 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. EA has one mission right now in FIFA 23 for you and me, and that is they are trying to release the content that can possibly drain our clubs and make us spend coins doing SBCs like this one to get us to spend our coins and get rid of cards in our club, basically mud our clubs before Team of the Year, which is a huge pack-based promo. Now, we talk about this a lot, but this is something that EA do and we have to just be smart. This week, we even saw it start last week with a lot of these SBCs coming out already. I think it's gonna take place again this week and maybe even to a more higher degree, right? More SBCs, more upgrade packs this coming week. We have to talk about that today because those upgrade packs could continue even today on Sunday. So I wanna take a look at that and how it's gonna impact the fodder side of the market because some of your 83s, 84s, and especially 85s once again are going up in price earlier than expected because that pack, the 100 players upgrade, dropped yesterday. Now, we also talked a lot yesterday about the market crash, right? You guys might be like, Nate, where's this market crash? I was a little surprised today to see that there was not much crashing on the market but then again, I thought about it and really, it just comes down to nobody has a reason to panic yet. I mean, where's there really some imminent fear about Team of the Year? The market's done pretty well over the past week and a half. Since prices really started to drop about 10 days ago, we really haven't seen too much of a crash since then. It's still gonna go down. I really do believe that. It's more of a when, not an if type of scenario. But until we see some sort of catalyst to make people really panic sell cards in this market, it might just be, again, the stagnant market that we've been seeing for the past couple of days. But I do wanna talk about that Golden Bopay because it's not like cards aren't dropping. They're just not dropping really fast in price and there's not a lot of panic because that Bopay is down 40,000 coins and that's a card we have to keep a close eye on with Team of the Year and his card probably being out of packs this coming Friday. So there's a lot to talk about today and of course, what to expect today. It's content on Sunday at FIFA 23. We're gonna cover all that and more. If you're excited for it, hit the thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's start by talking about the bit of a surprise yesterday and the beginning just like last week of how EA is gonna try to drain our clubs and drain our coins by having us tempted to do these upgrade packs. Now, if you don't have a lot of coins or let's say your club is in the mud, especially after last week's maybe 83 times 10 or maybe you've been crafting stuff. Yes, there is the opportunity to get some extra fodder right now, right? We've got the best week in league rewards we've ever had. We've got these cups objectives in here and plenty of other objectives like the Centurion of matches, that upgrade SPC Chase, the league SPC, extra objective packs that you get in here too. It's actually not that hard to get fodder right now. But again, EA's dropping a lot of SPCs that people are putting their fodder into and they're doing that to try to get that stuff out of your club before the big pack promo of team of the year. They do this all the time. We've talked about it before. It's something very common because they want you to feel like you need to open packs this weekend and in the next couple of weeks as team of the year is coming. And again, like I said, this 100 players pack, which I really was not expecting this yesterday. I mean, it makes sense, right? The hindsight is always 20-20. When you look back, you're like, oh yeah, that did drop a week ago on Saturday. But honestly, I thought that was a one-off SPC. Here it is again, right? It's available for six days, 83, 84, 85 squads, one team of the week required. And of course, just like last week, this made SPC fodder bounce, especially on the low tier. Take a look at 85s from about seven and a half or basically 8,000 coins, what they were earlier in the day on Saturday. They spiked to almost 10,000 coins. Now they are back down a little bit, especially your 84s and your 83s have risen as well, right? 83s all at 1.3K, 84s at 4,000 coins. And you look inside some of the prices here on these 85s, some of these guys were actually 10,000 coins, right? 9.9 to 10K is what a lot of these guys were after they were in the low to mid eighths, late Friday night, early Saturday morning. Now, we talked in yesterday's video about potentially investing in these cards in the Saturday to Sunday timeframe with the way that it looks now, a lot of these have risen up on the low tier, right? The 83s to the 85s have gone up, honestly, a bit too much for me to want to invest. Now, there are more SPCs that are incoming as well and today's content, which we'll talk about in a little bit, will really impact this side of the fodder market because if we don't get anything today, if today is a really quiet L content day, then those fodder prices, just like they did last Sunday, will probably drop off some more and will create an absolutely incredible opportunity for another short-term investment and quick flip, right? But the other side of this story is, what if EA go out and today release another icon pack? Now, this would not follow the same schedule that they did last week. Last week, we had the 88 plus mid or World Cup icon on Monday and last week on Sunday, we saw fodder prices drop back down. Remember