 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are talking about this loading screen today. A loading screen telling us about a new promo in late August, man. Pre-season is coming. This is a promo that we had in the last year at the end of the year, and I'm expecting a lot of those things that happened last year to happen this year as well. Again, they're branding this as a FIFA 22, Foot 22 pre-season. You have FIFA 22 branding on this entire loading screen, which is kind of cool, right? I liked this promo last year because it really provides a nice little mini segue in between FIFA 21 and FIFA 22 last year, of course, from 20 to 21, but you don't learn a lot from this loading screen, but we kind of know what pre-season is about. It's gonna look different than last year, but I wanna talk about it in this video as what we can expect because basically what it will be is FIFA 21 objectives, SBCs, maybe some gameplay stuff, related to getting FIFA 22 rewards. So it's kind of nice to have a few extra things on your account at the start of the game next year or a couple months away, sorry, a couple weeks away as we head into FIFA 22. So I wanna talk about that today, what kind of stuff we could see and how it'll be a little bit different than last year, of course, as well. Let's talk about what could be in pre-season. So this is, of course, the webpage from last year's Foot Pre-season promo, and this was the whole tagline of pre-season, right? Play FIFA 20, get rewards in 20 and 21. So this time around, play FIFA 21, get rewards in 21 and 22. Now there was a lot of stuff that was released last year as rewards, right? It was through objectives, it was through SBCs and stuff like that. And basically a lot of what we saw was it was like a normal player SBC or normal PAC SBC, right? Like we have the, let me find one here from this week during footies. We've got the, actually, we don't have any like normal PAC SBCs live right now, but we had one that was called like the La Liga Challenge that was out earlier this week or like Marquis Matchups, they released an SBC, just a PAC SBC or something along these lines and they'll have a PAC reward in FIFA 21, but it'll also tag on a reward for FIFA 22. And some of those rewards for FIFA 22, there's a lot of, I guess, people making fun of the pre-season promo from last year because some people thought the rewards really weren't that much. But I mean, if you think about it, they can't give out insane stuff at the beginning of FIFA 22. So some of the things that we had last year that were objectives or SBCs that we unlocked for the upcoming FIFA, coin boosts, kits, chemistry styles, a couple PACs here and there and also some TIFOs and stadium themes and stuff like that. And here's a tweet from Weaver today, talking about some of the other things that we had for pre-season last year. I think the most popular things were the 80 plus PAC. I believe there was even a positional based 80 plus. There was like an 80 plus midfielder or a defender and maybe attacker. I could be wrong on that, but this was something that people went out of their way to go and get because an 80 plus PAC at the start of the game, actually it might give you a pretty decent card, right? An 81, 82, 83 rated card like a Furlan Mindy or a Lucas Mora or a Soco, you know, I don't even remember if Soco was seven rated or what his rating was, but that would be the type of card you might be able to pack from an 80 plus PAC. So that's kind of the one thing that you might be, I guess, worth going after. Chemistry styles like the engine, like the anchor, maybe they could give out hunters, maybe they could give out shadows, right? That's the kind of stuff that is pretty cool apart from this promo. It seems like going backwards, right? It seems like, hey, we're in the end of the game, we should be grinding for big time PACs like an 88 plus or player picks and stuff like that. But in all actuality, this is the type of promo that allows you to kind of look forward in the next FIFA, which is kind of cool, right? So I know a lot of you guys may not have any more desire to grind the game as much, but as long as the objectives are easy, which I hope it is, right? It should be pretty easy for these objectives, you know, play a couple of games, you know, or whatever, because the rewards aren't that insane, but it could help you out a little bit and you never know what you could get from an 80 plus player pick at the beginning of FIFA 22. So I do think that it'll be worth getting involved in. Maybe not everything, right? I do remember that last year, and it might still be in my stadium, that one of the things that I got for doing the preseason, yeah, FIFA 20 team, this kid, the foot 20 future stars, the icon kid, I believe all three of these kids from FIFA 20, I actually got from doing the preseason objectives at the end last year in FIFA 21, like I really love this team of the year kit from foot 20, and that was one thing that I wanted to have in FIFA 21. So I did that objective, boom, got the kit, and I actually rocked that kit for the first part of this year. So that's just one thing still that I have in my club that is kind of a byproduct of that preseason problem. Now that's the biggest part, right? Especially for what I think is gonna be coming on Friday is gonna be