http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=671191&sec=transfers&cc=4716 Distin agrees three-year deal with Everton 买来顶替Lescott August 27, 2009 Everton moved to plug the gap left by the sale of Joleon Lescott to Manchester City by signing defender Sylvain Distin from Portsmouth on Thursday. Distin: Has got his move away from Pompey. John Peters/GettyImages Distin: Has got his move away from Pompey. Frenchman Distin, 31, has agreed a three-year deal at Goodison Park subject to a medical. Everton manager David Moyes told the club website: "He'll give me a centre-half. I needed one before Joleon [Lescott] left and he'll give me a direct replacement for him. He's a left-footed centre-back, which I wanted. "He's a bit older but more experienced and I look back at how well Davey Weir and Alan Stubbs did for us in their 30s, and I hope Sylvain can do the same. We need someone to come in and keep us steady because we want to be competing at the top end of the Premier League.'' Distin expressed his delight at moving to Everton after seeing the landscape change at Portsmouth. The 31-year-old said: "You always have to think about where you're going to go, especially at my age. It's important for me to enjoy my football. I did think about it but not for too long. It is important to move to a club looking up not down. "In my first season at Portsmouth we won the FA Cup and with the kind of player we were signing at the time everyone expected the club to carry on. But it went in the opposite direction. It was really difficult last year and this season the club is also in a tough situation. So it was not enjoyable, those things happen in football.'' Everton, who finished fifth in the Premier League last season, have started the new campaign with two defeats and have been unsettled by Lescott's protracted transfer to City. Moyes is also without central defender Phil Jagielka who will not play before October bcause of a serious knee injury, meaning midfielder Phil Neville has had to fill in at the back. While it is good news for Everton, Portsmouth have lost another first team player following the sale of striker Peter Crouch to Tottenham Hotspur and Glen Johnson to Liverpool. Djimi Traore, Sean Davis, Noe Pamarot and Lauren also left the south coast club, who have been hampered by a long-running takeover saga that was completed on Wednesday when Portsmouth announced United Arab Emirates investor Sulaiman al-Fahim had bought the club. --

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