anything to anyone.