Sebastien Bassong answers Wolves SOS

Wolves last night grabbed what they hope will be a Premier League lifeline by clinching the loan signing of Spurs defender Sebastien Bassong.

The 25-year-old Cameroon international agreed to come to Molineux on loan until the end of the season.

Bassong will arrive to find his new team mates in desperate need of a lift after they slumped to their lowest point of the season with last night's 3-0 home defeat by Liverpool.

This latest setback brought songs of derision from the Molineux fans now seriously questioning the team's survival prospects as they prepare to tackle QPR on Saturday.

That promises to be a baptism of fire for Bassong especially after Rangers strengthened their numbers by including strikers Bobby Zamora and Djibril Cisse in a glut of five signings.

It makes Wolves' capture of Bassong small change in comparison but the Molineux club hope that the covering Spurs defender can at last provide an answer to the problems which have dogged the team all season and were evident again in last night's defeat.

Bassong was the man chief executive Jez Moxey referred to yesterday as a 'premium player' on whom he had given up hope of persuading Spurs manager Harry Redknapp to allow out of White Hart Lane.

But Wolves were desperate to add the former Newcastle man to their numbers and Moxey took up the case again late afternoon as both Redknapp and Spurs chairman Daniel Levy received fresh phone calls from Molineux to try to re-activate a dormant deal.

In the end, Redknapp felt able to respond only on securing his own cover for the departing Bassong by signing Blackburn's Ryan Nelsen.