Joe Ledley completed his £800,000 transfer to Crystal Palace minutes before the close of the transfer window tonight.
Celtic accepted the offer from the London club late on Thursday night with the midfielder flying to London to meet his agents for talks at Selhurst Park.
Palace boss Tony Pullis is a long time admirer of the 27-year-old and lost out to Celtic in 2010 when Ledley joined Celtic despite an offer from Stoke City.
Pullis replaced Ian Holloway as manager of Palace at the end of November and has steered the club out of the relegation zone having looked doomed when he took over.
Palace are currently sitting in 14th place with 23 points from 23 matches with Ledley in line to make his debut away to Arsenal on Sunday.
In total Ledley made 146 appearances for Celtic plus 13 as a substitute scoring 20 goals from midfield.
Ledley’s most memorable goal for Celtic came in December 2011 when he scored the only goal of the game against Rangers to take the hoops to the top of the table having trailed Ally McCoist’s rampant Rangers (IL) side by 15 points the previous month.
The Welshman was among Neil Lennon’s first Celtic signings, helping the club to two championships and one Scottish Cup success, missing the 2011 Scottish Cup win over Motherwell through injury.
Ledley’s last match for Celtic was against Kilmarnock on Wednesday night when he opened the scoring in a 4-0 win to extend Celtic’s lead at the top of the SPFL table to 18 points.
Earlier in the day Mikey Miller and Joe Chalmers completed loan deals to Dumbarton and Livingston, joining Paul George (Hamilton) and Stuart Fidlay (Morton) in the Championship.
Good Luck Joe Ledley, you served us well. All the best going forward.
No tears lost
HH
Joe,
Good deal for both parties.
Typical MSM trying to say it’s a negative
deal for us.
Charlie and Scot play well in the middle.
With Johansen,seemingly having alot to
offer.
Samaras is sitting pretty,the odd game here or their,to keep him.ticking over,prior
to the world cup.
He is no Joe Ledley.
Thanks Joe for giving us 100% in every
game.A model professional.
Wont be missed. Biton Mulgrew Brown Henderson Kayal Johansen can all take his place anyway. Hope Lennons last words to him were ” dont let the door hit your arse on the way out son”
We lost a good player in Joe. He did everything that was asked of him. Good luck to him with his new side.
Disappointed.was a big fan of joes.made things happen when he upped the pace of our attacks.think lennon dropped him too often
Good servant to the club from start to finsh. Came on a free and left for a reasonable fee. Earned his wage by doing whatever he was asked to do and scored some great goals along the way. Never let the club or support down off the field and always did his best on it. Wish we had more like him. Hail Hail Super Joe.
as the saying goes ………. Don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone =(. Crystal Palace though ?. A bit disappointed in his ambitions =( ……. money talks heh
All the best Super Joe Ledley
Sad to see Joe depart but Biton and Jo look to have something about them with room for improvement and either will be looking to step in to his role. Wish Joe all the best down there but i fear he’ll be back in the lower tier of england before to long! That would be a waste of his talent.
The lad Griffiths i think will a very good domestic signing for us at the moment and offers us something with the exception of stokes… a bit of swagger up front with a real sense of knowing exactly where the goal is!
Balde and Pukki have just slipped down the pecking order in my opinion. Griffiths is a finisher!
Joe was a good player for us but not a great one . i think it was the right thing for us and Joe and good luck to him.
I am looking forward to seeing johansen in our team now and hopefully he can bring that bit of flair and creativity that we have been lacking
hail hail
Would prefer all international players stayed , but whem the prem calls its a no brainer . Contracts runing down give players all the aces, giving long contracts givevplayers all the aces …….
Hope it works out for him