Albion boss Peter Taylor has revealed plans to resurrect a long-term loan deal involving Leicester's Junior Lewis.

Taylor's bid to capture the versatile 28-year-old for three months has been hampered by an injury crisis at Filbert Street.

Lewis has been an unused sub in Leicester's last three matches, but Taylor was in touch with his old club again yesterday with a view to reviving the deal.

If he is signed by tomorrow then Lewis would be available right through to the possibility of the play-off final on May 11, although he would not necessarily figure in Saturday's trip to Oldham.

Taylor said: "I am still trying to get him until the end of the season. The slight problem is the injuries Leicester have and it doesn't mean he will be involved this weekend even if I get him.

"But if I can improve the squad by one or two it will put us in a stronger position. We have got a few tired bodies that might need a rest."

Taylor has reduced the wage bill since taking charge in October. Andy Crosby, Matt Wicks, Dirk Lehmann and Scott Ramsay have all left, while Geoff Pitcher is on loan to Woking for three months.

He has brought in Daniel Webb from Southend, David Lee from Hull and had goalkeeper Simon Royce on a month's loan from Leicester, all of which leaves Taylor with limited room for manoeuvre in the transfer market.

"There isn't any money to buy a player," he said. "I knew that when I first came in and I haven't sold anybody so that hasn't changed, but I have saved quite a lot on wages.

"There's a chunk I can attack if I want to and that is where Junior comes in. I am particularly interested in him because he can play in three positions.

"I am going to try and get one or two more in as well, because I want to be covered in every area. If you leave it until the transfer deadline then you can end up signing somebody for the sake of it."

The second-placed Seagulls have three more promotion six-pointers looming in the space of eight days, starting against seventh-placed Oldham.

Leaders Reading visit Withdean on Monday, then Albion entertain fifth-placed Huddersfield a week on Saturday.

Back-to-back 1-0 home wins against Cardiff and Tranmere, two more potential challengers, have set them up nicely for another key period.

"The players have done ever so well, because at the start of the season Brighton wouldn't have been one of the names on people's lists for promotion," Taylor said.

"Oldham are in good form. Mick Wadsworth has gone there and really turned it around and they are all of a sudden play-off contenders. It's going to be a massive game and you are not going to get much bigger than Reading.

"Two games in three days is tough, but the players can handle it."

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