Boris Petkov

Central Midfielder - Hrvatski Dragovoljac
21 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Boris Petkov

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The Zadar Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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

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The Hrvatski Dragovoljac Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Antonio Jakoliš signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonio Jakoliš commits to Hrvatski Dragovoljac for another 2 years.

Squad

Antonio Jakoliš 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 Hrvatski Dragovoljac this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Hrvatski Dragovoljac make their move for Boris Petkov

$42.0K on the table at Zadar. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Match

A bad afternoon for Hrvatski Dragovoljac against Cibalia

1‑3 to Cibalia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets

HNK Rijeka tell Hrvatski Dragovoljac: Florent Shehu 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.

Player ratings

Antonio Jakoliš beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Marko Kopić

“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.

Market

Talks stall between Hrvatski Dragovoljac and Jon McLaughlin

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

49 months and counting on Filip Šušković-Jakopac

Still no offer on the table, and Filip Šušković-Jakopac’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief