Daniel Bilic

Striker - Lokomotiva Zagreb
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Daniel Bilic

10 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Zvonimir Horvat

Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Mislav Sutalo yet — 8.15

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Gustavo Corti 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Vedran Pjaca at Zadar

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Vedran Pjaca is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Mislav Sutalo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mislav Sutalo commits to Zadar for another 1 years.

Boardroom

225% of the income goes out in wages at Zadar

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Lokomotiva Zagreb Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Ibrahim Sabra scores twice — 8.67

Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Marko Vešović 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 Lokomotiva Zagreb this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Daniel Bilic is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Lokomotiva Zagreb see off NK Varazdin

Three points for Lokomotiva Zagreb, 2‑1 the final word against NK Varazdin in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Josip Posavec

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Lokomotiva Zagreb

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief