Not sure why everybody is scrambling for feeble excuses to justify the price "Well United paid more for a player in an entirely different position" It's incredibly rag-like and needs to stop.
The fee is ridiculous, even by the current markets standards, but so what? We got our target. Let them laugh, if it wins us the league, we'll be the ones laughing come May.
Whilst i don't really rate Walker and don't particularly want him here, i'm very happy we've look around, identified what the club believes is the best option and gone all out to get him. No fucking around anymore, trying to scrimp a few million off the price resulting in us losing out on the player and turning to a plan C signing that takes us nowhere. If we get what the club deems to be the best in that area then they can spend as much as they want. Real Madrid do the same and look what it's won them.