SportBook Service | Liverpool fans angry at missing Champions League clash with Manchester City as Uefa and shareholders will take more tickets

ANGRY Liverpool fans face missing their Champions League quarter-final home leg with Manchester City.

Uefa and Reds' shareholders are taking more tickets than usual for the sell-out.

Some of the most loyal Liverpool fans will miss their quarter-final home tieCredit: Getty - Contributor

The Liverpool Echo report that even some club members who have seen all five previous Euro ties this season will be squeezed out.

Third-placed Liverpool are the only team to beat runaway leaders City in the Premier League this term, thanks to a superb 4-3 triumph at Anfield on January 14.

And demand for the even-more-important re-match on April 4 has been huge.

But Uefa themselves have leapt on this interest.

Reds boss Jurgen Klopp is preparing for the biggest match of his reign so farCredit: PA:Press Association

Man City manager Pep Guardiola knows his Premier League leaders were well beaten at Anfield in January despite a late fightback cutting the deficit to 4-3Credit: REUTERS

For the first time this season they will take the maximum allocation they are allowed, which is thought to be around 2,500 tickets.

And Reds' supporters are also hit by a deal arranged when previous club owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett took over in 2007.

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Liverpool have to let their 1,500-odd Priority Rights Holders buy tickets as and when they want for home cup ties, semi-finals and finals.

This is because Americans Hicks and Gillett not only paid shareholders 5,000 per share, they also provided a lifetime guarantee that they could still access these tickets.

Liverpool's current owners, Fenway Sports Group, investigated this special arrangement.

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But lawyers confirmed the deal was legally binding.

Few Priority Rights Holders took tickets for the earlier rounds in Europe.

But it is understood that this time they have taken hundreds.

Raheem Sterling will be gunning for his old club Liverpool with Man CityCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd

More journalists attend Euro ties, which has also helped cut the Anfield capacity on such special nights to around 52,000.

Club partners get tickets, too, such as 384 hospitality seats for Thomas Cook.

But frustrated Liverpool fans have been assured this allocation is fixed, not higher for the City clash.

Another current problem is that hundreds of seats behind the LED perimeter screens are out of action.

Mo Salah and Co will hope they can stun City at Anfield for a second timeCredit: PA:Empics Sport

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