One of the tout sites now has 1,150 tickets listed for the Madrid home game on Wednesday. They only had a couple of hundred last week, so they have sourced hundreds more. Many are seated together and often in 3 and 4s, in the top tier of the CB and east stand, and in 315 (likely Madrid returns). They are a minimum of £375 each. They only way they are getting these is from the club. Many people seem to think the sites are advertising tickets they don't have, but I really don't think that's the case. On the face of it the sales criteria were very fair, but they sold out at 3 prior recent UCL attendances. Not a single return ever got released to the fan base, everything has been packaged with buffets and sold for £500. Really disappoining, but I guess that's business.
It should mean a sell-out of the UCL group games next year to gather your attendances for the knock-out stage, and you can't argue with that. If you make the effort to go see Copenhagen in a dead rubber game on a wet November night, you've earned your tickets. It's the thousands of hospitality and tout site tickets that need never have attended before, or even be a City fan that's a bit frustrating.
(P.S.Don't suppose anybody has a spare? :-))