Ben Mee could make his return from injury against former club Burnley on Saturday, after the Brentford defender underwent on Friday a final fitness check ahead of the match.
The 34-year-old centre-back signed for the Bees on a two-year contract last summer, bringing to an end a decade at Turf Moor.
Mee won Brentford supporters’ Player of the Year back in May, but has featured in just three of the club’s ten fixtures so far this season due to calf injury in the early weeks and a muscular strain more recently.
“Ben Mee is getting closer so that is a positive”, Thomas Frank said on Friday afternoon. “He could be available for selection.”
A fortnight ago, Frank had confirmed: “That was a muscle injury [sustained] a couple of weeks ago. He is progressing fine, so he is probably the closest of them [to returning].”
Elsewhere, goalkeeper Mark Flekken has recovered from appendicitis and is in line to start at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday.
And Frank added: “Shandon Baptiste and Myles Peart-Harris have part-trained with the team. Josh Dasilva is on the grass, which is also positive. Mikkel Damsgaard is progressing very well after his minor [keyhole] knee surgery.
“Keane Lewis-Potter is progressing quite well. I don’t know the exact timeframe but it’s not as long as I feared.”
Brentford finished ninth last season but are currently 15th and winless in eight matches in all competitions since August’s 3-0 league victory at Fulham.
