Darijo Majer

Central Midfielder - Zadar
5 Oct 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Darijo Majer

50 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Zadar agree $330.0K for Josip Bartulić

The clubs have shaken hands with Dugopolje; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Business is business: Dario Vukas goes

HNK Gorica paid $120.0K and Zadar took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Matija Jesenović

Zadar asked and Slaven Belupo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zadar

Niko Kovacevic 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.

Squad

Tomislav Ivanovic 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.

Squad

Darijo Majer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Darijo Majer and Zadar agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Martin Sutalo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Zadar will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Darijo Majer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Darijo Majer, and the manager let it.

Squad

Somebody is after Tomislav Pasalic’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Tomislav Pasalic suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Zadar have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

Back issues
49 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Zvonimir Majer 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.

Market

Antonio Kramaric moves on

Viktoria Plzen pay $980.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

HNK Gorica expected to open talks for Dario Vukas

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Zadar will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Transfer targets

Zadar rebuffed over Anton Matković

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Zadar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zadar

Zvonimir Benko 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Zadar

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tomislav Pasalic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tomislav Pasalic

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomislav Pasalic, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Intake day at the Zadar academy

7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

The dugout

Tomislav Pasalic gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tomislav Pasalic is on it.

In brief

41 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Zvonimir Majer hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zadar can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zadar

Zvonimir Benko 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.

Squad

Tomislav Pasalic 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.

The dugout

Bojan Kasalo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Zadar will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Tomislav Pasalic asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Tomislav Pasalic story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tomislav Pasalic signs something — a contract at Zadar or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief