 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. EA FC 24 is fast approaching and we've got some ratings to get excited about as we start a new year of Ultimate Team with new ratings for a lot of top players that we look to get into our squads as soon as possible. We're going to take a look at a lot of ratings today and also talk about what EA is doing differently with ratings this year, which isn't something crazy different from previous years, but they're taking it even a step further. We're even going to look at a couple of heroes today and also look through a lot of different clubs ratings that have been posted recently because there is a lot of cheap beasts that are being unveiled right now on FC 24. We're going to take a look at a lot of this today if you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you are new. Let's start with the top 50. Now, you guys maybe have seen a few of these and I'll just start off by saying guys, EA with the ratings were never all going to agree, right? It's just like team of the year voting and team of the season voting. Nobody's ever going to agree with all of the votes and everybody that gets in, right? But then in the end, we get a team of the year or a team of the season. In the end, we're getting these cards, right? And I do want to point out some big changes that EA are making from FIFA 23 to FC 24, but let's start with the top 50. First of all, Lautaro Martinez, here's our first example of what they're doing again this year in FC 24. They are nerfing pace on these cards a lot, guys. Lautaro Martinez was an 86-rated card last year. He's going up to an 87 and going down in pace. Still looks like a solid card, but that's going to be fodder super quick this year. Frankie De Jong, I'm actually interested for this one. Look at those all 80 stats in the passing, dribbling and pace departments. He's going to be very, very useful, especially with the Barcelona links. Things are going to be very useful for chemistry and I'd be so interested to see what chemistry styles or the new play styles. Sorry, what new play styles he will have on his card. He might have some really good passing play styles. Now, moving up, Oda Guard plus 4-0 for all for him, but they dropped him down lower in pace. Just like Lautaro Martinez doesn't quite make sense, but it is what it is. We'll talk about that a little bit more later on. Mike Magnan looks like good fodder, but usable at the beginning of the game as always. Marquinhos, PSG links. There's no Messi, there's no Neymar at PSG this year, but PSG links will probably still run a premium because of Mbappe. He's going to be usable of course as a good starter or early game center back, not a starter. He's not going to be that cheap, but a good card there. Luca Modric, 72 pace, 89 passing and 89 dribbling as well. He'll be a good box-to-box midfielder, lacking a little bit in the pace. Throw a shadow on that card. You'll be good to go. Hyunmin Sun, a downgrade, but still looks very usable and very good in game. I'll be interested to see if he gets a striker alternate position on his card this year with Harry Kane leaving and him playing a little bit more in this central role. Will EA add that alternate position to his gold card? Or will they wait to add it on during promos later on during the year? Probably that one. But moving on even again, we have Manuel Neuer with a downgrade. Going to still be good for those Bundesliga squads. And then we get into some of our first women's ultimate team players. And guys, inside of this top 50, there are plenty of women's players, but there are not like a crazy ton of them. Like for you guys that are worried about the women coming into ultimate team and maybe just like unsure of how it's going to go, I think that encompasses all of us actually. We're all just so curious to know how this is going to impact the game, especially how they play in game, but also it's just adding more cards to the game and to the market as well. Sophia Smith, 93 pace. This is going to be a card I think a lot of people will end up using as a super sub, maybe to start off, maybe not the best links unless you're going to go with a full women's side. That's a lot of pace right there. Probably a really good super sub. Kind of gives me Usmunt and Bailey vibes. I don't know about the skill moves weak foot, but she's probably going to be pretty fast. Katoto, the Mbappe troll, 83 pace, 88 shooting. Looks like a decent card for an 88 rated. Endler, 88 rated goalkeeper. Now obviously guys, we look through a lot of these and we say they're going to get to be fodder cards really fast, right? Gold cards get outpaced so quickly and they're going to get even more outpaced quickly this year than ever before. But this one is one that's going to maintain for the test of time. I think at least until November, maybe even December. Valverde, hold it gang from the start. He's going to be the best midfielder in the game to start the game. Gold card wise, right? 88 pace, a huge upgrade for him. Deserved for sure, but a massive upgrade for Valverde and he's going to be very, very expensive, especially with the Real Madrid links. Watch out for that card to be in all the top teams in the first month or two in this game. Guijaro, I'm going to butcher some of these names. As always, not a bad looking card either. A nice box, the box midfielder at center mid. A bunch of stats in the 80s, 72 physical, 78 pace. Good box to box with Barca links. That's something to keep in mind that Frankie DeYoung and Guijaro could work together in the midfield and get chemistry because they're both on Barcelona teams. Oseman, big upgrade. Deserved for him, 90 pace, 86 shooting. I think he's kind of comparable to Holland in game. Think about it, right? High pace, high shooting, but not very good passing or great dribbling and pretty physical but not super physical like Holland is for Oseman. That's going to be a great card. Guro Riten, I think looks pretty solid. Chelsea links, interesting to keep note of there. Also Norway links for linking Erling Holland and team might come in useful there. Not a bad card. Reynard, honestly, I'm going to be nice and say fodder, right, 53 pace. Probably not a ton of people looking to use that card. Irene Paredes, a center back with 69 pace. A little bit better, but probably not going to be used the most. Now here's a women's card that might end up being really meta. 84 pace, 81 shooting and 87 passing, but potentially with the 92 dribbling having five star skills as a lot of people have thought to be the case. We'll have to see when it drops an ultimacy, but that could be a pretty meta center attacking mid or striker card. Alexandra Pop, again, low pace, but high on the shooting. Probably not going to be used by too many. Nice card, Bernardo Silva, 69 pace, really I think is going to draw a lot of people away from that card. Not horrendous, but it is what it is. Kimmich, here's an interesting one. A lot of people were getting paced downgrades. This guy got faster. Kimmich up to 70 pace, which is definitely deserved, makes his card look so much better than last year's FIFA, so much more usable. I'd be excited to use Kimmich's gold card if I were able to get my hands on him at the beginning of the game. Bruno Fernandez, going up 86 to 88 rated and going down in pace, just like a lot of other cards. Still a decent looking card, midfielder in the prem. Oblak, 88 rated, good goalkeeper, good fodder, Ederson. There's not much else to really talk about here. Ederson does have really high speeds that, 63 speed. He'll probably be a very commonly used goalkeeper at the beginning of FC 24, and this is one of the biggest upgrades. Antoine Griezmann, guys. Antoine Griezmann went from an 83 to an 88 rated card and they didn't touch his pace, but oh my goodness, what a card that is. Striker, I hope he's got center attack and mid position changes while on that card. 88 shooting, 87 passing and 88 dribbling. This Screams, center attacking mid is what this card screams in game. What a card that's gonna be. The French links as well in La Liga. That is a mental, mental card. It's crazy to think that Griezmann is an 88 and then like Mohamed Salah is an 89. Like those guys so close in rating for how insane Salah is in real life. Griezmann's not, you know, bad, but still, what a rating for Griezmann. What a stat upgrade for him. Mohamed Salah, a slight downgrade from last year. Still very usable. Best right wing in the prem, honestly. Vinny Jr., a bit of an upgrade for him as well. I mean, more than a bit of an upgrade. A sizable upgrade for him. 95 pace for Vinny and he's above 80 shooting on his base gold card, 82 shooting. That's gonna be a very meta card that a lot of people with big budgets will be looking to get at the beginning of the game. Moving on, a pretty usable center back card here for a Barcelona 89 rated Mopilion. 75 pace, all 74 and above every single stat with 90 defense. That's gonna be an interesting card to watch out for. Barcelona links again as well, gonna be usable. Rogeri is more so just fodder, but honestly, that might be one of the worst 89 rated cards I've ever seen. 85 defense is the highest stat on the card and he's 89 rated. That just screams fodder to me. Diani, 89 rated striker. That's a pretty meta looking card as well. 89 pace, 88 dribble. That's gonna be usable. Hegerberg, another Norway player. Links to potentially Holland, but not the best stats there. Decent shooting, 89 rated, 86 dribbling. Again, so many unknowns with these women's players. We're gonna have to see how they play out in game. Allison, 89 rated, decent card, good links. Alex Morgan, one of the highest rated, or maybe the highest rated gold USA card we've ever seen in FIFA. 89 shooting and 88 dribbling. That's a semi usable card as well. Actually, that's definitely usable. 