 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. And welcome to Future Stars. It is here today, one of the most hyped and looked forward to promos every single year as EA gives some wonder kids some really juice of cards and fee for the show off their potential in the future. So what I want to do today, we know what the leaks are. We've seen some of the leaks. We'll look through those quickly. But I want to talk about content coming in the game today, and especially in relation to how it's going to impact the market. Because the market is very, very high. Prices are up like crazy almost everywhere on the meta market. Will that be impacted by Future Stars today? That's what I want to take a look at and talk about. And also, we have the return of the Future Stars Academy objectives. We talked about those quickly yesterday. We're going to get another one of those today, I believe, as a part of our content. So a lot of talk about today, especially with the market and with team of the year ending. I finally see the number one down there. We did pack a team of the year yesterday. Finally, it took all week. So many packs, but we finally got it done. So we'll take a look at kind of an end of team of the year. Just a quick talk about that at the end of this video as well. If you're excited for Future Stars today, hit the thumbs up and, of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's quickly roll through the leaks and talk specifically about the content I'm expecting today. Now, as of right now, we have 16 Future Stars players that are leaked, including the ones on the loading screen. And one of those is not included in this leak this year. That is Adhyemi, right? So Gaby, Kalulu, Julian Alvarez, right? These are official stats as well. Gavardiol, Cherqui, Gehi. We've got Elanga, Mudrek, Vettinia, Costa, Shingo, Spence. And then yesterday, Futsheriff added a couple more leaks to our list. Kudus is getting a card inside of Future Stars, as is Garcia, a Spanish left back. And we have Sanchet, I don't know how to say his name exactly, but another Spanish player in the Liga, a striker. So some lower kind of tier cards, kind of some pack filler, if we're being honest, right? At the end there. But the hype today is really for a lot of these guys, Mudrek, Vettinia, Elanga, Cherqui, Five Star, Five Star, Gehi, Alvarez, Kalulu Gavi, and of course, Adhyemi. It's really gonna come down to the skill move and the weak foot boost that EA Sports give these cards, because the stats, they look decent. They don't look absolutely nuts, but they look really good on a lot of the cards that are the most hyped up. We could have maybe seen a little bit more of a stat boost, and maybe EA is gonna end up boosting these stats a bit more today. We'll of course have to find out the final stats that are released in game. Sometimes expected stats when they're leaked can be a little bit wrong and off the mark. So those are the cards we expect today. Now I wanna just say a quick thing. I'm not expecting all 16 cards to be in packs today. I think we're gonna have a mini release of three or four cards that will not be included today that we'll see on either Saturday or Sunday. So if you're somebody who's really looking forward to like Cherqui or Elanga, you know, usually they take one of those like middle to high tier cards and they kind of delay it to the mini release. So just be aware that maybe not all the cards we've seen in these leaks will be dropping today. Probably a couple of them will be in the mini release on the weekend. Now, speaking of content we're gonna see today though, almost every single Future Stars year, they do Future Stars Academy and we have five cards shown here on this like in game little loading screen, I guess you will. One of those is English. One of the pieces of content I expect to see today is the leaked Future Stars Academy player that we have right now and that is Anthony Gordon. And it's kind of interesting because there's gonna be another English left mid that we might see today. We'll talk about that in a second. But Anthony Gordon is leaked as a Future Stars Academy player. Hopefully he gets a really, really nice juice. Of course he just transferred to Newcastle. So this will most likely be a Newcastle card in FIFA which may add a little bit of hype to his card if you think about it. There's a few more Newcastle links like the Pope, the Showdown card, the Bruno Guimarech, I mean Alan St. Maxman as well in the same position as Gordon. But we'll have to see what this looks like but this is always an exciting time to do the objective grind because you start with a load to your card, play some games and you basically upgraded to the best version that everybody will be going after. And in the past couple of years they've done a really, really good job of this last year. We had a Shaloba card that was really hyped up and we've had some really good ones in previous years of FIFA. I think this is gonna be our guide today. In objectives, I don't know if we're gonna get any other objectives besides this today. Usually on a promo for how to start off with an objective player. So this might be our objective today but again, that's a very exciting one. And hopefully EA Sports will maybe give us some more info on what these cards are in here on the loading screen. Kind of reminds me of like the Foot Freeze promo back in the day. Remember they had like daily player species and they would update us kind of with leaks on what those players might be. So maybe they'll update this screen. We have two English flags in there, Denmark, Italy and Portugal. So who knows who's coming as a part of the Stars Academy. But it looks like one of those English flags is Anthony Gordon and I would expect to see that today. Now, one big question mark we have for today is what's gonna be our SBC? Because usually at this point in the week we have a leaked SBC as well. And as of right now, we know nothing about an SBC that would be dropping today. Could they do some sort of flashback or a moments of like a player who had a future Stars back in the day? That's obviously something we would look forward to during this promo. As of right now, we have no leaks. They could just drop a future Stars legit player in SBCs today. Whatever it may look like, I think we will get an SBC today of a player. We just don't exactly know who that's gonna be yet because there are no leaks. Hey, you know what EA? Surprise, this drop is a surprise today. Maybe one of those players that's leaked to be coming in packs will end up being the SBC today. We will have to see. But of course, that content, if we don't know too much about it now, we'll just wait and see how that it's gonna affect the game when it does drop. Now, speed of SBCs though, there is maybe an early surprise in for us today. Just as there was yesterday with the Play of the Month Soar Loth, today could be an early release for a Player of the Month Marcus Rashford. Now we talked about this SBC just a little bit before. Hopefully it's 87 rated. Hopefully they give him a four star weak foot and a nice boost in stats. They have not been giving very nice stats to Player of the Months recently. I mean, the upgrade that we got on the Soar Loth Player of the Month over his inform yesterday was literally just a plus one overall with some plus ones and plus twos. I would hate to see a Rashford today that is 86 rated and overpriced, but Player of the Months this year have really not been that great a value and the boosts besides OtaGuard, the last Premier League Player of the Month, haven't been that great either. So hopefully that changes today and we get a nice Marcus Rashford again. This SBC will probably, if it's dropping today, it could be today or next Friday, but if it is dropping today, it'll probably be dropping hours before content time. It's like middle of the day, UK time is when this SBC has usually dropped. So keep an eye out for that. That might be an early piece of SBC content that we get today. Now I said we're gonna talk a lot about the market today and that's where I want to start the conversation now because as you guys know, this team of the year has been a bit of a different one and we'll talk about that a little bit more at the end, but team of the year prices everywhere are up like crazy and of course with these cards being so expensive and a lot of people just like whatever, I'm gonna open my packs and go buy cards in the market. That's kind of the feeling, right? Because people can almost not afford some of these team of your cards with how expensive they are. They just keep going up. And I mean, to be honest, after packing one yesterday, for good reason because all of these cards that I've used in draft or now that I use in my club are just levels above the entire rest of the game in terms of how they feel in game. So it makes sense why they're expensive. They're also super rare because all of us know how tough these guys were to pack this last week. It was almost impossible to pack these guys. You had to open so many packs or just getting insanely lucky to get one. And I really don't think that any of the future stars today are gonna have a really big impact on these team of the years. I do feel like the team of the year prices are going to stay up around the same. So if you have any of these cards, maybe a drop, just a slight drop, you know, on a two or three million coin card like most of these team of the years are 100 to 200K. That's not that sizable as a drop, especially like a 100K drop on like, you know, Benzamo or Messi, that's not that big of a drop. So I don't expect really big drops on any of these cards today. And for the rest of the market, you know, that's where the question really comes in because future stars last year, and if we even look at this year's market, we're in a market right now where prices are just super duper high across the board. Look at this Benzamo Winter Wildcards. He was 1.1 million coins, even below that before team of the year started. And he's just absolutely skyrocketed in these past, this past like week and a half. The whole market has just done this. It's absolutely flying. But today brings the opportunity for some more really hyped cards that people always wanna try out because they're new and they're different. And I do believe that could impact some players on the game today. For example, let's take the Alan St. Maximum card, right? 570, 580,000 coins, you know, earlier when the team of the year Pan XL, he was like 383, even like 450K last week. And now he is almost 600,000 coins with the Mudrick card that is coming today. One of the most hyped up cards that is gonna be released inside of this promo. You've got other attacking players in this Future Stars team like Elanga. You know, we've got the Cherokee card. We don't know what alternate positions he might have. You've got the Anthony Gordon. You've got the Player of the Month Marcus Rashford. A guy like this, could he drop today? Yeah, because a guy like Mudrick would probably be a substitute, right? That's where I think you'll see the biggest movements on the market today are with the substitute and with the compliment links. And we talked about this a lot, but a substitute link is like a new Premier League left mid like this Mudrick comes into the game that has a lot of hype and really good stats or maybe better stats than Alan St. Maximon. This Alan St. Maximon might drop because of that as people sell this to go try out the new card. Now, do I think Mudrick's gonna be 500K if he has five star skills? No, he's probably gonna be more than that. I think a lot of this Future Stars team is gonna be very similar to last year where you have cards like Mudrick and Cherokee, Alvarez, Gavi, Adiyemi. Last year, the team, there were so many expensive cards, like around 750,000 coins to over 2 million coins. You had a really expensive Jude, Smith Row, Chamani, Vlahovic, and there was one more that was pretty expensive. Like, oh yeah, Ferrant Torres when he was dropped in packs, right? You had those kind of like upper echelon top to your cards. And then the rest of the team, besides Cornate, he was like 300K and in Dicca, who was like 200K, a lot of the team was less than 100,000 coins. A lot of the cards were just kind of like, not that great, didn't have that great of links, or enough hype. I see the same thing with this team. I think Kululu might be like 150K today. He's not that incredible of a card though, right? Gavardiol might be your 304,000 coin center back day one. Probably not even that much, probably gonna be cheaper than that. But, you know, the Mudrick or the Vitinha with the PSG links, right? With the Adiyemi, the Alvarez, these guys are gonna be very, very expensive today. So, the part of the market that I would be halfway worried about would be the guys like Alan St. Maximon, maybe Agabriel Jesus. Cards that are between like 500 to 1.1 mil that are primarily attackers. Maybe Usmantambele could take a hit in price today because some of the strikers that are coming out like Adiyemi. So, those substitute cards could be replaced by new Future Stars. That's where I'm a little bit the most worried about the market today, but I don't even have that really big of worries because I don't feel like today's content, unless something crazy, crazy happens. Like, there's gonna have to be some other sort of catalyst today that would make prices crash a lot. Some sort of, something that causes panic, which I don't even know what that would be, right? Last year actually, it's kind of funny that I mentioned that. Last year on this day, a Future Stars day one, there was a ton of panic selling on the PlayStation market because the servers went down and everybody started panicking and prices like died, like a couple hours before content and then they rebounded back and the market did really well yesterday, or last year, sorry, on the Future Stars team one Friday. Now, afterwards and into Future Stars team two, with all the content that came out and the leaks, stuff started to go downwards then, but for this weekend last year, the market did do very well and I really feel like it could be the same way today. I'm not expecting a pretty, like a really crazy market crash day today by any means. I think the market's gonna be pretty, I mean, not uneventful. Obviously you have new cards coming on the game, but if you have a team with cards, especially if you have any team of the years, I think the team of the honorable mentions are a really interesting look today. I really believe that they are because a lot of these cards are still gonna be pretty rare. Like, I mean, how many of you guys have packed a Harry Kane this week? Probably not too many, or how many of you have packed the, you know, Vinicius or the Valverde or the Alfonso Davies or the Cancelo, right? These guys were really tough to pack as well. I feel like they have potential to do well out of packs, at least a few of them do, especially those that link to maybe some incoming future stars. I think these cards are okay. I think the market's really gonna be pretty safe today, just apart from a couple cards that will get impacted because something else is new is coming in the game. Kind of like we talked about with the Allen St. Maxim and with the Mudrick, right? Those are the types of cards I would be a little bit worried about today. So take a look through the league's team. Take a look through cards that are coming out today. And if something in your team kind of lines up with that, then maybe be careful. I think today will be a really, really good day to make coins, though, on the meta market because, again, the market's very healthy at the moment, too. And if people are going to look to sell off a guy like Allen St. Maxim or maybe a Bernardo Silva, if they wanna go try out the Cherokee card if it drops today, you know, those coins are still gonna be on the market. People aren't losing a ton of coins. As a lot of people have bought cards for their team, way cheaper than the prices that they are now, there are still a lot of