PORTSMOUTH have signed winger Jermaine Pennant on loan from Liverpool until the end of the season, the Premier League club said.

'I've known him a long time,' Portsmouth manager Tony Adams said on the club's website (www.portsmouthfc.co.uk).

'We were together at Arsenal, he was the new kid on the block and a very exciting prospect.'

The 26-year-old Pennant joined Rafa Benitez's side from Birmingham City in 2006.

He teams up with former Liverpool colleague Peter Crouch who joined the south coast club last summer. -- REUTERS