I look at this perspective: They would send Mikkelsen to the Oz, but recently he is in talks with other teams. He probbaly refuse or lose motivation for driving for them knowing he won't be there for a whole year or at least most of it, so he says goodbye already. They would immediately call Paddon who is eager to drive there and could deliver great results but he is entering with M-Sport already so that option is not available. Who is there? Breen ofcourse. Bad history with that rally but remember he had been driving C3 and back then it was as bad as much. Now he will drive i20 and who knows maybe he could deliver decent result.

And Hyundai maybe thinking long time. If Toyota will win the manu title this year they will certainly not winning next year and they know that. So what they could lose with sending Breen there.