 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K., The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Guys, we know this game right now is not in the best of states, right? Post team of the year, people aren't happy, but can future stars, and one specific part about it, bring some hype back to this game because with some of the leaks and the pat code and information that we're hearing about this promo coming out yesterday, it's starting to get us a little excited, and I wanna talk about that today and look forward to what you can maybe do to prepare slightly ahead of time and what to watch out for on the game today. If you're excited for it, and you're hopeful that future stars can save this game, drop a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you are new. Let's go over yesterday's content. It was quiet apart from the refreshed SBCs. Now, yesterday, the way that I actually traded and made coins in this game, and maybe some of you guys did as well in multiple different ways, was this The Winner's SBC. It's the final SBC needed to complete the objective set in the road to the final tour or whatever it's called in the objective section, and it's kinda difficult to complete because you have to have a certain number of leagues and a certain number of clubs. It's 7,000 coins to do, and a lot of people are doing it, of course, to complete that objective set and to get those packs. Guys, yesterday we did a solution trading method that is something that we often see in like the first week of the game. Basically, if you don't wanna trade with this, check your club because there are cards like this Tainara who I just bought for 550, sold for 1,800 coins, Wang sold for 2,400, bought her for 400 coins, and some other crazy prices like Wiedemeyer. These random golds are flying. They're just flying, like a couple sales here at 400 because I bought her at 350 and wanted to get out. Then I sold another one at 4.9. Like guys, some of these cards have gone absolutely mental. These gold commons and gold rares on the market just sold some sports yellows for 39 and 3,500 that I picked up for 4,500 coins on bid. So right now that is a really good place to trade if you wanna watch that side of the market because people are doing this SBC and it's difficult to do. So they are using solutions to help them with that and the solutions make the price go up and down for those gold common cards. Now that was the only new SBC yesterday but we also had the refreshers as we had talked about before of the 87 plus icon and the 84 times 11 did end up refreshing yesterday. So it did make a couple of fodder prices move but really it didn't make things move that much. I just think that honestly with the content being what it is right now, a lot of people are still feeling like they're in that break period. They're not doing a lot of these SBCs to drain their coins. Maybe if they are, they're just not buying the players to do it but I think it's really just, there's a lack of demand for some of the stuff. Now some of the 86s yesterday with the 84 times 11 and with future stars upcoming and a lot of people wanting to open that right now for the final or save it for future stars which is what I did. Maybe went out and did that. I think 86s had a bit of a bump yesterday but 88s guys, they didn't even really move and they kind of are now down lower than where they were beforehand just because I think people who invested are kind of trying to sell off before rivals rewards today and before of marquee matchups which would supply the market with tradable cards. So yeah, it's a little unfortunate. Those 88s didn't go up that much but if you did that trade I know a couple of people got some lazy sales and other than that like 85s went up a little bit yesterday, 84s are up like one 200 coins a card but really not that much. It was a day of fodder movements not being that extreme just because the content wasn't that great. Now also we had a brand new team of the week that dropped yesterday with a couple of interesting players inside of it. You know, I mean, I like these boosts. I like the 85 rated minimums. It is making things interesting especially for being a USA guy, this Taylor booth card. That looks pretty cool, right? Maybe an EVO in the future. But I think I'm a little disappointed with some of the play style pluses or lack thereof for some of these team of the weeks. Mateus Kunia gets the Trivella play style plus. It is a better version than his storyline card that I know a lot of people used and had earlier on in the game. He's four star, four star, Trivella plus again but like you look at the rest of this promo team and there's a lot of cards that are not including play style pluses. This Manchester United striker, right wing, right mid geese, 93 physical, 91 dribbling, 92 pace, kind of a crazy, crazy card here and pretty rare. I think she just went up like 40 or 50K. She was down like 250 and is now 300,000 coins. So these cards are rare. Be careful with them. But just another kind of average team of the week and basically new fodder 85 rated cards for us to have in our ultimate team clubs. I will say this, I don't know if any of these fit evolutions because with the 85 rating for sure, but I mean it's not a bad time as we've seen with Inforums for EVOs. It's not gonna be a bad time that if you pick one of these maybe out of bio, maybe I'm trying to think of who else. I don't know if Delict would ever fit an EVO with a play style plus for a while, but maybe Taylor Booth as well. It's not the worst thing in the world to keep thinking about with team of the weeks. If you have a lot of coins, buying one and putting it on the transfer list or putting it in the club and not thinking about it because eventually they just go up like crazy because either they fit an EVO or they get hyped for something else. So yesterday was a really, really quiet day. A lot of gameplay, getting rivals in and stuff like that. But of course that loading screen and that's what I wanna turn the conversation into today is we gotta talk more about future stars because that loading screen yesterday kinda went crazy. I know that a graphic, you're like, Nate, does that actually mean that much? I think it does, man. I mean, this is way out there for what EA normally does for a loading screen. Like when I first saw this yesterday, I don't know why it reminded me of it, but it kinda reminded me of like Fortnite, the video game with the colors. You have the moon in the background. You've got like a big moon and you got a small moon and I don't know what this is in the top here. It means like a reflection or something. I don't know what this is, but like pink grass and flowers in the ground, it's crazy what this loading screen is. It's like last year EA went all out for future stars and you might be like, Nate, you're over analyzing this, dude. It's just a loading screen. They went all out last year with future stars and had like a promo video. They uploaded to YouTube specifically for it. This kinda makes me feel like they're going kind of that same level again this year. Now, of course, on the loading screen, all we have is the regular future stars card and we have the future stars icon design, which we already knew about both of those. But if they're going this all out for the loading screen, guys, like that gives me actually a little bit of hope that the promo itself could be really good and there's some other things that's getting me excited specifically that I wanna look at here in a second. Now, I wanna look at more leaked cards because with these icons and promo cards coming, we had a lot more leaks yesterday. We now have, I would say, just shy of a full team of players that could be coming in a packs. Now, general reminder, this is usually a two week promo. So, some of these cards that you see here in these leaks could actually be included in team two. Might not all be in team one. If it's gonna be a two week promo, we'll have to see. We've got Dino, of course. We had more icons leaked yesterday. Maldini, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, and Rycard. So, some nice icons there. I mean, the way that I think about it now, I know that I'm just going off the predicted stats for all these cards. I think it's gonna be a big bro icon promo. I don't know if they're gonna do little bro items for this. Maybe they do a little bro and a big bro. But like, for Gerrard and Rycard, they can't go any lower than their base icon card, right? For those, definitely it's a big bro card, 100%. Rooney, they gotta go big bro too. But then Maldini and Ronaldinho, you know, jury's out on that, we'll have to see. But the rest of the regular promo cards that have been leaked, we had a Harvey Elliott yesterday. We had a Lauren James, Pedro Neto, Pablo Barrios, Lukeba, and Bezek. Bezek has a lot of hype, I think, as a German center back in Syria. His informed card's pretty cracked. Harvey Elliott's gonna be pretty exciting as well. Lauren James already has a couple cards this year. And then, yeah, Pedro Neto, I think, he was very popular earlier in the year for like a Centurion's Evo card. So I mean, they added some solid players to the mix here. They really did, I'll be honest. I think there's still more names to be coming, more names to be leaked. But that looks, I would say it looks pretty good to me. But I think the things that I'm more excited for aren't regarding the Future Stars cards, right? I'm looking at some of the actual content that we usually see during Future Stars, but looks like might be different this year. And let's start kind of going that direction by talking about the Future Stars Evo card design. This was also tweeted out yesterday. I'm gonna say this, bro, this looks better than the base design itself. I know it doesn't have the gold around the outside, but like, I don't know what it is about like the blue. There's just like some extra blue in here. I think that card design looks sick. So that's an Evo design that I think I would wanna have. Now again, when you think about Future Stars, you think about what this promo is, what kind of evolutions could we be having? It makes you think right away of maybe an Evo similar to we had a couple of weeks ago called like Fast Forward, which is this one right here, or like Patrick who was an Evo where you took a really low rated car and you boosted them up to be something usable, right? That's kind of what you think when you think of like a Future Star evolution. And that may be one of the Evo types that we get during this promo, but will they kind of expound upon that? Will there be other ways to upgrade cards in this promo as well? Because one of the things that we have seen a lot before in Future Stars is this. And this right here is a screenshot of my video last year of the Future Stars Academy, right? We had an Anthony Gordon where you started off with a low rated card of his. You played through all the objectives. You get a higher rated Anthony Gordon as you go and you work your way all the way to the 88 Anthony Gordon, which is kind of in theory and kind of exactly what Evolutions is now. If you think about it, right? This was kind of like the beginning of Evolutions. It's just you didn't have the choice of what card to put in, but you still got to upgrade it over time. The Foot Future Stars Academy is always a part of this promo. And I think it's gonna be a part of this year's Future Stars promo as well. But how is it gonna be different? That's the thing that's getting me a little bit curious and it's honestly getting me kind of excited because look at this pack code that was added guys. This tells us a lot. There were two packs to the code that were added yesterday. There were Future Stars Academy Attackers pack and Future Stars Academy Defenders pack. Now this is not like just regular Future Stars cards because if you look further on in the pack code you see that there are other Future Stars cards that say including two Future Stars player items. That would of course be these player items, right? So what in the world are Future Star Academy players? Is this like another promo team? Is this a set of players that's going to be impacts? Is this a set of players that's not even impacts? The opportunities here are kind of run wild and they kind of are endless. But this could be something that ends up being tied into either objectives or tied into SBCs or evolutions as well. Think about it. Maybe there's a certain rating guarantee where you can pack a certain player that's like your own Future Star and then you can evolve one of those. Maybe this is gonna be like a 15 Attackers pack where you can take somebody from this pack and choose them to put them into the Future Stars Academy evolution or something like that. Kind of like this, but in an Evo. Like that right there, that seems cool. I think that seems pretty dope. I just don't know what this Future Stars Academy is because it sounds like there's a decent amount of players in it if there's a specific attacker and defender pack. So that is one of my biggest questions because that's something new never seen before and maybe they're gonna add something with this Future Stars promo to try to bring the hype back to this game. That is new. That is something that we have never seen before and this has been a promo where they've tried new stuff like that with the Future Stars Academy as we've mentioned in years past. Maybe that is gonna be a part of what comes out tomorrow in this game. So I'm really curious to see if we get any more news, any more leaks if this ends up being as big as it could be because Future Stars is always one of those promos where the SBCs and the objectives make the promo as cool as it is. Yes, the cards and packs are cool as well. And yes, of course, you wanna try out the big name players like Art de Goulere, if you have the coins and stuff like that. The card designs of the Future Stars and the icons are not here in the game yet. We'll continue to look out for that. But that is one thing right now in this game that has got me kind of excited because these objectives have always been W's, like especially way back when the Gordon last year was a little bit of a grind, took a good bit of work to get it done. But like this gets me pretty excited. Also, add it to the code. Some other big packs here guaranteeing Future Stars player items. There's an 83 times 50, with also an 87 times 10 inside of it. Future Stars supernova pack. Of course, you guys, you know, they're gonna go all out. What in the world? This pack is an 84 times 35 and five guaranteed 89 or higher players. It's all intradable, of course, but wow. And that also guarantees you two Future Stars items. That's pretty crazy. But then also in here, I can't skip over this. You know this pack, right? One of the most popular packs the past couple of years on this game, the 85 plus times 10 Rare Gold Players pack. Seems kind of out of place for all the other Future Stars related packs that were added to the code here. But does that mean that is going to be in the store? If that is in the store, I mean, we've had an 84 times 10 guys released as lightning rounds. They haven't done it in a hot minute, but that is absolutely destroyed fodder in the past. So that'll be something I guess that we watch out for tomorrow on Friday as we get the new promo and as we get lightning rounds. Maybe that could be a pack that's in the store. It also could be a very, very minimal chance that it's an SBC. There's also a decent chance that that could just be a pack that's been added to the game to be a part of the next season, which would be very possible as well. I mean, we've had 83 times 10s. We have 84 times fours. Maybe it's going to be a little bit of a longer season. We have 84 times 20s in the season. The fact that we haven't had an 85 times 10 yet in this game is actually a little bit, I don't know, weird because I think it was last year or two years ago during winter wildcards, we had the first 85 times 10 of the entire year. So we're a little behind right now to not have one of those in this game right now. In my opinion, we'll see how that gets dropped and where it gets dropped. But that is something that I noticed in that pack code that I thought was pretty interesting as well. So yeah, I have a lot of, I'm really, really curious to see what that Future Stars Academy is. Like, is that a separate pool of players or are those a certain rating of players? And I hope we get some more leaks and some more news about that today because that to me could be really, really cool and there could be something that they're about to add to this game. That would be really cool. They would shake some things up. Now, what else? How can we do to prepare for this guys as well? You notice when I'm sitting here in the store with some packs, I know a lot of you guys are probably like, Nate, don't save packs, dude. I have PTSD from Team of the Year. Don't do it. I'm going to save just a couple. As of right now, the 84 times 11 is going to be the biggest one that I saved for sure. Just like, you know what? Might as well save it. I'm going to save my 83 times 10s from today's content release as well. But these bronze and these silver packs, as you take a look at the players who have been added to this promo, most of them are non-rare golds. You know, Goulare is a non-rare gold. Harvey Elliott's a non-rare gold. Garnaccio, same thing. Couple of rare golds in here as well. But then also you got some silvers. Boniface is a silver, I think. Bissec, Barrios, and Lucquebar, I think are all silvers. So you have actually the chance and if they add in any more future stars, players that have bronze base cards, you have the chance at packing promo cards from bronze, silver packs for sure. And also don't sleep on exchange packs because there's a lot of non-rare golds that are packable as promo cards from this. You know, slip in an extra 85 to 89 rated card into an exchange might actually pay out really, really nice with so many gold cards available from these packs. So I'm even tempted to look into my club and say, is there an 89 or something that I could stash into this that I would want to get rid of? Alex Morgan, tempting, right? It'd be very tempting for me right now to do an Alex Morgan and an Irene Paredes just to have two of those duplicate exchange packs available for yes, the chance to pack a future star, especially if there's a lot of non-rares in the promo for base cards, but also just for the fact of having a lot of gold rares in the club and non-rares as well. I know that right now the upgrade SBCs aren't the best with like the 82 plus upgrade and such, but that's around for four days. And that makes me think that EA, wow, EA wants this to stick around for a while. So I might open those craft into an 82 plus and at least there should be an SBC during the weekend and future stars for us to have right here. Speaking of SBCs, we will begin, of course, marquee matchups today, right? Refreshers every single Thursday. That's not too crazy. 83 times 10 refreshes today, 85 plus player pick. I do believe we're gonna get Sierra player the month today as well. And that would be Vlahovic. So watch out for a Vlahovic SBC. I think he's gonna be dropping it today or tomorrow. And I think today might be my guess of how that would be today on this game too. And there was one more thing I was gonna say about SBCs. Ah, icon SBCs. If any of you guys noticed, double check if you were thinking about doing Sawa and you thought you were running out of time, think again, EA extended the timeframe on some of these icon SBCs. Sawa, I think had like seven days remaining. She knows, it's 44 days. If you wanted to get this SBC done, get it done. George Best has got 40 days as well. Kaffu, Ziko, so have 30 plus days as well. Now, some of the other players, SBCs like Bruno, Kvica, Modric, Saliba, they've only got a couple of days left. What's Bruno? Bruno's got 11 days left. I don't know if they extended him or not, but make sure you go ahead and get those done if those are of interest to you and notice that some of them got extended. So that is nice of EA actually for them to go out there and to do that. Now, let's talk about the market a little bit too. I know today was a day where we were maybe thinking that road to the finals would dip down in price a little bit. And as I take a look at their cards on the market right now, guys, a lot of these guys are still pretty expensive. They are still maintaining their higher prices, but that's just because