The Leyton Orient Chronicle
Squad6 Aug 2029
Gegi Geguchadze damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.
Market6 Aug 2029
Gassan Ahadme 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.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
Will Wright says Leyton Orient went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market6 Aug 2029
Leyton Orient sell Jack Taylor for $1.9M
Jack Taylor has left for Maccabi Tel Aviv in a $1.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market6 Aug 2029
Floriana watching Gassan Ahadme
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Leyton Orient have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Alex Gilbert 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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Real improvement from Jonathan Johnson at Leyton Orient
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jonathan Johnson is 16, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Door shut on Lucca Kakai
Leyton Orient asked and Crewe Alexandra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Bojan Ciger 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Leyton Orient ask about Will Grainger
- Transfer targets A loan move for George Stewart is in the works
- The dugout Lautaro Velázquez gets it from the manager