 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have got news to cover today, conflicting reports of a promo coming or maybe lack thereof. That's what I want to discuss in today's video as, yes, we're looking ahead towards Friday, but also what is going on in the here and now with Fantasy FC, a really incredible menu craft and grind that was made available yesterday or really continued that I want to talk to you guys about. And the market, a lot of FC Fantasy Team 2 cards are looking prime for investments. Can we buy some of those as they potentially go into games and upgrades later on this week? We'll talk about that in more in today's video. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Welcome back. It is very good to be back after a week off. I'm very excited to get back on this game and to talk about everything related to this game because especially yesterday, I opened a bunch of packs from what I had in the club, saved up a couple of 83 times 10s. And what I fell across was a pretty insane craft. And I want to talk to you guys about that, especially with the new SBCs that dropped yesterday. But again, thanks for bearing with me, guys, as we were off on vacation. If you wondered why there wasn't a video, we were on vacation. We were on holiday. We were away for about a week. But now we are back refreshed, ready to go and hit some 81 plus player picks. That was the biggest W of an SBC that was dropped yesterday. Basically, the same 81 plus player pick that was released a couple of weeks ago is eight golds and one rare, very easy to craft with all the different ways to get golds right now. First of all, the way to get golds to start off every single day is do the daily gold upgrade. I actually haven't done it today. So I'm behind, but this gets you a lot of golds and even a couple of rares very easily just for the silvers and bronzes. So make sure you do those. I mean, I say that every day, do those, but it really helps out and then you can put those in 81 plus player picks. But this is where it gets good, guys. We're going straight into the menu grind because this is the most exciting thing on the game right now. Whether you want to do the 81 plus player pick or the fantasy FC crafting upgrade, that's actually up to you. But you get gold commons, you do those. The fodder that you get on that, you can go and craft player SBCs. But when you come across the duplicate or as a lot of people are doing right now in general, whenever they pack something that is like 87 and above, they're going and putting that back into an exchange SBC. Every time I pack an 87 or above, especially after now that I finished the icon player pick and got Rivaldo absolutely shafted, I'm going and putting that into one of these because right now there's not a player SBC that I really want to work on. So I'm just filling up my club with commons and rares to put back into player picks and it just creates a never ending cycle of stuff to do in this game because you're just doing player picks on repeat. You're constantly having chances to pack the fantasy FC players and heroes that are out right now. So that is what I would recommend you guys doing if there's no SBCs that you want to do. Like I've got an 87 Overdorf and Donaruma right here that I'll probably, you know what, an 87 rated is what I clicked into. Let's put Overdorf into this 87 rated duplicate exchange and then I get what is this 19 players I think? I think the 87 dupe exchange is 19 players pack. So then boom, like that's a couple of player picks at least right there and you get a chance at packing a promo card. So like I know it's like Nate, you just turned in an 87 rated card. That's a lot. Well, it's kind of fun to just de-gen the menus like this and grind. Could that have been Puteus? Probably Parejo? Okay, not even close, right? So I'm getting those rares and non-rares that are going back into the club that I will put into more player picks and I'll be able to keep crafting, get some more higher rated fodder. And then for the 85s and 86s, since I'm not putting those into the exchanges, I'm putting those into like the upgrade SBCs, right? We had another upgrade SBC release yesterday in the 85 plus player pick which we love this, right? It's been a decent value every single time. A lot of you guys have been, I guess, needing a place to put your 84s. I haven't seen that need because I've not been on the game much. But I've heard that that is a thing. I mean, 84s were like 1.5K and this is great as an 84 rated squad. Get yourself a chance to some more fantasy FCs in the heroes. So we don't dislike that at all. Basically, the upgrade packs yesterday were a W and that's kind of the menu grind and the menu craft right now in this game is do the exchanges, hit the 81 plus player picks or hit the crafting upgrade. And then whatever fodder you get from that that you want to put in different places, you got options. 