The Zadar Gazette
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Mihail Caimacov
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Babic
98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zadar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Zadar
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Zadar are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alan Matturro 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Imotski take the points off Zadar
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Zadar count the cost of losing Josip Kovacevic
20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Market Marcelo Kovacevic is free to find somewhere else
- Market Lokomotivi are about to pick up the phone
- Squad 6 new faces, and Zadar are still learning each other
- Market The Mate Modric story refuses to die