The Zadar Gazette
Market19 Jul 2027
Bruno Ivanovic puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Zadar
Bojan Simunovic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Real improvement from Marcelo Tadic at Zadar
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcelo Tadic is 15, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Door shut on Niko Ivanković
Zadar asked and NK Osijek said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Andrea Bonetti falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Zadar count the cost of losing Ivan Pasalic
44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Zadar try to borrow Mirza Ćatović
VfB Stuttgart have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Daniel Barisic asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Mato Colak
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market The Daniel Barisic talk will not go away
- The dugout When it matters, Nikola Ivanovic plays
- The dugout The manager comes out for Andrea Bonetti