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West Brom want embattled Alan Pardew to slog on despite planning to name a new boss in the summer.

Pardew is a deadman walking at the top-flight basement side after just one in 16 Premier League games.

Pardew, 56, has lost the support of Albion's players after a controversial reign.

It includes four senior stars breaking a curfew on a Spanish training camp, dressing room rows and a touchline bust-up.

Pardew even admitted the club's players stopped trying in their 4-1 home loss to Leicester, which leaves them still cut eight points adrift.

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But the club's Chinese-owners are reluctant to take another financial hit axing Pardew just four months after his appointment.

They know it will be cheaper to pay him off in the summer using a break clause in his two-and-a-half year contract.

Pardew is now trying to lift his demoralised squad for Saturday's trip to Bournemouth after seven successive losses.

Albion have just 20 points and are in danger of their lowest-ever Premier League points tally, which is 26 in 2003.

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It is virtually inevitable they will seek a permanent new boss in the summer to get them out of the Championship.

MirrorSport understands names set to be under consideration include Solihull-born Graham Potter,42, of Swedish club Ostersunds.

Michael Appleton, Leicester's assistant manager and an ex-West Brom player and coach, is well regarded by Jenkins.

Brentford's Dean Smith and Aberdeen's ex-WBA midfielder Derek McInnes are all seen as other potential contenders for the summer.