 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Last year in FIFA 23, EA released something during the team of the season that we had been asking for for ages, and this year they're bringing it back. Today we're talking about the changes for Weekend League, squad battles, and division rivals' rewards, bringing back our favorite red picks once again. And of course, there's a lot to talk about with team of the season warm-up series with a crazy unexpected warm-up cup that was finally dropped yesterday, but with requirements and a game mode that I don't think any of us expected. So we're going to talk about that and what to expect on a day with Champions League back in action today on a Tuesday. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and to subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's SBCs first as we usually start off with. Let's go with the icon SBC, which was leaked early, very early yesterday. Before content, there was a leak that a team of the year icon player SBC was going to be coming out, and it was better check. I think this is a really, really good SBC guys. Whenever we get an icon goalkeeper SBC, think back to Schmeichel earlier on in the year. It's always good because it gives you the chance of crafting a very, very good icon player SBC, putting it in your team, and really not having to think about your icon in your team for a long time. I've used the Sshin in my team for ages because the icon and chemistry links are so good. This better check is regarded as one of the best, if not the best goalkeeper in the game. And he's not that expensive to do. Coming in at 450,000 coins to craft, this is an SBC that you could even craft right now if you're grinding some 8310s, some 81 plus player picks, and just the objective packs that you're maybe the ones that you're not saving for a team in the season. This is an SBC you could get done now, or work your way through during the season to get an icon keeper in goal that you can really just put there and not have to worry about, of course, with the great chemistry links. So, great SBC, it's 60% upvoted, and of course, whenever we get goalkeeper SBCs guys, especially when they're of this quality, goalkeepers on the market absolutely get destroyed. This Allison went from almost 800,000 coins yesterday to under 600k. Vandersar is another one that has gotten absolutely destroyed in price. A lot of people are asking me, Nate, are these prices going to bounce back? In the short term, probably not a ton. I could see them, you know, bouncing back up a little bit over the long term, but we're about to be entering into team of the season where we're going to be getting team of the season goalkeepers every single week with boosted stats that are going to be challenging some of these icons for the position in net for a lot of people in their squad. So, I'm not going and investing in goalkeepers. The Allison card was the only one that I kind of was halfway invested in just because team of the years are very rare, and, you know, he's a very rare card, so he could have potential to bounce back. Looks like he actually is now back up over 600,000 coins, but I don't imagine that being profitable, or at least very profitable for right now, just because there's still a lot of goalkeepers to be coming out in this game. So that was the big players we see that we had yesterday. No complaints, honestly, for me. I might end up doing that check to replace my regular yesh in and goal here pretty soon. Now upgrade packs or player picks technically that we had yesterday as well. We had the return of the 81 plus player pick, which is very much appreciated, and the 85 plus player pick, which is actually a little bit of a confusing player pick to be honest. We can do it three times a day. It's the same squad requirements that it was when it was released earlier on in 84 overall squad. The problem is, though, it's tough to save these unless you're saving all of your packs for team of the season, right? I'm not saving all my packs like we talked about in yesterday's video. I'm only saving the 84 plus rated ones, but if you have player picks, you can't open anything because they just sit in your unassigned. So I did one of these yesterday, got an 87 out of it. If you have a bunch of 84s, you could do some of these, but I think I'm maybe only going to end up doing one per day just because I would like to make sure I have tons of 84s and 5s and 83s in my club as we head towards the end of this week and the start of the team of the season for maybe more important SBCs to come. So this one's a little bit iffy for me, but if you want to do it there, it is there and it's only 84 rated squad. And then, of course, our beloved 81 plus player pick has returned, which is fantastic because it keeps the menu grind alive with the daily gold upgrades, get those commons, put them into the 81 plus, you'll get yourself some fodder, which then you can go craft the 83 times 10 each and every day, work towards the 82 times 11 if you want to, or whatever other SBCs you're working on right now. I'm opening these. Again, as we've been saying, I'm not saving 81 plus player picks. I don't think that's a good enough SBC to be saving packs for at this stage because player picks and upgrade packs like this are going to be out during the season anyway, so it doesn't feel worth it to be saving those at the moment when we know they'll be out or some variation of that will be out during the team of the season itself. We also had, of course, the UEFA Marquis matchups lining up the matches to start today for the second leg of Champions League fixtures, which we have upgrades on the line for. We'll talk a little bit more about that towards the end of the video. But let's go to what really made some waves yesterday. The cup. We finally got the cup guys, but it was not what we expected at all. When I saw the objective yesterday, I was like, oh, this looks like just a nice decent friendly cup, right? You win 10 games. You play 10 games. There's a thousand XP and some interesting, not that amazing, but interesting packs as a part of this. You do get those league specific prime players packs, which I don't know. I don't think those packs are that good, but they are worth saving probably for the specific league of team of the season. Or if you want to open this weekend for the live tots when they come out as well, you do get an 84 times 5. The interesting thing about this cup is the actual game mode. If you go into the friendly mode, tots warm up cup. It is, I'll hide my camera here for a second so that you can see. I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen it already, but it is mystery ball rules. Mystery ball guys, which if you have not played mystery ball before, basically what happens is whenever the ball goes out of bounds, it'll come back in with a different boost. It'll be a goal multiplier and a boost, whether it's dribbling passing speed or a shooting boost or an all boost of all those things combined. It's a very arcadey style of the game with basically power ups, if you will, and the power ups that change every time there's a dead ball situation or the ball goes out of bounds. Guys, the gameplay is, it's, wow, like it is completely different because it is a fun arcadey game mode, right? And you can basically use your main team because the team overall max rating is 93, so a big jump up. It almost feels like you're just using your main squad, maybe apart from like one of the top two or three players. I had to take Drogba out of my main squad and I could use basically everybody else and there can be nobody higher than 94 rated with two lone players maximum. So there's a lot of opinions about this because it's unlimited number of games and the rewards aren't that good. There's some positives, there's some negatives. Some people like the mystery ball because it's something different and fun. I think I'm in that department. We've been asking for ways for EA to change up the game, right? To do fun game modes and cups and stuff like that. And that is exactly what they're doing here. They're doing the mystery ball cup, which is completely different than normal, but also the same time that this gameplay mode can be fun. Man, yesterday I was in the thick of it, too. It was infuriating at the same time with those power ups and the fact that the actual wins technically are counting incorrectly. Let's say you score a goal in the game and you have a two times goal multiplier. So your goal count goes from zero to two. For this objective and how it counts, the goals are counting as one, even if it's like counted as double or triple in game as a times two or a times three multiplier. If you've gone and won a game two to one, but you only scored one goal with a 2x multiplier and your opponent scored one with a 1x multiplier, somehow at the end of the game it's reading as 1-1. So still, you kind of have to win on the number of goals you score versus the number of goals they score without the multiplier involved for actually to count for this warm-up cup, which is annoying, but that's just something if you're like, yo, I won that game, but it's not counting, that is probably the answer why. So an interesting cup, it's fun to play. I think I'm going to rate that below. Like I just finished footchamps yesterday, got my 11 wins, got out. It was solid. I think I'm going to prioritize rivals still higher than that because I want the packs from rivals more than I want those packs, but I will still play it because it's fun, it's different, and I do like the variety from EA. So I'll give it a GG and it's unlimited games, which is nice. It's just, man, it can be if you're infuriating for sure playing a game mode like that, but it probably won't take that long because it's unlimited games. You can get it done pretty quick and it is something fun and different. So that one, it is what it is. Definitely unexpected and definitely some fun, of course, with the different power-ups and boosts that are in the game for that mystery ball mode. Now, the biggest news that we're going to be talking about today actually kind of relates to the gameplay once again, guys. Yesterday, we had big news about rewards, which we always look forward to changing during team of the season. They have not been updated yet. If you go in here, it still says the campaign pig. It looks the exact same, but we had news, especially news direct from the source. EA sports themselves put a loading message or a message in the game. It's not really a loading screen, just a message that rewards are refreshing once again for team of the season, guys. And this was something especially that they did last year that we were hoping to see and they're doing it again, guys. The footchamps rewards are going to be released with red picks, red footchamps player picks, and evidently, there's the plus design on these red cards, because Footshare tweeted out yesterday that this is the Tots plus red champs car design. I don't know if that means there's Tots plus in champs rewards and regular Tots cards, and also the fact that there's packs or there's code that there are live cards, live Tots