The Zadar Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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 The request is on a desk at Zadar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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
- Market Duje Pjaca told to find a new club
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Dario Bilic
- Market The trail goes cold on Tomislav Modric