The funny thing about Meite is that there was some "talk" online about how Benfica just really wanted to get rid of his wages. Kind of funny considering how outrageous their buy-out clauses are. If there are no buyers, I could see us taking him on loan (with that wage) through the end of his original contract. It's a much tougher sell when you have to also put millions more down on a player...
I agree with what you say above though. And between Schwab and Ozdoyev, I'm a Schwab guy. Better leader, and just as skillful.
-edit- Just saw this, unrelated to the above. Don't want to spam with new posts so adding as an edit.
https://inpaok.com/863404/o-paok-krataei-ton-balnte/
He came in on a one-year contract; I think it's a bit much to expect him to get promoted to the first team, but perhaps we'd see him in the B team. Nice numbers, though - 9 goals and 4 assists in 22 matches. Just on those stats, you'd think the team would want to retain him.