The Leyton Orient Chronicle
Match15 Aug 2026
Dylan Levitt leads the rout of Port Vale
3‑0, and Dylan Levitt took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Leyton Orient tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Dylan Levitt takes the afternoon — 8.29
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dylan Levitt provided it, and the 8.29 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A $3.2M sale, and a town that did not want it
Charlie Wellens has gone, the accounts have $3.2M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Sam Mather would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sam Mather is living that version at Leyton Orient, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Charlie Wellens goes
Reading paid $3.2M and Leyton Orient took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Roko Baturina
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Leyton Orient have done the hard part with Gil Vicente, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Leyton Orient
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient rebuffed over Fran Vieites
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leicester City have kept their man, and Leyton Orient go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Azeem Abdulai
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Michael Murphy joins the Leyton Orient first team
- Market One of our own: John Young joins the Leyton Orient first team
- Market Luke Ward steps up from the Leyton Orient academy