The Zadar Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
Dejan Knezevic puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Zadar
Bojan Kasalo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Zadar rebuffed over Matija Jesenović
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slaven Belupo have kept their man, and Zadar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
The run is over for Zadar
4 matches without defeat, and then Rudes. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Zadar ask about Sami Ouaissa
A loan enquiry to PSV: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Andrej Cop dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Andrej Modric on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Zadar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomislav Pasalic 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.
In brief
- Market Marko Petkov placed on the list
- Squad The weekend belonged to Fran Topić
- Match Point won or two lost for Zadar?