Sunderland's fit-again striker Kenwyne Jones is excited about the prospect of lining up with summer signings Djibril Cisse and El Hadji Diouf.

"I was excited about the team from the moment the transfer window opened, with all the players coming in," he said. "It's all to make the team and the club stronger and it's nice to come back and play and get back into it. I'm just looking at it as one training session at a time.

"I can't say what's going to happen with the derby. I can't talk about what's going to happen after today. I've got the reserve game and god willing that goes well, then I can look forward to the next day and then the process starts again. If I'm in the squad so be it, but I can't do anything about it. In some senses, I'm still in rehab. I'm not going to cross my fingers or anything because when you cross something it messes you up. So we'll just wait and see."