It is not the first time the club has spent money on youth and seen it flushed down the pan, even though Ashley doesn't exactly spend that much.
Sir Bobby Robson spent a fortune on up-and-coming youngsters and all left for far less than the club paid, without setting St James' Park alight.
Diego Gavilan and Hugo Viana cost more than £10m and Sir Bobby described them as the best youngsters from South America and Europe ... yet they only made 20 starts between them!
Tamas Kadar hopes to resurrect his St James’ Park career ... even though the big money buys are ahead of him in the pecking order.
Manager Alan Pardew has named an unchanged side for the last three matches, leaving Shola Ameobi, Hatem Ben Arfa, Davide Santon and Sylvain Marveaux as frustrated substitutes.
Kadar was signed by Dennis Wise as part of owner Mike Ashley’s plan of identifying young talent and buying it cheap. Ben Tozer and Fabio Zamblera have left after failing to meet expectations, and Kadar would have been allowed to join a Dutch club on loan this summer had injury not intervened. He has never played first-team football under Pardew.
The 21-year-old missed the start of the campaign through injury, but five reserve-team appearances have restored his confidence.
Tamas Kadar: “(Tuesday’s reserve-team win over Liverpool) was the fifth or sixth I’ve played in the last few weeks, so I’m happy with the results and happy because I’m playing.
“I’d been out for a long time – since January – until I did the pre-season, and then I got an injury again. But now I feel like I’m 100% and I’ll push to get back into the first team.
“I know it’s going to take a long time and it’s going to be hard to get into the backline but I think I’m in a good way and if I can play every week that’s the best I can do.
“I’m playing for the reserves as a centre-back and that’s my best position.
“I’m working very hard on the training ground, whether I’m training with the first team or the reserves.”
Source: FOOTYMAD