coins on this game and on this market where I think you will see prices fluctuate really well today and it'll be a great opportunity to trade, especially with the brand new Future Stars cards, as they are dropped into the game. I think these guys will fluctuate a ton and that's exactly what happened last year. I remember trading with the Chalmeni, with the Jude Bellingham and, you know, those cards are gonna have so much demand because, still, the hype today is gonna be around those brand new Future Stars players. So, I think the market should do pretty well today in the meta aspect of things. And all, for the Future Stars players as well, it all comes down to the pack weight. I don't expect the pack weight to be super duper crazy. I also don't expect a lot of saved up packs today. I know some people have been saving up packs because they felt the team of the year weight was abysmal and I understand that, but I don't think that's enough pack supply saved up today to really impact the market that much. Of course, EA will still run lightning rounds, there will probably be more store packs in the store, which I don't look at here in a second, but I don't think that these Future Stars will start crazy low and then rebound unless some crazy preview pack or something like that would drop, which preview packs we haven't heard about those in forever. So, speaking of packs though, really quick, we have some news to look at here and we actually, these packs that have been added to the code, they tell us a lot of information. First of all, three new store packs, a Future Stars foundations, essentials, and a cornerstone pack, seemingly the same words they use, they just rebrand it for every promo, right? Foundations, essentials, cornerstone's kind of a new one, but notice here, two of these packs contain Future Stars swap tokens. We've already had a pack in the store that has contained a Future Stars swap token, the 80K pack. Looks like we're getting two more. That would be three tokens in total from store packs over the Future Stars swaps campaign. That's a lot of swap tokens in a short time span in store packs. So EA's going for the bag with these and I mean, it kind of makes sense because we like to open those packs to get those swap tokens and you get some decent stuff inside of it. 10 rare golds, 86 plus, 11 rare golds, 85 plus. So all untradable items from these packs. So watch out for that. I would expect to see at least one, if not two of these store packs in the game today, maybe even more throughout this weekend. They also added a Future Stars player pack which contains one Future Stars player and it doesn't signify that it's untradable, but what I feel like this pack code might be referenced to is the swaps pack, the three token Future Stars team one pack. The only thing that pack code doesn't say also is it doesn't say that it's a team one player only. But again, today of course only one team is gonna be out. The second team will be next Friday. So I don't know if we're getting the swaps rewards today in game, obviously we have 10 tokens that have been released so far. So if we were to get the swaps rewards today, everybody could either do the three token team one player pack for Future Stars and if you have all 10 by now, you could technically go and open an 84 times 20 if that's gonna be a reward that is released. Kind of again, a sticky situation with that one. This message in game does not talk about an 84 20 but the picture that EA posted on Twitter and the website do mention it. So not sure what's going on there, but I honestly don't think that the rewards are gonna be available today for this. It could happen, but I just maybe not today, maybe a couple of days later on the weekend, maybe next Monday, who knows. I guess the potential is there but since that pack has been added to the code, all these other packs like an 85 times 10, we've already had that in the game 81 times 11. It's not like they have to add a bunch of new pack code for the swaps program. A lot of the packs we've already seen before in player picks never show up in the code because they just don't. However, that works for EA. So just that's kind of the Future Stars swaps wind up or roundup as of now. Let's talk about fodder for a second as well because you guys know fodder prices have been moving. Yesterday, we saw 86s at like 16K. They went back up to about 20,000 coins after the milestone rewards got paid out. They had a kind of a nice spike here. People got the rewards, probably went out and did some SBCs and now they're back down again in the 16, 17K range and I think they're gonna go a little bit lower today unless we get some sort of crazy SBC which is not super common on a Friday. I think all of your fodder today between even the gold rares and non-rares that are still slightly inflated in price because of upgrade packs, I think those are gonna go down with upgrade packs going away today. 