Before thinking about the next Champions League, they should decide something about the current tournament, because they may not even make it to the playoffs of this Champions League, they are only one point away from 25th place and their next match will be against PSG, if nothing changes and City do not improve their game, then they may well lose this match and then everything will be decided for them in the last match against Brugge.
Hopefully there is still the spirit to qualify for the next phase in the Champions League for Man City. Even in this bad situation, they must focus on securing a position in the play-off round by any means. Man City has time to prepare for the Champions League but not the Premier League. The pressure will continue to come and the weekend Pep Guardiola plays against Aston Villa.
Manchester City is a team that can quite well take up the challenge of doing well in the Premier League while simultaneously doing well in the Champions League, but this season they are not doing well in either the Premier League or the Champions League. Manchester City understand where their problem lies but in the situation they are in at the moment they have little chance of actually working on it. Until the transfer window opens, they can't bring any other players into their team even if they want to and that's their big problem. Maybe they will have to perform like this until the transfer window opens. But time will not wait for them. If they fail in the important matches of the Champions League, then going to the next round of the Champions League will pose a lot of challenges for them.