The Zadar Gazette
Market8 May 2028
Arsenii Dannikov asks to leave Zadar
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 May 2028
Bojan Simunovic signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bojan Simunovic and Zadar agree another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
Words exchanged at Zadar
Dimitrije Kamenović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad8 May 2028
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrea Bonetti is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout8 May 2028
Andrea Bonetti is still paying for one afternoon at Zadar
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market8 May 2028
Zadar buy the years ahead of Viktor Kristensen
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad8 May 2028
Home is on Arsenii Dannikov's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Zadar are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout8 May 2028
Mato Babic gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout8 May 2028
Ilya Lunev gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ilya Lunev is on it.
In brief
- Boardroom Zadar pull $1.3M back off the table
- The dugout A promise honoured for Viktor Kristensen
- Market The Daniel Barisic question follows Zadar around