Jonny Evans believes he will have no problems back at West Brom next week after failing to agree a summer move away.

Northern Ireland centre-back Evans, 29, was of interest to Manchester City, Arsenal and Leicester in the recent transfer window, but the Baggies fended off approaches for their captain and were able to hang on to him by the time reached 11pm on Thursday night.

Evans was in San Marino at that point preparing for a World Cup qualifier that Northern Ireland won 3-0 on Friday evening, and he will remain with Michael O'Neill's team in Belfast for Monday's home clash with Czech Republic.

Once he has played in that, Evans will return to the Hawthorns, rather than any new club destinations, and expects to discuss his situation with Albion boss Tony Pulis, with the defender hopeful he can just pick up where he left off.

"I don't really know much of what went on because I've been away on international duty," he said. "You try to focus on that when you're in a hotel but when I get back I'm sure I will have a chat with the chairman and the manager, but before I left we'd said, 'If something happens or it doesn't we'll just get on with it'.

"As a player you don't really know what's going on a lot of the time and a lot of things are word of mouth.

"We're not involved in that process but everything was left on good terms because it was a hypothetical situation. I just want to get on with what I was doing and see what happens.

"I'm a West Brom player and I'm the captain. I spoke about that in my programme notes last week and I'll be looking forward to going back and seeing the lads."