No idea how Uefa have worked out what is acceptable. Maybe they were worried about City being gifted a tranche of prime real estate in Abu Dhabi?
I think they'll be allowed in to the CL even if they miss slightly, not if they are seen to be taking the mickey though, if they sell a few players and pretty much break even on transfers and miss out by a smidge then I reckon they'll be alright. Go and offer £250million for Messi and UEFA will probably crack down.
They are absolutely MILES out right now, and the last figures don't include most of the big name wage earners in the past 18 months, losing Given, RSC, SWP is going to make a dent, but not a very big one.
THey can ditch their 6-7 worst players, and the figures compared to a couple years ago will be worse.
Theres almost certainly clauses in their contracts to get paid more upon being in the champs league, which means the big earners will suck up all the extra revenue from the champs league anyway.
They've still got huge fee's to be amatorised for pretty much the next 4 seasons.
They need a Utd sized stadium and ticket prices and fully sold out to even have the slightest chance.
They can't get a 50mil a year shirt contract as Uefa will be disregarding anything thats not essentially fair market price. If Barca just got 25mil a season for it, and Spain make more in merchandising than the EPL, and Barca are the best team in the world, new entrants to the CL aren't going to be signing anything much over that a year and its simply not enough.
As for what can be made, stuff on land basically on the doorstep, on the same developement as the stadium looks like it will count, but you can't fit a whole lot of developement right on the doorstep. City look to be sticking a gym on site basically, but again if the numbers magically make this a 100mil a year gym, Uefa will call it bogus.
The thing is, no one knows if any of that matters, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if entry into the champs league when you're way over budget is just a very expensive entry fee, basically a fine, or Uefa making a bundle of cash basically. Though they might do what they've promised and deny City entry into the CL.
I'm not sure what Uefa's plan is for executive boxes at stadiums. As it is Arsenals club/executive level make HUGE sums of cash, like insane compared to the other 45-50k seats. But can City's owners give a bunch of big companys 5million a season boxes? You'd assume Uefa would rule that beyond fair market value but who knows.
