The Zadar Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
Kristijan Kasalo 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Boris Vrsaljko
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Zadar say no — this time
The offer from Znamya Truda for Sime Bilic 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.
Squad31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Zadar leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Market31 Aug 2026
Zadar sell Damir Pjaca for $24.0K
Damir Pjaca has left for Hrvatski Dragovoljac in a $24.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Armando Graziani 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Milan Cop
A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Zadar
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Match Milan Cop rescues a point for Zadar
- Squad Elisson dropped after a run of poor form
- Market The Dino Horvat talk will not go away