Plenty of battered wife syndrome on this thread.
"Oh, thanks City, for having season tickets that are cheaper than Arsenal"
"Oh, thanks City, for only increasing by 10% each season"
"Oh, thanks City, for only increasing the price by £4 per match. Four is a small number that means nothing in my head"
"Oh, thanks City for offering me the chance to pay your rip off prices in a different way, in my head that is virtually not paying"
"Oh, thanks City for giving me 2 weeks to pay before you shaft me for even more if I happen to be one of the thousands who will forget about it or not be able to do it immediately and will be shafted by a scheme designed for the sole reason of catching those people out."
Football everywhere in Britain is a rip off and run by bastards. Just because the bastard at City whose job it is to impress people by squeezing every last drop out of the fans is not currently charging the same as the same bastard at Arsenal, it doesn't make him less of a bastard. In fact, I'd be surprised if the bastard at Arsenal or anywhere else has shafted their own fans by so much percentage wise over the last 5 years.
Also, more absolute nobs lining up to claim it is something to do with FFP again. It's almost a bad joke. Their ignorance is as bad as the lack of grasp of basic maths of some of those trying to paint such increases as hardly worthy of note.
Cue the accusations of being an ungrateful bastards from people who seemingly don't support City but support the concept of watching a successful club.