Albion loan signing Keith Lowe (right) trains for the first time with his new team-mates yesterday Albion's new loan signing Keith Lowe revealed today he would be happy to stay for much longer than a month.

Lowe is well down the pecking order at Wolves, where Mick McCarthy has just taken charge, so the 20-year-old centre half "jumped at the chance" to move south.

Lowe had his first training session with Albion yesterday. They have signed him for the minimum period, with Adam Hinshelwood and Guy Butters both out injured but manager Mark McGhee has already indicated his stay could be extended.

"That would be great. My aim this season is to play as much football as possible," said Lowe.

"If it's not going to happen for me at Wolves then I'll stay here as long as the management staff want me.

"I'm looking to play as many games as I can. I wasn't getting the opportunity I would have liked at Wolves so I jumped at the chance to come and play some football.

"A lot of people have left Wolves but the one thing they have got is a lot of defenders and they have scrapped their reserve team now so it was best to go and play somewhere else.

"I've found out that there are a few injuries in the defence here so hopefully I'll get into the team as soon as possible and play as much football as I can."

Lowe, Wolverhampton-born and bred, is under contract at Molineux until the summer of 2008. His immediate prospects of a breakthrough appear bleak after spending most of last season out on loan, to Burnley and QPR in the Championship and Swansea in League One.

"I've got this year and another year at Wolves but there are a lot of players there and unless people leave I'm going to be wanting to play football," he said. "My aim is to get noticed at Wolves but I'm open to anything that happens.

"He (Mick McCarthy) has got his starting eleven in his mind already, even though he has only been there a few days.

"I hadn't asked to go out on loan yet but from what I can gather the manager here phoned up our manager and it seemed like the ideal place to come.

"I've not been down to Brighton before but my first impressions, even from the drive in, were it seems really nice and I'm really looking forward to it."

Lowe is likely to be joined in the back four in Saturday's League One opener at Rotherham by Joel Lynch.

The young defender is back in full training and winning his battle to recover from a thigh injury which has kept him out since the pre-season friendly at Bognor in mid-July.