The Leyton Orient Chronicle
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alfie Drayton damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Josh Koroma takes the afternoon — 8.49
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Josh Koroma provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Dylan Levitt
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Noah Phillips asks to leave Leyton Orient
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient say no — this time
The offer from Accrington Stanley for Noah Phillips 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 Leyton Orient
Idris El Mizouni 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
Enzo Arreguín 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
7 new faces, and Leyton Orient are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match29 Aug 2026
Josh Koroma rescues a point for Leyton Orient
It needed Josh Koroma to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Mansfield Town, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Market Leyton Orient borrow Nicolás Franco
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Aaron Connolly
- Player ratings Idris El Mizouni spends the afternoon fouling