SFs like Amare are a dime-a-dozen.
Hedo will affect outcome equal or better than Amare with a lot less headache & drama. He's white (after a fashion), a straight arrow and soldiers like a MF'er when he's content, and here he'll be content. The local gentry & Media will fawn all over him. It's a match made in heaven.
Getting Amare to walk away was a stroke of luck. Getting Hedo to cross paths on the way back in was a stroke of genius.