{"id":480373,"date":"2026-01-23T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480373"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:47:32","slug":"zenit-aleksandar-djordjevic-turns-down-initial-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/zenit-aleksandar-djordjevic-turns-down-initial-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenit: Aleksandar Djordjevic turns down initial offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1565\"><strong data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1416\">Aleksandar Djordjevic<\/strong> has declined Zenit Saint Petersburg\u2019s initial offer, per Artem Komarov.<br data-start=\"1488\" data-end=\"1491\" \/>That development leaves the talks unresolved and keeps the situation open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1796\">Komarov had previously reported Zenit were in discussions with Djordjevic for the head coach position.<br data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1672\" \/>The former Serbia and China national team coach has been out of coaching since 2024 and was described as the closest option.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1798\" data-end=\"1936\">Zenit still have several other names on their shortlist, according to the same report.<br data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"1887\" \/>Two of those candidates are also Serbian coaches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Aleksandar Djordjevic has turned down Zenit\u2019s initial offer, a source told me.<\/p>\n<p>The Saint Petersburg club still has several other candidates on its shortlist \u2014 two of them are also Serbian coaches. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3lVpY2WO4O\">https:\/\/t.co\/3lVpY2WO4O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Artem Komarov (@art_basket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/art_basket\/status\/2014550309729628194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Artem Komarov, Aleksandar Djordjevic rejected Zenit Saint Petersburg\u2019s first proposal for the head coach job<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":391461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vtb-league","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/06\/2023mb30agosto_157.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480373"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480373"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480373"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}