83 pace, a little on the slow slide. Boost that up with Kemp style. That could be very usable. Ruben Diaz, probably gonna be usable for like the first month, but 62 pace. Even with lengthy is probably gonna be a bit disappointing. And VVD, a big downgrade for VVD in terms of pace, guys. 90 rated VVD last year with 81 pace down to 78. That's definitely below the VVDs of years past. Still probably gonna be one of the best center backs in the game to start things off. Casemiro, similar to Rodgery. Not the most meta card. 89 defense and 88 physical though. He still could be decent in the defensive midfield. Neymar, man. Neymar, 86 pace. That's a downgrade for him as well. Still 94 dribbling. Still has to be fives for a fives. So we're gonna have all the flicks and the tricks. In the trailers, they showed Neymar having like those playstyle plus, it was called like Trickster or something like that. He's probably still gonna have that, but it is a little bit sad to see a bit of a downgrade for Neymar. Thurstegen downgraded as well, I believe. Or no, sorry. That's an upgrade for Thurstegen. He was 88 rated last year. Packed him every single 85 times 10 in the end game too. Atina Bonmati. This is a really good looking card. I'm telling you guys, these Barcelona links for some of the women's players and the men's players, these two right here, Graham Hansen and Aitana Bonmati. Look at those stats. 81 pace, 91 dribble for a center mid. That's more of an attacking center midfield player. She's probably gonna be very good in the game. Same thing with Graham Hansen with 89 pace and 88 passing with 91 dribbling. That looks like a really solid card as well. Courtois being 90 rated. He's gonna be pretty usable, of course, with the Real Madrid links as always. And then we get to the top nine guys. Benzema, 90 rated for him. He didn't get the 80 pace. I think he had it last year or he was very close. 88 shooting for him. I think that's actually a slight downgrade now that I remember his card correctly. Harry Kane, 90 rated as well, going up a rating. He is 69 pace. They couldn't give him that 70 pace, unfortunately, but 92 shooting, great year they had. And of course, now with the Bayern links, gonna be even more usable in FIFA, in my opinion. Hopefully he gets some promo cards soon to get that pace boost up. Lewandowski was a 91 last year, going down to a 90, but not much change in his card. He does keep his same pace of 75. And here we go for the top six. Sam Kerr, highest rated women's card, along with, actually just kidding, Puteas is 91. Sam Kerr is a 90. In the beta, man, this Sam Kerr card was so good, right? And I know we're not supposed to talk about the beta too much, but that card was insane in the beta. 90 dribbling, she has a ton of different play styles. That's a card to keep an eye out on. And Messi, 90 rated as well. My goats, right? Of course, Ronaldo, we've seen the memes. We've seen the official stats for Ronaldo. He's 86 rated, huge downgrade for him. Messi, technically a downgrade as well. Hey, let's be honest. These guys are getting towards the end of their playing careers. It makes sense for them to get some downgrades, but it just kind of is painful to see, right? Because it's kind of like the end of an era, and that's painful. Puteas with 90 shooting, 91 passing, 92 dribble. That is an insane looking card as well. Kinda compared to Antoine Griezmann, but with higher shooting, passing, dribbling, and pace, and higher defensive stats as well. That's a crazy card. We're gonna have to keep an eye on that one. Might be one of the most expensive women's cards in the game for a while. Super meta looking. And then we have the top three. Kevin De Bruyne, gonna be usable in the midfield with his insane passing stats, good dribbling, and long shots for shooting as well for KDB. And then Erling Holland and Mbappe. Mbappe actually is getting an upgrade from last year in terms of plus two physical and plus one shooting. That 97 pace and 90 shooting off of the bat. I mean, this is gonna be another year where Mbappe is just gonna be as meta as ever. He's still keeping that 91 rating. He did not go to 92, but he's got that plus one shooting and the plus two physical. He's gonna be so insane. Erling Holland gets a plus two shooting boost as well, guys. He was 91 shooting last year. He's going to 93. His pace is 89, which I think is staying the same. Yeah, his pace is staying the same from FIFA 23. But a couple of these cards that are getting big upgrades, like Holland going from 88 to 91, and he's not going up in pace at all. Guys, here's the reasoning behind that, right? The reason why EA is doing that, as we start to look through a few more ratings here very soon, the reason why they're doing that is, they gotta leave more room for the progression, right? Look how many special cards Erling Holland had last year. A lot of those, of course, coming at the end game with the 297 ratings and then the 99 footies, right? But they gotta leave room for progression throughout the entire year. And I think that's one of the reasons why they're keeping the pace low. And on some of these upgrades for players that we saw, they're not even boosting the actual card stats that much, right? Like some of these cards, like we mentioned, even for Roger, like that's the worst 89 rated player you've ever seen. Well, I think that's because for a lot of these players, they're just trying to bring, they're just trying to create a gap, right? And they're not rating the gold cards as high as they used to anymore so that they can give out special cards. And there's gonna be even more ways to get special cards this year through the evolutions and all the stuff that's happening with that. I think that is one of the ways where EA is trying to fit the new gold cards into like the power curve from the start of the game by actually giving them some less stats or not upgrading their stats as much so that they have more room to upgrade those over time. Now that's just my opinion, but we of course know how EA loved their promos and we're gonna see a ton of special cards throughout this entire year. Now, let's get into some more ratings because there is a lot to talk about here. Foot scoreboard tweeting out a couple new heroes. These are base heroes, guys. The heroes that we saw before that I think are actually on footbin and they're on these other sites. These hero cards, like this Vincent Company 89 rated, that is the Champions League hero version. This is the base version that will be impacts at the beginning of the ultimate team year. Vincent Company, 80 pace, 90 defense and 86 physical. That is his official dynamic image as well. That's a great looking card. He's gonna be very expensive, of course, with the Premier League links and insane card, very deserved for him. What's his Champions League card? His Champions League card goes up one pace. Looks like a lot of plus ones and plus twos around that card from where this one is. So not a massive upgrade there. It looks like plus two passing and plus four dribbling. But I mean, that's kind of how it goes with these hero cards, right? Because these new ones are gonna be coming out in like, what is it, December as well. So this card will be usable for a long time. He's gonna be very, very meta. And then we also have an official image and stats for Vialli, 86 pace, 89 shooting, 82 dribbling. A little bit low there on the dribbling, but still gonna be a usable hero card with serial links at the start. Now, I wanna fly through some of these squads, guys, and take a look at some cheap beasts. And a lot of these ratings that we have here, a lot more players that we might be able to afford earlier on, or just some other really meta players. Manchester City official ratings. And we've seen like the top half of this. Phil Foden, 81 pace. He's never really a usable card at the beginning of FIFA's. Unless he's super meta this year for play styles or something, 81 pace and 89 dribbling is good, but it's not like, wow, you know? Jack Grealish, 76 pace, 88 dribbling, kind of the same thing. John Stones, 72 pace for John Stones. That's not a terrible card. He's getting an upgrade to 85, he was in 83. Kyle Walker getting a downgrade, but still maintaining his 90 pace and still gonna be one of the best right backs in the game. Akanji, watch Akanji and Gavardiol and Ake guys. These three center backs are gonna be probably a bit cheaper. I would have to imagine, somewhere around 25K or less in the early game stage, they're gonna be really good center backs, especially Ake man. Ake had one of those play styles that I used when playing an early build of ultimate team and he was a beast. I forget what play style it was, but he was really, really good. Mateus Nunez's card looks really solid as well. 79 rated center mid with 83 pace, 81 dribbling. He'll be a cheap card to look out for, not too bad. And then Doku, of course, all pace from Manchester City. Let's keep looking through Arsenal. We've got now Saka is 86 rated. Good looking card there. Declan Rice with 71 pace. His best card I think he's ever had