 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today's a massive day of football because we have got Champions League games back on tap and this time they are impacting live cards in this game. Guys, Road to the Knockouts cards that are playing games today could be one step closer to one of those upgrades by winning a match today that they are playing and that means they could be moving on the market. So we're gonna talk about that today and how to watch those Road to the Knockout prices as well as other SBC content may be related to the Champions League. They could be dropping today that actually you might have to be careful with because it could drop some prices if we get that SBC. So we're gonna talk about a lot today. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and of course subscribe if you are new. Now, yesterday content overview, there wasn't much to talk about. There isn't much to talk about. All we have yesterday was the 78 plus upgrade pack which is the exact same SBC as we had last week on Monday for upgrades. It's just, we can do it unlimited number of times. Guys, this SBC in my opinion, while it does seem to give out a consistent number of 82s and 83s, a double gold upgrade is just better than that. It really just is. You turn in three more players but you get two players back and the weight on the gold upgrade still seems to be halfway decent and better compared to the 78 plus where you only get one player. Just kind of mid, right? All around. Yesterday's content was very quiet and those upgrade packs, a lot of people are just doing a couple of them because they can't afford to do a lot which makes sense. Now, I think gold cards actually did kick up in price a little bit on the market. We're talking the non-rear golds, people are going out and I think they're still about into selling for 400 coins. Some, you can probably get lazy sales at 450 or 500 as people are going and doing those SBCs just to have a chance of packing in order to the knockouts. So be careful with that but probably not worth putting a lot of coins into right now. Now, of course, with the content being as kind of quiet as it was yesterday that meant good things for the market. A lot of player prices are going upwards. Griezmann touched 100,000 coins right now. He's 101K after being in a 90K range. I mean, guys, Griezmann was 70K just a couple of days ago last weekend, right? He was 83,000 coins. I've ever seen him on Friday at one point at like 79,000 coins and a nice rise here and he's not the only card that is going up. Rafael Leao, 160,000 coins. Guys, player prices continue to rise very substantial amounts because people are getting coins, they're going and building teams and it's that demand for the upcoming weekend league that is pushing prices higher. Heroes, icons are going a lot higher in price. I sold Rudy Valar on I think Friday or Saturday for 770 and he's now consistently right around or above 800,000 coins for his card. A lot of those types of players are rising, icons are going up in price. Informs out of packed special cards. Team of the week one, Mohamed Salah is reaching new high prices. Doku, Dibala, Lemondalski are back. Even team of the week that are in packs right now, German Suns almost 600K. What a rise from where he was on Sunday at 490,000 coins up over 100,000 from that point. Prices are rising basically all across the market right now on this game and it's because the content's not that great and people are continuing to play to upgrade their teams and all of that. Now, unless we get a big supply or a massive SBC this week guys, I really feel like the market should keep going, right? We're finally getting some of that demand for these players and people building wads and teams of the utmost quality for week in week that are starting to see these prices rise which is super duper nice especially for those of us who have invested like I have and you're waiting for these cards to keep rising. We are seeing it now. What could change this is an SBC that would be either a big content release like I'm not expecting an icon pack. It's way too early for that sort of thing but more so what I'm expecting to impact prices at least the most possible scenario for that to happen would be another tradable pack supply SBC and we haven't seen one of those in a hot minute. Now, of course we get the marquee matchups SBC every single week on Thursdays but during Champions League related promos and especially during actual Champions League related weeks of real life games of Champions League we have gotten SBCs called UEFA marquee matchups and if you remember these SBCs from old EA used to drop these in old FIFAs like every single week there was Champions League, Europa League and conference league games being played and in previous FIFAs like last year in FIFA 23 they only dropped this SBC two times the entire year. One was though this exact week the first week of the road to the knockouts promo in FIFA 23 was one of the weeks where they dropped UEFA marquee matchups and why is this a big deal? Because this is basically like regular marquee matchups and what do we see every Thursday at least for the past two Thursdays when this SBC drops we see player prices drop because a lot of tradable packs and especially this early stage of the game when EA has given out prime mixed players packs small prime built players packs and then to complete the whole thing a rare electron players pack similar to the regular marquee