{"id":497282,"date":"2026-05-18T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=497282"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T09:51:57","slug":"barcelona-xavi-pascual-moving-toward-dubai-spanoulis-and-ibon-navarro-among-first-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/barcelona-xavi-pascual-moving-toward-dubai-spanoulis-and-ibon-navarro-among-first-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona, Xavi Pascual moving toward Dubai: Spanoulis and Ibon Navarro among first names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1574\" data-end=\"1882\">According to <em data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1599\">Encestando<\/em>, <strong data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1614\">Barcelona<\/strong> now expects <strong data-start=\"1627\" data-end=\"1643\">Xavi Pascual<\/strong> to leave, despite the coach having two more years on his contract. In the background is a major offer from <strong data-start=\"1751\" data-end=\"1763\">Dubai BC<\/strong>, a club building a high-level roster with the 2027 Abu Dhabi Final Four in mind.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1884\" data-end=\"2153\">The Catalan club is therefore being forced to study the coaching market. The first two names mentioned are <strong data-start=\"1991\" data-end=\"2013\">Vassilis Spanoulis<\/strong>, a high-profile international option, and <strong data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2072\">Ibon Navarro<\/strong>, a less famous but highly qualified coach.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2155\" data-end=\"2384\">One factor to watch is <strong data-start=\"2178\" data-end=\"2198\">Misko Raznatovic<\/strong>, agent of both Spanoulis and Navarro, who has already been in frequent contact with Barcelona over Josh Nebo, Oliver Nkamhoua and Nick Weiler-Babb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona is preparing for the possible departure of Xavi Pascual, who reportedly has a major offer from Dubai BC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486706,"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":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-497282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/DE9_1373.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497282","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=497282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497282"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=497282"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=497282"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=497282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}