deleted repository and then created again and now deployments are broken

I had a repository setup for my pages site, and then deleted by accident (still not sure how that happend). So I recreated the repo on github again with the exact same name... but now I can't seem to re-connect it. I've followed all the docs for removing and installing the cloudflare app on my github, but to no avail. Is there any way I can reconnect a project that is broken?