matchups UEFA marquee matchups gives out good packs and it supplies the market with a lot of cards. That I feel like is the only situation that could happen today. Guys, I'm not saying that UEFA MM's are going to drop today because we just don't know, right? I mean, it could happen, it's likely, but we don't know. I just wanted to talk about it to prepare you for it because there's two sides of the coin here. If we get a UEFA marquee matchups today it's gonna drop some prices. It's probably not gonna drop prices that they're gonna be so low that they're never gonna rebound from. It's probably just gonna be one of those scenarios like we saw as we just looked at a couple of graphs for like the squad battle rewards on Sunday as Alex Morgan's price is another card that continues to rise. On Sunday, we had a 37,000 coin down to 34,000 coin drop during squad battle rewards for her card and she rebounded right back up, right? That's the type of drop I would expect to see on the market. It would be a slight drop and then rebound back up if we were to have some sort of UEFA marquee matchups SBC. It was not that big of a deal but just to kind of put that out there for you it could actually be a really good opportunity to trade or maybe to pick up some fodder if you're looking to invest in fodder. Anytime we get supply on the market it actually brings a really good trading opportunity but it does move prices. So I wanted to bring that up also because if they were to require players from certain, like in this SBC from last year they required players from Napoli or IACS or PSG or Benfica. It's like a marquee matchups where the players or the clubs that are featured in the SBC they require those, right? And usually what they did was they would take one game from a Tuesday matchup and one game from a Wednesday matchup and they will put that into the SBC. And I would imagine they would do probably the same thing if they're gonna drop that SBC this year. So that's enough to talk about that. Now more talk about road to the knockouts players though. Guys, today kind of begins the fun for the road to the knockouts because these card prices are going to move today because they've got games today guys. And if they have games that means their upgrades are on the line, right? Manchester United are playing Gal Tassari today. Bruno Fernandez of course United probably expected to win this match. Now you might be saying Nate, especially for this group A, right? Bayern beat Manchester United last time. So does that mean that right now this limer card was finally on the market after being extinct EA updated his price range. I do believe this guy is very, very expensive but it's definitely priced into his card that Bayern are one of the favorite clubs to go far in the Champions League and especially get out of the group. It's almost like the plus two is already priced in to this card with him being almost 290,000 coins. But since Bayern already beat Manchester United the first time around in match day one, does that actually mean that he's on one win already and has already started to progress toward his one win upgrade? No, that is not the case. Once again on EA's website, all of the upgrades, the matches that will be won start after the September 29th date, right? So every match one after this date of when these cards came out in the game will count towards the win to upgrade. So right now everybody is on zero wins but of course if Union Berlin win today, right? Union Berlin, we've got Benucci. That's an early game. We got Man United and Gal Tesserai. We've got Mertens for Gal Tesserai and we've got Bruno for Man U. If whoever wins today out of those clubs and these competitions, these games, you might see a couple cards actually start to rise up in value. I actually went out and I made a little bit of a speculative play here. I picked up a couple of Benucci's because I'm kind of backing Union Berlin today. Nothing of course against Braga but I'm backing Union Berlin for a dub today. And I wanna see if Benucci's price will rise if they're winning during the game. A lot of times what you'll see guys with these cards is their prices will move when goals are scored. And we'll talk about this and especially live trade with them a lot on stream. But it's something to keep note of is that today Benucci could potentially go from 25,000 coins where he is right now. If they were to win today, he might be like 30, 35,000 coins. Like maybe not that big of a rise but at least 30K, you can see his price go up. Now the underdogs are where the price moves the most, right? Obviously Gal Tesserai planning against Man United at Old Stratford today, not a favorite to win, right? Well, they're still a strong team. If they were to pull off something crazy, this Mertens card would explode because this is a game that they're not expected to win. And what it would mean is one win for that upgrade getting towards that plus one in form upgrade but also putting them in a position in the group where if they continue to play well, he could end up getting another upgrade and maybe this Mertens goes to an 89 if they pull off some other incredible results. So that's where the hype of these rotative knockout cards can come into play today, guys. So for the fixtures that we have upcoming, Mertens, Benucci are definitely cards to keep an eye on. A card like Bruno, if Man United win today, they're favorites. He's probably not gonna go up much in price if at all after the