there hasn't been any real reason for people to panic, I guess. Suley is like now 300,000 coins. The content yesterday was really, really mid, so it's not like cards of this type are really starting to fly. They're just kind of staying the same. Some of them are up a little bit, but most of them are just kind of just chilling. And I think today potentially with rivals rewards, which I'm sure not a lot of people played and grinded rivals this week as motivation to play this game and beyond this game is down, but it's still going to bring some tradeable supply because people take tradeable rewards all the time in rivals and then marquee matchups, like everybody's going to do the tradeable packs from MM's just because they're so easy to do and they're, I mean, it's not free, but it's like really, really easy to do. Everybody's going to do that. That is going to bring some tradeable supply to this game today. And it might make these cards drop a little bit. I don't think we're going to see too big of a dip on Rotative Finals, probably in 100% honest, maybe a slight dip. And then other than that, I think we're going to have to hope for and see good content, some sort of really good content on Friday to make these cards actually have a fall and another opportunity to get invested. Again, for some of these, I know that I've probably missed out on their lowest of the low price. Like, I mean, the Leon Bailey that I bought earlier in the week at 190,000 coins on Sunday, do I think Leon Bailey is going to be 190K again? I know we're getting a Dooku in the promo team. I know we're getting some other Premier League attackers that maybe could make his price dip a little bit, but this is a live card. He's already guaranteed to get an upgrade because they're through to the round of 16. It's just going to take a while for him to get the upgrade. So yeah, I believe that some of these cards could continue to appreciate and value after this weekend. I'm just hoping that on Friday with the new promo, maybe some big news about something new that they're adding, kind of like as we were talking in the video today, hope that would shake things up enough that maybe, just maybe there's an opportunity to create a little bit of panic. Because at this point, these cards aren't going to get packed that much. It's really guys going to take a little bit of panic selling or something along those lines to make these cards drop and be investable for a hold or to put one on your team. And there's that possibility for that today with the supply, but also it's going to take some leaks. It's going to take some info. It's going to take something coming about future stars that's going to be cracked to make that really happen. But there should be a little bit more movement. If you're trying to trade on out-of-packs cards, I think that today there should be a little bit more movement on some of these. I do believe that EA dropped the patch yesterday on old gen and the rumor is, is that Trivellas are definitely not near as good as they were before. So the only thing I would say is watch out for that if that drops today on new gen, because I don't know how long it's going to be before old gen and new gen are synced up on the same patch, but right now I do believe old gen has the patch and Trivellas have definitely been nerfed. That is the rumor that's what I'm hearing. So I've only played new gen this year, so I'm not the best to really comment on that. Let me know down in the comments if you've played old gen and if you're seeing that sort of same thing and happen right now in this game. That's going to be a real interesting part of the weekend, like for sure if everybody has to change the way they're playing the game because they're used to Trivellas, maybe the technical dribbling. As I tweeted out yesterday, EA removed something and as we talked about in the video actually, EA removed one of the parts of the pitch notes saying that they were going to change, what was it, they were going to change the way that defenders defended in the box. And yeah, that is, that's really interesting. So I don't know what's going on with that. I don't know what's going to happen with the patch. I don't know when it's going to be out on new gen. It could be today again, it could be a week, we'll have to see hopefully it's not too long that we have a different version on new gen than as we have on old gen. So I'm excited guys, I really am. I know that this last week has been kind of mid, but Future Stars is always a promo that at least brings something new and different to the table with the Future Stars Academy, which is always pretty solid. And honestly with the new Academy's things that we see right there and in the pack code that we looked at, I'm a little bit excited just to see what in the world this game is about to look like in the next couple of days to see if EA is gonna do anything crazy. So that's the video for today guys. If you did enjoy it, drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you do. I'll see you guys in the video tomorrow and I'll see you in the stream today. That link is down below in the description. Peace.