 Hey guys, it's Nate A.K. of the Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. I wanna talk about the next upcoming promo that is most likely to be happening in FIFA 21. That is this Friday, and that is winter refresh. I wanna talk through what you can expect, what you need to know, and what information do we have already, what information are we still waiting on? Because winter refresh has always been kind of like a hodge podge promo, if you will. From EA, they kind of just throw things together and call it a winter refresh. And that's kind of the promo, icon moments, icon swaps, the winter refresh player or winter ones to watches in years of past. Winter upgrades, skill move, and rating upgrades are all a part of that as well, and also transferred players, they kind of formalize their addition to those players in the game. So we'll talk about that, also talk about kind of rewards today, future stars, marking matchups, what you can kind of expect, because there's some moves I think we can make on the market today as well, kind of take a second peek at. But first, let's talk about this promo, right? Winter refresh, last year it came literally the same weekend, like two weeks after what they had run as future stars last year, it came on like February 14th. And actually, the reason why I'm putting this video out today is last year on Thursday, this is how EA released winter refresh, kind of out of nowhere, they dropped this loading screen right here with this on the screen as you entered FIFA, and they just kind of said tomorrow, right? Hashtag win refresh, and they actually gave us the players that were gonna be upgraded, and the actual new transfers, the player additions, if you will, and also the week foot or skill move upgrade. So we got some foot economist spreadsheets last year with the upgrades that they released. So obviously this last, we haven't had any information really leading up till today. The only information that we've had about winter refresh and stuff that usually comes with winter refresh is these icon moments dynamic images that were added into the code, the game code in FIFA. So these are the icon moments images on Imgur. They were uploaded all, what is it, like 99 or 100 of those icons that are gonna have a icon moments card. We should see these very soon. That's just like our only hint that winter refresh is coming as of right now. The things that we're still waiting on include stuff added to the pack code for icon swaps, or those types of things, like maybe a new couple of packs for icon swaps. Once we get the confirmation of those, then we would really think that winter refresh is coming. Now, I guess technically, they wouldn't have to run icon swaps as a part of this promo, but it would almost make sense that they would run icon swaps along with it. It just makes sense, right? We've been without icon swaps now for a couple of days. It seems like they should be starting number two or set two of those swaps, but nothing has been added yet into the game. So what else is winter refresh about? Well, last year we had this team that was added two packs, and this basically was a new version of winter ones to watch. There weren't that many big time transfers last year. There was a few, right? You had Bruno, of course, Zlatan, Ericsson, Ake, Schultz, Herrera, Van Anholt. All of these cards transferred to new clubs during the winter transfer window last year in FIFA, and EA gave them boosted up cards instead of giving them once-to-watch live items and said, here, wait for them to get in forums. They just said, here, here's an upgraded item. They were not live. I know a lot of people were wondering, do these cards get upgraded? No, it was a one-time permanent upgrade, and honestly, last year when they released this, it was kind of like EA picked out these specific cards and said, hey, there's not a lot of Bundesliga left-backs in FIFA. Let's give Schultz a card, or there's not a lot of right-wings from the Serie A or for the League One. Let's give Cornet and Chiesa a card, and especially giving Areola a card. There weren't as many goalkeepers that were French, and of course, you had the big names, Lahtan, Ericsson, and Bruno in there, so honestly, last year, this winter refresh promo, and it was funny reading some of the comments underneath these tweets, this tweet by EA Sports. People were not very happy, and the number one thing that was a big L about winter refresh last year were these player upgrades. They only upgraded the top 50 people that are the highest upgrades in FIFA. They were only doing plus three overalls and higher, so we had this Willifried NDD who got a plus three, Vardy got a plus three, Daniel James plus three. We talked about this in an earlier video specifically about winter upgrades, but I really hope that they don't do this plus three nonsense again and do plus ones and plus twos and like they used to do in FIFA 19 and earlier because that was actually pretty hype. So that's one thing that really we wouldn't