Kristijan Vrsaljko

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Marked for Kristijan Vrsaljko

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The Zadar Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A brace, and Dino Horvat takes the afternoon — 8.45

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dino Horvat provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Boris Vrsaljko

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market17 Aug 2026

HNK Vukovar 1991 come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Zadar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zadar

Alexandre Coeff 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Dino Horvat’s goal not enough for Zadar

Dino Horvat scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to Sibenik, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Match15 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Zadar and Sibenik in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Milan Cop 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Milan Cop

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Alexandre Coeff

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Zadar will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief

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2 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Boris Vrsaljko runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market10 Aug 2026

Zadar say no — this time

The offer from Hajduk Split for Milan Cop was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Milan Cop stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Milan Cop and Zadar agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zadar

Alexandre Coeff 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Kristijan Vrsaljko

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marin Karabatić 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

No place for Kristijan Kasalo in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kristijan Kasalo has his answer from Zadar; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Milan Cop was the difference for Zadar

Marked 7.83. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Loan watch10 Aug 2026

Niko Kovacevic has seen enough of Dinamo Zagreb

“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 0 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief