 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today, we have a massive video talking about some of the best investments that you can make right now in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, because we're in the middle of a team of the year market crash. A lot of people are selling cards because of the upcoming promo and content like the icon player pickpacks that are out. But this creates a very interesting scenario which we've come to expect just about every year now. A round team of the year is a crash and then after team of the year happens, the market rising back after the promo. So today, we're gonna talk about some investments that you might be able to make in this time period when the market is low for a rise after team of the year in the coming weeks, whether it's you wanna buy cards for your team or whether you're just looking to make some coins on this game, there's going to be tons of opportunities to buy cards on this market in the very near future. And we're gonna talk about a buy time for some of this stuff as well as a lot of people are ready to buy it. A lot of people expect the low points to be before team of the year on a lot of these types of cards that we're gonna talk about in this video today. So we're gonna very carefully cover that as well and put kind of my perspective on when can you buy some of these cards as well. So if you're excited to hear about some of these investments and if you're excited for team of the year, hit the thumbs up on the video and of course, subscribe if you are new. Now let's get into this because we gotta look at some of these prices on the market. This is getting very interesting as a lot of these prices have dropped off and before we take a look at a few cards, we have to kind of go to the basics, right? Why are we gonna invest? Why do we want to invest? Well, we want to invest because just like in previous years we are expecting this year in team of the year a market rise after the promo. Now, why does the market rise? Well, a lot of people right now are saving packs. People have been saving packs for, honestly, months. Some people just for a couple weeks. Some people just for one week but a lot of saved up packs are in the store. I've got a little bit here. Some weakening rewards, you know, stuff like this. I'm not gonna be opening any of these until we get towards team of the year but when this team of the year comes you see people open these packs and the market gets a lot of coins and of course people see their brand new team of the year cards, they see the other content has dropped. They get coins from opening their packs and then they go out and they buy teams, right? This is just a huge pack promo. It's very similar to Black Friday. You're gonna hear me make some comparisons to Black Friday in this video because it's very similar to Black Friday which we saw a couple months ago where the market rose almost immediately upon the Black Friday promo coming out and especially after the week after that a lot of stuff went up on the game but that's why we expect a market rise, right? Because a lot of people have packs, they open those packs, they get coins on their account from the quick sell value of those packs and from selling cards on the market and then from there they go out and instead of not buying because they're scared of what might happen during team of the year, they see the content that is available, they go out and they buy cards for their teams. I 100% think that this year in FIFA there's going to be a market rise. I mean, you take a look at some of the market rise that we had after Black Friday on some of these very popular cards. Like let's take a look at even Golden Bapay, right? After Black Friday this year there was a huge sell off for Black Friday and Bapay went down to 1.2 mil. He rose back up to almost 1.4. Xbox, he went down to 900, went back up to 1.02, 1.03 mil. So I expect just like we saw at Black Friday a lot of cards to rebound back up. Now, where we're gonna be closely looking at the market today are going to be these types of cards. Out of packs, special cards, like the versus promo cards, winter wild cards, headliners, everything that is out of packs, team of the group stages, signature signings, a lot of these cards have great potential since they have dropped the price in the recent past, right? Right now in this game they're down. A lot of these guys have potential to go up. The reason why we like these types of cards the most is because unless EA does some crazy stuff and puts old cards back in packs, these cards get panic sold but they have no more supply. So with more coins coming onto the market a lot of people go out and build their teams and they include some of these players from older promos that are still very meta popular and rare on the game and this stuff goes up because it doesn't have the brand new supply to work with that demand that is already there because people are opening packs. So that's why we take a look at a lot of these cards. Now, just to take a look back at last year, when we start to think about what types of cards will do the best, I mean, you kinda know, right? You kinda know just off, as we watch cards get panic sold and rise back on this game almost all the time with the way the market works this year. Some of you guys know already what cards are gonna do really well after the team of the year promo. It's all about what is meta, what is popular and what is rare. Those three things are huge and if you think about it, some of the cards that have come out recently and FIFA are gonna give us a nice, helpful hint and a lot of the SBCs that people have done that those are cards that are still new and fresh and are probably gonna stay in people's teams for a while. A lot of French links have been very popular, right? This Gen-duzi card, still 275,000 coins. A lot of League One and Premier League links have been popular with some big time SBCs that we have seen lately. If you were somebody who just did the Accardi SBC or if you did the Klaus SBC to get Fofana in your team, right? A lot of people are still gonna have those links after team of the year. So some of the cards that we have seen go up in price in the past weeks or so and maybe they've gotten sold off now because team of the year is upcoming, those are the same types of cards that I would even look into very soon for a rise post-team of the year, right? Now last year, what kind of cards did the best? Just like we were talking about some of these out-of-pack special cards did absolutely incredible last year. Now one thing I have to make a difference between the last year's market and this year's market is everything this year is just so much cheaper. It's crazy and you're gonna see this as you look at even a couple of the icons, right? Everything this year is so much cheaper and look at this Sadio Mani, right? Sadio Mani was 1.9 million coins right before team of the year, right around two mil. After team of the year comes out, he rises up to 2.3 mil about three to four weeks after team of the year into February before he drops off a ton. That's a 400,000 coin rise from when team of the year started to when he came back down. Now that's a very expensive card. Let's take a look at somebody that's on the cheaper side of things, Lautaro Martinez, the freeze item. Now this card was helped out and this is part of when we're investing for team of the year, we always have to consider the risk, right? And there's a little bit of risk, but in this case it worked out incredible for Lautaro. 270K right before team of the year explodes to 460,000 coins because of the DiBala SBC. Now, for a lot of these cards, and we're going back to FIFA 22 to talk about this, for a lot of these cards on the market, out of pack special cards, if you're picking an item that is very popular, like let's say like this Martial, right? PremStriker French, one of the best PremStrikers in the game. He's Anthony Martial, good links, good stats, five star week foot, right? Or this Lucas Mora, right? Those are two cards that I would say thumbs up, right? You have a great opportunity of making coins on those, whether you add them to your team or whether you're buying them for an investment to rise post team of the year. The only risk that is involved with investing for team of the year is what content is EA gonna put out? Last year, of course, during team of the year there was a huge emphasis on Serie A. They dropped the Franck Ribéry left wing flashback SBC. They dropped the Bala SBC and they dropped a, where's the Ronaldo? Cristiano Ronaldo flashback. That's three Serie A cards in the span of like two weeks during team of the year. They also threw in the Jerome Boateng flashback SBC. So, you know, the thing is, and the risk here is, let's say you bought like a center attacking mid, like I remember Joao Felix's headliner card last year. Yeah, here it is. Joao Felix's headliner card took a hit when Debala came out, because Debala was so popular. So Felix went from 800K all the way up to 977, then went back down. I think that part of that was maybe due to a team of the week that he did not get, but also because of the Debala SBC that came out. So, the number one source of risk that you have in investing right now and investing before a team of the year promo and why some people don't like it is because you don't know what kind of content EA is gonna release. And that's the only risk that we have here, but years upon years now, we have seen where a lot of these cards, especially if you spread out, right? Let's say I've got 8 million coins and I want to invest about 4 million of it into out of pack special cards or icons as we head into team of the year. I'm gonna spread it out, right? I'm not gonna go all 4 million in on Lucas Mora or baby Vieira if I think he's gonna rise, you know, after team of the year. I'm gonna spread it out. That's why I'm starting to look at a lot of different special cards on this game. Cards that are very rare, popular and meta. And then I'm gonna spread my coins out across those items on this game to hopefully get some good prices and minimize my risk a little bit in that manner. So kind of just putting that out there, that's your only biggest risk as a part of this promo. Now since we're not talking about items that are in packs as well, that helps because we don't have to worry about people packing these cards and all sorts of that stuff. So let's talk about more cards that could be really, really good investments, right? You've seen how we looked at last year, we had a lot of cards rise on the out-of-pack special market sort of things. Now the one thing I wanna note to you is if you're getting really specific with this, a lot of the cards that rise the most are from recent promos. I think headliners this year and Winter Wild Cards are going to be insane risers after team of the year because Winter Wild Cards was one of the best promo, if not the best promo of FIFA 22 so far. And maybe even in some of the past FIFAs. And yes, you've seen a lot of these cards rise up since they have left packs. Kingsley Colman as a French striker was 554K when he left packs. He went all the way up to about mid 600, 644 in last week. Now he's back down to 480. This is the lowest this card has ever been. Bayern links, right? Really interesting and a really good card on this game. So some of these cards, Pogba, right? This Pogba was so expensive at one point. He was 1.1 mil. Now he's down to 850,000 coins, right? So I think these Winter Wild Cards, not a specific card out of this whole crew is gonna be better than some of the others. But I mean, some of these cards are just, these cards were so hype when they came out and they're so good in game. I just think that there's gonna be many of these items that will do very well for people out of packs. Spinazola was 123 in packs, went up to 186, and he's now back down to like 140s, right? I think that's a card that I would look into. So however many coins you have, kind of spread out your wealth, right? If you have a million coins and you wanna invest maybe five to 600,000 coins for a rise post-team of the year, I would look into some cards that are maybe under 100,000 coins. There's plenty of cards like that around this market like Mbabu, right? All right backs are absolutely mudded because of Kloss, because of the Cancelo, and because of the Darmian SBCs that have been out. This dude was 145,000 coins. If there's Bundesliga content that comes out, I feel like Bundesliga is due for some good content in this game. This is the Bundesliga right back that basically everybody's gonna wanna use, right? Good pace, good defensive physical, he's just a FIFA player, and he's 64K. I mean, I'm thinking of picking up a couple of these in the low 60s, because if we get some Bundesliga content, which I feel like we haven't had as much recently, they've kind of been focusing on the Ligue 1 and the Premier League. I would kind of think that this and Mbabu could rise back up to maybe even 100,000 coins, right? After a team of year. This Rashford item, Rashford is not as hyped in this year's game, but last year, this 87 Rashford, take a look at this man, he went from 900,000 coins all the way to 1.3 mil. On the Xbox, he went from 800K to the higher 900,000 coin range, almost a mil in like a two, basically like a three to four week time span. That's crazy, right? Now Rashford is not super popular in this year's FIFA. He just not as meta as he was, but this guy was 440K last week. He's down 100,000 coins. I know we have Sterling Player of the Month that is out for a while, but it's Marcus Rashford, right? It's an English left mid. So, you know, some of these cards too from the versus promo, I think could be pretty solid investments along with this Mbabu card, just cause these guys are really rare. Joe Gomez, Kunde as a French center back in La Liga. I mean, he was up to 325K right now. He's 270, so it's not even that big of a drop off for some of these cards, but some of these items might go even higher after team of the year because they're rare and people again to get more coins and they go out and buy some of these cards, you know? So that's where I'd be looking at on the market. Look for some of these big price drops and say, hey, these cards are pretty popular and pretty meta and I think that they're gonna be continuing to rise up afterwards. So out of pack specials, there's tons of different ways that you can go. I mean, now talking about a buy time, a lot of these cards, they've hit low prices already. A lot of these cards have hit really low prices. You know, when everybody wants to know about the lowest point and we talked about this in yesterday's video too, you're gonna drive yourself crazy, trying to find the lowest point for a price of a card on this game, right? Like Gabriel Jesus yesterday was like 620,000 coins. He's up like 20K, right? This Van Dyke, who is 680 right now, he was 650 yesterday, right? As a headliner, live card, VVD is not getting a team of the year this year. So you would expect that people that run Premier League squads would want to use this Van Dyke card. But you know, some of these cards may have hit their absolute lowest of lows already. But I think what you're gonna have is, you have a lot of people right now on FIFA that are rich. A lot of people just made bunches of coins from investing in SBC fodder that is super duper inflated in price at the moment, especially in the trading community, which a lot of you guys that watch this video are involved in that. So it's really gonna depend on EA's content and what content we get throughout the rest of this week as to whether we see this