game. He might even drop after the game. He's a really rare card and I think overpriced anyway. But that's the sort of thing you wanna be careful with trading with these is that you have to make sure you know who's the favorite and who's the underdog because there's a lot more price swing if an underdog ends up having a really good performance. And sometimes the favorites prices just drop after the game because people expect them to go up. But again, in reality, this card's very expensive and they're expected to win. So if they don't, or if they do, he still might drop off post game. So these cards will be fluctuating a lot regardless of what other content that we get today on this game. That's one thing I wanna point out a lot to you guys and we'll be talking about these rotative knockouts a ton in the coming days as we see their prices move. Now, if you're trying to trade with any of these like with Benucci today, one of the biggest rules with these cards is selling into the hype. If Benucci is 30,000 coins before the match today and I see him going up in price because they're expected to win, I'm gonna take the cash, right? Selling in the hype is such a crucial way of selling in these cards because that way if you sell before the game, you're not taking too many risks because if they win and it goes up a little bit more, okay, but if they lose and it goes down to 20K, then you're losing some coins that you didn't plan to lose and selling into the hype avoids all of that. That's my biggest tip for trading with live cards is sell under the hype. So watch out for those cards that have matchups today. There's a lot of games today. Lens is playing Arsenal, let's see, who else? Napoli, Real Madrid. So you've got actually, you've got a big matchup for Osemin, you know, that's a card that, that's a big game, right? Napoli, if they're able to pull off the upset an Osemin card could rise in price, definitely, but also you'd wanna sell really fast in the hype after that because this price would probably drop down later on. So it's just crazy, right? These guys are gonna move like crazy today, but it's gonna be so fun to watch at the exact same time. Now, apart from all that, what else could we have today on this game? The market maybe continues to rise unless we have that marquee matchups like we talked about. I think today might be a day where EA would drop another one of these squad foundations because EA have said in the pitch notes from earlier on this year, they're gonna be dropping a lot of these squad foundations. I mean, think about it, MLS and NWSL were leagues that we have not seen yet in foundations that they have actually told us that they are going to be dropping foundations, objectives and SBCs for, right? We've had the Turkish League, we've had Erdo Vizy, we have had the League of F, but MLS, NWSL, Saudi League maybe as well could all feature as a part of this in this first season, the welcome season to FC24. We could have some player SBC content and objectives with that today. And I think it's also possible for maybe another road of the knockouts player SBC. Still not sure, guys, if we're getting a team too of RTTK. It seems like we would because we're missing a lot of big clubs for live cards, but at the moment, we really just do not know. So that's kind of what I would expect today is maybe marquee matchups and then maybe a player SBC for either an RTTK or a foundations. Now, where are my coins at right now? I'm still lazy listing a few things here. Still have the Sam Kerr cards that I was hoping to sell. Her price hasn't really gone up that much. Honestly, for the prices that I saw yesterday, a lot of them spiked before content. I'm trying to look for Mousiala right now. I'll just search him up. Mousiala yesterday was like 70,000 coins in the early morning hours on Monday. We shouted him on the YouTube video because I did believe he was too cheap. He reached the peak before content of 78K. So we went up like 10,000 coins, went back down to 73, went back to 76. He's kind of 73 right now. It's like a lot of cards had big rises yesterday in the morning. And some of them have just kind of been stagnant since then, right? Messi went from 182 all the way to 200K. He's been 200K a couple of times. Right now he's 193, about the same price, just down a couple of K. I really wouldn't worry about card prices that much. Like if you bought Diabe on Saturday when he crashed a bunch to like 45K, whatever he was, 44K. If you bought him there, you're chilling, right? So I'm definitely not saying this is a time where you have to sell. Today's content will impact the market, I think a little bit, but in reality, we're headed towards one of the biggest weekends on the year, the first weekend league competition, which is so, so massive for team building and buying on this game. I think prices could continue to increase unless we see something crazy content-wise this week. So that's gonna be the video for today, guys. A bit of a short one, but today's gonna be a really interesting day with these Champions League games going on. So watch those cards specifically on the market and keep a close eye on SBCs today because of the tradable supply that maybe could be happening. We'll see. So that was the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy, smash a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and of course, subscribe if you knew it's been Nate the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace. Out.