Not if you already know the result?
At that stage, Cerefin comes more into play.
He has distanced himself from the IC and AC findings so far.
Such an instruction from CAS to mediate would lend itself also to the suggestions the FFP is poised to be overhauled.
I know PB has stated Cerefin offered us a piecemeal arrangement and we told him where to shove it.
I'm not so sure. In actual fact, what if Khaldoon's confidence isn't only rooted in our irrefutable evidence and innocence, but what has been potentially gamed out between ourselves and Cerefin?
Taking this all the way to CAS serves a number of things, including Uefa saying to the usual lobbyists that they took it all the way, but the AC fucked up and City had evidence all along which now calls for radical reform?
M'lud, this concludes my case for the defence.