The Leyton Orient Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient say no — this time
The offer from AEL for Aaron Connolly 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient bid $630.0K for Jake Garrett
The offer went to Blackburn Rovers this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $470.0K for Ibane Bowat
Leyton Orient have gone to Portsmouth with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Leyton Orient walk away from Micah Hamilton
$440.0K was the most the club would pay and Middlesbrough were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient promote Jason Williams from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jason Williams has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Luke King steps up from the Leyton Orient academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Luke King has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Simon Scott joins the Leyton Orient first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Simon Scott is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match15 Aug 2026
Dylan Levitt the difference as Leyton Orient beat Port Vale
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dylan Levitt. 1‑0 against Port Vale, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Dylan Levitt
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Charlie Wellens
- Squad Tempers go at Leyton Orient