{"id":186688,"date":"2025-06-15T15:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186688\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:40:14","slug":"charlton-athletics-bid-leyton-orient-and-northern-ireland-star-ethan-galbraith-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186688\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlton Athletic&#8217;s bid Leyton Orient and Northern Ireland star Ethan Galbraith rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland midfielder Ethan Galbraith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/db9601ea-a172-41c7-b77f-d1406865dbdf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Northern Ireland midfielder Ethan Galbraith<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Leyton Orient have rejected a \u00a31.5million bid from Charlton Athletic for Northern Ireland international Ethan Galbraith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The midfielder starred for Orient in League One this season, playing in the east London club\u2019s Play-Off Final defeat to Charlton. Now the 24 year-old could move to the club that tasted victory at Wembley last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, Nathan Jones\u2019 Charlton are just one of a handful of Championship clubs &#8211; including Sheffield United and Swansea City &#8211; keen to snap up the Manchester United youth product.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Orient boss Richie Wellens believes Galbraith has the ability to play in the English top flight.<\/p>\n<p>  Glentoran owner Ali Pour: \u2018I need to spend up to \u00a31million for the club to survive\u2019  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/beltel-football\/id1762800341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen on Apple Podcasts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/editorial\/web\/podcasts\/listenonapple.svg\" style=\"width:40%\"\/> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2zDMhiMi3ittO2YQ3V0DoI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen on Spotify\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/spotify330x80.png\" style=\"width:40%\"\/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThere is no doubt in my mind that Ethan Galbraith is a Premier League player,\u201d said Wellens earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Galbraith has won seven caps for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Another Northern Ireland star who may be on the move is goalkeeper Bailey Peacock-Farrell. His club Birmingham City are expected to sign England U21 international James Beadle on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion, a move that would likely see Peacock-Farrell drop down to third-choice ahead of Birmingham\u2019s return to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Meanwhile, former Northern Ireland international Lee Hodson has signed for newly-promoted National League South club Totten. The 33 year-old was 24 caps for his country and was part of the squad at Euro 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom5 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/irish-league\/irish-league-transfer-tracker-all-this-summers-confirmed-moves\/a1696319313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish League Transfer Tracker: All this summer\u2019s confirmed moves<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland midfielder Ethan Galbraith Leyton Orient have rejected a \u00a31.5million bid from Charlton Athletic for Northern Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,8538,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-northern-ireland-football-team","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114688139632102416","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}