85 player pick 84 times five. I would highly recommend doing these. Yesterday, I got Mascherano and Stanway in the same 84 five. And if you need team of the weeks, just craft the 83 plus team week. It's really an incredible menu grind with those exchanges that are out right now. It just gives back so many gold commons, which then you can put into the crafting or the player pick and just get so much fodder back. And if you're like me, there's nothing to craft. I would beg to differ. I mean, you've got so many live cards right now. Alex Scott, Carvalho, Rolfo, which is taking over the center mid position in this game. So many people are doing this card, especially with that center mid and a position. There are so many live cards that you can craft right now that why not? Like if it's a live card that has potential to upgrade, especially for Rick, this guy for Rick, get this card done. Five store skills, technical dribbler. He's already progressing towards upgrades very, very well. And he could be really insane if he ends up going to like, I don't know, like a 90 or 91. That could be a really insane card. That's one that I would craft and it's not that hard to do so. So there's really plenty of SBCs and players and an upgrade pass, which we're probably going to get more of today on this game to be crafting right now in the menus. Now, one player SBC that they did drop yesterday to get through this really fast that doesn't have as much hype. Maybe one of the worst player SBCs we've had so far besides the Punnett pick Bowen, but under Herrera. I mean, the playstyle pluses are good here. The stats are not the greatest and the fact that Bro is literally injured. Another FC fancy player that is injured. Thanks EA for putting out a card that probably won't see its full upgrade potential because he's hurt. So that does not help at all, either especially he's coming in at a price of 145K, not the greatest. And we also had UEFA Marquis matchups yesterday, which is brought a little bit of supply to the market, which we'll talk about in terms of the fantasy cards here in a second. But that's always some nice tradeable free packs, if you will. So yesterday's content was solid. They also gave out footchamps qualification points to everybody, which is again, more people probably going to be playing footchamps this weekend. So there's that. So there is a lot to do in the menus right now. If you want to grind, of course the cup is still going on. I'm still working through that. I'm kind of saving all my packs for the end. I got to get that cup done before these cards go out of packs though, to have a chance to pack in one of the live cards. Let me look at the last thing that happened yesterday on this game and it comes into kind of the scenario of what I want to discuss today. But first we'll go back and look at this. EA's content tweet for the week. It's got some very interesting things in here. When I saw this tweet right away, things started going off my mind. I was like, campaign re-release? That is not normal. That is different. And we got to talk about that today for sure, because that might give us some insight into what's coming later on this week. That's going to be a part of content coming this week. Campaign re-release, which in my opinion means cards coming back into packs. We've got two Player of the Months, Premier League and Serie A. I don't think Premier League Player of the Month has been leaked yet of who has won that award. I would imagine that that's going to be leaked probably Wednesday or Thursday. So watch out for that. Serie A Player of the Month. I don't believe I've seen a leak for that as well. I'm still catching up on a lot of things. Some of the cards that were in the promo team for Team 2 I didn't even realize, because that was a way for the game for the past week. That's why I missed out on some of that stuff and definitely prices right now. I'm trying to learn again. But I think those will be SBCs we see on Thursday and Friday or both on Friday. We'll have to see there. And then we have Upgrade SBCs, New Evos, pretty normal as well. I would imagine maybe today on Tuesday, tomorrow and Wednesday. Those are popular Evo days. And then we also have that Icon SBC, which I believe was in last week's EA content tweet, which never was released. So we'll see if they actually release it this week. Hopefully they do. And Icon Player SBC there. And then Showdown SBC, which is very interesting. And these two things combined, along with a couple other things that we're going to talk about today, have us looking ahead a little bit. So I wanted to cover everything in the menus right now, but I want to look ahead a little bit guys, because that's kind of where the hype, at least for me is starting to build a little bit in terms of what is coming next. Because we're in March now, right? And every single year in March, we think of a promo that is celebrating EAs, or not really EAs, but Ultimate Team's birthday and the origination and the start of this game mode, Ultimate Team as a part of this game. So kind of we're looking at today, what is next? Like what is the next promo? Because we've kind of got conflicting reports and that's what I want to discuss. Guys, this is big because it's going to impact the market regardless, whether it means market crash, whether it means certain prices rising on the market as well. Sometimes when there's no content weeks, the market actually drops off a lot. I'm thinking back to before the World Cup mode, there was a week of no promos, no content, and the market absolutely got destroyed because everybody was like, oh my goodness, the World Cup mode is going to be coming out. World Cup promos are going to be the next week. Stuff is going to go down. Could that happen with maybe no foot birthday this Friday, but something else other than a promo coming out? Potentially. But foot birthday in its own right could potentially cause some market movements as well, just because that's a staple promo every single year at this stage of the year. So let's discuss it and let's talk about it. From a standpoint of, I think we have two scenarios coming for us. It's going to go one or two ways this Friday and heading into this weekend on this game. Here is way number one and we're looking at it from this content tweet. In these content tweets, the way that EA have done it before, most of these tweets have been content that goes from Monday to Monday. It's basically the entire next week or like Monday to Sunday. Some people are telling me that they stop at Fridays, but I remember vividly some multiple times where they would put out either a end of an era SBC that happened on a weekend or an icon player SBC that happened on a Saturday or a Sunday that was included in this tweet. So I'm guessing that that is how this is being released that some of this content in here is kind of teasing what is upcoming this Friday. This is scenario number one. Scenario number one is we do not get foot birthday this Friday, which it would be pretty early to get foot birthday. We'll discuss that here in a second because FIFA Ultimate Team's birthday or FC Ultimate Team's birthday is technically not until I think it's like the 19th or somewhere around the 19th of March. So we're still a couple of weeks away from that. Scenario number one is we don't get foot birthday this Friday, but we get a campaign re-release and showdown SBCs. That might sound familiar because it happened last year and we know EA are creatures of habit. The showdown series promo, it's basically an off week. It's kind of a week where there's no content. If you've never experienced this before, it usually happens in the spring before foot birthday. Sometimes it's I think it was two years ago after foot birthday. It's around the spring time where EA basically just say, we're not going to put any new cards in packs like we do every single week. What we are going to do is instead put some old cards back into packs and then instead focus on a lot of SBCs. Now, of course, what old cards are they going to put back into packs? Well, we can see from that tweet that they put out, probably versus fire and ice winter wild cards, potentially winter wild cards, icons and team of the group stages as well. And if they release, I mean, not probably not all of the winter wild cards, but if they release even some of them, same thing with the fire and ice cards, this would be pretty nice. You've got Militile, Puteus, Salah, VVD, Christiana, Ronaldo, right, as some top tier winter wild cards players. You've got a Neymar fire rice. You've got a Sun, you've got Tamora. You have Ramos, team of the group stage cards. You've got Saka. You've got so many great team of the group stage cards. And all of these promos that I remembered too, these were kind of the promos between Black Friday and team of the year that the cards were all really rare. So a lot of their prices are very inflated. They are going to get corrected big time as well because a lot of these cards, not all of them, but a lot of these are still one play style plus cards which puts them just a little bit more behind the curve. So if you own any of these, regardless, we are getting in the next week. We are getting old promo cards re-released in packs. Again, not all the team of the group stage is wild cards or fire versus ice, but a good chunk of them are going to be re-released. And that would mean whoever gets re-released is going to fall in value. So be very, very careful with that for sure. Just kind of a heads up and a bit of a warning. But the fact that the re-release and the showdown SBC is shown here on this tweet really makes me think that that is what is coming this Friday. Now normally EA don't promo what is coming on a given Friday on one of those content tweets, right? Like they didn't tell us that Fantasy FC or even like Future Stars last couple of promos that were coming were on, they weren't on that tweet, right? So that's one thing that maybe bets against that. And here's probably the biggest thing that bets for it being foot birthday. Let's switch gears. Number two option this Friday is we actually do get foot birthday. This is big. The official foot birthday card design, which I believe has been posted around before a little bit, but now it's 100% confirmed because this is from foot scoreboard and he only tweets stuff out that gets added like to the code of the game on the back end of the web app and stuff like that. I believe this is a pretty legitimate leak. This is the official foot birthday card design, which in my opinion, I don't like that design very much at all. Like last year's design, it was okay. We've had better ones. We'll say that like, I don't know what it is about this like balloon that's inside of the shape. It just doesn't look so separated from the rest of the card. I don't know. That's just my opinion. If you like it, then like it. If you don't, then yeah, I guess I just don't. I want to see a player dynamic image on it. How is a player dynamic image going to fit in front of this balloon type thing that already looks like it's so sticking out of the card design? I don't know. I'm not a huge fan of the card design, but let's say in theory, foot