Given the choice of either selling your ticket to the club for a minimum return or giving your ticket away free of charge to a family member and mate or selling a ticket at face value to a fellow blue, the choice is clear and obvious, regardless of what the club wants to do and wants to implement on transferring and using tickets.
But don’t worry, when the Pep’s winning cycle is over and he goes back to Barcelona, and the team starts to stagnate, which will happen, and there’s an extra 8000 seats to fill and sell at the Etihad, let’s see how quickly and quietly the club backtracks on their new ticket policy. The site of 1000’s of empty seats will have Mansour, then Khaldoon breathing down Soriano’s neck, along with the other directors who are bringing in all these new ticket policies to drive more match day revenue whilst Pep is still CIty manager and the team are still winning trophies.