He needs to be kept, but The Board® are stupid enough to sell him.
You have enough proof to at least admit you were wrong about him, but here you are still claiming he isn't great. He is world class, and I can give you many facts and numbers to sustain that claim. Except I already did.
Btw, this is a post of mine from august 2013:
He scored 19 times in the league, and many of those goals were very important for us. Like the ones vs Sevilla, both home and away, or the golazos vs Madrid and Atletico.