for a gold card in FIFA. Doesn't look too bad. Parte looks a little bit worse than him. Hey Zeus, 83 pace, 82 shooting. He's a prime striker. He'll be usable at the beginning of the game, but he's not that insane. And a Martinelli, 89 pace. That's a nice card for him as well. Gabrielle with 70 pace. He'll be used. Ramsdale, okay, Saliba though guys. Saliba, 82 pace, 84 defense, 82 physical. That's going to be a very meta card that a lot of people will try to put in their starter teams. But he is not going to be that cheap, guys. I could see the Saliba card being 40, 50,000 coins. He is going to be a very, very in-demand card for starter teams this year. The rest of the squad here. Timber looks decent. Zenchenko, Trussard, Havertz don't look that usable, but you could probably get away with them in the first couple of weeks or so. And now we go on to Chelsea. I'm trying to fly through a lot of these cards here, right? We got a lot of ratings. Rhys James, looks more like a midfielder than a right wing back with those stats for FIFA's sake. 80 pace with an 80 plus everywhere else, except for shooting, not a bad card. Sterling, 83 rated, big downgrade for him. Sterling still semi-usable and probably going to be in starter teams just because he'll be a lot cheaper this year, for sure. Caisseto, going from a silver up to a gold, 80 rated just looks okay. Fofana, cheap center back for a starter team, looks okay. That's how I feel like a lot of these Chelsea cards look, but they just look okay. Madaweke with 90 pace, that'll be good. Jackson doesn't look like he has that grade of a card. 78 rated, but I mean, his highest stat is 79 shooting and 80 dribbling, just an okay card personally there. Chelsea cards don't look that super-usable, besides in Kunku, and Kunku looks really, really insane. Almost 80 above in every stat, except for defense and physical. That's gonna be a great card. Hopefully has the skill moves as well, moving forward into FC 24. Real Madrid, let's move on to La Liga for a bit more. Bellingham, guys, Jude Bellingham looks awesome. Now I know you're like, Nate, he's 86 rated and has 85 dribbling, is his highest stat. They gotta give room for upgrades, but Jude Bellingham is gonna be really OP this year. I think a lot of people are gonna use him. Also the hype for real life is gonna push that a little bit more. Millie Tau is gonna be almost in every meta starter team as well. 85 pace, 86 defense, what a card from Millie Tau. Rudiger looks really good. Alaba looks okay, a little bit lacking in the pace, but he also, we're gonna have to see how like the big and tall center backs play versus the shorter and more agile ones. He's got 79 dribbling, which is pretty high for a center back, and still really good defensive stats. That's a card to keep around. Rodrigo looks really good. Chammeny looks solid. He's gonna be a bit cheaper. He looks solid though. Ferland Mendy, 92 pace. Still Ferland Mendy, 86 physical as well. He's gonna be good. Kamavinga honestly looks solid too. 79 pace, 80 passing, 82 dribbling. That's gonna be a good early game midfielder for a lot of people to use in FC 24. Now we go to Barcelona. We got a couple more teams to look through guys, all right? Hang in there with me. We've got O'Rauho as 86 rated, 79 pace though. I think he's gonna be usable, but if he had 80 pace, I think a lot of people would like that a bit more. The Rambojit center backs, I think look a lot better than he does. Kunde though looks really good. Like compare Kunde to O'Rauho. Kunde looks cracked, 84 pace, 86 defense. Wow, Rafinha looks good. I think Rodrigo's a bit better. Pedri looks actually usable for a gold card. I used him at the early game last year and he was okay, but then he got passed up super duper quickly. Cancelo looks usable. Christensen not really, Ferrant Torres not really, Gavi Balde with the pace. He looks pretty usable as well. He should be pretty cheap. And then of course Fatih's gonna be 78 rated, but not on Barcelona. That should be his card, but for Brighton 89 pace and 80 dribbling, he'll be pretty cheap there too. Last couple of clubs, Bayern. We've seen a few of these already. Moussiala going up to 86 rated with 92 dribbling. He's gonna be a usable card at the beginning of the game. Koman will be good as always. Goretzka with a downgrade. He's still almost Hullett gang though. 