market go up before we even get to the promo this Friday. That's gonna be the biggest question. Do people start investing in these cards because they have coins readily and available and they see these price drop offs and they're like, oh my goodness, I wanna get involved? Or does EA continue to release insane content and people wait to buy because they're still involved in that content? But I still think that a lot of people, they hate missing out, right? People hate missing out on this game on the potential buy times for cards. So I think you're gonna see people that will go out on the market here in the next two to three days and start to buy these cards. But realistically, every card is gonna have its own low point, right? Every single card is gonna have a different low point where a couple hours on this day, some people are panic selling. What you're gonna see over the next two to three days before we get in the team of the year is just a little bit of this, right? EA will put out a nice SBC, a little bit it will dip, right? Some cards will dip down in the market as people sell stuff, you know? Or EA does not release any content on a day. That's gonna get people thinking about, oh my goodness, these prices are so low. I'm gonna start buying cards and then you'll see cards kinda rise up a little bit. So my best recommendation for you is find cards that you want. In last night's video, we talked about planning. We talked about thinking about how much coins you wanna spend on a certain investment or certain cards for your team. Like I wanna spend about four million coins on investments. I'm probably not gonna do it all today or tomorrow. I'm gonna leave myself some coins to do quick flips throughout the rest of this week, especially on Friday as we get in the team of the year. But again, if you plan that stuff out and think, man, Jonathan David is mad low right now. I know a Cardi is out, but a Cardi's gonna expire at some point and this Jonathan David is a very popular striker. Like that's a card you could look to get and involved with, right? Or maybe Tiago Jaloh. He was 320 yesterday, now he's 360. If you see him back down at like 330, there's a potential buy window there. So that's kinda what I'd be doing on this market right now is plan, right? And then watch the prices of the cards that you want to buy over the next two days and see if they go a little bit lower with whatever content EA releases. But then once we get to Friday, I'm telling you, once we get to Friday on this game, unless EA does something crazy. And I'm talking crazy like more than just the team of the year nominee cards and packs or sorry, not nominees. I think on Friday, we expect the team of the year attackers and if they would do something more than just the attackers, if they did like nominees or honorable mentions and they would put a lot of cards and packs, that would I think scare the market a bit and that would cause some cards to immediately drop in price with some more panic. But if it's just team of the year as we know it and they're putting cards that are like three, four million coins out on the game, then you're not gonna see everything on the market go down, right? Unless it's gonna be stupid, crazy content at a low cost, you're not gonna see this stuff really go down. So I think that it seems a bit weird and it seems a bit early to be buying stuff maybe on a Monday or a Tuesday. But again, you also have to get it in ahead of a lot of other people. Now I know some people bought cards yesterday as there was a drop off with the icon SPC. If you bought during that timeframe, Gigi, I still think there's some really low prices though out on this market right now that you can get at this time and still make a lot of coins on. So it's still a good buy time on the market. Anytime in the next two to three days is gonna be a good buy time depending on what content EA release. Of course if we see leaks, then we'll of course maybe expect the market to move a little bit because of those as well. But it's gonna be a really good time to invest in cards on this market. Now I've actually started a little bit with a couple of informs. I bought a couple of Tail Hernandez informs. I bought like this three of them like 180, 175,000 coins just because this is the best French left back in the game. I feel like a lot of people are holding off on buying stuff at the moment. People aren't buying quite yet. But of course, maybe into today, if there's no content or tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, you're gonna see some of this out-of-pack stuff slowly inch up in price as people start to invest because stuff just got too cheap, right? And people are gonna say I want to invest like after a video like this, people start thinking about buying and if EA doesn't put any more content out to make things drop, you're gonna see stuff slowly rise up a little bit. But in general, right now is a great time to be looking for low prices and get on bids, right? As a lot of people are still doing icon player picks and they're kind of scared to buy, get on bids. You can save yourself an extra 10, 20,000 coins on a car just by going on bids when nobody else is doing that. So 100% I would look out for that