The Zadar Gazette
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Robert Tadic says Zadar went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ajax tell Zadar: Aymean El Hani is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Zadar
Petar Perisic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No place for Kauã Alves in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Zadar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Domagoj Tadic 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 Feb 2027
Antonio Bogdan 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 Antonio Bogdan is on it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Antonio Bogdan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antonio Bogdan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Domagoj Tadic
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Zadar has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Goran Cop talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Zadar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Window shut, Marco Petkovic still here
- The dugout Mate Vukovic keeps his manager's vote