78 pace and the rest are 80 and above. So that's a card to keep an eye on right there. Thomas Mulder going down to 84 rated. Serge Nabri looking okay. Sane looks good with the pace that he has. The weak foot will be the problem. Kim Min Jae, cheap beast right here guys. 84 rated Kim Min Jae for the Bayern links. You got 80 pace, 85 defense and 84 physical. Alfonso Davies looks really solid as well. And Upa McConnell. This is why Kim Min Jae is gonna be a cheap beast. Upa McConnell will overshadow him guys. 83 pace, 81 defense and 83 physical. People remember Upa McConnell. They remember the name. He's been overpowered at the start of years past. He is French right, which helps him out. Kim Min Jae is Korean. Maybe not as good of nation links, but he's still Bayern. He's got better defense and physical stats. And he's gonna fall into the radar. Watch out for Kim Min Jae because he might be a really, really cheap beast compared to guys like Upa McConnell who probably will be a bit more expensive because of the hype and the ratings. Now a couple more French cards. We looked at a few, but Colomani guys. 91 pace for him and 86 dribbling. His shooting stat isn't that insane but 84 rated, that's not a bad starter card. Usman Dembele, PSG links. You can link it to that Marquinhos and Bapé still of course. 93 pace, 88 dribble. He's probably gonna have five star skills and be very usable. Ben Yetter looks solid as always but a lower rating this year. Diabe with 95 pace. This is giving me like Alan St. Maximum vibes type of thing, man. Honestly, 95 pace and 87 dribble. Either a super sub or just running down the wing with that pace for cutbacks to your strikers. That's just, that sounds like FC 24 early game right there. All right, last couple teams here. We've got Manchester United. We've seen a lot of these already. Ratchford, Ratchford looks really good. 90 pace, 86 shooting and 84 dribbling and a striker change for position for Ratchford. That looks really good for him. Veran, I wish he had 80 pace but he's got 79. He still looks very usable. I think Veran might be less expensive this year. Veran's been in the center back that like so many people have gone for in the past few years but not having the 80 pace mark. Even though his rating is still actually going up, he went down in pace. I think having 79 pace is gonna hurt his card just a little bit but it's Veran, he's always meta. So, he is gonna, he is still gonna be a very good card. I did not even realize right away. Now I'm seeing it. That Ratchford upgrade is huge. Ratchford got a massive upgrade. Wow, GGs, man. That's gonna be a really, really meta card too. The rest of the Manchester United team here looks okay. Wamba Saka might be usable for the first week. Garnaccio is just a little bit of pace. I mean, the rest of the team just looks okay, but wow, Ratchford insane upgrade. Veran's still usable. And then you can even argue that Lissandra would still be usable for a bit too but a lot of the rest of the squad here for FIFA purposes don't look that amazing. And then a couple of Serie A squads here to finish things off, guys. Oseman, we saw him, he looks cracked. Caviccia, 84 pace, 87 dribble. That's a really good card too. Guys, Serie A is always overlooked, always. Always Serie A is overlooked, guys. Keep an eye on these players. They'll be a lot cheaper and a lot better to build starter teams with. Zilinski, four star, five star with 86 dribbling, 81 pace. That's a really good center attack in mid or a center mid fielder. D. Lorenzo, he might not fly under the radar as much as probably the best right back in Serie A, but he looks pretty solid. And Zambola and Guisa looks really good as well. I know he's only three star, three star. That's a really, really good looking card there. And then of course, we've got a intercept here with Barela, 86 rated, Bastona looks all right. And then you've got Quadrado, overpowered as ever, still five star skills. Taram looks like a cheap French striker that might be decent as well, 84 pace and 77 shooting. And then Megatarian still four star, five star, 81 rated though this year. So maybe a cheap beast as well. And then Openda, have to shout out Openda. What a stat boost for him in terms of the shooting. 73 shooting last year in FIFA 23 to 79 in FC 24 and an overall rating boost of a plus seven. But once again, guys gets an upgrade and his pace doesn't move. So those are all the ratings that we have right now. There's gonna be more posted and we're waiting for EA to drop the database, right? Once the database drops, we'll have so much more fun looking into all the ratings and starting to build our squads of players that we're gonna be using to start the year of FC 24. But as of right now, let me know down in the comments what you guys think, what do you like? What don't you like? I'd love to hear your thoughts on all of these ratings. If you enjoyed the video, drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and of course subscribe if you're new. I'll see you guys in another video soon. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. See you guys there. Peace out.