those objectives. Now there's other things as a part of this promo that could be really interesting as well, but this is the main part of it, right? And I almost guarantee you that there will be this reward type system in this promo on Friday. But also you have a fine print here, foot 21 rewards earned during preseason will be granted by October 16th. So I don't exactly remember when these were specifically put out, but October 16th last year was like a week after the full game release. So for this webpage probably coming out on Friday, I bet it would say October, what's the game release this year, October 2nd. So October 9th is when I would expect to see all these rewards granted by. They'll probably get dropped either at the early access date or the full access date on October 2nd. So just kind of, I don't think you'll have these already on your web app or on your EA access 10 hours when you actually head into FIFA 22 for the first time but you'll get them early on. So you won't have to wait forever. But last year during the preseason promo, they also did best of pack content but we've already had that. So I think they will do best of pack content again because they're gonna probably still release over the next week or two. And I honestly think this preseason promo could be a two week promo. And I'll go into that here in a second. But best of pack content probably gonna keep some of your top special cards still in packs. Again, we talk about the summer stars, the path to glories. Some of the team in the season items that are still in packs right now. I do believe I would expect to see these cards released back into packs. And what they might do is actually release the best special item or the best version of every single player in the game. They might release that back into packs as the best of content. We could see that, I think. So we'll see what EA does with this but I would expect this again because they've been doing it already for footies. If they don't do it, then it's really gonna seem like an L again for the next two weeks. So that's my opinion on that. This stuff, the Champions League and the road to the final stuff, that was specific to last year, of course, with COVID and the Champions League, Europa League and the leagues themselves finishing out at the end of the year in July and August. So I don't expect to see anything related to Champions League, Europa League, road to the final boost, new RTTF players. I don't expect to see anything like that. All of this stuff is related to the Champions League and Europa League, which again, of course, are over this year, kind of more a normal schedule. But I do expect to see more transfer content and what they called this was top transfers. They said throughout preseason, we'll be showcasing a selection of the most exciting moves with special player items in foot 20 released for those players after they land at their new clubs. And what they did last year for this was they actually released the players using the premium SBC card design. Leroy Sane was one of those that got a special item at the end of the year last year and they used the special SBC design. I don't remember if Werner got one or not, but of course Werner was talked about a lot last year. He did. He had a 95 rated Chelsea striker card. So I thought that was one that was released too. So just keeping out, there might be more of these top transfers. Of course, we had some big time transfers this summer window, right? But maybe if the Mbappe transfer happens, people are talking about Sancho, maybe Verran. We've already had some transfer content with Messi, with DePie. And then I guess, I think those might be the only two that we have had, unless I missed one. But Omtiti, Marciolo, those are close calls SBC. So those are not transfers. But just keep your eye out for maybe some more of those transfer contents, which would be dope, right? People would love that. They would obviously juice them up, make them very high rated cards to fit in with where the power curve is at in the current state of this game. But those are gonna be the two things that I think will be the focus of this preseason promo, right? Top transfers and the Foot 22 objective and SBC rewards that we will be able to attain through a little bit of a grind. And then I think the most, the third most likely thing I would expect would be that best of pack content. So those are the things that I would expect out of the preseason promo. It's kind of hype. It's not super duper hype. It's just a nice little segue into FIFA 22. That's kind of how I'm viewing it. Of course, we're gonna have to see what kind of items they're gonna be giving us, what kind of, you know, chem styles, kits, whatever. Is it just gonna be, you know, kits and stuff like that? Or is it gonna be like shadows, hunters, engine chemistry styles? The anchor chemistry style would be decent, right? If it's an easy objective, you get it done pretty quick then that would still be nice. So it's all gonna depend on how much of a grind it takes to actually finish off some of these SBCs and objectives. But I think this might be a two week promo. And part of the reason I think that is because we still have icon swaps that is going on. If you look inside of objectives, I believe it is this Monday. This Monday we will have