In a world where we were a sensibly run club both allowed to buy and capable of buying football players, we probably would and should have sold Gallagher for real money by now and brought in an upgrade.
Knowing what we do about how we're run and what happened during the transfer window, I cannot believe that anyone seriously believes we still should have sold Gallagher for nothing but pocket change - just to clear a wage - which wouldn't go towards another player anyway.
Better to have for the rest of the season than not.