last week, 85s like Serge Nabri went from about 8,000 coins Sunday morning because of that 80 or that 100 players pack, the same one that we had yesterday. This pack was dropped last week. These 85 rated cards went from the high 8K range down into the low to mid 7Ks and then they boomed back up on Monday with the 88 plus icon that was released when that pack was out. So that's the same scenario that we're maybe looking at this week, but again, like I said, if EA go out and drop a icon upgrade SPC or some sort of other SPC today that would be a gamble pack, right? We're talking hero player picks, icon player picks, anything along those lines. If they'd go back to back days with SPCs like that, if they're in full out, try to drain our clubs mode, that would make fodder go even higher today. So on the types of the market right now that I think are maybe still investable, I think the 86s are low enough. They're not that low, but they're low enough to maybe get a couple on bid and club stock. If you think EA is gonna drop an icon pack today, that's where I would go. If you think EA are gonna follow the same schedule as they did last week, then I would wait to buy these cards until late Sunday night tonight as people are getting their weekend rewards and putting those cards up on the market. People are finishing their games, getting tradable packs, listing the stuff up. It'd be a great time to stock then if we don't get any content today, right? It kind of seems like a 50-50 to me, but we'll see, right? EA are creatures of habit and they might be following the same schedule as last week. So I'm probably not gonna buy or invest in any fodder unless I see it go back down. I remember perfectly last week buying 85s in the low 7K range. I'm not saying they're gonna go that low today. If we don't get any content today, hopefully 85s can go back to like 7,500 coins, right? Or maybe even just below 8,000 coins will be our buy price for these before they start to go up into the week. And especially you think about high-rated fodder, right? Look at 91 de Bruins, 61,000 coins. Yeah, these guys were 67K last week on Monday. I mean, it would take a big icon SBC or a more expensive hero player pick type of option to see these cards go up. Now, if I had to guess what type of upgrade SBC we're getting next between today on Sunday or tomorrow on Monday, maybe Tuesday in the next couple of days, I do feel like it will be either another icon upgrade or a hero upgrade. Now, we have not had a hero player pick yet. If I had to choose the opportunity of an SBC to drop that would maybe create some panic and also just be like a hype upgrade pack SBC. I think a world cup hero player pick, even a player pick that's between regular heroes and world cup heroes. I don't think we've had a world cup or just a hero in general player pick yet. That would be something that would be really hyped that a lot of people would want to do and try to gamble on, right? So we had an icon player pick that was dropped two weeks ago, of course, that could also be the base icon player pick which would be a bit of an L in my opinion since base icons are just kind of behind the curve at this point. But I feel like that would be the other SBC that could potentially be dropping either today on Sunday, tomorrow on Monday, or maybe Tuesday at the latest. But again, one of those types of upgrade SBCs is gonna come so keep a close eye on the fodder market. And then, even as we look later into the week, what do we have last week, right? We had the 83 times 10 SBC. I think we will either see the return of that or an 85 times three. We also had an 82 plus upgrade that was added to the code. Maybe just like last week on Sunday, they'll drop another upgrade pack out in the game. I think since this 80 plus upgrade is kind of tied to the objective, maybe that's a little bit less likely today, but watch out for another sort of upgrade pack like that. Even if it's like a simple 83 plus double that is repeatable a couple of times, those sorts of packs right now, everybody is gonna go and do and save for a team of the year with that promo coming so soon, just honestly, five, six days from now, right? So just be careful with that stuff today and watch out for EA trying to drain coins from your club. Just be careful is what I would say. Some of those packs look really fun to do and really interesting and maybe even craftable, but especially when you get into team of the year, some of the stuff you're gonna look back and be like, man, I wish I didn't do that or I'm glad I didn't do that. So just be very careful. That's the main point of the video today is I'm just trying to warn you guys to be careful. And a lot of you guys know this and stuff, but this stuff right here, just be very careful with these gamble packs as we head into team of the year. Now, let's talk about the market because of course prices yesterday, they went down a little bit, but they didn't drop that much. Of course, I could look at this insurance team and say like, hey guys, look, prices went down. Now, this is always expected, right? Zlatan from 4.2 million coins down to three mil flat dropped literally a million coins yesterday. He was just three million coins and kind of bounced back up to about 3.3, but he didn't sell and he's kind of back down. Now, I was expecting Zlatan to be three mil tomorrow, he dropped a little bit more and a little bit faster than I honestly thought he would, but that's a big price drop off for him. Royce, 250, I sold him last night at 3.80 right after I got off the video. Verate's down over 100,000 coins. A lot of your mid to high tier players