 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. It's Monday. Let's talk about this market outlook for this week. A week of no promo going on. We have some SBCs, of course. We got the coin drain before what could be foot birthday later this week. It would make sense if it was. We talked about that in yesterday's video if you want to go and check that out. But we got that coin drain SBC, so fodder is up and there was some panic selling on the market coupled with week-only sell-off and you had some interesting price movements yesterday on Sunday, but I want to take a look ahead from that and what could also happen this week. This week there's a lot of potential, you know, market movements, upgrades to the what-if cards. We have League One, Play of the Month that could be coming out. We have St. Patrick's Day. Not a lot of people are talking about that. More Champions League action and hopefully those road to the final upgrades that EA decided they're gonna do differently this time. And then of course, hopefully a loading screen and foot birthday coming this Friday because of course Friday the 19th again is the 12 year anniversary of FIFA Ultimate Team. So let's start from the top. What happened yesterday? We'll talk about this really fast because I know a lot of you guys maybe interacted with this content that was released on Sunday. We had two new icon SBCs released. I was kind of expecting this to come out at some point, right, they dropped the bronze and silver upgrades along with the 82 to 88. So this is kind of EA saying, hey, if you wanna grind this from the ground up, you can do BPM into the bronze upgrade, to the silver upgrade, get your commons, go to the 82 to 88 and then try to get high enough rated players to grind this prime icon or mid or prime icon upgrade that is repeatable. So they keep, as we go throughout the year, if you've noticed this, they keep kind of upgrading the SBCs. This is the first prime icon upgrade SBC that we have gotten. And of course, according to Footbin, price check in this 625,000 coins and that is almost how much the mid or prime costs. It's about 589 for the mid or prime repeatable upgrade. But for the one time prime, 625K, a lot of people did this SBC yesterday. I saw some really good ones. We opened a couple on stream. There were some good ones, like we got Dalglish, we got Rio, but then there were some bad ones. We got Vieri and we got Carl's Puyol on one of them too. So kind of again, the weight on these, it's definitely not a player pick and it is a lot cheaper than that. But this of course, people are just in love with SBCs, especially icon upgrade SBCs. And this is out for 13 days. So that's gonna be again, a little bit more consistent demand for SBC fodder. So if you held your stuff from where it maybe bounced up a little bit from its lowest point earlier this last week, if you held your fodder, GGs because it is again, going up a little bit higher with, you know, unless EA drops some sort of like Flash promo or St. Patrick's Day, something honest in the next day or two, I would just imagine that fodder, after squad battle rewards tonight, probably just continues to creep up as you have people crafting Messi, these other player SBCs that are out, you know, probably another Flashback player or moments something throughout the week this week, I would expect, you know, they've been putting out like Cavani, we have Joe Hart, Flashback cards. I don't know when Joe Hart goes away, probably not too far. Cruz is still out as well. He's about to expire in one day. So, you know, probably another some sort of player SBC coming out this week that you could try to craft. People might be trying to craft as well, along with these not so good value showed out cards, but that's kind of where our content was yesterday. Now, of course, 600K SBC, that is gonna cause some panic. So, we've seen a little bit of a rebound from where some of the panic was, but you guys know this, of course, this guy, Neymar is back up to 500K. When the SBC was dropped on Sunday, he went all the way down to 470 and is now bounced back up. There's a lot of stuff that took a dip and then is now coming back and that is a lot of stuff that I bought. I bought Diata at about 150K. I bought a Sancho almost at 1.1 mil. That was a nice undercut. And a lot of stuff, baby icons, out-of-packs icons, primes and moments were good fluctuations as well. I bought this Akanshi at 520K. Couple of these icons, I'm waiting for them to get a little bit more rare and then I think they will sell tonight. I bought a Benzema at 320 or 319, something like that. So I think a lot of these cards are gonna rebound up a little bit, even though there's not a lot to play for during the week, right? Some of these cards, they just got panic sold so much that that panic selling stops and they naturally just go a little bit higher because there's not people undercutting each other constantly. So there was a little bit of panic yesterday and a slight bit of rebound from that. But let's talk about what could happen this week because there's honestly a lot of small things that could happen this week that could impact the market. Starting it off today on Monday, not entirely sure what we're gonna get. Last week, of course, if you remember, was the famous day of foot player days where they dropped the loading screen one hour before it was gonna start and they said, hey, here's a pack promo. So I'm not expecting anything like that, but maybe EA and History repeat themselves this week with some sort of like St. Patrick's Day promo. And that's one thing that I wanna talk about too is we have had some sort of St. Patrick's Day content for the past couple of years in FIFA. I don't know if you guys remember in FIFA 20, we had a couple SBC sections and even like a kit, I caught him on with Keen Lone card objective. I caught him on with Best Lone, which isn't too much. But last year what we had, we had a player pick SBC for called The Boys in Green and you could choose between Aiden McGeehaney's flashback, Shane Long flashback and a Seamus Coleman flashback card item. So they didn't like have to add any pack code specifically for the, yeah, just right here, these flashback card design. Those were the ones that were dropped last year. So that was sort of like a St. Patrick's Day SBC that was put out last year. And then of course they did require Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland players last year as a part of a couple different like pack SBCs. So last year those