 Hey guys, it's A.K.A. The Foot Account. Welcome back to the channel. It's a Thursday rewards day on FIFA. And I want to kind of take a look ahead at today and to tomorrow. And just talk about what's coming next, because right now, it kind of feels like we're in a limbo mode with the first set of Future Stars ending. We are about to have the second set of Future Stars impacts tomorrow on Friday. We've got a lot of market movements going around. We had a new SBC today or yesterday with the Musa Dembele, so I'm going to take a look at that. And kind of what we might be expecting over the next day or so, because I think there's a lot of people talking about with the new season coming. Are we going to see icon swaps set number two? And possibly the introduction of icon moments. Now, I was under the belief, obviously, that it could happen because last year on February 14, the second Friday in February, that's when we got icon moments. It could come out this Friday. It also might not come out. So we got a lot of stuff to kind of talk about and theoretically look at today in the video. Now, first things first, I'm recording this, of course, before Weekend, the rewards are released. And as I'm seeing it on the market, some of these Future Stars cards are dropping into the rewards timeframe. This Sabolazide 580,000 coins was like 620, 630, for most of the day. That's where I sold mine. But the biggest drop-offs in price are on the two low tier cards that a lot of people invested in earlier this week. Diogo, Daloh, and Lunen. These guys have dropped off a bunch. And here's the reason why. A lot of people invested in this Daloh, right? Because he links to the Tonali objective that was out. And Lunen, of course, links to the Real Madrid favorite center back, Mr. Verran, who got an Inform today. Now, I don't think people really buy Lunen as an investment because he links to the Inform Verran. They thought it was gonna go up that much. Maybe a little bit. But I feel like this Lunen was just invested in because he has the saves with the trade. Looks like a pretty dope card. People say he's actually really good in game. And he links to Verran and the other Real Madrid center backs that are in this game like Casamiro and Ramos and stuff like that. It was just a different link for a lot of people that do use Verran. But what happened was, over the course of this past week we've had the double 85 packs come out twice now. They released another set of those yesterday on Wednesday. And these cards have just been very, very packable. We've opened a lot on stream. Lunen and Diogo Delo have been packed so often that I think the supply is outweighing the demand in this instance for these cards and it's making them actually drop. Now, of course, I do think today with Weekendly Rewards, you will see these guys bounce back. You're gonna see them take a hidden price because they're gonna get supplied. These cards are pretty packable. In all honesty, a lot of people have packed Delo. A lot of people have packed Lunen. And that does concern me a little bit for how many people actually wanna buy these cards if they've already packed them. I still think there's demand for both Delo and Lunen. But I think they're getting sold off right now before rewards, because people are expecting their prices to drop further. Watch during rewards though. These guys could definitely bounce back because they are still desirable. They do fill a lot of needs in the game of Real Madrid goalkeeper and a Milan left back with the links to Tonali and a Serie A left back in general. Is this Diogo Delo? So watch those guys specifically during rewards today and watch this guy. Watch this guy desk because he is down. He's 350, 360,000 coins at the moment. If you see a 10, 20, even like a 20K dip is kind of what I would look for on these cards during the rewards timeframe. Think about it. It's like the current week team of the week. Right? You wanna take a watch on some of those cards during rewards because they always get supplied, which this week's team of the week is a lot better than what we were expecting. But we'll talk about that in a second. Just watch these future stars. I do think they are gonna dip and I do think they are gonna rebound. Now, of course, as we talk into late tonight on Thursday into Friday, tomorrow, what are we expecting to see? What are we kind of expecting to be planning for with the weekend promo coming up? Now I wanna take a look at a future star's prediction. This is by Eliteagefootdog and Harrison. I'll link this down below in the description. This is the best prediction that I found out there that I think does a good job of putting in realistic players and, of course, OP meta type ones as well. Now you see in this prediction we have 11 future stars players with the three that EA have told us are getting second versions and that would be Reina's right mid, Reese James CDM and Diego Delo getting a right back card where he probably is better off used with his right foot other than a left back card. So for these three cards specifically, I'm interested because they're gonna have another item out in the game. I think the Reese