Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew accepts blame for abject display following thrashing by Liverpool "I have no problem getting the flak, I accept that," said Pardew. That performance was not one of my team's. My teams are renowned for being organised and being on the front foot and you could not say that about Saturday. I will take responsibility for that. There is genuine support for Pardew in the boardroom. Managing Director Derek Llambias remains convinced he is a good manager having a bad spell, but owner Mike Ashley is less attached, far less impressed by the team's decline and he has the final say on everything. Ashley had to be persuaded to spend more than £17 million in the January transfer window on five players from France, as well as several million more in agent and signing on fees. He spent that money to avoid being sucked into the relegation quicksand. Yet three months later, Newcastle are waist deep and sinking. The club lost £500,000 a week when in the Championship four years ago. Pardew can still rescue them from relegation and financial meltdown, but two of Newcastle's remaining three fixtures are away from home and they have only won once on the road this season. Their final home game of the season is against Champions League-chasing Arsenal. To cling on to his job, Pardew needs his players to fight for him; show they still believe in him and respond to his instructions. At the core of his team are seven French players. They are all talented, but if there is one consistent criticism of Gallic sportsmen it is they lack mental strength and quickly lose heart when things go badly. Those national stereotypes seemed all too fitting as Liverpool tore them to shreds. Liverpool were impressive. Their passing was crisp, their movement intelligent, their pressing disciplined, but they could have won comfortably playing badly. Manager Brendan Rodgers has got them playing how he wants them to and, with or without Luis Suárez, they are a good side with the potential to get even better. Liverpool scored six, but could have had more. They were utterly dominant. Daniel Sturridge was superb in place of Suárez, his movement and finishing of the highest quality. Philippe Coutinho was equally as good, his passing and vision everything that English footballers of his age - he is still just 20 - seem to lack. Liverpool are progressing in a manner which serves to highlight how far Newcastle's standards have slipped. Pardew knows he is in trouble, but he can only hope his previous achievements mean he can limp over the line this season, rejuvenate over the summer and rehabilitate at the start of next term. "That is out of my hands," he replied when asked whether he feared the sack. My job is to make sure, until I am told otherwise, to lift this team and get this team as good as it can be for next week and that is what I will do. Of course I am angry, that is my heaviest defeat as a manager, but I have to channel that anger in the right way. The only way I can get that right is next week and make sure I have a team that enters the pitch at West Ham confident it is going to win. Pardew is not in any imminent danger of the sack given there are only three games to play, but his position is likely to be reviewed in the summer.