Filip Barisic

Left Midfielder - Zadar U20
1 Sep 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Filip Barisic

99 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Josip Silić due for a Zadar medical

Everything agreed with NK Varazdin, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Aleksa Todorović

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.

Squad

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaxon Brown 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.

Transfer targets

Zadar ask about Yannick Touré

A loan enquiry to Lokomotiva Zagreb: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Niko Livaja linked with a move away

The name of Niko Livaja keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zadar say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

When it matters, a squad player plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Zadar put Ivica Juranovic up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ivica Juranovic may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Squad

Good reports on Jaxon Brown

The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Zadar

Position 10 and 1 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

The cup run ends for Zadar

1‑1 against Sesvete, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Hrvoje Petkov decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

7 matches without a win for Zadar

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Zadar are no longer polite ones.

Transfer targets

Luka Ivanušec turns down Zadar

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dinamo Zagreb keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Player ratings

Filip Barisic beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Zadar make their move for Roko Jurišić

$1.4M on the table at NK Osijek. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Zadar

Niko Livaja and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Zadar walk away from Josip Bralić

$10.0K was the most the club would pay and Rudes were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

In brief

39 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Duje Petkov

72 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Kristijan Vrsaljko out for 49 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.

Match

Zadar are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 29 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Niko Livaja was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Loan watch

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.

Squad

Jaxon Brown 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of a squad player

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Dejan Kovac plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Marin Kovac story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marin Kovac signs something — a contract at Zadar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief