Official Site of Crystal Palace · Apr 26, 2020
Joe Ledley reveals reason why he nearly didn't join Palace
If Joe Ledley hadn’t turned his mobile phone off when he did, he wouldn’t have joined Crystal Palace on the deadline day of the 2014 January transfer window.
“When I was on the plane I didn’t realise that something had gone wrong with the negotiations,” he begins to reveal.
“I landed in London, listened to my answerphone and there was one from my agent saying: ‘Look, it is not going to work.’ But when I called him, he explained that it had all been sorted out with Palace, everything was okay and we were going ahead.’
“Luckily, I had switched my phone off a bit before the flight otherwise I wouldn’t have got on the plane!”