84 is probably gonna drop, 85 is probably gonna drop, 86 is gonna go down a little bit as well. You know, 87s, 88s, 89s, the higher tier fodder still could drop for sure, a little bit but I don't know how crazy it's going to drop because you still have all of the big SBCs that require the higher rated squads are still going to be there. Zidane is still there for a couple more days. A lot of your icons are still there. You know, all of your big SBCs that were dropped during Team of the Year, Play of the Month and Bope is still available so your demand's probably gonna drop off a bit because people have been crafting those with the upgrade packs during Team of the Year but these card prices should maintain their elevated prices at least for a little bit longer while there's still demand for those big SBCs but I think this begins, especially late tonight or Friday. I'm talking like late, late night, maybe even early Saturday morning depending on what time zone you're in, late Friday and into Saturday. Between the next two days, today and tomorrow, fodder is going to be a buy again in my opinion because I think Future Stars as it does every year brings a lot of kind of the gamble pack type of fodder, we had that Future Stars, like Reunion Player Pick last year, we had a Future Stars SBC of some sort, like for Future Stars Player Pick or something last year as well, like maybe even a guaranteed Future Stars. There's always good content during Future Stars, Player SBCs and the gamble pack. So for that reason, I really like the 84s to the 86s because when I think of like a gamble type of pack, I think of like 84, 85, 86 rated squads with maybe some specific 84, 85, 86 requirements in there for those SBCs and maybe even some of the informs in that range as well, a lot of the higher tier informs are still up, right? You mean we bought 87 informs at 20K, I'm still holding those, I know they were 30, they're back down to 25, 26, I'm still holding for greener pastures. So I think for this stuff, if you see 84s go to like 3K today or like 85s back at like eight to 9K, that to me is like, all right, we're gonna look at some really good buying opportunities on fodder this weekend for SBCs that will come this week because even though this promo for some of you guys may be like Nate, it's cool, right? Future stars, yeah, yeah, but I'm not opening packs, they're still gonna be lining rounds, they're still gonna be packs that are sold because these are big name players of the stars of tomorrow that are gonna be in packs today. So definitely watch out for the fodder market on this game today. And of course with today happening, it's the end of team of the year. And you know, yesterday we finally hit it big hitting our team of the year pack pool. I know some of you guys have had really good pack look team of the year, wise other of you guys have had terrible pack look. Finally hit a team of the year, it was VVD. And I'm telling you guys, this card is so good. He's unbelievable, two games and also using him in draft. I know that he's just different, right? I also packed Kudo Bali yesterday. So my defense, I mean, the biggest part of my team that needed the upgrade was the defense because I was running regular Kuroba and base Desai. Now that's gotten a huge upgrade. The team looks absolutely phenomenal now and I absolutely love this VVD card, man. So so many packs throughout this past week finally paid off to get us a VVD yesterday. I'm still gonna build a few more packs today and this is a good last minute shout. If you guys want to do this, maybe some premium Premier League or LaLiga upgrades and the 78 plus triples, Gold Commons, I think are like 400 coins now on bid or maybe even 450. It's really cheap to do some upgrade packs for today. If you wanna go ahead and try to see if you can have a chance at packing any of the future stars players, that's absolutely something you can go ahead and do. But just really quick to end team of the year. I mean, team of the year was so weird. It really was like the lowest pack weight in a long time for team of the years. The stats weren't that amazing. I mean, they feel incredible in game like they should but the stat boost, we still didn't have any 99s. We had a lot of like 96s, you know, 95s, 94s. So it was just a weird one, right? We had a lot of SBC content but it wasn't all the most insane. It was a lot of just mediocre priced SBCs and okay boosts, right? With the Ramos, with the Mane, small boosts, medium prices and then of course, the big player that won the Mbappe. That's not even really a team of the year related. And then the upgrade packs were a bit of a bummer as well. Only getting eight cards instead of 12. It was just really weird of a team of the year and I think the pack weight is what really made it disappointing for a lot of people. One bright side for team of the year is that we did have a cup and we had a lot of objectives, especially the draft objectives to get some cool packs and those 85 plus attacker, the midfielder and defender packs did give us a pretty good chance of packing blues but just a really weird team of the year I think it's gonna go down in my books as so. We will have to see if future stars can continue the hype or maybe even build the hype back up. We'll have to see how good the cards are that are dropped today and of course how EA keep us hooked during this promo with SBCs and other sorts of content. So if you're excited for the promo today, once again, drop a thumbs up in the video. Comment down below what you thought about team of the year and your thoughts on what you're looking for today on Future Stars and of course, if you're new around here, hit the subscribe button. I'll see you guys on the screen today. It's been Nate, the foot account and catch you guys later. Peace.