Town boss Mick McCarthy says skipper Luke Chambers, midfielder Cole Skuse and centre-half Christophe Berra all trained this morning and will be fine for Saturday’s game against Birmingham City at St Andrew’s, while new signing Kevin Foley will be in the squad if his international clearance has come through.
The trio were amongst the senior players not to make the trip to Portsmouth on Tuesday with Chambers having suffered a tight calf in the game against Preston, Skuse a hamstring problem and Berra requiring an injection for a shoulder injury.
"They’ve trained today, they’ve all got through a training session OK, so they’ll all be fine, thankfully,” McCarthy confirmed.
"Kevin Foley will be part of the squad that travels, providing he gets international clearance.
"He’s been training well, I’ve been delighted with him. He’s kept himself in good shape, he had the U21 game and he’s trained every day. He looks good.”
Centre-half Piotr Malarczyk is banned for one game following his red card on Tuesday.
Having exited the FA Cup following the 2-1 defeat at Fratton Park on Tuesday, McCarthy says some of his younger players could now go out on loan.
"Possibly, I think certainly Josh Emmanuel, who went out to Crawley and didn’t get enough football, and maybe Myles Kenlock,” he added.
"We’ll see with one or two of them. But we’ve got to get somebody who wants to take them, I can’t just put them out on loan. So, if I get the requests, I will consider some of them, of course.”
But the Blues boss still has no plans to add to his squad before the transfer window closes a week on Monday.
"I’m comfortable with the ones who’ll be coming back and playing against Birmingham, the team that we’ve got,” he said. "The first team squad’s good.”