in this promo's, Salah as well, 900K, they have dropped off a lot. I think they'll drop down a little bit more today. We do have squad battle rewards today that maybe some people are playing squad battles to get some of those objectives done like for Berardi and stuff. There will be a few tradeable packs hitting the market for those today. I do expect to see these cars dropping down a bit more, but then I also think they could rebound a bit into tomorrow and Monday. So watch for low prices today. Here, we will still get landing rounds. We will still get packs in the store. That is a given on the weekend, but the rest of the market really didn't drop off too much apart from this guy. Mbappe, 770 like all day yesterday and is now kind of down at like 720,000 coins. This is not low enough in my opinion to be buying right now, but as I've said, we're keeping a close watch on this card specifically because he will be going out of packs for a team of the year as he is expected to get a team of the year that will be in packs. So I still don't think this is low enough. In my opinion, I think there's gonna be further panic later on this week, but keep a close eye on this card as that was one card that actually had a bit of a drop off yesterday. Some cards, and it's really the midfielders. I know we looked at Conte last night. Conte was way too low last night. He was a really good buy at 800K. He went back up, but a lot of your Premier League midfielders and just midfielders in general are down. I think it's a combination of the Fred, right? I overlooked that a bit in yesterday's video. Fred's price and Fred's card definitely impacting Conte a little bit too, but all midfielders in the game, specifically Prem midfielders, seemed to be down at the moment, right? We looked at the Conte yesterday, the Yaya, and then that card, Bruno Gamerich that we just looked at right there. All these Prem midfielders are down because of kind of the trifecta of midfielders that were dropped, even Virati, that trifecta of midfielders in the Centurions promo this weekend. So I think that's why some of your mid to high tier and even some of your lower tier mids are down because people want to try those cards. But in total, the rest of the market, like I said in the intro of the video, it's gonna take another sort of catalyst type situation or something else has to create panic on this game because right now just the fact that Team of the Year is coming in five days has not created enough panic on this market to make prices drop a ton, right? Really not a true market crash type situation like we have seen in previous years. Now granted, you cannot look at the market right now and say that the market is up in general because look at Mbappe, right? Literally, last weekend he was 840,000 coins and today he stands at 730. So the market is dropping but it's just not in the fashion that we usually see for a Team of the Year market crash. So you take a look at other cards in the market as well. It's not the exact same story but card prices have just slowly dropped instead of it being like a sharp drop off, right? That last weekend timeframe, Yaya was two million coins last week on the seventh and is now down to 1.7. But that's just kind of the market that we're in. We need something else to happen whether it's the end of the voting which the voting I think ends tomorrow and Monday like really late. So it's like early Tuesday when the voting ends if it's leaks that start getting stuff out there if it's a loading screen maybe on Tuesday it's really just gonna be kind of a waiting period until we see the switch flip and we see some cards dropping price. I still do believe that there will be price drops and I know and I say this and I have to mention in every video because a lot of people get in the comments they say like, you're just making this video to create a market crash. No, honestly, I mean we talked about selling cards from our teams literally a week and a half ago around even before the market started to drop off on those graphs that we were just looking at. So a lot of you guys have known that if we have tradable cards in the club it's very more risky to be holding on to them. We've been saying that literally for like a week and a half, two weeks now. So we are obviously knowing the market is headed down. We are just kind of waiting for that kind of rock bottom or timing the low, right? It's really tough to get the absolute rock bottom price on a lot of these cards. I look at Comma Vinga right now 415K for him. That's really though for a Comma Vinga card for where he has been and just I didn't really watch the market personally. I didn't trade yesterday. I try to take Saturdays as a true day off and not try to trade too much. But I just noticed yesterday that there wasn't a ton of crazy price drop offs like we originally were expecting. So we continue to wait. We continue to see what it takes to make the market really drop off because there's still gameplay demand as well. And we've seen that recently just a little bit more on this market really fast. I mean, yes, we're waiting for some sort of catalyst to cause panic, but after the winter wildcards promo the new player base of players that have been on this FIFA game since Christmas. There's a lot of new players I really do believe. I wish I could like ask EA or see the stats or something of how many new players have gotten FIFA or been playing the game since Christmas because that's when the market really started to go up and that's when the demand kind of changed. And there was a lot more demand as people get coins, buy cards for teams and stuff