The Zadar Gazette
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
No deal for Franko Kolić at that price
Zadar offered $2.1M; Istra 1961 said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
No thanks: Matvey Lukin rejects the move
Zadar had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at CSKA Moscow, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Zadar rebuffed over Tino Jukić
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HNK Rijeka have kept their man, and Zadar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Zadar
Ivica Boric 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Kovac 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Zadar lose a squad player
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market25 Jan 2027
The Ivan Pasalic question follows Zadar around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ivan Pasalic’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
When it matters, Dario Majer 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Kacper Kucharczyk still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Zadar would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- The dugout Ivan Omazić knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Robert Vukas keeps his manager's vote