Of course Pep Guardiola does care if Manchester City win the Premier League. He's set incredibly high standards and City are a club who expect to be challenging for titles year after year.
However, defeat at Manchester United - which followed City's abysmal loss at Southampton - has exposed something more pressing than any title talk. It's a fear Guardiola admits he could feel was possible before the season even began due to the pressures of challenging for a title three years on the bounce. And he's spent months warning that the World Cup could have any number of unknown consequences on the domestic season, which could be having a hidden influence on their current slump.
Maybe it was Guardiola's sarcasm or tongue-in-cheek nature that was slightly lost in translation when he said: "I don't care about the Premier League and the Carabao Cup, we cannot win. We won a lot, so it's not a problem."
