Brentford boss Mark Warburton plans to send young defender Raphael Calvet on loan.

The 20-year-old has made just one first-team appearance for the Bees since his switch from Auxerre last summer, appearing as a substitute in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy defeat to Peterborough.

Calvet can pay at right-back or centre-half, but is behind Tony Craig, Harlee Dean and James Tarkowski in the Griffin Park pecking order.

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And Warburton wants the France U20 international to have a temporary spell away from TW8 to get regular first-team football.

He said: "Raphael has come back in great shape and is raring to go.

"He needs to get a good pre-season under his belt and when the time is right we will look to get him out.

"There's nothing like being involved in a game at 3pm on a Saturday."

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