The Zadar Gazette
Squad25 Jan 2027
Bruno Modric damages knee ligaments — 138 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 138 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match25 Jan 2027
Nobody above Zadar
First, on 43 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Duje Perisic signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Duje Perisic and Zadar agree another 3 years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Vedran Lovren 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josip Krznarić 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Adam Aït Ali Oulhaj
“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 dugout25 Jan 2027
When it matters, Damir Lovren 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The Marko Sutalo talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Zadar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes Nikola Ivanovic a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Zadar. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Market Bruno Modric runs his contract down
- The dugout Nikola Lovren knocks on the manager’s door