Anyone who has ever bought or sold a house will understand how transfers are a bit like chains. It can take a while for everyone to be ready, but when they are they all happen at once… #LOFC
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Anyone who has ever bought or sold a house will understand how transfers are a bit like chains. It can take a while for everyone to be ready, but when they are they all happen at once… #LOFC
Not too shabby at the Abbey as the Os hit seven in their final pre-season friendly. Our match report from last night, from an occasion freighted with more meaning than it might seem... #LOFC
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Not too shabby at the Abbey as the Os hit seven in their final pre-season friendly.
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For more detail on the fee #LOFC received and the plans for a replacement, check this out (members only post: but at less than the cost of a pint a month that’s around 1/100,000th the price of a League One Golden Boot winner)
BREAKING: Striker Dom Ballard Leaves Leyton Orient for Bristol City • Leyton Orientear • Leyton Orient FC independent news
The 21-year-old Golden Boot winner has been the subject of much transfer speculation this summer and has now signed with the Robins for an Os record fee.
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BREAKING: Dom Ballard has signed for Bristol City, ending weeks of speculation over his future, with Leyton Orient receiving a club record transfer fee #LOFC leytonorientear.counterpress.media/news/breakin...
BREAKING: Striker Dom Ballard Leaves Leyton Orient for Bristol City • Leyton Orientear • Leyton Orient FC independent news
The 21-year-old Golden Boot winner has been the subject of much transfer speculation this summer and has now signed with the Robins for an Os record fee.
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Ballard announcement is imminent we’re told. Will be a club record fee (of course) #LOFC
Here's a free to read piece on our new site, courtesy of @tomdaviese17.bsky.social which goes some way toward explaining why we're doing what we're doing #LOFC
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Local journalism has been in crisis for some years, creating a vacuum in which speculation and misinformation thrive. But it doesn't have to be like this...
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Join our new site! Now also available as an app 😀 Read on for more info ⬇️
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Please join our growing community there, if you haven't already
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Love this - and we'll be talking more about this with Sean very soon... #LOFC
'You don't have to just be one thing': The Leyton Orient star launching a music career
Right-back Sean Clare is pursuing an Afrobeats career at the same time as playing for Leyton Orient
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Thinking today of those longstanding Os fans who missed the Season Ticket cap last summer (reached mid May) and decided to jack it in for good This summer, Season Ticket sales have still not reached the cap, at the beginning of August #LOFC
OMG get a load of this! Never mind some shady brand partnership with a kit manufacturer and a Spurs band - *this* is the big launch news of the day #LOFC www.leytonorientear.news
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Talking up the value of his asset but no more mention of long term infrastructure investment? Draw your own conclusions… #LOFC
A summer catch-up with majority shareholder David Gandler (July 2026)
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Love seeing Founding Editor Dave Knight quoted in the Club’s new museum. Especially when telling such an important story 😎 #LOFC
With his move to Bristol City all but confirmed, we look at the last ten League One Golden Boot winners to determine whether £5m plus add-ons represents fair value for Dom Ballard #LOFC
Hot Ballard Summer
With speculation about the future of this season's League One Golden Boot winner about to be resolved, we look at how his destiny compares with those that came before him.
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Receiving bronze medals from female FIFA officials is probably more dignified than accepting the World Cup from Donald Trump.
Probably the most frightful blow to the “Keep Politics Out Of Football” knuckleheads yet
White House defends Argentina team over Falklands banner
The comments could further fuel the row over the incident, which has seen Downing Street back calls for Fifa to investigate.
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Absolutely no mention of David Gandler, our new stadium, or our new training ground here. Just like with music, it's the notes that get left out that really make the tune #LOFC
2025/26: Q4 update from the Leyton Orient board
Leyton Orient’s Board of Directors have today – Wednesday 15th July – provided its end-of-Q4 update to the club’s supporters.
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On the anniversary of his tragic death - a happier commemoration of his 70th birthday this March #LOFC
"You Can't Buy Class"
Celebrating 70 years since the birth of Laurie Cunningham: one of Orient's true pioneers
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Argentina have the easiest run to the semis of all four that have got there: Algeria, Jordan, Austria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Switzerland… and they’ve made pretty heavy weather of it.
We were thrilled to be asked to contribute to the Enfield Town programme last week. If you couldn't make it to the game, or missed out on a programme, you can read our piece here... #LOFC
Enfield Town v Leyton Orient
If you missed out on a programme from this fixture, don't worry - you can read what we contributed to it right here!
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5 signings so far, aged 23, 23, 25, 27, and 31, with another 27 year old imminent. Including this sixth player, they average more than 200 games experience each: it's clear that Mr Mitchell is adopting a different strategy to his predecessor. #LOFC
Some more detail on the circumstances behind Gandler departing from the company he founded #LOFC
David Gandler leaves Fubo
Orient’s majority shareholder resigns from the company he founded after it loses over 80% of its value in less than a year
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LOFC statement to us: "David Gandler remains fully committed to Leyton Orient & his decision to step down from his role at Fubo will not impact his involvement at the football club. Now more than ever, David is excited about the short, medium & long-term future at Leyton Orient"
The Leyton Orientear@leytonorientear.com · 4w agoBREAKING: #LOFC majority shareholder David Gandler forced out of the company he founded by shareholder pressure. More on this to come tomorrow…
BREAKING: #LOFC majority shareholder David Gandler forced out of the company he founded by shareholder pressure. More on this to come tomorrow…
Disney+ President Alisa Bowen Exits to Join Fubo as CEO
The executive succeeds David Gandler and follows the sports-first streamer merging with Disney’s Hulu With Live TV.
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Koroma and Sotiriou going to Chesterfield on the same day can mean only one thing... Danny Webb is getting the old gang back together for one more heist
Ronaldo failing to even attain Ben Stokes levels of main character syndrome for his big me me me farewell
Marvellous to see how in the latest “these brave men gave their lives for you to buy this shirt” video, the Club seems to think we played at Brisbane Road in 1914 #LOFC
Man's Exasperated Facepalm
ALT: Man's Exasperated Facepalm
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Current altitude reading: 4am, the sun is rising, and the adrenaline is levelling off.