The club will introduce a new functionary as soon as possible.

Hajduk's official website reports that Nikola Kalinic is no longer the sports director of the Split club.

The striker won the last match in his football career (Hajduk - Gorica) on 19 May. Vischezgadan posad 36-river Croatian embraced at the end of the same month.

“We agreed with Nikolai after the end of the transition period, based on what would be the best decisions for the club at the moment. I thank you so much for those who took on this role at such an important time and I really respect him almost to Haiduk. We informed about the decision to coach Gennaro Gattuso, who, like everyone else at the club, in the coming days may focus on the upcoming derby as much as possible, so that the team is at its best both physically and mentally. Because of this extremely important situation, over the course of the next year we will present a new sports director and a sports strategy to the club, which, in our opinion, is the only correct one for Hajduk in the long term,” said the president of the club’s board, Ivan Bilic..

It is significant that on Friday, the 13th of Sunday, Hajduk will be at Dinamo in the 6th round of the Croatian Championship. After 5 matches, Gattuso’s team has 11 points and is in 3rd place in the tournament table, while Zagreb are in the lead with 13 points..