ONE out, one in. That is the name of the game when it comes to Plymouth Argyle's transfer activity at present, and the Coca-Cola Championship club are putting that policy into practice this week.

Jermaine Easter left Home Park yesterday to join League One club Milton Keynes Dons for an undisclosed fee. He is due to be replaced in Argyle's squad by fellow forward Bradley Wright-Phillips, who is joining the Pilgrims as a free agent after the expiry of his contract with Southampton.

Easter, 27, was brought to Plymouth by former Argyle manager Ian Holloway in October 2007, when he was borrowed from Wycombe Wanderers. By the time the Wales international completed a £210,000 full transfer to the Pilgrims in January of the following year, current boss Paul Sturrock had replaced Holloway at Home Park.

Sturrock had tried to take Easter to Swindon Town, shortly before he left the Wiltshire club to return to Devon for a second spell in charge of Plymouth.

Easter scored his first goal for Argyle in Sturrock's first game back at the helm – a 2-1 home defeat to West Bromwich Albion in November 2007. He finished the 2007-08 season with a tally of six goals in 32 Championship appearances for the Pilgrims.

The Cardiff-born marksman was less successful last term. He made only four Championship appearances for Argyle in 2008-09, and did not score. He had loan spells in League One with Millwall and Colchester United, with whom he sustained a knee injury in December last year which effectively brought his campaign to an end.

Easter played 39 first-team games for the Pilgrims, and scored six times. He is moving back to Buckinghamshire in a quest to reignite his career under Paul Ince, who has returned to the Dons for a second spell as their manager.

"It feels great to be here," Easter told the League One club's website. "When you get the feeling for somewhere, like I have here, it's really exciting.

"I remember watching Paul Ince's Manchester United team as a kid, and I really looked up to him, so I can't wait to start working with him.

"I've come here for promotion, it's as simple as that. That's what we should be targeting as a team, and I'll be giving my all to help the team achieve that."

Pete Winkelman, the Dons' chairman, said: "We're really excited to welcome Jermaine to the football club. He's a player we've admired for a long time, and arrives here with a proven goal-scoring record. He's an ambitious young man with an enormous amount of talent."

Last night, Sturrock said: "Jermaine is a nice lad and a model professional. He worked very hard at his game. There was a lot of politics in his life at the beginning of last season, which affected his performances. He went away on loan due to those circumstances, he lost his Welsh place and everything else, and then he suffered his ligament damage. That really knackered his whole season.

"I just felt that he had been in and out of the team here, and he was needing a new challenge," the Argyle chief added. "The opportunity came along, and I think he has made the right choice."

The arrival of Wright-Phillips is due to be confirmed by Argyle this morning. The Londoner is the son of former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright, and is the half-brother of Manchester City's England winger Shaun Wright-Phillips (Ian Wright's adopted son).

Bradley Wright-Phillips began his career with Manchester City, who sold him to the Saints for a fee of £750,000 in the summer of 2006. He scored 25 goals in his three years with the Hampshire outfit, whose financial plight meant that his prospects of a contract renewal on anything like similar terms were virtually non-existent.

The 24-year-old former England youth international, who can play as a central striker or out wide, is thus heading for Home Park on a free transfer. Crystal Palace also expressed an interest in signing him this summer.

Sturrock is also pondering adding a midfielder to his squad this week. Iceland international Kari Arnason has had 125 minutes of match action as a trialist for the Pilgrims in the last three days, and has impressed the Argyle boss.

The 6ft 3in central midfielder played for most of last Sunday's private practice game for trialists at Harper's Park, Argyle's training ground, and then had a second-half run-out in Monday's 2-0 friendly victory at Truro City.

The 26-year-old is a free agent. He left Danish 'Superliga' club Aarhus at the end of last season, having spent part of the campaign on loan to Esbjerg, another top-flight team in Denmark. He started his career with Iceland's Vikingur, and has also played for Djurgarden in Sweden. He has been capped 15 times by Iceland.

Sturrock said: "He [Arnason] has not trained since the end of last season, but he played for 80 minutes on Sunday and he played on Monday. I thought he was very competent. He reads the game very well, he goes and steals the ball. He's big and athletic. He never let himself down in any way. I was very pleased with him.

"I'm going to make a judgement on what I saw on Monday and what I saw on Sunday," added the Argyle boss, who might take another look at Arnason in tonight's first-team friendly against Torquay United at Plainmoor.