The Zadar Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for a squad player
16 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Robert Rebic 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Viitorul come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zadar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Robert Rebic beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Niko Livaja in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Robert Rebic 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Zadar rebuffed over Mauro Lenaerts
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KV Mechelen have kept their man, and Zadar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rudes take the points off Zadar
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Zvonimir Kramaric
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zvonimir Kramaric, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Mato Babic: “No excuses”
- Squad The formation has left Krešimir Radoš behind
- The dugout The form table has caught Marco Erceg