Alan Pardew's future as Newcastle United manager is not under immediate threat and he is expected to be in the dugout when the Magpies travel to Swansea City this weekend, sources have told ESPN FC.
Pardew, 53, is under the greatest pressure of his tenure at St James' Park -- which began in December 2010 -- with Newcastle yet to win a Premier League game this season and with just five victories in the top flight since the turn of the year.
That dismal run continued on Monday night with a 1-0 defeat at Stoke which leaves the club in the bottom three ahead of Saturday's trip to high-flying Swansea.
However, Press Association Sport reports that there will be no "crisis" talks with owner Mike Ashley this week and sources have told ESPN FC that Pardew -- who signed an eight-year contract at the club in 2012 -- will remain in charge for Saturday's trip to Swansea, and beyond whatever happens at the Liberty Stadium.
That does not amount to an unlimited vote of confidence from the club's billionaire owner, but an acknowledgement that not all the problems the team is experiencing on the pitch are down to the manager.
Pardew's squad underwent significant change during the summer, with nine new faces -- Karl Darlow and Jamaal Lascelles were immediately loaned back to Nottingham Forest -- arriving at St James' Park.
As well as the fact that the proven striker and commanding central defender they wanted remained tantalisingly out of their grasp, the Magpies' concentration on the continental market once again saw them swoop for Daryl Janmaat, Siem de Jong, Remy Cabella, Emmanuel Riviere and Ayoze Perez, as well as Argentinian striker Facundo Ferreyra, leaving former Sunderland midfielder Jack Colback as the only recruit with Premier League experience.
Pardew, whose influence in transfer dealings is limited, had previously spoken about the need to attract men who already had a grounding in English football, but later admitted that homegrown players had come at a particularly high premium this summer.
The fact that the likes of Janmaat, Cabella and Riviere in particular have struggled to get to grips with the Premier League -- De Jong's loss to a long-term thigh injury has also proved costly -- has not gone unnoticed in the boardroom, and the blame for that is not being laid at the manager's feet.
In the circumstances, much of the pressure on the former Reading, West Ham, Charlton and Southampton boss is coming largely from disaffected fans, with many of those who made the trip to the Britannia Stadium making their feelings known both during the game and on the final whistle.
However, Ashley, who told a journalist -- he later insisted in jest -- last week that Pardew would be sacked if the team lost at Stoke, remains in his corner for now, and will give him more time to turn things around.