Phil Brown is keeping his fingers crossed as his international players start to arrive back in the country.

No fewer than nine City players have been away representing their countries and Brown says it's so far, so good with no injuries reported.

"It is so far, so good," said Brown.

"Kamil Zayatte trained today, as did Daniel Cousin. But we've got one or two who are not coming back until first thing tomorrow morning.

"Marlon King and Tony Warner are flying back from the far side of the world, so they won't be back until six or seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

"We won't have a fully clean bill of health until just before tomorrow's training session."