Tomislav Modric

Striker - Zadar
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Tomislav Modric

5 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A day Nikola Simunovic will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andrej Vrsaljko

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Hrvoje Srna 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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Nikola Simunovic sends Zadar past Rudes

It finished 3‑2, and it was Nikola Simunovic’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zadar.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nikola Simunovic at his very best

Marked 9.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zadar.

Squad

Tempers go at Zadar

Nikola Babic 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.

Squad

Dejan Sutalo 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

Zadar count the cost of losing Darijo Sutalo

41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Nikola Simunovic linked with a move away

The name of Nikola Simunovic keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zadar say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Zadar turn down Kuban Holding for Mato Vrsaljko

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nikola Simunovic

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Đira 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.

Squad

Dejan Sutalo 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.

Squad

Marin Brekalo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Rudes watching Tomislav Modric

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zadar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

Sibenik take the points off Zadar

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Ante Babic out for 22 days

The medical room confirms 22 days on the sidelines for Ante Babic, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Loan watch

Mateo Petkovic has seen enough of Hajduk Split

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Zadar, and 0 appearances in 1 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief