He has to be sold. Had to be sold last year tbh but the club is embarrassed and doesn't want to admit defeat. The value of paying him his £200k pw is to pay him to not play for us. That is the best thing for the club.
It's an elephant in the room but if I was running the football operations, he'd be out of the club. Would have told him after last season that it's over, he can either sit on the bench and see out his contract or he can find a new club. No ifs, no buts.
His presence in the starting lineup exacerbates the toxic culture in the dressing room. Why? Because a player with so little ability, performing that badly yet always making the team creates a mentality in the squad that standards and quality don't matter, the price tag you were bought for does. These players know he is awful, they know and yet he is in the team AND IS CAPTAIN.