birthday drops this Friday. I mean, this card design being added to the code already kind of points towards that being the potential as well. That's why we're stuck between two scenarios right now. It's either foot birthday this Friday or it is not. Now, what would the best of a re-release mean? If we're going to get a campaign re-release, how would that work its way into Black Friday? It could be a lot like the Thunderstruck promo. Remember when we had Black Friday and the Thunderstruck cards were in packs at the same time, we had a best of re-release with players like Trailblazer Hansen and some other Trailblazer cards and early on promos in the year in packs. They could do something like that where if they're going all out for foot birthday like they did for Black Friday, we can have cards re-release in packs, a best of, and then the new promo cards released all at the same time. There is potential for that. So that's how that could still make sense. And it couldn't maybe make sense that foot birthday would be earlier in timeframe this year because a lot of stuff has been moved up this year compared to previous years because we have a summer competition, multiple summer competitions with Copa America and the Euros coming this summer, which is going to mean a lot of content centralized around that in this game as well to take a look back at FIFA 22 and FIFA 23. The first week of foot birthday was dropped on March 4th in FIFA 22 of foot birthday with the Ronaldo, the Suarez. Remember these cards? This Suarez was unbelievable. This Ronaldo was crazy as well. This Tony Cruz. This was a really good foot birthday team but this came out early, early March, March 4th. Last year in FIFA 23, foot birthday didn't start until the end of March. So foot birthday could be any time during the month of March. That's what we're learning. And that's why there's a lot of questioning and a lot of just we're not quite sure how it's going to look between this promo or lack of a promo with just a re-release in a showdown series, kind of like we had last year where it was based off of the rivalries. And I mean, showdowns, PCs are cool. There's a lot of big games that could be released for showdowns, Liverpool and City. Although I think that game might be overlooked because we just had Liverpool with McAllister inside of a showdown. And they don't like to reuse clubs inside of showdowns that much, even though that showdown would be legitimately perfect. We got a bunch of Champions League games this next week, continuing next week as well, bunch of League games. So showdowns would make sense. Foot birthday would also make sense. That's why we're stuck in between right now. If I had to choose what I think it's going to be, in my opinion, I think it's going to be a no content week. That's just my opinion. And then next Friday, not this coming Friday, but next Friday would be the start of a birthday. But we're going to find out really soon, guys. We're going to find out really soon because leaks, right? Maybe a loading screen, but mostly leaks. We're going to figure out from guys if there is a foot birthday promo, they're going to start leaking those players. We're going to see what those cards, if there's going to be icons as well, what it's going to be about. And if there's not leaks for that, then we can probably safely assume assume something else is going to be happening. So look out for the leaks. We'll keep you guys updated, of course, with every single piece of news that comes out. We will keep you guys updated. So that's kind of the rundown on a foot birthday, the situations with the card design being added to the code. It's not in the game yet. I kept checking because it's really early. I doubt they would add it in the game, but it's in the back end of the code. And then, of course, the EA tweet hinting at some different things. So, yeah, that's the whole situation with what could become in this Friday. Let's talk about Mark a little bit because we did have UEFA Marquis matchups yesterday. And I know a lot of you guys are interested, especially if it's going to be a promo week where there might not be any new cards in packs. That gets a lot of investors, especially when you're talking about live cards really interested in investing. And last week, right around this time, which is when I was going away for holiday, is when these cards started to go up from team number one of the FC Fantasy Promo, right? Everybody remembers Polatano going from 20,000 coins to now, 55K. I sold my Polatano yesterday for 53K just to get it out and join the profits selling in the hype because upgrades for these cards are happening on Wednesday. Tomorrow, guys, is when they will be upgraded and there's going to be a whole host of cards that are going to be upgraded. But I think if you want to get in on some of the cards from team two, we have to get in here pretty soon because this was kind of the last time to buy. On the cheaper cards, I want to refresh this. Cheaper cards are the ones that are the best investment in my opinion, especially because even if you're like, Nate, I don't want to do something too risky. A lot of these you can buy, hold on to and just wait because if they get one, two, three upgrades, that just means they're going to be leveling up to a higher rating of fodder, quote, unquote, and their price will automatically jump up to that