Alan Pardew: Prospect of jumping ship in summer won't dent motivation of West Brom players

The Baggies boss admitted plenty of his players will be able to get moves back into the Premier League should bottom-club Albion get relegated.

His skipper Jonny Evans has a £3m release clause in his contract and clubs have already started circling other players in case the Baggies suffer the drop.

But Pardew says that is the situation for every Premier League side battling relegation and that professional pride takes over on the pitch.

“That’s all Premier League clubs, you can’t get away from that,” said Pardew. “There are always going to be players like that in a football team whenever you get relegated, whatever division you’re in.

“I’ve only been relegated once in my career and I know the impact that had at that club.

“It was massive and I don’t want that to happen here so I’m going to try to fight for that not to happen.”

Pardew has warned his players that people at the club could lose their jobs if they are relegated.

“I emphasised that about four or five weeks ago,” he said. “I made it very clear to everybody the responsibility that we had.

“And to our fans as well, that stat of three wins in 37 games is what our fans have had to suffer.”

Albion's players will suffer a 50 per cent cut to their salaries in the event of relegation, but when it was put to Pardew that those who were able to move back to the Premier League wouldn’t suffer personally he responded: “But that doesn’t impact on their motivation.

"I don’t see that, a player is a player. When he crosses the white line he wants to win and if he hasn’t got that in him he shouldn’t be a player.”

At the beginning of the season Albion’s squad was heralded as one of its strongest in the Premier League era.

The club have turned down offers in the past year for Evans, James McClean, and Salomon Rondon, while they’ve also fielded enquiries into Craig Dawson and Matt Phillips.

When Pardew was asked if he feared an end-of-season exodus should the Baggies go down, he said: “I don’t think that’s a question for today but I will answer that question maybe later on if I need to.”

Although supporters have started to question the team’s fight on this run of five straight defeats, Pardew believes the effort is there but is not being harnessed in the right way.

“I would like to see a little bit more controlled fight,” he said. “It is no good if you’re a boxer throwing haymakers every five minutes.

“You have to have some skill, and jab, and some technique about what you’re doing in that ring, or else you’re gonna get hurt.

“That is really where we have fallen down, I think. It is controlling that fight in us in a better way.”