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Andy Gray reckons Paul Lambert is running out of pep talks to lift Aston Villa and the former favourite fears his old club will be relegated.

Gray believes Villa missed an opportunity to boost their Premier League survival prospects by failing to add "three or four" new faces on yesterday's deadline day.

He is concerned that Lambert's positive attempts to pick his players up after each defeat will start to fall on deaf ears in the dressing room.

“I don’t know what words of comfort or optimism I can offer to Villa fans," said Gray on talkSport.

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“I am seeing the worst attacking side in the eight or nine divisions of the English pyramid system. They can’t get a goal, their confidence is rock bottom.

“I don’t know what Paul can say every week going in on a Monday morning. I think players get fed up hearing the same thing time and time again and nothing is happening."

Gray is keeping his fingers crossed that playmaker Carles Gil and winger Scott Sinclair will make a difference - but the first time this season he has genuine concerns about Villa going down.

“I wish Paul Lambert had got three or four in, even loans, to just freshen up the place," added Gray.

"They have got in Scott Sinclair and Carles Gil. They might help and, if they do, that’s great, but I just see a club that worries me.

“I never thought for minute until the last two or three weeks that Villa would go down but I now have serious doubts about it. If you can’t get a goal, you are seriously struggling.”

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