new icon swap objectives coming out, I'm really close on the rivals one. I'm 10 out of 15. I kind of need to get my 83 times 25 actually now that I think about it. I still have that pack available. So if I can get two more swap tokens, that'd be fantastic. But I do think that we will see new icon swap tokens and that's why I think it'll be basically like two weeks of pre-season. And then that is gonna put us basically into the second week of September. And from then on it's probably gonna be like FIFA 22 demo. And really we're gonna get into the start of FIFA 22 and be like two weeks away from that. So I think this pre-season promo is gonna kind of be again like that segue between the end of FIFA 21 and the start of FIFA 22. Now let's talk a little bit about foot 21 content. It's Thursday, right? Thursday last week was a big day. Last Thursday was the legendary day where they dropped the 99 rated messy SBC. And again, we had a decent SBC yesterday on Wednesday with the Marciol. I do think this SBC is overpriced but five star, five star is decent, right? They did a nice upgrade there. And another close call SBC. I would either expect a transfer SBC today on Thursday or another close call, right? They're kind of running out of opportunities to do the close calls unless they're gonna do them after footies is over, but I doubt they would do that. So maybe they're gonna save that transfer content. Maybe it will be another close call player SBC today on Thursday. You might look out for that. We had another 92 plus player pick and they also re-release the 87 times 10. And that's why I'm really, I really think that they're gonna still have best of pack content available because since they re-release this 87 times 10 for four more days, if they weren't gonna have anything else in packs, then why would they re-release this? So I think it's gonna be, special cards are still gonna be in packs throughout the end of this year. Now we also had a new objective player yesterday and this is one that was rumored to drop. The leaks were true. Bellerin got himself a card, right? It is 11 squad battles games. You can actually do Fatih and Bellerin at the same time. If you really wanna go out and grind that, so that would be very nice. They're both Spanish items, so you can get a few things done with your Spanish players for both of these at the same time. But that's a little bit of a grind there if you wanna get, I mean, probably a top two or top three right back in the prem for this Bellerin card. Not sure how he plays in game, but a decent item, none the less. And then again, today on Thursday, we actually, you know, yesterday on Wednesday was kind of a, you know, quantity. There was a quantity, a lot of quantity of content, not the most quality, right? Martial being really expensive actually. 540,000 coins according to Footbin. I think that's just, it's a nice card, nice SBC. He's got great traits with finesse shot and outside the foot and the flare trait, but that's just way too expensive, man. But I understand the GGMU tax is in full effect with that card right there. Now actually, I wanna check one thing real fast. The MLS all-star game is in penalties right now. Oh my goodness. So the deciding game on whether we get our Nani or Giniac updated right now is in penalties. And did the MLS just win? It's three, two on pens. I think the MLS might have just won. I think it might be over boys. That's crazy. It went to penalties. No freaking way it did. It went to penalties three, two on pens. So that means a cheeky Nani upgrade is about to be locked in for us probably pretty soon. So this Nani card's gonna go to a 97 rated plus twos all around probably a plus three maybe on passing. So a 97 Nani based off a penalty shootout, no way. That's crazy. And Nani actually missed the pen. Nani had his own pen, he actually missed it. So he was trying to not get himself an upgrade. But his teammates came through. This is gonna go to a 97 rated item. Probably in the next 24 to 48 hours I would assume that car would get upgraded. So GGs, if you did the Nani SPC, a lot of people will be excited about that one. But for today again on Thursday I do expect probably another player SPC maybe some sort of upgrade pack. Again, I'm losing track of all the upgrade packs that they're putting out at this point. We've still got 88 pluses, still got 82 plus player picks. We had the 92 plus footies released again yesterday and the 87 times 10 was re-upped. So we will see what they do with that content today. It could be a quiet day, it could be another big day. But again, it's the one week since we had the big time messy transfer SPC. So we'll see if they do one of those again or a close call. Again, SELAS, Dobbin Silva, still plenty of cards that could get that close call SPC footies item. But we will see what they end up doing today on Thursday. But it is nice to know that a pre-season promo is coming. And if you wanna put the work in you can maybe get a few extra things to start off your year in FIFA 22. So of course on Friday we'll be checking out what that looks like if you're looking at all of those new features when the promo does drop. But if you enjoyed this video, smash your thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you do. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace out.