cards that are in a Week in League type of red player shell as well. We're getting red picks. That's basically the bottom line of it. We'll figure out the finite details later on. But red picks are going to be a part of team of the season rewards once again, which is fantastic, and EA also gave us some news about that yesterday with this kind of verbiage and this message dropping in game. Sorry, it's kind of blocked out. It's very zoomed in. But champs rewards will be starting and updated for this Week in League, squad battles for this Week in's rewards, and division rivals for next week with the new season. They also said that during champs during team of the season, champs finals will be starting delayed. So this is the same schedule that we had last year during team of the season in FIFA 23. Foot champions finals will not start until two hours after content on a promo Friday. And to some of you that mean like, whoa, whoa, why is that? The reason that is happening is so that EA can put the live team of the season cards that are in packs into those rewards. And that was always the most fun part about team of the season last year is that whatever TOTS cards just came out into packs, two hours later you're playing foot champs to get red picks for those cards that just came out, right? Think about it. For the first week of team of the season last year, we had community and TOTS air to visit and it was community TOTS cards that we were playing foot champs for on that promo Friday of team of the season in red picks. And people who got their games done right away were packing some of these cards in red picks in the first day or two when these cards had just come out. There's huge motivations to play when that is the case, right? I look back to the rewards from last year just to kind of give you guys an example of what they maybe could look like this year as well. Last year rank four was the rank where you got two player picks of just community TOTS players from the main league. You got two, one of three picks and you got an untratable community TOTS three player pack. Now there is some of that stuff that is in the code once again, like I mentioned, a live TOTS ultimate team champs player has been added to the code right here. This one is a live three player pack. So live TOTS three player pack. That seems like rewards as well. And then there's a max 90 pack. And then there's, you know, other ones in here as well for regular TOTS players and champs. So we're not exactly sure how the rewards are going to look, but it looks like it's going to be very similar to last year. I'm very curious to see what they do with like the three player packs and stuff like that, the 84 plus packs or player picks. I mean, we're a part of rewards last year as well. The one thing I will mention as a part of this is with weekend league starting late, it's also going to be extended by another 24 hours. So they're starting week in league two hours after content on a promo Friday. And instead of it ending early Tuesday morning like today, it's going to end a day later. So it should end early Wednesday morning. So basically TOTS footchamps goes from like Friday until Wednesday. It's so long. It's almost the whole week that you have to play. It's crazy how spaced out it is. You got that extra day in there and Thursdays, sorry, Wednesdays and Thursdays are going to be massive rewards days during team of the season because you'll have your champs rewards and your rivals rewards back to back days if you didn't get them done during the weekend, which not a lot of people do, but that is just kind of worth noting. So it's back to the old TOTS schedule last year where weekend league is going to be, it's going to feel like you're going to be able to play week in league almost all week with that extension. With the late start, I know there's a bit of, you know, some people like waking up on Fridays and getting their footchamps games in right away. I totally understand that. But I think I like this change and I really liked it and a lot of people liked it last year just because you had more time to get those games. And of course you're playing for the TOTS red champs version of these cards, which the red versions look so sick and it kind of just has that level of like red cards this year with the red footchamps versions. You've only gotten those from Evolutions. They don't seem as like when you have a really cool red card this year, I don't know, it just doesn't hit quite the same. You know, you can make any card red that you want to make red, but like when team of the season rolls around and you see red versions of some of the sick team of the season cards that somebody has packed, which I can't even find the card design here unless someone passed it. You know that like wow, that person had a really sick rewards pull and like that is super cool. So that is one thing to watch out for. That is big news and it's going to bring, like we said in yesterday's video, more demand for gameplay. Get your tactics set up and get ready for the sweat of what team of the season week in league is going to bring. Now really quickly, yesterday of course with the day that it was, I want to talk about market for a second guys because I bought some cards yesterday, not a whole lot. And I made some coins here like on Steiger and Marquinhos, but I just took a tax loss on this of Iran and I'm looking to do maybe some of the same with some of my other buys that I made. I bought an ability for just over one million coins and man the market is really I would say kind of mudded right now guys. It feels very dead. Like not a lot of people are buying cards and like a card like this, I'm just, I'm thinking I'm going to try to get out and take some of my coins on some of these flips that are kind of failed I guess you could say it's no more than a tax loss on any of these and we're still making coins overall for sure. But like it just seems like players are not selling that well and it doesn't seem like there's panic on the market per se. It just feels like there's a lack of demand as we are rolling right up to team of the season at the end of this week and also with the cup being dropped yesterday as well. I imagine there's less people buying cards just because they're using whatever they have on tradeable still for the cup. Look at this for birthday Hyunmin Sun just went on bid for 950 and he's right around a million coins which is down big time for him. Sadio Mana yesterday was like 550K he's now under 500. Yes he's rare. Yes he could bounce back. Park Ji Sung I saw was low yesterday. Just some of the cards that I've been keeping an eye on on my watchlist they're a lot lower. This card last night Ramirez was 1.2 mil. Now he's 1.09. So it just seems like the markets kind of slowly dropping a little bit and there's less demand out there so I'd be very careful if you're still owning cards of tradeable value and as I take a look on foot bin and some other prices here too like Dakaretska at 600K that's very low. That Mana very low. Foot berth the icons team too. Raul is down a lot. Most of these cards that I'm looking at they just seem down and it seems like prices are starting to dip. There were a couple of price range updates yesterday just of note Burbotov is now under 150. Wow Bobby Charlton's done 100K Caffuz done 100K. Yeah there's definitely some price drops guys. There are price drops out there for sure. These cards are still maintaining good prices like Drogba is still doing pretty good. Desai is still up a lot but it just looks like the market is starting to dip and I think that could continue today with everything that is going on. Last thing I want to mention is Fodder right. Fodder we're watching very closely right now and that continues to go up. 85's still over 4,000 coins. 86's and 87's are up a little bit further about the same at 87's. 88's are about 16,000 a piece. 91's are about 35 and 90's are still about 28,000. So Fodder is either staying the same or moving up a little bit. I still have some informs invested on my transfer list. At the moment I'm still just lazy listing these to be completely honest. Not expecting to make a ton of profit right now because there's no new SBC's that require a bunch of informs. Actually I do believe that the Vayner not VaynerSAR but a check that was dropped yesterday. If I double check here I'm pretty sure that he had some inform requirements. He has on the 85, 86 and 87. Wow, he's got a bunch of informs required on his squad there. But it's not making informs really budge on the market. There's still like 22 to 23K. So I have mine just lazy listing there. Not really trying to take the coins. I don't have that much invested in them anyways. So if you have informs I would be lazy listing them right now. But like as you can see the cheapest 89's on the market are literally the informs and it's because those informs are impacts. The Donoruma, the Dabinia and the Bala as such are impacts and getting supplied. So actually I don't know if Dabinia is impacts but she is low at the moment. So that's why you're seeing those prices as low as they are. We'll see if we get anything else that requires informs to make those go up. But they may not move that much through the end of the week at least upwards. We'll see how much further down they could go. But I'm lazy listing for right now because there's still demand. Now let's talk about today on Tuesday because there is a couple of things that I haven't seen yet. I haven't seen it yet. Maybe. That's all we'll say. But you know it's Gameable Tuesday, right? Apart from the warm up series promo the 88 plus mix campaign upgrade goes away today. What's EA going to do? Make it 89 plus this time? Are they going to give us something else today? We're going to have to keep a close eye on this and see what they do. But I would imagine some sort of other upgrade pack is going to refresh today. Maybe we get that e-figs pack. I don't think the Encore, yeah the Encore does not refresh until tomorrow on Wednesday. So that's kind of the SBC section. They've been going with the daily player SBC so there could be something else like a moments card or I don't know if they're going to do a road to the final I think like that. But last call and the Kondoggi wrote to the final if you think that Marseille are going to pull off the comeback. Also last call on UCL stuff because today we've got Champions League, Sergi Roberto and Mukielle PSG Barca face off. Barca 3-2, right? But that has nothing to do with this game. This is a one-off game for showdowns. If Barca win this game 1-0 Sergi Roberto gets a plus 2. Mukielle does not get upgraded. If I think it comes down to full time guys. I mean I'd have to brush up on some history of how this has worked before. If full time let's say it ends 1-0 PSG and you know that's technically a win for PSG but it would go to extra time of course because they would be tied on aggregate. I think if it's 1-0 PSG at the final whistle of the 90 minutes I think Mukielle would be due a plus 2. I don't think it has anything to do with the aggregate score guys but man I have to look back and see what happened in previous