 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. With that loading screen right there, EA has confirmed that Future Stars is not the next promo coming to FC24. The promo to follow team of the year this year is Road to the Final, and we're going to break it down today. Look at that loading screen, what Road to the Final is, and a new upgrade path for cards this year along with the first leaks for cards that are coming out on Friday. So we're going to take a look at that, and of course today is the last full day of team of the year, guys. Our last chance to pack team of the years. If you haven't given up, you know, I don't know if you're close to giving up or not. I'm close, but we have one more day, so I'm going to build another set of hopefully like 40 to 50 upgrades. Send a last bit of coins to try to pack a team of the year. So all that and more in today's video, if you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's talk about yesterday's content to start things off. We had the refresh of SBCs like the 88 plus 853 attacker, right? Last chances of those SBCs to refresh to do before a team of the years go out of packs. But let's talk about the SBC player that dropped yesterday. It was William Saliba. We finally got the Saliba SBC and kind of as expected, it was freaking expensive. I mean, this is on Modric level, guys. It's probably viewed in a little bit better light as Modric because this was an actual stat upgrade compared to the Winter Wild Cards Saliba. Especially with the playstyle plus. I mean, to me, 900,000 coins for a plus one upgrade and a change of a playstyle plus is not worth the SBC. But I will say this right now, guys, this is undoubtedly going to be a really insane card in the game with the anticipate plus. He's Saliba. He's got great links plus three dribbling. I think actually makes 92 reactions and 89 composure, which is pretty nice is passing a solid. It's just expensive, man. 960K for that card is too much for me. And that's why he's got a big down vote percentage. But people know that he's going to be meta and he's going to be good. He's also got a pretty decent up vote percentage too for how expensive he is. The SBC is only out for 14 days, so you can't get it done over a long period of time. You kind of have to decide either I'm crafting it and putting all my fodder into it from the season rewards and all that. Maybe this last upgrade send like right now or soon or next week. But you don't have like 30 days or 40 days like an icon SBC to get that one done. But yeah, man, I mean, there really wasn't that much of a market impact. I think a couple of center backs from the Prem dropped down a price because it is Saliba for sure. Big name player. Again, the links are going to be great. Some people are asking me, should I upgrade Blanc to this? In my opinion, this feels like kind of more of a sideways movement in terms of like a big upgrade to Blanc. Yeah, he's got better pace. He's got the great playstyle plus. But this is a card that where two player two playstyle plus cards are starting to drop on this game. If you're spending 900,000 coins on an SBC for a card like this. I mean, you can justify it, but it just seems like that might be a card that you end up changing out of your team in like a month or maybe even less, depending on what comes out and wrote to the final what comes out and maybe future stars after wrote to the final. So that's my take on that SBC not terrible, but just overpriced, right? But that's the theme of all the team of the SBC's overpriced, especially for the players. Now we had one other SBC yesterday that was dropped yet again, another upgrade pack. I don't know if you guys have kept track, but we've had a new upgrade pack every single day of team of the year. Hope that happens today as well. Upgrade pack or player pick. FC Pro open finals upgrade. It's got a weird name and I guess it's to kind of bring some hype to the pro finals event that is going to happen on February 3rd. But what this SBC is, is an 84x4 pack and it's really easy to do. It's an 82 squad with 186 inside of it, really random. But if you get an 86, put in some 82s and 81s and you get yourself an 84x4, which for right now during team of the year is pretty nice. Now also yesterday we had a team of the week and there was a big change with this team of the week. The minimum rating for all team of the week cards now is 85, which I don't even know if EA said that or maybe I missed it inside of the new season. But I remember them saying it a couple of months ago in one of the new seasons then, that the lowest rating was going to be 83, right? I remember that. Now they've moved it up to 85 rated, which is kind of crazy because that means whenever they're requiring informs, at least in the future, SBCs. And even when we do player picks in the future for the informed team of the player pick that refreshes every week, we're going to be getting higher rated cards, which actually might be really nice, but also makes me wonder, are they going to start requiring a lot more of 85 and maybe even 86 rated squads in SBCs down the line because they're going to be giving out higher rated informs instead of like the 83s and the 84s. That's something that we'll have to wait on and see and if that happens or not, but minimum rating of 85 this team of the week, which does of course give bigger boosts to cards that are maybe getting their first inform. Some of these cards are like bronzes or I don't even know if there's any bronzes, but I know there's some silvers getting boosted up in this team of the week like plus 15. It's a pretty crazy upgrade making it a semi usable card. So that's something to kind of watch out for with the upcoming team of the weeks. One note I want to make the headliner in this team of the week is Graham Hansen. Of course, her team of the year card is also out right now. Yes, it is true guys. They are both in packs. We saw this earlier with her card earlier on this year when her 91 team of the week was in packs and then also for the best of rerelease during Black Friday Thunderstruck, the Trailblazers Hansen was released as well. Right now the team of your Hansen is still on the market, still in packs and so is the inform. They can have two different special cards in packs now in this game. The gold card is out of packs, but both of her inform and the team of the year are in packs. So you didn't miss out if you're trying to pack a team of your Hansen. You can still pack her and inform Hansen from La Liga upgrades and all the other packs that are out. So other than that, I mean a couple of decent cards in here. Like Jouf looks pretty crazy. Sorloth with Power Shot plus his first inform of the year looks nice. Loft is cheek. I mean that looks right wing backs, Cam, CDM center mid. That looks like a potential Evo card in the future. Once they start allowing us to Evo more higher rated stats like 87 rated, dribbling 85 rated card over also. I don't know just a mid team in the week, but Hansen in there is nice. And that was that was content yesterday guys. No news. I know yesterday we talked a lot about the whole messy situation and I'm not letting that get brushed under the rug too fast. Nothing was said yesterday about the 86 plus team of the year leagues player pick. It was not refreshed, but that kind of goes along with what I said in yesterday's video guys is that I don't think we are going to hear EA talk about this anytime soon. I genuinely don't. I think it's going to be probably the last thing that we heard from them on that on that. And I hope they refresh the pick today. I really hope that they do. That would be such a nice thing one last chance today at a chance at a team of the year from that player pick again, probably with the fixed odds, right? The pack weight wouldn't be the same and give out all the messies like it did a couple of days ago. But I would love that pick to refresh because it was genuinely probably our best chance for besides the store pack, our best chance of packing a team of the year. One thing I'm just noticing now is the 87 plus hero. I don't know if my timer is glitched, but it says it's refreshing in seven hours. And I think that might be because it was released at a weird time after it was glitch. We're still waiting on compensation for that as well. Wouldn't expect that anytime soon. Maybe a couple of days still could be a week. Who knows compensation stuff like that does take a little while, especially when so many people are able to do it like they did and took them an hour and a half to fix that issue last week or earlier this week. I guess it was on Sunday. Now let's talk about what's coming ahead with the loading screen. We'll talk more team of the year at the end of the video. This was the loading screen that I mean we thought there might be a loading screen yesterday. We mentioned that in the video yesterday as well and there was. I mean I'm still a little surprised though. We saw the leaks about Road to the Final as the next promo and it's confirmed. It's just a change from what EA has been doing in the past. I'm pretty sure it's been four years guys. All the way back to FIFA 19 when we had the first year of Future Stars. I don't know if you guys remember that or not. Future Stars was so hyped right after team of the year. It destroyed all the team of the year prices back then because Future Stars was such a new concept. You had crazy players that were released in Saints that boost. But that is not our promo this year and I don't know about you but especially as somebody who plays this game and kind of likes the repetitiveness of some things. We always look forward to Future Stars because it's players that you haven't used because they're so low rated like especially being a Spurs fan. I was hoping that they were going to do a pop star in Future Stars. I'm still looking forward to a card like this in a promo or whoever it is maybe for your favorite club or your favorite team. There's still Future Stars I would almost undoubtedly think in the plans for FC24 but it looks like they're just changing up the schedule a little bit. This isn't a terrible promo to change up the schedule with because Road to the Final always brings good stuff because the cards are live and that's kind of not a bad idea from EA's perspective at least in my opinion right now too is follow up a promo that has been kind of disappointing still team of the year but a little bit disappointing in terms of the content the expensive SBCs with something that gives live and upgrading cards. So on the loading screen we've got the Champions League, Women's Champions League we've got the Europa League and the conference and car designs everybody looks at these and goes Nate aren't these the same ones that were released last year? They look almost the same I mean they're probably slightly different but I think EA probably has to fit in some sort of you know specific requirements with UEFA I'm sure they have to you know get some deals in there to use their logos and all that just don't get them confused we're going to have this problem during the entire Road to the Finals promo people are going to get confused with the Road to the Knockouts car design like remember we had the Modrich we have the Saka we have the Holland right that's Road to the Knockouts Road to the Finals have kind of the stars that wrap around the edge of the car that's the official car design right there so make sure you kind of notice the difference between those two but it starts this Friday guys and again Road to the Final is just like Road to the Knockouts except it takes us from the Knockout stage we're starting in two weeks we have Champions League games we already have had women's Champions League games recently but it's starting in two weeks these games are going to start back up and they're going to be live cards to upgrade based on team performances now the upgrades are different this year from last year and I want to go through that slightly there's a couple small changes actually will I think actually turn out to upgrade more cards right you take a look at Gabriel Jesus who is a leaked card to come in this promo you have five different potential upgrades for a club that could start from winning their first Knockout game and going all the way to winning the Final these upgrades will take place over a long period of time and the last couple upgrades at the end here will not be that hype all of the hype comes in the first couple of games because they're in quick succession especially that first upgrade which will happen right as these cards go out of packs we're looking at win or draw that's the first upgrade this is a big change one of the biggest last year it was just you had to win your first game and you can see here that City they drew their first game of the Knockouts and in the second leg they won to move on right and Calvin Phillips did not get upgraded for that he stayed at 88 rated this year even if they draw the first game they will be able to get upgraded still which is a nice change more cards will get upgraded that first week because of that I'm a big fan first three upgrades are all stat boosts so you could go from an 89 rated this is a concept for the ratings I believe but an 89 rated Gabriel Jesus let's say could all go all the way to a 92 in a matter of I don't know how long that would be before you would qualify for the semi-finals probably I would imagine it would be like the end of March but that's not too bad like you think about a Gabriel Jesus that could go from an 89 to a 92 before the like before foot birthday or maybe maybe around the start of team of the year the end of March potentially would be when that would be like that's not that's not too bad right you get three plus one informs that's pretty cool and then qualifying for the final gets you a play style plus that's the only thing that I'm not super hyped about with this if this is included in the upgrade system a play style plus addition to me that means that every single card is going to be dropped in this promo is only going to have one play style guys that's honestly a little bit of a problem they just dropped a team of the years with two play style pluses even some of the team of the year honorable mentions and that's kind of where we were hoping to see the power curve progress right is more double play style cards on this game they didn't give it to all the team of the year honorable mentions they just gave it to some they give it to all the team of the years but I can't imagine that EA would drop a card with two play style pluses and then say okay maybe by this time they're going to start adding three play style pluses in the game but I'm pretty sure the Champions League final I guess that's in like what April or May so there is almost team this season time maybe they will do cards with two play style pluses and then this would be like a third play style plus and one of the first cards to get that that would be a cool twist around that time of the year but I don't know we'll have to see I'm really interested to see what the league start looking like I'm worried though that it might only be one play style plus so that's one thing to keep in mind and then if you win the final you get five star skill moves in week foot and then yet another upgrade so a potential for plus four or four in form upgrades depending on the rating of the card it could go up more than plus four if it's lower rated if they go on and win the whole Champions League so the upgrade path I like this first one this first one is going to be very hyped and these cards are going to have hype because they will get a lot more of them will get upgraded like last year you can see so many of these cards like yeah Raspidora got upgraded Malin didn't Fofana ended up getting upgraded later on Forsberg didn't that the first game like last year was such a big downer because so many of these cards and these teams drew the first game and they didn't get upgrades so that's one thing that I like about the upgrade path this year now as it was already mentioned as we mentioned Gabriel Jesus is leaked to be in this upcoming promo he had a Thunderstruck card that a lot of people like so we'll be interested to see how much of a boost they give this Gabriel Jesus a couple more leaks we have Pedri he's going to be in this promo as well of course all the big clubs are represented for these guys just like in Road to the Knockouts you've got all the top clubs that are in the competitions represented so Pedri is getting a special we just had the Gavi SBC now we're getting another Pedri I'm hoping that they make Pedri pretty boosted I mean he's got his Centurions card that was the last promo item that he has and it's 89 rated with Tiki Taka plus I need this card to have like he needs to get close to 80 or above 80 defense and they need to give him a pretty good physical boost too like at this stage of the game he's got to get a sizeable upgrade but that's a card that is coming out a lot of Barca fans will be excited for that although they're not having a great time at the moment with the team and everything there Rafael Legao is leaked to come as a Road to the Final as well these are kind of like just the first leaks these are all predicted stats for those three players he has been a promo card since the group stage but EA also kind of puts in you think about the players that are in these live card promos they try to put in some more marquee players and try to put in players that will sell packs for sure but also that just our height and pretty meta in game so he's getting a new promo card that's his third of the year I think yeah Trailblazers team the group stage and now that so another version of Rafael Legao but what's interesting is I know these are predicted stats and everything guys but as we take a look at this leak this gives us real insight into this promo because these are official cards these were leaked by UEFA they're every year the UEFA Champions League Twitter account always tweets out a headlight or a highlight of some of the cards that are coming to ultimate team soon with the new promo and I think they messed up yesterday and posted these cards a day early so maybe watch out today on their socials for them to actually post this and it actually stay there but I believe it was posted somewhere and it was deleted Javi Simons Galino and Miquel Marino guys looking at these cards I know they're from clubs that maybe you wouldn't expect to have like the biggest chance of winning Champions League but those cards do not look that great Galino with pace 74 passing though like mmm Javi Simons he looks decent I don't even know how much of an upgrade that is over his Trailblazers card but that just that looks okay unless these cards are really cheap which I can't imagine all of them are going to be really cheap because they're live like you know that Gabriel Jesus with Arsenal right they're not that's not going to be a cheap card even Pedri even Rafael that's not going to be cheap right these are live and upgrading there's a lot of hype for that the market's doing great right now with so many coins on this game team of the years or Virgil van Dyke's like 14 million coins it's ridiculous right so I don't have a ton of hype for this based off of the cards but I would love to be surprised so I'm kind of withholding my hype levels at least right now I was thinking that I might save some packs if we were actually going to get future stars I was thinking that I would maybe save some of these league specific upgrades but as I look at some of the league players right now I'm like none of them super interest me maybe if they interest you it could be a decent idea to go stock through a couple of prem or whatever league you're looking for especially if there's a league one like if a PSG player is really cracked might want to go stock up on one of those maybe some of them on the women's side as well since these packs are men and women specific for those top five leagues and then NWSL MLS maybe look into that depending on who gets leaked to be in the road to the knockouts promo if there's like a couple cards that fit that you would maybe one for your team men's women's PSG another Leon player for like Basha links or Renard links if you have their team of the year or the SBC for Basha something like that could come into play so keep an eye on the leaks keep an eye on more of those I believe they will be coming today official and probably unofficial as well so watch out for that but yeah that's kind of a promo guys I mean the upgrade path like I mentioned is a little bit better because you get more upgrades straight away but those cards are going to have to be at least they're going to be more packable than team of the years I mean that's that's no question but they're going to have to be pretty packable I think for it to be hype and he is going to have to boost those cards up a bit and also man I would love to be surprised and see two-placed out pluses on some of those I mean maybe not all of them but if EA does not start incorporating two-placed out pluses in these next couple of promos like those team years are going to stay stupid expensive and because there's going to be nothing that kind of competes with them like production wise value wise on the pitch we have more price range updates coming in pop was updated in price from 1.9 she's now like two and a half million coins if you got an Allison earlier in the week when we shouted him out on stream or think or maybe even you're in the YouTube video saying like 500k was a good price for him he's flying on the market Ruben Diaz is like four million coins now all these team years just keep flying and with the way that this promo looks they might I want to talk about the market impact for a second especially with honorable mentions because if there's anything that looks investable right now with the state of prices it's not the team of the years if you want to buy a team of the year go for it because it doesn't look like they're going to tank with this promo but what it does look like is that these cards could rise and I think today could bring a buy window if you haven't bought in on any of them to go ahead and do so I think more people are going to be interested in buying these cards today because of how that promo is looking right now I still have the Dianis I picked up at 5.30 still have the Musiala at 3.00 Kane is up a little Trent's actually down a little bit Silva's the same price Kim and Jay and Salah and Federico Bavardi and Vinny wow three mil for Vinny there's been cards that have started to take off right it's those rare ones that we kind of shouted earlier on the week and like Sunday Monday that I thought would go up like Kim and Jay Dianni Salah they have gone up a lot so with those I think you're fine to just keep holding but especially for like Trent Musiala Bernardo Silva like you look at this card with two play style pluses and you compare it to this like who's going to sell Bernardo Silva to go use this Javi Simons don't think many people will yeah he's got pace but Bernardo Silva's got two play style pluses and in 95 dribbling that's still an insane card Trent with Whip Pass Plus can play in the midfield let a Liverpool hype right now with how well they're playing as well I mean all this stuff looks like it's primed to at least rise a little bit in the next couple of days so if you're kind of get back into the more market mood I know I'm ripping more packs today one final send pack a team of the year but if you're getting into the more of the market side of things watch these cards if there's dips at rivals or at marquee matchups today could be another time to get in and then guys for the rest of the market we'll talk about fodder in a second for the rest of the market to just look around like here's a perfect example this 489 Hugo Sanchez that's mine it's on my translist right now I literally bought Hugo Sanchez 10 minutes before recording this video for 437,000 coins and I have just now listed them up at 489 to see if he will sell I hope that he does he's a rare card that has gone up a lot in the past what since Monday he's gone from 430 and he's just bounced up recently but I mean before a team of the year or during the team of the year he was 380k right he's really started to explode that shows me there's demand for a card like this and the market has coins and people are going and buying these sorts of cards trade with this stuff and I know it's like Nate dude his price is up so much don't you like not want to trade with him no it's actually the opposite you want to catch a card that is still like this card might have just had a rarity spike Adiyami has been between like 200 and 220 every day and he just went to 280 I think he's going to come back down to be like 200k again but you want to find these cards that are rare that are out of packs that have actually started to go up a little bit already in value like Laudrup great card to trade with unbelievable he's been going up really nice since last week of team of the year I bought him for 200 I think it was on Sunday or something even yesterday he was as low as 217 and as high as 232 he's up in the 235 range right now just watch the out of packs market because I think there's so many opportunities for fluctuation trading here for these cards that people want to use maybe you see a leak for a card that's going to come out maybe you see this hey Zeus you're like okay maybe some Arsenal players could move especially with Saliba some people might be crafting Rafael Lee I just watch for some of the other leaks but watch the out of packs market because it is a gem of a place right now and let's talk about fodder fodder is kind of the opposite alright I really do believe that fodder is kind of the opposite of like the meta market right now opposite in the in the fact that it's not really investable that you're going to trade with it it's just once people stop doing the upgrade pack grind and they stop doing is the SBCs as much I think this fodder is going to start to drop guys Neymar is the cheapest 89 rated card in this game 48k wow 89s are almost 50,000 coins a piece that is crazy 88s are 32,000 coins and 87s the only ones that are on the market did they update these price ranges 27k for Rolfo wow okay so I don't know if some of these cards are extinct or if they actually updated price ranges on 87s because 21k is higher than a lot of them could go before yeah I'm pretty sure they were maxed out like 18k but they're up to 24,000 coins 25k for a couple of them on the spike yesterday this is more of a sell to me anything that is 86 and above in terms of fodder is more of a sell to me than anything right now because I just think that a lot of your high rated SBC demand is going to start to tail off I think we're in the peak of a demand for the 86 pluses maybe today is a decent day to start to sell some of that off we're going to get lighting rounds this weekend for road to the finals that's going to supply the market a bit maybe they'll actually run like the 84 times 10 lighting round again it seems like they were still scared again yesterday to run the good lighting rounds and I don't think they're even going to run anything too crazy today on this game either but I think that they would be okay with supplying fodder a lot more this next week there will still be SBCs there fodder will still fluctuate if it drops a ton we can get in but for right now it feels like it's more to high point than a low point for sure now let's talk about Thursday today last day of team of the year right last day to open a pack open upgrade packs or whatever can the 30 coin pack come back one last time that'd be nice just a just a side side point there but guys last opportunity for EA to drop that three team of the year honorable mentions guaranteed pack will they drop that pack today as a last chance FOMO opportunity for people to open a pack before team of the years and honorable mentions and icons go away I feel like there's a slight chance I'm not going to say yes it seems very EA to maybe want to do that but I just don't know if they're going to do it guys because they have not like we've talked about recently this week they have not gone a hundred percent with the store like we know there's packs they could be putting out that they've been withholding and so we'll see what happens with that today but today's the last day full day at least try to pack some of these cards so good luck if you're you're grinding if you're crafting and all that I will be continuing to rip packs because I didn't pack anything yesterday man I opened the 8310 and 8320 and 8310 from the crafting objective so many of these 81 plus doubles which by the way I have been getting better fodder I will say this I'm a little bit excited to open premiums again today because I opened a La Liga premiums and I packed Oblac three times yesterday and I had not packed him at all earlier on this week so I've started rinsing in 81 plus doubles because the guaranteed rating packs seem to just maybe have a little bit more juice than some of the other ones so that's kind of what I'm rinsing through I'm still buying gold rares for 650 putting them into the La Liga and Prem premiums doing one last send and trying to finish off Davies the icon pick and that today and hopefully gonna see that blue flare man it's been escaping me and I mean yesterday I was getting tired if you guys were in the stream I was getting tired of opening these packs but today I got got a little bit more in me all right got a little bit more in me because I want to finish Davies and I just the last day of team of the year today this is the day that I packed team of your van dyke last year and I gotta at least give myself a shot you never know when it's gonna be one pack that just makes the difference why not let's rip up this is from weakening rewards last weekend 125 K yet nothing crazy maybe a double walkout but we skip anything that's not blue right now Lucy bronze tradable might as well sell that but we need that for the fodder yeah that was that was pretty mid but we'll craft that on the SBCs now there are a couple SBCs that are refreshing today like we already mentioned the hero player pick is coming back the 82 times 20 which isn't terrible couple people have mentioned me in the past day or two that they've packed good cards from the 82 20 I got a couple of double walkouts from the ones that I had opened up yesterday so make sure you're getting that done as well as it refreshes if you're still crafting and I don't know if anything else refreshes today the 86 plus upgrade really weird on the timer and on that comes back again I really hope they release the 86 plus player pick the glitched one today but yeah I don't think I have a ton of hope for that just to be completely honest but I'm gonna go buy some more gold players get the coins lower just a little bit more and if I don't pack anything today on Thursday then I might just might send the 500 K pack here in the store if legit if I don't pack a team of the year I didn't spend as much on upgrade packs as I thought that I would and you might be you might want to be in the stream Friday morning because we might be ripping a buzzer beater 500 K pack just in case because this is the pack that gives you the highest percentage chance of packing a blue so that's 500 K down the drain but I might risk it man that's how desperate we are for a team of the year right now at least for TFA so that's the video for me today guys get those qualifiers play to get ready for Weekend League make sure you got the bronze squads up when you're opening packs and I'll see you guys today in the stream if you enjoy the video drop thumbs up on a comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if you do it's been Nathan for counting see you guys in the stream today peace out