threshold per se. So I want to take a look at some of the investments here as this could be near the low point. I've picked up a couple of Pedro Poros for around 21,000 coins. He's been injured, all right? One thing I would tell you guys to do and make sure of is when you're looking to invest in these players, make sure you're using these trackers and do a little bit of research, right? Pedro Poro has been injured, but for spurs, he should be coming back for the game against Villa this weekend, which is not an easy game for sure. But after a great start with a win, with three goals scored in that first game this last weekend, which we were all excited for for team Overnor, right? If they're able to get a clean sheet in X2 games, Pedro Poro comes back from injury and he was starting before that. So he should slot right in the team or at least be a sub this weekend for sure. He would get an appearance, spurs hopefully get a win. He would get an upgrade for that. I doubt we get a clean sheet, but maybe some more goals and appearance and a win would take him to his first upgrade to go to an 88. I think he's a pretty solid investment of a card. It's all about the ones that are going to give you their best, your best bang for the buck right away are going to be the ones that have a good matchup this weekend. So I think Poro and spurs, especially if he's healthy and he plays then there's a really good chance that his card could start rising in price. It's also a prem right back. I know that he's not the most meta prem right back when you look at the stats. Like he doesn't look that crazy, but he has whip pass plus. He's got good links and everybody has Timo. And if you're running Timo, maybe you need those spurs links. This card's very, very cheap. So I don't mind that one. I also really like Le Me Lou. This card is, if you remember, he had a what if card back in the day, the what if promo. Shout out to that promo. That was a spring promo that did not hit very good, but yeah, that's one that we remember. This card is getting upgraded. He scored or assisted. I forget what it was, but he hit that threshold on the weekend. He's going to go to an 88 rated, we believe on Wednesday because again, the new informed system is 86 is get upgraded to 88. At least that's how we've seen it in team of the weeks. So this will be the true test. If he goes to an 88 rated card on Wednesday, this card is definitely going to bump up because he would then have the chance to go way high and rating with more potential upgrades. They have a really good match with this weekend. So I like his card around 22,000 coins. And then I've picked up a couple of the Dortmund left back as well. This one's a lot more risky, a lot more risky for Ian Mattson because his card is already overpriced because like this card genuinely compared it to Poro, right? It's almost the same card. He just has two play style pluses and I mean he is getting an upgrade on Wednesday. So that's something that he has. It's a little bit different compared to Poro. They already kept a clean sheet, but they have a really good match up. They're playing Werder Bremen I think this weekend. So that's why I like this card, but it is risky. This is the most risky of all the ones that I've talked about so far in the video. And then some other cards that are a lot less risky that you could buy and hold on to as long as they get one or two upgrades you're gonna end up making profit would be Kendrava. He'd be a really, really good one. This card actually looks kind of nice besides the medium, medium work rates. Like imagine Kendrava and Torino. I know they play Napoli and that's not a good match up obviously, right? That's a really, really tough opponent. But he's got power shot and incisive. Imagine he gets a plus two and goes to 90 rated. First of all, 90 rated on the market are what? 45K? 45,000 coins. He's 27K. This card would also look disgusting if he got a plus two. 90 rated, he have all 90 in pace shooting passing and dribbling stats and he would probably mid to high 70s with a four star, five star. This would be a banging card. So a little bit of a sleeper there but he's gonna have to pull out all the stops and they're gonna have to get some wins here and those upgrades probably wouldn't happen for a while. But that card I think has potentially to get upgraded for fodder. Marmoush, same thing, upgrade potential for fodder. Pascal Riau from the Women's D1 Arkema. Really good chance of a fodder upgrade here because of her playing almost every single game for her club and really good potential for a clean sheet there as well with good matchups. So I like that card for a fodder investment and I'm also, this is more long term. I'm not buying too many of the women's cards because they don't have games this weekend. Again, I'm really, really honing in on the cards that have the games this weekend because I wanna see those prices rise into the game and the hype of those potential upgrades this weekend. So I'm looking for more of a quick flip in that way than investing super long term. That's just my personal strategy with this. I do have a couple of cards stocked on my transfer list that are willing to wait like I bought a Kendraver for 26K, I'm willing to wait. But I think Medema is one. Imagine if she's able to get three upgrades, three of the four. She goes to a 93 rated card. That is a 93 rated fodder card at the very least. She would probably be 70 to 80,000 coins as one of the cheapest 93s in the game. And so maybe sometime this week, even later on in the week, I think you would wait to buy some of the women's cards, Martins, Medema, Stanway. I think I would wait on those because they don't want play for a little while yet. But those could be looks a little bit later on. I just think that after we get into today on Tuesday, after week and the rewards are paid out, I think you're gonna start to see some of these prices go up. Even Gundawan to me like, I know we have Rolfo that is out right now, but this Gundawan, this is a special version of Gundawan that upgrades for Barcelona. I know that'll have great matchups and like and all that and they're not even playing amazing right now. But the fact this card is 240K. I picked one up on bid for 220 because I thought it was too cheap and I got a little lucky with a bid anyway. But that is crazy cheap for Finesse Plus and Anticipate Plus. Gundawan's promo cards always are pretty decent. So if he gets one or two upgrades, that could easily go up as well. Again, it's all about the upgrades and it's all about specifically for the short term rise who can get a good matchup this weekend and perform well. And don't forget about team one. Team one's cards, a lot of them are still chilling in price too. Actually, Chalhana Glue is down horrendous. Probably the biggest price drop. This is what can happen to some of the cards that are more expensive. They have a lot of room to drop off. So be very careful. I've lost some coins in Chalhana Glue. As I know some of you guys have as well. So be careful with some of those. But even he could be way too low for still potential upgrades if he comes back from injury and if they are able to get, what is it? So three more goals in their last game, I think. There's upgrade potential there. So last thing I want to talk about is what's coming today. What are we going to be able to craft today using the crafting methods and everything like that? When you're opening packs, what's coming today? Well, one interesting thing is there was nothing on that EA tweet about a fantasy player SBC but we have a leak for Tadebo and he's expected to be released today. This was tweeted yesterday. Another French center back. Whoop-de-doo, we need another French center back I guess. Another leak one center back. It's probably going to be a decent SBC to be honest. I don't expect this car to be that crazy cracked but anywhere between 87 to 88 rated would be very possible. I know we had Brejorno, the Torino SBC last week so we're getting a Tadebo Nice SBC this week according to this leak. So watch out for that. Again, according to EA's wordage here they're not expecting to release any SBCs like that. We'll see if that happens. But watch out for that one. Another reason maybe to buy Le Meleu as well. Decent buy there. And also today we have the 87 plus player pick going away. 87 plus wild card versus team of your honorable mentions player pick. This is going away. Tuesdays have been like this same player pick somehow slightly updated. Maybe they make it a one of four today. I bet they're going to refresh something of this type. Imagine I don't think this is what it is. This campaign re-release. I do not believe pertains to that at all because that would be a step backwards anyway because they included team of your honorable mentions and this is not like this would fall under the upgrade category upgrade SBC category on that tweet. That's not a campaign re-release. So I don't think there's a correlation there. But who knows maybe EA are just making mistakes in this time. So I would expect this to somehow refresh today. I don't think fodder is going to move that much unless there's like a specific fodder requirement and it's an SBC that is repeatable like two three times per day. You know what I mean? Maybe 84s could go up a little bit. You might be able to lazy sell those because of the 85 plus player pick. But I'm not expecting too much fodder movement unless there's a big surprise of an SBC to be dropped today. And then of course, I mean I know we're talking about fantasy FC with the live cards there but we got road to the finals in action today as well. We've got PSG versus associate dot and then of course all of us Kimmich owners if you did the Kimmich SBC big day big day for Kimmich because if Bayern are able to come back at home and beat Lazio then they will be able to advance. It's all about the advancing whoever advances today from the second leg into the next round of Champions League into the quarterfinals will be getting the upgrade. It doesn't matter who wins. It's all about advancing guys. That's one thing to make note of if there's draws today but a team advances that still is a win or if they advance you know it's still an upgrade not a win. It's a draw not a win if they draw and they advance that is an upgrade that will be coming this Friday. So watch out for that today as well but I think that's the video for today guys. I got to catch up on some gameplay. I got to catch up on some menu crafting and maybe make a few investments as well but if you enjoyed today's video drop a thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan with the Count and I'll see you guys in the stream today. The link's down below in the description. Peace out.