like that. So I think it's all those factors and just the fact that the team of the year panic is not set in yet for most people. That's why we haven't seen a market crash. So we'll keep watching the market and seeing where it goes here over the next day or two. Now, what I wanna talk about here at the end of the video is just other content that we maybe see today. There's one sole leaked SBC and it's barely even worth mentioning. Alex Fernandez has added to come as an SBC during Foot Centurions. These are his expected stats. I think it kind of reminds me of the Raul Garcia except don't slay the Raul Garcia. That man is a beast. If you've watched the streams, you know. So if that comes out, hopefully it's cheap because that should be pretty cheap. And the last thing I wanna talk about here is I wanna look up a tweet that I saw yesterday and talk to you guys about this. Deena Talley. And this idea of like Foot Hero Team of the Years has been going around on Twitter, on Instagram because I think a lot of people saw Deena Talley post this. I think chat, guys, call me chat again, man. You're not the YouTube chat. You're the YouTube comments, right? Anyways, I really feel like this is just a concept. And I think if you actually look below this tweet, this was just a concept post by somebody who was like making a cool image and saying like, wow, wouldn't it be sick if we got Team of the Year Heroes? I don't actually think that we are actually gonna get the Team of the Year Heroes, right? I saw a couple people tweeting about it. Heroes and icons both are getting Team of the Year cards. I don't, guys, be careful with the stuff that you see on the Twitter machine because this guy, this is also the same guy that said we were gonna get wins if your opponent quit on a draw in footchamps. So that obviously does not happen, but I saw Deena Talley and I saw a couple people tweeting about this Deena Talley post yesterday. I think Deena Talley just literally posts concept graphics that are maybe tweeted at him or these tagged him because at the top of this picture right here, it literally looks like two people's profile pictures that made a concept and then whipped this card up and is like, oh yeah, this would be sick, right? Well, it would be sick. And a Team of the Year Hero would be insane until we see some really concrete evidence around that. Just take that with a big time pinch of salt because it feels to me like it might not be legit, but that's just something I saw on Twitter yesterday that I wanted to bring to your guys' attention. I'm sure that you guys have been seeing that as well and been talking about it because that would be pretty sick, right? The concept is amazing, but it doesn't look super real to me. Now, we did get the mini release yesterday. We had Rafa, Coleman and Paloise and I think these guys are worth covering just for a quick second because, I mean, this Paloise card is not bad and let me talk about the showdown as well. Paloise is about what, 20,000 coins? I mean, I'm not gonna compare him to the Winter Wild Card center back that we had last year that took the game by storm, a causa, but I think this guy is actually a really solid card. Two-two is not good, but left foot is kind of nice, medium high, his pace, you definitely need a shadow, 97 strength, 90 composure, 95 aggression, decent card for 20,000 coins. That's one that you don't have to worry about losing too many coins about because he's already so cheap, so I'm a fan of that. The Rafa super sub card is exactly that, a nice super sub with 94 pace, 90 dribbling, so a nice card that if you wanna throw it in for some extra pace is a super sub late in the game. That's a cheap card there and then our other mini release card, I don't even remember who it was, Coleman mid, but if you're an Everton fan, then boom, you have a nice right back, you can try out for your team and then I wanna talk about these showdowns really fast at the end of the video. And yesterday I tweeted that, I was like, man, these are an absolute W. I think I still stand by that, but that was maybe a slight overreaction. I think it's just a W. The reason why I think that is, these are both, especially Meketarian, a very meta FIFA player, right? You guys maybe remember for birthday Meketarian and previous special cards from this guy, he's always very meta for the five-throw weak foot, finesse shot, outside foot trade. Does he definitely need a plus two to be usable? Absolutely, if Inter win this game, we're talking 80 physical, 86 passing, 86 shooting, 89 pace, 90 dribble. That looks like a really, really good card in a certain tacky mid. So if they go ahead and win this game, 60K for this card, not that bad. And then Origi, this is a dub for me. It's just a straight up fun card for like 30, 40,000 coins, one squad, five-star skills, 99 heading accuracy. Like this to me is just cool. So I'm a fan of this, GGs to EA. I love it when they make players that are not that usable, incredibly usable and like surprisingly usable with the five-star skills. And there's so much Syria hype right now in the game. I love it. So GGs to EA Sports for that showdown. Game is on Wednesday. And I honestly just saw this as well. The EA Sports Super Cup. Of course, EA's got to release a showdown for a cup that they sponsor. Of course, there's a tie there. So anyways, that is going to be the video for today. Hopefully you guys enjoy Sunday. Good luck with your Champs games, of course. If you guys enjoy the video today again, leave a like, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Foot Account. I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.