{"id":859811,"date":"2026-08-18T16:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859811\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:40:15","slug":"yoan-makoundou-reportedly-in-talks-with-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859811\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoan Makoundou reportedly in talks with Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    2026-08-18T11:10:14+00:00<br \/>\n    2026-08-18T11:10:14+00:00<br \/>\n    2026-08-18T11:10:14+00:00.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"author__avatar hide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/author\/admin\/?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787071213_71_35bc90c1a104ce0947b8f222080cd798.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-46 photo\" height=\"46\" width=\"46\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author__name visually-hidden\" itemprop=\"name\">Aris Barkas<\/p>\n<p>      18\/Aug\/26 11:10<\/p>\n<p>      Eurohoops.net<\/p>\n<p>          <a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n              <img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/logo-header.png\"\/><br \/>\n          <\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/author\/?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        Aris Barkas      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/adfc16f6-yoan-makoundou-handles-monaco-euroleague.jpg\" class=\"featured-image wp-stateless-item\" alt=\"yoan-makoundou-monaco\"   data-image-size=\"largepost\" data-stateless-media-bucket=\"images.eurohoops.net\" data-stateless-media-name=\"2026\/02\/adfc16f6-yoan-makoundou-handles-monaco-euroleague.jpg\"\/>EuroleagueBasketball.net<\/p>\n<p>The French big man one year after the initial talks with the Spanish club is back for more<\/p>\n<p>By Aris Barkas\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurohoops.net\/en\/euroleague\/1999550\/yoan-makoundou-reportedly-in-talks-with-barcelona\/mailto:barkas@eurohoops.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">barkas@eurohoops.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona is in talks with Yoan Makoundou (2.07, 26 ), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bebasket.fr\/un-an-apres-yoan-makoundou-va-t-il-rejoindre-ce-grand-club-europeen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to BeBasket,<\/a>\u00a0with the Spanish club circling back to the player they also wanted last summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the player had reached an agreement with Barcelona in the summer of 2025, but at the time AS Monaco blocked his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Makoundou spent last season between Monaco and China playing for the Fujian Sturgeons, returning to the Monegasque club after Nikola Mirotic\u2019s injury and being part of the team that won the French league.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-18T11:10:14+00:00 2026-08-18T11:10:14+00:00 2026-08-18T11:10:14+00:00. Aris Barkas 18\/Aug\/26 11:10 Eurohoops.net Aris Barkas EuroleagueBasketball.net The French big man one year after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-859811","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\/859811","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=859811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}