I wonder
If all this pep stuff is true
Pep had news filtered through that he wanted to give the CL one more shot then planned to leave city (as mentioned by, yes notably unreliable, English tabloids)
Out of nowhere comes the uefa sentence banning man city from the CL
Pep can then say he planned to stay another year to try for it but feels his cycle is done at city seeing as he can't win anything else