Nathan Wright

Goalkeeper - Leyton Orient
29 Nov 2035
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Marked for Nathan Wright

485 Edition

The Leyton Orient Chronicle

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match10 Nov 2035

Leyton Orient taken apart

0‑3 to Barnsley, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market12 Nov 2035

Only the photograph left for Demetri Mitchell

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Demetri Mitchell will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leyton Orient the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Idris El Mizouni 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.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Kristi Montgomery in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leyton Orient this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom12 Nov 2035

Nobody left the Leyton Orient dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Boardroom12 Nov 2035

Wages eat 100% of everything Leyton Orient earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Michael Craig has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Leyton Orient will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad12 Nov 2035

The manager makes an example of Yegor Gurenko

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market12 Nov 2035

The Fernando Silva talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Leyton Orient know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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475 Edition

The Leyton Orient Chronicle

3 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Sep 2035

Alexey Chernodarov damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.

Boardroom3 Sep 2035

The numbers do not look good at Leyton Orient

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Player ratings3 Sep 2035

A defender's goal wins it for Leyton Orient — 7.67

1 for Azeem Abdulai, marked 7.67, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Aaron Connolly signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aaron Connolly commits to Leyton Orient for another 2 years.

Squad3 Sep 2035

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.

Player ratings3 Sep 2035

Nobody could get near Matty Warhurst

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match1 Sep 2035

Azeem Abdulai the difference as Leyton Orient beat Grimsby Town

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Azeem Abdulai. 1‑0 against Grimsby Town, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings3 Sep 2035

Kristi Montgomery stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.88 on the card, and the Leyton Orient support went home talking about one name.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Too much change too quickly at Leyton Orient

10 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

464 Edition

The Blackpool Sentinel

18 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market18 Jun 2035

Benjamin Palmer puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Blackpool, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad18 Jun 2035

Brian Okonkwo gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Brian Okonkwo has just signed for Blackpool, and for once the answer mattered.

Match16 Jun 2035

4 matches without a win for Blackpool

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Blackpool are no longer polite ones.

Squad18 Jun 2035

Tempers go at Blackpool

Abdoullah Ba 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.

Market18 Jun 2035

Business is business: Nathan Wright goes

Leyton Orient paid $64.0K and Blackpool took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad18 Jun 2035

Words at Blackpool training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattia Tonetto 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.

Player ratings18 Jun 2035

A masterclass from Tom Bloxham

Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad18 Jun 2035

James Cunningham 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.

Boardroom18 Jun 2035

Wages eat 106% of everything Blackpool earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

464 Edition

The Leyton Orient Chronicle

18 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings18 Jun 2035

Age has not caught Jesús Espinosa yet — 8.17

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad18 Jun 2035

Idris El Mizouni in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leyton Orient this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings18 Jun 2035

Matty Warhurst runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Jun 2035

Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan is carrying Leyton Orient

11 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match16 Jun 2035

Jesús Espinosa the difference as Leyton Orient beat Swindon Town

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesús Espinosa. 2‑1 against Swindon Town, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings18 Jun 2035

Ninety minutes of Kelvin Ehibhatiomhan at his very best

Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leyton Orient.

Squad18 Jun 2035

No hiding place for Rarmani Edmonds-Green

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

Market18 Jun 2035

Leyton Orient buy the years ahead of Nathan Wright

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad18 Jun 2035

Aaron Connolly has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Leyton Orient will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief