 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have two very massive items to talk about today. First of all, this loading screen. Road to the final is starting on Friday. So I want to talk about that. We were expecting road to the final cards because we don't have any live cards right now. It just made sense for them to drop this promo this next week or two weeks, depending on how long it's going to actually be. But that promo is confirmed. I want to talk about that a little bit. Just what road to the final is and how it might look different this year because it's starting way later than normal. But also talk about icon swaps too. Yes, we have new packs added into the code. Talking about icon swaps or what we think will be for the icon swap pack rewards. A lot of packs that give out prime icons, prime icon moments. There's like a 92 plus mid or prime pack, a 91 plus, a 92 plus prime or icon moments pack. There's some big packs that are looking like they're going to be coming out as a part of icon swaps too. So I want to talk about all that. Of course, today's a big day for a potential player of the month, SBC, for Ben Yetter as well. But it's probably not going to be cheap because fodder right now in this game is very, very high in price. So we're going to talk about all of that today in the video. If you're hyped for icon swaps too and road to the final, hit a thumbs up on the video and subscribe if you're new. Let's talk about this loading screen first of all. And what this tells us. I mean, this isn't like a super crazy loading screen unveiling a lot of information. We have three car designs here, Champions League, Europa League and the conference league and telling us that road to the final starts on Friday. All these car designs are different. They look very similar to the ones that we had before in road to the knockouts, but they are indeed different. Right? If you take a look like to the actual road to the final car or the road to knockout car design which these are going to get confused by the way. People are going to get so confused about these different cards. But if you can kind of spot the small differences you're going to be just fine. And of course if you know it by the players, right? The players that are released out of RTTF are going to be different than road to the knockouts. So that's how you're going to be able to keep these things straight. But cards impacts this Friday, SBC's objectives. These live cards, they're always very hyped. These are going to be some of the most fun cards to trade with over the next couple of weeks. As I'm assuming that EA is going to have to come up with a new way to upgrade these. Because in the years past road to the final started in, you know, like in October or November and it included some of the group stage hype in the build up for qualifying for the knockout stage. But of course we've already had road to the knockouts. And these cards that are dropped this weekend we're going to have a brand new and different upgrade pattern because the games that have been played this last week, like the last two days of course with PSG winning and with Liverpool winning just as two examples that would have been one of the first upgrades that road to the finals in previous years received. So they're going to have to change the way they do upgrades this year for these cards. So that's going to be interesting to see how they do things since we're further along in the progression of the road to the final. So we'll be looking out for that sort of information. Of course we got the conference league and the Europa League in there as well. And I think this is perfectly timed. And I think it's going to be a two week promo. I think it is going to be two weeks because I believe that with the timing of these games the second leg for the champions the games that have been played already aren't for like three weeks. So that's a perfect time window for EA to run a two week promo with cards and packs. And then their first upgrade potential may be coming the week after or two weeks after they're out of packs. So I think that's well timed by EA and this is going to be pretty exciting. Now I will say that we don't have any leaks for this yet in terms of like players that are in there's concepts and there's you know rumors and grumblings about what players might be in but I think you're going to start to see some leaks for the road to the final team probably today. Just don't be surprised if you see some of that stuff probably in tomorrow's video we'll have some more information. I do expect maybe a loading screen today on road to the finals like updated with maybe some player stats or maybe on how they're going to get upgraded. So we'll have to see what they end up doing with that. Now the other thing that's being talked about a lot today is this and this of course is the pack code that was added last night and it has to be for icon swaps, right? If you take a look at some of these packs 92 plus prime or icon moments pack 91 plus mid or prime 92 plus prime icon pack just a prime icon pack in general there's an 89 plus prime or icon moments player these in my opinion and I think this is these are not EA adding icon SBCs or not icon upgrade packs it's way too early for these sorts of packs to be released as SBCs they're going to be through icon swaps and this really means that we are very close to icon swaps number two. Now what this also tells us is we are very close to icon moments which we knew about that but if icon swap packs are being put out into this game and we have code added for icon swaps which of course right now we don't have anything available in the game for swaps since all of that is over and done from icon swaps one I would imagine that within the next week we should be getting the actual icon swaps in this game I don't know if it's gonna be Friday I don't know if it's gonna be Monday icon swaps one earlier on in December of this last year dropped on a Wednesday so it really went random time then it dropped right before winter wildcards on a Wednesday so any day is really up for grabs here for when they're actually going to release icon swaps but Friday or Monday would probably be the two most possible dates but in the next week it would make sense now one thing that will really tell us for sure when icon swaps is starting is when they add that swaps two token to the code because of course as of right now if you go in and you look at the card types that are available to put into any SBCs there's only icon swaps one so when we start to see icon swaps two or when that's added to the database and we have some tweets about that then that's when we'll know icon swaps two is very, very close now again like I mentioned with these packs including prime icon moments I really think that icon moments could be this weekend and if it's not this weekend then it's next weekend but I'm really feeling strongly that it could be this weekend so just be again prepared on how the icon market might change because of that now one thing I'll also mention is as you see down here there's a couple very interesting packs that says guarantees an icon moments kind of VARO and there's another pack that guarantees an icon moments Gerard I think there's some other stuff that's a part of this pack I don't know what that is I guess that means it's gonna be a pack with an icon moments player I'm really not too sure how that is and if you look into the second page of this it says foot store pack 1120 icon moments kind of VARO pack and then that's all that's in it but then there's this 1121 pack which is like start your foot journey with a welcome pack offer so I don't know if this is for brand new players if they're running some sort of new pack but you have these you have this icon moments kind of VARO and icon moments Gerard pack which are very, very interesting and I think some people imagine and think that those are going to be somehow leaks or the cards that you will get as a part of icon swaps but I don't really think I've ever seen those before added as a pack so that's why I'm very curious to see as you see some of these guys here looks like we'll be getting these as swaps very soon I don't know what that is that's interesting so we'll see what it is EA will probably talk about it but one thing I'm gonna say again too is that leaks, right? We haven't had a ton of leaks recently I think the leakers are just kind of pulling back maybe a little bit and not saying everything that they see added to the game and added to the code from their leak sources but it sounds like some of these guys have icon swap rewards and if you remember from icon swaps one like the whole rewards were leaked like three or four days early so I would imagine that all the rewards for icon swaps two are gonna be leaked as well so keep an eye out for Twitter I really think Twitter is gonna be popping today on Thursday and even tomorrow on Friday with a lot of leaks as EA adds stuff into the code as we get headed towards icon swaps and the road to the final promo so that is what is going on right now with a lot of buildup with anticipation to some big things happening in this game in the next couple of days maybe the next week of course we have a set date for road to the final that's Friday, right? That's tomorrow we know that but icon swaps we don't really have a date for so that's just kind of something to kind of be aware of and again watch out for leaks because I think the market and I think leaks are gonna be very, very popping in the next day or two because of all that that is to come and those leaks are gonna be coming out but let's talk about this market, right? We did get the party bag SBC finally yesterday two days after it was added into the code and the thing about it was it was repeatable it was repeatable I only did it one time and I don't even remember who I got it was so bad but they upped the price for this one they made it 85 and 85 squad is the cost instead of just an 84 squad so it was a bit more expensive to do this but still so many people went out and did it and the pack was basically just as bad as it was before even though it included a Future Stars team two players inside of it and fodder is so incredibly inflated in price if you bought any fodder last weekend when we were talking about how low it was this stuff is literally at max price 85s are like extinct at 15,000 coins on the market on the PlayStation 86s were extinct at like 22, 23K some of them were at least 84s are like five and a half K a piece look at 88s they're approaching 40,000 coins fodder is so so high now again what I would say is I would be taking the cash on the stuff if you have not already taking the cash on it very very soon before tomorrow I would even do it after rewards today before marquee matchups probably because the longer you wait the more people are going to keep selling and undercutting as they get towards they know when fodder is going to drop with packs being open for road to the final and stuff like that so I would be selling this fodder because it is so high in price look at these 90 rated cards are almost 60K they're so high so if you bought fodder G frickin G's you are in the big money I know a lot of people made a lot of coins on fodder and that's a big GG if you did but it is a sell in my opinion with more supply coming on this weekend of course a couple other things going on with the market as well be careful with these future stars from team number two sometimes we see cards from team two like the cards from team one of future stars they rose a little bit a few of these cards rose last Friday I remember Emile Smith wrote went from like 570,000 coins up to 630 you had cards like Konate down at like 260 and he went up to like 300 and these guys are still up Chalmeny is one three wow he is up big because I think Ben Yetter is coming today we'll talk about that in just a second as well but Chalmeny is up big time he is also really rare as well but a lot of these cards are kind of up not a lot of them some of them are kind of up in price I'd be careful with future stars team two though unless you want to buy one of these for your team and you don't plan on selling it for a long time I'd be careful because I think that these might drop on the weekend because road to the final is always a very high promo and especially if we have icon moments and icon swaps coming as well whatever icon swaps comes out there is always a little bit of a dip in the market because a lot of that gameplay demand goes from people trying to run and try out players to have their best A team squad and division rivals, footchamps and stuff like that and some people just sell cards, get their coins and they go do objective gameplay to get icon swap tokens completed so usually you see a bit of a drop on the market when icon swaps is released so I would just be careful with some of these cards I know that some of them are very hype very in demand like Le Coix, Gravenbridge, Verts especially like Kakere is 193,000 coins again he is up in price as we head into Thursday today because of the Ben Yetter SBC leaks that is potentially coming out today so just be careful if you're wanting to invest in some of these but again talking about content for today on Thursday I really feel like the Ben Yetter is gonna be today the last few player of the months from the Lee Gunn have been on Thursdays there is a small chance that it could be tomorrow on Friday but as you see that Chow Many very very high in price that makes me think that Ben Yetter because some people get this inside information earlier than the grand Twitterverse does but keep an eye out for this Ben Yetter because I think he did, it is confirmed he won player of the month it's just a matter of when is his SBC dropping and I feel like that could be today but this SBC regardless is gonna be expensive but again it's for a big name player really meta in his FIFA and every FIFA ride five star weak foot four star skills high low work rates and the thing about player of the month SBCs as well is if they're out for like 20 or 30 days so even if Ben Yetter comes out as very expensive today there's gonna be a lot of people that will try to complete him over the next month basically as he is out and as he has an SBC in this game so that's gonna be a point of interest today on the market is this SBC if he does arrive again as I mentioned an updated loading screen I think during road to the knockout as well they released a loading screen that told us how the cards were gonna upgrade so again you can see the different card designs that we have in here the road to the knockouts design here has like the stadium in the background the road to the final design on the loading screen does not have the stadium the road to the knockouts UEL card doesn't have any flares on the side and then same thing with the road to the knockouts for the conference league it doesn't have those little like swirls around it so the cards are very similar and it's gonna confuse some people but that's some of the differences that you see there again another updated loading screen is what I would expect today and then other content wise I don't know about the reunion player pick last Tuesday when they released it it was you know repeatable and then you could like re-up it on a timer I did not do this one three times so I don't know if it's gonna be like repeatable again today I imagine that it might be but I'm not gonna do this one more time to find out because I'm not gonna rinse any fodder into this but maybe for you guys that have done it look and see if you've done this three times look and see if it says like another timer counting down towards today on Thursday at 6 p.m. where people will be able to do this again I feel like there's potential in that so just be careful there might be another gamble SBC they could release today as well the last thing to talk about in terms of content would be are they gonna drop more future stars tokens they've released 28 tokens so far and sometimes you know earlier on in the future star swaps program when it was getting leaked EA on their website said 28 tokens in total leaker said 30 we have all 28 tokens have been accounted for and released I believe right now in this game after they released two yesterday one of them inside of silver stars as you can see right here and the other one is inside of the brand new future stars Academy player Matias Nunez which is in like this one right here as you can see future star swap token is available in this seven in seven objective by the way this card looks pretty cracked if you wanna go and get it done it says squad battles I believe that all of these that say available to play in squad battles I think you can do it in rivals too it counts in rivals it just doesn't say that it does don't pin me on that that might be wrong but I believe that's how it's been for all these other objectives so maybe somebody who's been trying this and played some games and rivals if you've kind of semi completed any of these and have any progress on them without playing squad battles check that out I guess but that's how it's been for some of the other objectives they just don't put that or rivals parentheses in there but back to the tokens we will see if they drop two more tokens today that's what I'm really curious to see if they do drop those last two tokens because that would get us to a full 30 and you know they've done tokens before as a part of the marquee matchups which we should be getting a new set of today on this game as well so it's gonna be a very interesting Thursday I know it's rivals rewards I got D1 rewards for the second week in a row not quite elite division yet almost there not quite we're working our way through hopefully we will get there very soon and I'll get my first ever elite rewards this year so that's kind of what we're aiming for now market-wise in trading today as well you know oh we have to talk about the headliner cards man oh man was yesterday a crazy day for headliners and we can talk about market with this as well of course the big news is that EA updated Luis Diaz and technically by the books and by EA's terminology and the terms that they set out on their website Luis Diaz should not have been upgraded but they upgraded him because I think they just went through and updated Liverpool cards and they just said oh whatever we're gonna upgrade Luis Diaz as well now this card was moving like crazy earlier yesterday on the market and during the Champions League game after he had some crazy price fluctuations right when he got upgraded I bought two of them at 120k sold one for 200 sold another one for 177 and then during Champions League he went low again so I actually went out and picked up like 12 or 13 of them right around 123, 124,000 coins he is up in the 140s I'm gonna hopefully sell those on later today whatever price he wants to go through I'll probably try to get them out there but that was a crazy headliner upgrade yesterday that we were not expecting it's a W right because he's way more hype and I think linkable and usable for most people as a Liverpool player but technically still weird because it's not how it was supposed to go technically because he shouldn't have gotten his upgrade but it is what it is not that big of a deal in all honesty but again Van Dyke with the upgrade his price is down after that Salat got an upgrade as well I was able to flip one of those yesterday and I'm kind of just taking a look at his price right now where he has dropped down pretty low post upgrade he was like 1.2 million coins with the upgrade yesterday and right now he's like 1.1 so I'm kind of keeping an eye on him and just keeping an eye on other special cards in general that I think could rise today on the market after rewards taking a look at Brazilians, right? Again, a lot of people are still doing that Neymar, SBC and getting that done so I'm watching guys like Marquinhos so I'm watching some French icons some League 1 players maybe have a little bit extra of a rise today after rewards since Neymar is still kind of all the craze and all the hype right now after that SBC was released on the weekend many people are probably gonna try to get Neymar done with their rivals rewards today or maybe they're trying to get some of the icon player pick icon pack stuff done with rewards today as well that's one thing that I'll be watching out for but I don't expect a huge market crash Thursdays really aren't market crash days I think you'll see some cards rise up a bit but then we'll have to see what other sort of leaks come out that's what's gonna affect the market today the most if I'm being completely honest if there are leaks that come out for road to the final cards players that are gonna be in or content that they're gonna do that's really what I would keep an eye out for and keep watching because that I think could impact the market the most today on Thursday so that's gonna be the video for today a lot of exciting things upcoming again road to the final icon swaps too a lot to talk about with that hopefully we get some more information on both of those things today on this game or maybe on leaks as well but we'll be watching the Twitter scene because I'm sure there will be some information released there as well so if you enjoyed the video and you're hyped for all of the stuff coming up make sure to hit thumbs up on it comment down below if you do have any questions and of course subscribe if you are new it has been Nate the photo count and I will catch you guys later peace out