New Albion manager Mark McGhee wants to keep Zesh Rehman for the rest of the season.

The young midfielder's first month on loan from Fulham expires after McGhee's opening match at Peterborough on Saturday.

Caretaker Bob Booker had already agreed an extension with Fulham and McGhee now hopes to stretch Rehman's stay even further.

He said: "I would quite like to extend it to the end of the season. I think that would give the boy a much more positive platform, to think that he is going to be part of an attempt to be promoted.

"If we were eventually promoted, it would do him the world of good.

"He is not a player I have seen much of but he looked good in the little practice game we had in training this morning.

"I have a good friend at Fulham in Stevie Kean, who is the assistant manager and I will speak with Steve at length about the boy."

McGhee will select from the same squad for the Peterborough match.

"We have made calls already but nothing has come to fruition and there will be no new faces by Saturday," he said.