James stands alone though because I think his right back version is so much more desirable. The stats on it with the 11 pace upgrade than the James that is the 87 CDM. So I think that Reese James 87 CDM is probably gonna be like 300K, honestly. And the right back James is gonna stay more expensive but I think the right mid Reina could hurt center attacking mid Reina price because there's two items with similar stats in the game and possibly with Delo as well. Just depending, I feel like that left side card's a bit more, the need that position fulfills is just a higher degree of demand on this game. But if you take a look at this prediction here, Bellingham, of course, Cherokee, of course, Jones, Fofana, Williams, David, Antony, Torres, a lot of big names. Saka, this card, if this guy is not in future stars set too, a lot of people are gonna be upset, right? English links and French links especially. French links are coming into play big time once again in FIFA because of the Musa d'Ambilie SBC that came out yesterday and of the team of the week this week, there's multiple French cards in there and this tweet by EA Sports right here. They tweeted yesterday, hey, foot stars is here. We're gonna send out our talent scout one more time. We voted France and then they released this today. Our scouts have locked in the best young French future stars. We need your help with one important decision. Which position would they focus their efforts on? 72% of people voted center-back. Now, I on stream, we were talking about this today, thinking about all the special center-backs that are French that we already have in this game. I was telling people, please vote for right-backs, right? Please vote for right-backs. We're gonna have Veran, Upamakano, you know, tons of French center-backs out there in this game already. We had another Informed Kimpembe today, right? So we have so many French center-backs I was hoping for a French right-back. But it looks like we're gonna be getting a future stars SBC for a French center-back on Saturday. So that just brings more desire to the French links in this game right now. And I think that's what you're gonna see do rise the most and be the most, yeah, I guess link investable this week is those French midfielders especially. Because even in this week's team of the week, there's not a lot of midfielders. So definitely watch out for some French midfielders, Pogba, Kante, all your other sorts of special cards out there that link to French players in FIFA because I feel like that demand is pretty high in FIFA. Now, let's talk a little bit more about future stars and what could be coming on Friday. Obviously another team in packs, right? Another set of 11 players in packs. But I think this is one thing that everybody is looking forward to on Friday. Turn potential prospects into prime performers. The Foot Future Star Academy player. So it looks like we're just gonna be getting one of these. Select future stars by completing Foot Future Star Academy objectives. Work through to earn four versions of their future star items. So that is one thing we are 100% expecting on Friday of this week is a new objective like this because we have not had one yet. It was not in the first team and we're expecting that 100%. Now, I don't think there's anything else that's interesting in here. Yeah, again, it only says it's starting the second week for the Future Star Academy. So we're 100% expecting that. Now, the next thing I wanna talk about is again, icon moments and the new season, right? This new season, we have one day 14 hours left and a lot of this stuff is going to expire, right? A lot of it's gonna go away. We're gonna have a new season coming out. So, I wanna take a look at last year because I think part of what we had last year and part of what has already happened this year might give us a clue on what's gonna happen when this new season comes out. I'm honestly not convinced now looking at a couple of these things. I don't know if EA would want to drop icon swaps, a new promo team in packs with the Future Star set to, prime icon moments in packs, player of the month Gundawan, or primarily player of the month coming on Friday, tomorrow as well. I feel like there's just way too much kind of going on here. So I feel like what honestly might happen is that icons might be pushed back a little bit and that this week we might just get the new season with the new objectives and the new season progress players but we might not actually get icon swaps yet and they might save that for next week because last year doing Foot Freeze, what they did was they released all 89 icons along with like Foot Freeze, like a promo where they released all these little things, right? Icon moments, winter refresh team, squad building challenge updates, league objective player updates and then they had the top, most 50 improved player upgrades, right? It was just a lot of these little, little content pieces but with Future Stars and earlier what they did this year with Freeze, they kind of did that too, right? The Freeze team, Freeze player SBCs, wrote to the final team three, prime icons coming out in two sets, icon swaps number one came out during Freeze. I honestly think that we might not get icon swaps or prime icon moments until next Friday when Future Stars is over, whatever promo they run or if it's just a quote unquote off week and they do icon moments cards and packs or if they do like winter refresh next Friday, I almost feel like that's where the icon moments will start to come into play because in here, this is the pitch notes from the start of the year in FIFA 20, it doesn't say that it's gonna be in the middle of February, it says primes will be released during the month of December and it's worded the same way for February of 2021 with the icon moment. So I honestly think we're gonna get two weeks of one week being the first set of icon moments and then second week being the second set of those cards released into packs and I'm not entirely sure if we will see icon moments this week on Friday. Now that I'm reading through this a little bit more, thinking about it a little bit more, I think I might have changed my opinion because it almost just seems like all of that would be way too much for a content shop on a Friday in FIFA. Now I know it's like, yo, it could happen because it seems like it could happen but last year, this is where I was getting this from earlier, last year, Prima kind of moments around Aldinio during the first set was released on February 14th which was the second Friday of the month, right? Now one other thing that we have to think about that is also this Friday is Lunar New Year. Lunar New Year is the 12th of February, 212, right? And that is this Friday. So obviously Foot Watch added something to code. They said this update that we just looked at right there is most likely just a kit or something along those lines but Lunar New Year has been a promo in past ages of FIFA that has been like insane, insane for the game and for the market. They have done half priced packs before with coins during team of the year. Now I don't think you have to be worried about that. I don't think you have to expect that. They didn't do it last year. I honestly don't think they'd do it again but that's something to always kind of look out for. It might just be like a kit, SBC it might just be an objective or so for that Lunar New Year promotion this year in FIFA. So just kind of keeping out for that as well but that's another thing that will be coming this Friday tomorrow on FIFA. But yeah, it just seems like there's a lot of unknowns. It almost just seems to me like they're gonna keep future stars and it's promo by itself. We're gonna get the new objective. We're gonna get the new future star cards in packs, the new SBCs, stuff like that. I'm still expecting a big time flashback. We did have a player moments SBC today but I still think we could get a flashback FFS during this weekend for a Mendee, for a Militão, for a Sancho, even if they really wanted to. A lot of big name players, Havertz, right? Kai Havertz doesn't have any special cards except for the ones to watch this year in FIFA. He could easily get a flashback future stars. I had a flashback to future stars with an SBC. So there's a lot of potential for more SBC content to come out this weekend and especially on Friday. And that's why I think they're just gonna keep the future stars promo by itself. But I'm still glad that we talked about icon moments in yesterday's video because that is good information to get out and to talk about. I still could see it selling it coming but I feel like the percentage possibility of that is less than I was originally thinking before after going ahead and doing some more research. Now again, just like the future stars cards, this new team of the week, if any of you guys are looking at Veran, Sterling, this Morales, there are eight left-wing slash left-mid players in this team of the week. If you look all the way through it, eight of them, which is nuts. That's a crazy, crazy high amount of left-wings, left-mids in FIFA right now in this team of the week specifically. But watch out for these informed cards. This team of the week is like sneaky, right? Sterling, DePai, Veran, Morales is kind of good. Kempembe, there's actually a decent amount of value in this week's team of the week like for team of the week packs and stuff. And there's some decent players. This Morales is no joke. He's got some pace to the left side. Four-star, four-star, pretty decent agility and balance. This guy might be a card that actually rebounds a bit after rewards. People want to try him out. Diabi with the French links again. Kempembe I think is a way overpriced as an 86 rated center back, but he gets really good links, right? So just keeping an eye on this week's team of the week for a dip and then a bounce after rewards as always. And I'll say this too, right? For the past couple of weeks, SBC fodder, which is super, super inflated right now, has been an incredible, incredible buy during the first couple of hours of rewards. You're gonna see these guys drop 2,000 to 3,000 coins of card on some of the higher rated fodder. Great, great opportunity to buy in on that stuff because as we've seen before, what we usually do is on