I feel like he just doesn't want to negotiate or sign anything until the offseason so he can look at any deal with a clear mind.
I've said before, he seems to have all the resources he had at Barcelona with a fraction of the internal pressure. The players are elite, the fans idolise him.
One other thing we don't think about enough is his relationship with the people above him. They've been very patient over the UCL situation because there is a level headed sense of reason over the fact that winning it is takes a lot of things to go your way and knockout tournaments can be decided by a sharp twist of events. The UCL alone is not the goal, the goal is to always be in a position to win it whether we've won it 0 or 3 times.
When the same ideology and culture gets shared between upper management and coaching management, it's something football fans take for granted. Pep never has to coach with his job on the line because he knows the organisation has long terms plans so there is room to work with. There are teams that would have fired him after the 16/17 season and their fanbase would have called him a fraud. I saw some City fans do it.
If you start setting short term goals with high impact ramifications, you just become Man Utd. A team throwing wads of cash aimlessly at players with star name value (170m combined on Maguire and Pogba who both need to play in a 3 man setup so they can't even play together) and cycling through managers hoping for the next quick fix.
