Still retain though, while he was never worth 25 mil and 70k a year, his pace, crossing and ability to be an outlet for long balls pre-injury would have made him an alright asset to the team. And if Brands/Silva never fancied him then with his pace alone we'd have probably made at least 10-15 mil back on him from a lower/mid table outfit.
If Bolasie never gets injured we never sign Walcott for one and aren't 20 mil and 100k/week down the toilet there.
We never should have signed him (in fact in 2016 if we were dying to lob 25 mil at Palace it should have been for Zaha) but I also can't ignore that it's just been unlucky all round, for the player, the club, all of Allardyce/Silva/Ancelotti who've pretty much never had the option to utilise his strengths or to cash in for funds.
Best of luck to him wherever he goes.