see any hints for, but again, the reason why I am putting this video out for you guys today is literally last year on this day, the Thursday right before winter refresh did come on the Thursday at six PM UK, one PM, right, my time. They dropped this loading screen, they tweeted this out and they said, hey, tomorrow is winter refresh. They told us what cards they were gonna upgrade, and then of course with them putting these icon moments cards on the design, we were like, all right, we're getting icon moments and we didn't know what this was as a winter refresh card, but maybe we don't have the actual winter refresh cards this year, maybe there's some stuff that's gonna be added to the pack code, but as I'm recording this video right now, the only thing that we really know could be coming this Friday is these icon moments and the winter refresh has just always been a part of icon moments or vice versa, icon moments are part of winter refresh. That's why we're assuming winter refresh is coming this Friday. So they did a league SBC challenge update last year with this as well, and I mean this would be very hype if they did do that, but I don't think the league SBCs expire for a while, but I think 20 days or so. So that, I do think that is something that we really need is we need players in these league SBCs, please EA sports. The fact that they've only been packs this year is a big L honestly, and the packs are not as good anyway, so we do need some of those players in there, but other things that you can kind of expect for this weekend guaranteed on the market wise, if it's revolving around winter refresh, especially the icon moments, since that is something that we're kind of quote unquote looking for right now and we kind of expect, definitely keep an eye on some of the panic selling on these icon cards, because even though you probably won't see a lot of these prime icon moments when they come on the market, they're gonna be very expensive and a lot of these regular icons, the base, the mid, the prime versions are gonna get panic sold. You will see a lot of those bounce back because people will just not be able to afford the moments versions straight off the bat of a lot of these items. They're gonna be expensive and especially if they only release one batch, if they do one batch this weekend and one batch next weekend, then you're probably gonna see some players from batch one that, you know, you panic sold, saw panic sold, and they weren't even in batch one. You're waiting for them in batch two and that could mean your panic selling would rebound right back because people going by that icon back that didn't get a moments card. So that's kind of one thing to watch out for. I think you can get involved with the panic on Friday morning if you want to and specifically if they give us more information today. Hopefully today on Thursday we get more info about winter refresh and about icon moments because that's really what we need, right? And again, I keep mentioning this, but so far we really don't even have like any car designs added to the code. Usually that kind of stuff would come maybe tonight, maybe on a Thursday night, kind of late we'll see. They did update some code with the party bags we see earlier, earlier in the day, kind of like in the morning time. So that was very interesting. They did that kind of later, but when it comes to refresh as a whole and the promo and we'll round up the winter refresh talk by talking about this, again, it's just kind of all these things that are kind of just smushed together. And it's like, okay, you know, we got some winter upgrades, yes, which people aren't investing for this year because we haven't had any clues really on that. There's been a little bit of investing, but not as much. Players like Sun, players like Bruno Fernandez, they really aren't rising up as they usually or in years past would be because of the way EA did upgrades last year. There's just not as much hype and not as many people are thinking about it, but those cards could be getting upgraded. So if you wanna do some looking around, sofifid.com, I'll put the link in the description. It's a great place to do some research and looking for which types of special cards might get upgraded just based off of their plus one, plus two or plus three, and then kind of going by that criteria and seeing which cards, which card's special items could be getting boosted. So I'll put that link down below if you wanna do a little bit of research there, but we're really just looking for more information from EA, but we do expect that winter refresh promo is coming, right, and again, it was kind of an L of a promo from last year. And if they're, honestly, I guess there is just the absolute slightest of chance that there is no promo this weekend, and that would make things very interesting and I think a lot of people would be very confused, but I guess honestly from EA's standpoint, and we'll find out more today, I'm just kind of releasing my thoughts right now, I guess. If EA did not release a promo this weekend, the only thing that I could see why they did that would be because we had all of these objectives released and we still have all of these SBCs that are out right now, and they, I guess, could say in their minds, hey, people on FIFA are busy enough right now, we don't need to drop a promo this weekend or whatever. So I'm not sure if that's gonna happen or what they're gonna do this weekend as of right now. Hopefully we do get some more information because that would be very nice and very necessary, I think. There's a nice undercut here on Ruben Diaz, but let's kind of transition out of talking about the winter refresh promo. And if you guys have any questions on that, comment down below, of course, if you have any of those. It is kind of a simple promo in the sense that there's not anything like massive going on, but it's also confusing in the sense about just a lot of different parts to it. So a lot of different parts, but they're not really big parts. A lot of small things kind of add it in. So if you have any questions, of course, drop them down below. But let's talk about rewards today and about this Fofana objective because this card right here, I'm honestly thinking that this is gonna be one of the most completed objectives over the next, you know, in this FIFA, honestly. I think this objective's gonna be completed like nuts, right? French links, Premier League. A lot of people are wishing they would've given this card just a little bit more of a boost. 80 paces, of course, would've been nice. 80 passing would've looked good on the card as well. 3,500 upvotes on foot bin. I think a lot of people are doing this objective card because, again, the links, and this is the card that everybody won in from the get-go. When we had a center back that was going to be French as an SBC, we knew was coming. Everybody wanted it to be Fofana. And of course, we now are getting this card. We have three future stars objectives now. I don't think we'll get any more unless they're gonna release these after future stars is over, which wouldn't make sense. So it's honestly looking like to me, we got a striker, we got a midfielder, we got our defender, and those are our three-foot future stars Academy players, Renier, Kukarell, and Fofana. So if you're grinding these GLs, first of all, but I think Renier and Fofana are gonna be the most completed out of these three. And I think Fofana is gonna be the number one completed out of all of these anyways. And you're probably gonna see a lot of people start to work on this if you haven't done it already after this weekend league. Cause again, there's a lot of demand for this weekend league with the weekend league plus objective. And for the second time in a row, for the second time in a row, when they put out weekend league plus objectives, we have gotten a, basically an L of a team in the week, right? Bamyang, Lukaku, Yorente, and Diddy are kind of like the major guys that you wanna pack from this week's team of the week. Last time we had this out, it was an L as well. No Messi and team of the week today, no Ferlan Mendez, some people projected, and that was an L, right? So I'm honestly with the weekend that I have coming up, I'm not even possibly looking at playing footchamps. And it's gonna be sweaty out there, but honestly not for good reason because you're probably just gonna be filling your club with extra red picks. I guess if you got the time and you usually play weekend league, go for it. Maybe go to 17 wins instead of 14 and get that extra player pick. And maybe you can do a footchamps upgrade with that player pick or whatever, but it doesn't really look super worth the grind to me, honestly. Now, I wanna talk about a couple things that could also happen today on Thursday. We had the El Shirawi, SBC fodder is dropping big time. It's dropping a lot actually because of UCL Marquis matchups that we had yesterday on Wednesday, right? We are gonna be getting regular Marquis matchups released today on Thursday, which will be more supply for this market. And of course, with rewards coming in a few hours as well, SBC fodder in my opinion is gonna be a major, major look for today. Whether you're buying it during rewards for a bounce afterwards, then you might see it dip a little bit again. Specifically during rewards, I think this stuff's gonna look really, really good. You can see that SBCs have dropped a lot of price. Take a look at El Shirawi. He's 230,000 coins to complete. He was 290 yesterday when he came out. This guy's down 60,000 coins. That's how cheap fodder is right now. A lot of this stuff has dropped off. It's gonna drop a little bit more into rewards. And then I think it bounces back because the second party bag SBC could be coming out today. And I think people are gonna invest for one expecting that SBC to come out today since the first one's gonna be expiring. And the last time when they released those double 85s during the first week of Future Stars, and during Team of the Year, I think they released 85 plus as well or no, that was not Team of the Year. That was during Future Stars set one. They released them on Monday and I think on Thursday. So they did the double. And also during Headliners, they did a double as well party bag. So I think we're expecting another party bag today. That would be the most logical thing that we would expect to see. Most likely not a player SBC, but maybe EA would drop one more. All I'm saying is watch fodder during rewards. It should drop and then rebound nicely after that. And that could be a nice pickup. Either if you want to do the SBC for cheaper or if you wanna make some coins, look at the fodder that goes nuts every single time. Like we were looking on stream today about like Suley, a Cherby, some of these centerbacks, right? Centerbacks go absolutely crazy on fodder this year for the SBCs that require links. This Suley was down to 14,000 coins today. Looks like he's almost back there again. Yeah, he's back to 14,000 coins. This guy was 25K earlier this week because of the party bag SBC. 25K, he's down 10,000 coins a card. Get on the bids during rewards if you're awake. This is mad money. Even if you're buying like an hour or two after rewards, it's literally just gonna keep going up. It's gonna keep going up because people are gonna invest in it number one. And two, people are gonna be finishing off SBCs or C that fodder is low and start to do SBCs after they get cards and coins from Weekend League Rewards. So big time fodder movements, I think, on the market today and also with future stars players, right? We saw how much they dropped today with some supply. Some of them have kind of rebounded back a little bit but cards like this new house man, this guy was 200,000 coins earlier, I think on Monday and right now he is 150K. This is a Hulet gang, center midfielder German Lynx in the Bundesliga. Pretty solid Lynx, really good looking card and he's 150K, that's crazy. I do think some of these future stars are gonna get low during rewards and then bounce back. The meta ones for sure, Reese James, Bastoni, Tapsova, Ruben Diaz, Reina, Antony as well. I think these cards are gonna continue to bouncing around, they're gonna rise after rewards for sure. Kind of like how we expect the team of the week to fluctuate being packed and then rising later. I think you'll see that with these future stars today as well. You will see them bounce back nicely. Now you also might see them dip a little bit after 6 p.m. content with Marquis matchups coming out. So some of the cards that are more rare like an Antony or like a Georena who's very high rated, you might see them get their lowest during rewards, rebound a little bit and then drop a little bit again as we head into the Marquis matchups time period but you also might see some cards get low, rebound and then get down to the same exact point they were because of that Marquis matchup supply, especially some of the lower rated ones that get packed a lot like Linus, Daloh, Oscar and Astubinan. You might see those guys get packed a little bit more during Marquis matchups and their prices stay kind of low. And then same thing with the team of the week, right? I know last week everybody watched Sterling go from 415K to 520K after rewards keep like if there's a card that's going to do that this week it is either a Bomb Yang or your Rente, right? Those are like the two most premier cards in the team of the week this week. So keep an eye on those two. Those two are what I feel like the only chance at making a big time rebound after the awards because those are the only two like desirable players in my mind that are in this team of the week. So definitely watch out for those kind of market movements today. The party bag SBC would be one other thing I guess that we would be expecting but with weak and league rewards the weak and league of plus objectives adding extra demand. I do have plenty of Thursday flips. I'm basically broke, right? I have 18,000 coins. I got all my coins and flips about 2.3 million coins and flips right here. And we're gonna try to make some coins, right? We're gonna try to see this market rise. Hopefully it does. People buy some teams and hopefully we get some information about winter refresh today. Hopefully a loading screen, stuff like that because a lot of us are wanting icon swaps. A lot of us are just wanting something else, right? Because this future stars is coming to a close and we're just kind of curious to see what's next. EA kind of have us on this spin cycle of promos. They've got us used to expecting stuff every single week. So we will have to see what they drop this week on Friday. Winter refresh seems to be that promo but we will see hopefully we get some information from EA Sports today. If you like this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have questions and of course subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate The Foot Account and I will catch you guys later. Peace out.