I have no idea whether they did or not, but I can clearly see why they would discuss it! They will cover lots of eventualities. The if you and Checo are close seems a reasonable one.
Not even sure that is the point. The point is Max is quite adamant he didn’t want to help Checo. That’s it. No when it was discussed makes a difference to that.
It’s simple. The team revolves around Max and the person most sure that this should be absolute is Max. Or maybe Jos