The Zadar Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Mateo Juranovic runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Marco Erceg turns Lucko down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Noa Mikić 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fran Colak signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fran Colak and Zadar agree another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Šime Gržan returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Šime Gržan is a Zadar player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Robert Ćosić 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 targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $11.0K for Illia Kutia
Zadar have gone to Hajduk Split with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fran Colak 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Boris Petkov moves on
Hrvatski Dragovoljac pay $42.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Emmanuel Uchenna Aririerisim
- Squad Šime Gržan needs a bigger stage
- Transfer targets Zadar try to borrow Nikola Stanković