The Senegal international went AWOL earlier this month and was uncontactable despite a number of attempts by Ewood Park officials.

Rovers have finally got in touch, via his representatives, and they have been told he will be at the club's Brockhall base tomorrow.

But he is unlikely to be in the squad which flies out to Hong Kong for the Barclays Premier League Trophy at the weekend and manager Steve Kean hinted there was at least one club interested in signing him.

"I don't know where he is right now but I know where he will be tomorrow - or at least he's telling us he'll be here tomorrow," said the Rovers boss.

"He's not been here since the end of last season and we tried to make contact with him and couldn't.

"He will face a disciplinary when he comes in, we'll discuss that with him and his representatives, and we will see what the way forward is.

"Without a doubt he will be facing a fine.

"I wanted to talk to him and see where his head was at. He was on loan (at Rangers) last season and we had an emergence of younger players in his position.

"I wanted to see what he felt. He has one year left, we respect the fact he has a contract but we are looking for him, like everyone else, to come back on the date we set - which he didn't.

"So we have to discuss that and also discuss the options of him potentially moving on."

Blackburn's pre-season plans have gone far from smoothly so far. Diouf's non-appearance was an annoyance but the last-minute postponement of a trip to India has forced a rescheduling of their programme.

The club, owned by Indian poultry firm Venky's, were due to fly out to the sub-continent tomorrow to play a friendly in Pune before moving on to Hong Kong.

However, the deaths of 20 people in explosions in Mumbai, 160km from Pune, forced a rethink with a number of senior players understood to be uncomfortable with making the trip to the sub-continent so soon after the terrorist attacks.

Kean denied there had been concerns expressed by players but said the decision to put the trip back to the international break in October was a sensible one in the circumstances.

"The trip is not cancelled, it is postponed to another date because of the activity out there," he said.

"The board had a meeting with the owners and spoke and decided we had to go through a number of different checks and that trip will now take place at the beginning of October.

"The players are looking for guidance and as long as everything was explained to them they were fine as a group.

"I think the owners would have been disappointed if it was totally finished but the fact it has been put back softens the disappointment."

A joint statement from the club and the owners said: "Safety is always our top priority and after detailed discussions with our security and legal advisors we have been left with no option other than to postpone.

"While everyone is obviously disappointed, we all accept the circumstances and the reasoning.

"We are now looking forward to the trip to India in a few weeks' time."