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Comings and goings: Orient's frantic transfer business over the last three windows
07.10.26, 12:00 Updated 07.10.26, 12:15
Last season it will not have escaped the notice of most supporters that we had an unsettled and changeable squad. Five summer loanees were sent back or recalled in January and several of our summer signings were disappointing. Add to this a sense that if Richie Wellens wasn't happy with a player's work rate, commitment or ability to fit with his system, they tended to be discarded without much explanation.
The Ear decided to investigate this in more detail, in particular for the period since David Gandler became the club's majority shareholder.?We shared the headlines of this enquiry in our September editorial and here we provide more detail on what emerged.
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Doris has been involved with the Orientear for many of its forty years, variously providing match reports, articles and opinion pieces, managing the database, acting as FSA liaison and editorial team member. Doris is from Yorkshire, so she's never short of an opinion and is always right. Up the Os!