stuff, be on the market looking for good prices, look for undercuts and snipes, especially around the 6 p.m. content drop when EA does put out a good SBC which I'm sure there's gonna be a couple more good SBCs throughout this week of the Team of the Year warm-up series leading up to the actual Team of the Year promo. So last thing to talk about are icons. I know I didn't actually look at icons quite yet. I'll do this really fast. I think base icons, although icons are not as hyped this year and that's why I really stress the out of pack special cards because I think a lot of those are more meta and popular than even icons are. But the baby icons that are out of packs, take a look at these rises from last year, right? Rio was 900,000 coins last year. Of course, obviously we see icons are so much more expensive last year than this year. This year, Rio 600K, but he went from 600K to 1.4 mil, which is crazy as an out of packs rise. And then Blanc went from 1.08 all the way to 1.4 as well. So some of your base icons that are just, again, very, very meta that have dropped off a ton. Now, I don't think Blanc is like that super popular in this year's game. And you have to kind of think about these certain cards as well as, for some of these icons, is the mid item really close to them in price or is the base item the best card that they have? Like this Roberto Carlos is pretty low, 416K, that's pretty low for him. That's the kind of stuff that you have to keep in mind. Like I'm not so sure. I would like a base Ronaldinho. I think a base Ronaldinho is a pretty good buy. If you can get him, let's see, 970 is what he is right now. He's out of packs and it's Ronaldinho, the cheapest Ronaldinho that you can get. Yesterday, he went to 920, right? That was really, really low. And there's a lot of them here at 960, 970. If I saw him go to like 930, 920 again, I would potentially get involved because the next Ronaldinho is 2.7 million coins. That's a huge price gap. So a lot of people that go on FIFA is to just get that card and just to get Ronaldinho in their team. So one other example though that I'm not super sure about is Eto. I know Eto's on the popular page here. His base item, 855, that's dropped off a ton. He was a million coins. That's a huge drop off. I do think this will bounce back, but all of Eto's cards are just down horrendous, right? Even look at the mid Eto, 1.08, and he was 1.4 million just this last week. So I think that Eto has dropped off a ton and there's gonna be movements for these cards and the potential bounce backs for both the baby and the mid Eto. But the thing that I'm just a little bit worried about as I'm looking at these cards' prices is they're kind of close together, right? A million coins versus 800K, those cards are not very far apart. So Eto's gonna be in packs during team of the year as well. So that's what I'm not too sure about for a price on some of these icons that their baby and their mid or maybe even their prime versions are very similar in price, like Del Piero as well, right? Del Piero baby is a very, very popular card. I think Del Piero's baby item is the most expensive out of all of Del Piero's items because the prime is like 420,000 coins as well, I'm pretty sure, or it was. It was like right around 400,000 coins. Yeah, 440, it's the same price and then the mid is even cheaper. So that's the only thing you have to be careful of is making sure you know which of those items, whether it's the base, mid, or prime for a specific icon is very popular. So in this case, we wanna make sure that the base version, which is out of packs, is very popular. So Vieira, Rio, that Eto, I would shout out. There's a lot of really good 885. I mean, that's pretty cheap for this Vieira. Is that gonna get bought? It's still sitting there. But there is gonna be a lot of good options for icons and out of pack special cards to rise after this Team of the Year promo. And even as we get near to Team of the Year, people are gonna continue to look at these cards and say, hey man, these prices are really, really cheap. Is there potential for me to get involved? And I honestly think there is. So I'm gonna be keeping a close watch on these cards. I'm probably gonna start buying some stuff here the next couple of days. It just depends on the card. Again, I'm going on a card by card basis as well. Gonna be putting some coins into this stuff and waiting and also building packs during this timeframe too. Since I'm gonna do a lot of coins of packs, that's why I've kind of set my budget as like four million for investing, maybe about two million for packs and then two million just to have whatever so I can trade a little bit on the fly. I think that's a good mix for me. So whatever the mix is for you, figure that out. And of course, there's gonna be tons of great investments. Hopefully this video helped you out a lot. And again, there's always the unknown of EA Sports and the content that they could release, but all signs point towards a nice market rise coming after a team of the year this year, as usual. So if this video helped you out at all, of course, hit a thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Fodaccount and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.