The Zadar Gazette
Squad22 Mar 2027
Duje Petkov damages knee ligaments — 110 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 110 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Kristijan Vrsaljko out for 88 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zadar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Zadar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alfonso Barco was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Niko Ivanovic out for 15 days
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Niko Ivanovic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
Ivica Juranovic counts the days
“I watch every Zadar game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Hrvatski Dragovoljac runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market22 Mar 2027
The Mario Corluka question follows Zadar around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mario Corluka’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout Ivica Lovren knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Marin Cop gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on a squad player