situations before because it's always a sticky situation like this but this should be just based upon the final score of the game at 90 minutes. Unless there's some tricky business there we will have to see. So that's kind of some last calls to watch out for that today for those showdown SBCs. And then of course we've got the other showdowns that are expiring here soon as well. Sandro's got a day left same thing with Jensen and Haller and then same thing with Trostada and Eric Dyer. Since I did Eric Dyer he's no longer there. We also got the live cards right the road to the finals on the market today. You've got Pedri versus Donoruma for PSG Barcelona and then you've got Sule and Jimenez for Dortmund versus Atletico Madrid as well. So big names in action today. Pedri's up in price selling the hype just to be careful. But this game is big for upgrades because whoever goes to the next round in advances gets that plus one upgrade. So again Pedri's looking in good position for that for the Barça PSG matchup and Atletico Madrid right now leading on aggregate as well. So they're looking good for that one. We'll just have to see what happens. But selling in the hype is always a safe play. So I have to mention that. Now last thing is we have an evolution league that is making some player prices specifically one player price go bananas on the market. And this is an evolution that you maybe want to hear about and learn about because it looks like it could be pretty crazy if this guy Ferland Mendy actually fits the evil. This was a league tweet yesterday guys from Football Police League. He says that fullback evolution is set to come to Ultimate Team soon. What players do you like to upgrade doesn't say anything about the requirements what it's going to require or anything of that matter. But if you take a look at the market these guys have the info. Take a look at Ferland Mendy from 2,000 coins. Bro goes all the way to 8K. Comes back down to five and I think he just went back up to 9,000 coins again. Yeah guys I'm going to say this. Evolution trading in this game it sounds like is getting people banned. Even this Ferland Mendy like it sounds like people yesterday that bought Mendy at 2K and they were listing at like 8,000 coins. I've seen some people tweeting me. I've heard people talking that they were getting market banned and coin wiped for that. I think the safest thing to say now is don't buy like one out of packs inform or one special card stock in your transfer list or in your club and wait for it to skyrocket buying like these cards in the multiples and then selling them just not result in good things with the way the coin ban system is working this year. So that is happening but regardless looks like we're getting a left back evolution. I've got a couple one left back in my club that I'm hoping were to fit this and 92 paces if Ferland Mendy fits this 92 paces and 86 physical that could fit a lot of defensive players at this stage of the game with those different stats. So we'll have to see what the actual requirements on that are if it's paid if it's not paid I don't know but that is an evolution that is leaked to be coming soon some sort of fullback Evo we'll see if we get more news or maybe a further add on to this leak of what the requirements may be like if tail Hernandez fits if there's an overall that's kind of low which is why Ferland Mendy fits but like tail Hernandez doesn't so we got to kind of look out for that but I'd be careful with left backs of any value especially if a previous version of them were able to fit in like I don't know bomb past or if it's a crazy boost and you know maybe her fantasy card could come back down Ferland Mendy special stuff like that we will just have to see so that is the leaks that is the news that is the information as we roll into a Tuesday today on ultimate team good day to get those rivals wins in good day to log on get your daily log on done as always make sure you get that done and get the upgrade pack I'm saving two 83 times 10s every single day and all the high rated upgrade packs that I can save from the season progress it's really nice that we have the season progress ending towards the end right now a lot of people are just hitting level 40 but 85 7s, 84 20s add that to your pack stash that is mint I'm excited to get those unlocked and add those to my pack stash as well as some of the other packs from like Tots opening weekend stuff like that I'm gonna be adding these 83 plus times 5s the warm up and win getting a tally in there then I play those games boom like this will be some nice nice packs to have for team this season which we'll decide whether we want to open up this Friday or whether we want to wait and see wait I'm about to get an 85 times 10 and an 87 4 holy dude this pack save is going to be immense and an 81 times 11 for this as well let's go bro alright yeah the pack save is going really well it's making me more and more excited for team this season man also don't forget your 10 coin pack daily in the store another one of those refreshing today so the rewards look good let's see how they actually get delivered in game Red Tots footchamps pics though we will be there we'll be playing week and week we'll be playing footchamps on a Wednesday or at least a Tuesday these next couple of weeks during team this season so that's the video for today guys if you did enjoy drop a thumbs up on it comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if new I will see you guys in a video tomorrow in a stream today that links down below in the description it's been Nathan