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Despite Panathinaikos\u2019 interest, the French guard remains ASVEL-bound until further notice<\/p>\n By Aris Barkas\/ barkas@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n Sylvain Francisco has signed <\/a>a record deal with ASVEL,\u00a0and the club intends to honour it, as was confirmed today, per Eurohoops sources.<\/p>\n The complicated financial situation of ASVEL\u2019s budget<\/a>\u00a0and the already reported interest of Panathinaikos in the player<\/a>\u00a0are well known and add fuel to the fire of speculation.<\/p>\n However, the French club envisions Francisco as the leader of their new project and considers him a priority.<\/p>\n Of course, the interest of Panathinaikos<\/a> is also undeniable; however, only if ASVEL decides to cut loose the player, Francisco may end up in Greece.<\/p>\n The buyout to Zalgiris<\/a> is already paid by ASVEL, and everything is done properly for the player to compete in France.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Panathinaikos<\/a> is also examining other options, either from Europe, in cases like Zalgiris<\/a> Kaunas\u2019 Nigel Williams-Goss, as it was first reported by Greek media \u201cSportal.gr\u201d, or from the US market.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-29T20:00:05+00:00 2026-07-29T20:00:05+00:00 2026-07-29T20:15:39+00:00. Aris Barkas 29\/Jul\/26 20:00 Eurohoops.net Aris Barkas FIBA Despite Panathinaikos\u2019 interest, the French guard remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-832002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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