Fridays or Thursday nights on stream, we look at the index 86 and we see that, yes, rewards drop this market but then it rebounds. Of course, this got pumped up today big time because of the 85 double upgrade SBC but definitely keep a watch out for some SBC fodder dropping during rewards today. That could be one kind of move that you do make on the market. But I have a couple of contests for Thursday flips. I got them in like the middle 150 range. We'll see if those do good this week. I feel like I don't think there's a possibility of overinvestment, ooh, 153? Is that sitting on the market, really? All right, I might just nag a couple more contests around 150 if possible. That's a pretty good price but just look around, some of the informs and stuff have already risen up a decent amount. We were looking at left-wing Antoine Griezmann on stream for about 200,000 coins earlier today and the dude is like 220K now. So some of this stuff has started to go up already with investors and with a natural rise after a little bit of selling earlier today. So there are some deals out there you can still pick up for Thursday flip but they're fewer and far between just because of the amount of buying that has already happened and the amount of links. Like I think I might buy myself a Fakir if I can get a 306, that's actually kind of low. Maybe I'll try to snag that one on a bid right at 300K and save myself some coins but I think there are some great Thursday flips out there. I think you will see the market do pretty well. I don't think people are gonna save packs because why would you save packs with a lot of these future star items in the game? Today on Thursday, what could we see for content? I'm really not too sure. Of course you got marquee matchups with a bit of supply coming in on those. Watch your, if you wanna do upgrade packs they're gonna get supply today on those types of cards. That might be an opportunity to buy in on some golds and commons, rare and common golds to do those. I'm not really sure what to expect for content today. I don't think it'd be something too massive. Another player SPC would be a lot honestly. We've had four player SPCs in the past five days I think so. A lot of player SPCs recently I don't know if they do another one but speaking of player SPCs this Musa Dembele right here is coming in on footbin at about 215K. He's probably gonna drop to under 200K during rewards. Won't be that expensive to complete in all honesty. It's not a bad card, right? High stamina, high strength, high shooting stats as well. He probably feels pretty good in game with the, he's got water rich traits outside of foot shot, flare. He's got decent agility balance, really good finishing and he's got that four star, four star. So this is gonna fill a hole in a lot of people's teams for a French striker and as we always do, we do the hype test on footbin. He's got 3000 thumbs up, which is pretty good, right? Not crazy, but it's pretty good. People are willing to pay 200K for a card like this because they feel like it might be worth that much on the market. I honestly don't think it would be but the Athletic Go Madrid links are huge this year and EA is playing off that, right? With Joel Felix, with Carrasco, with Jarente. EA is really, really playing off that hype. The Suarez objective. So I think that a decent amount of people will do this SBC. That's why I'm looking at more French cards and that's why I see kind of the meta shifting towards those French cards again as well. I think those cards are gonna do really, really well this week after rewards and even into the weekend, right? Friday night, of course, as the promo is going on, we're gonna keep a big time eye on those cards. I'm really trying to stang myself with Griezmann here because I feel like if I can get one under 200K, that is a cracking value for this card, which I don't think I'm gonna be able to find but that's gonna be something as well. Again, just a quick reminder that the new upgraded headliner cards are not gonna show up under the headliner quality. They're gonna show up only if you search under special. That is a glitch that EA has not fixed yet and that is a pain. But I just wanna get on the market today, talk about what could be coming, again, share some more thoughts about what could be happening this weekend. And of course, these future star cards are gonna be very, very popular today if you aren't looking to buy one for your team. I do think they will rebound pretty nicely after rewards and then even into the night on Thursday night, unless we get some crazy content on Thursday today. Honestly, for these, a lot of them are probably gonna take a dip and then just keep rising back up. So that's my thoughts on the market right now. Couple last minute buys if you want to, pre-rewards if you're watching this before rewards, but if you're not, good luck with your weekend league rewards. I hope you get Red Veron, but I also hope you don't because if I match in footchamps, that will suck. So anyways, if you enjoyed the video today, smack thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan with Accountant, catch you guys later. Peace out.