Phil Brown insists the failure to land Marc-Antoine Fortune will not upset Hull City Football Club as they prepare for the new season.

The Tigers hoped to land the former West Bromwich Albion loan striker on a permanent deal, but the Nancy star has instead opted to link up with Tony Mowbray again at Celtic.

"We're disappointed, but as resilient people, we dust ourselves down and get on with the next one and hopefully that will whet the whistle" Brown told the Hull Daily Mail.

"I read that I was upset that we'd lost the Fortune deal. I wasn't upset by that, if the lad wants to choose Scotland instead of England, then that's testimony to Tony Mowbray.”