The Zadar Gazette
Market27 Sep 2027
Fran Knezevic asks to leave Zadar
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Eugen Ciban breaks a bone — 29 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Fran Knezevic 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Whatever happens, Zadar do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Kristijan Bogdan
“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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
One of those days for Fran Knezevic
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.45, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Sime Simunovic 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Zadar share the spoils with Slaven Belupo
A 2‑2 draw with Slaven Belupo leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
An afternoon Robert Perisic will want back
Marked 4.85. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Ivan Rebic
- Player ratings Off the pace: Toni Ruso
- Market Sime Simunovic placed on the list