cards actually went up. Now I'm assuming right now that a lot of that stuff is inflated on the market. I don't really mess around with, you know, the, I don't know, I don't really mess around with like investing in potential SBC stuff, but, you know, probably gold cards like this, this Coleman up a little bit right now just in case there is gonna be some St. Patrick stuff happening. I'm not entirely sure about that, but that could happen, right? I'm not expecting anything other than an SBC or two, but I think there is a possibility that EA wanted to do something they could. Now that is on Wednesday, but even before that, a couple of things that are coming this week. Of course, league one player of the month, I'm gonna pull up the webpage right now because we've talked about it a little bit. I put a TikTok out a couple days ago on the potential winners of this. I think this is gonna be coming out on Thursday. It's either gonna be on Tuesday or Thursday of this week. We have three big time nominees. Of course, the vote is now closed. You've got DePye and Bapé or Ben Yetter winning this player of the month. So it's an automatic W, honestly, because DePye, if we look at his special cards, his player of the month is probably gonna be eight, nine rated. And Bapé, of course, is gonna be a big SBC firm, Bapé, and then Ben Yetter, 88, 89, maybe 90 rated if they jump over the headliner, which I'm not sure if they'll do or not. But a big time SBC coming this week for either of these three players, I think it'll be a W. Now, of course, with player of the month, league one, it's almost like whoever is the least favorite player, like the least popular player, seems to win. But honestly, again, with this selection, it's kind of a W either way. Now, of course, we got Bulaya, three days remaining on this card. That would make me think that that SBC might come on Thursday. So this Bulaya was like the least of the one that we thought was gonna be voted in last time with like Neymar and Volland. So this time, if I had to choose, it's probably gonna be Depay or Ben Yetter based off of, you know, we looked at the stats earlier in stream and I honestly think that Ben Yetter, and Bapé has a good chance. But Ben Yetter, I think, would be like the quote unquote favorite maybe. Who knows, man, the voting for this and the fan vote, it's crazy for league one player of the month. It literally does not make sense. But regardless, all three of those players are pretty valuable. Depending on where EA price the SBC, if they make it pretty cheap, even though fodder is a bit inflated now, not crazy high, but up a little bit. That might be some sort of SBC you could craft during a foot birthday promo when that does come out through upgrade picks and packs and stuff like that. So watch out. We might have a player of the month in Bapé and a player of the month messy SBC in FIFA at the same time. How crazy would that be? The ability to craft those two cards at the same time for your team untradable for the rest of the year if you really wanted to. That's kind of insane. So that's coming this week. So maybe expect a little bit of a fodder rise if that SBC comes out and it is valuable and at a good price, good value, I guess we could say. But road to the final is another thing that's happening this week. Now, of course, we didn't get the upgrades on Friday night. We got more Champions League games on deck. You have guys that are probably gonna start investing in these road to the final cards. You know, Cancelo was down, I think around like 400K today and he's actually back up. He's back to 450. So people started buying this stuff back up again. Of course, expecting some movements this week with Champions League games slated on deck. So you got, sorry, Cancelo at 449. Now, this is like the most popular card for this week that has a game. Now yesterday in the panic selling, he went down to 420 and now he's back up to 450 which makes sense because obviously people are gonna buy this up pre-game. So definitely keep an eye on that. One thing I will say is for the teams that lose, right? We've seen it now twice with the teams that have lost in the past week. We take a look at the games that are upcoming this week. We've got City and Muchengladbach. Of course, you've got Zacaria and Cancelo, a couple of the items that are in-play there. You've got Real Madrid with the main man, Hazard as a live item. You've got Bayern Munich and Lazio, Chelsea, Atlético Madrid. Now, of course, you have the showdown matchup for Chelsea, Atlético Madrid and you have Oblocks wrote to the final. But watch, I think Zacaria is the one that I'm the most interested in or maybe even Oblock. If a card that is on the team that loses, like we had Klosterman and Griezmann from last week, those cards got sold off really quickly post-game and then they shot up because they were still decently usable cards and they really got bought up and they exploded, right? Klosterman went from, he was at 280,000 coins. He went back up to almost 400,000 coins before getting panicked, sold down today to around like 340 and he's now chilling at 350. So, keep an eye on this Zacaria card. If he starts going pretty low mid-game, I think he's like 150K right now. This guy, 140K, this guy is a pretty good-looking card. Now, of course, he does have a bit of extra hype right now because of the links to the Mbabu What If card. So if this guy gets down closer, like 100,000 coins in sell-off during the game, I feel like this card is gonna maintain some sort of value because of that Mbabu and the Akaji Strong Link City has and because he looks pretty meta and he's pretty good in game. So we might see some sort of bounce back on a card like this too, more fluctuations post-game, kind of like Klosterman. So just keep an eye on that one because I think a lot of people like that card. But speaking of more upgrades, I think those cards, Akaji, Cancelo, of course, I'm not saying that City's gonna go through, although I do think they are, but I'm not trying to like lock that in already because obviously it hasn't happened yet. But these Akaji, the Draxler, the PSG, the Dortmund cards that won from last week and then whoever wins from this week should be getting upgraded on Friday night. I know I said that last week, but I think EA, since that upgrade last time happened after just the first round, if they won that first leg in the quarterfinal or sorry, the round of 16, that they were going to get upgraded on the spot. And since EA did not do that same upgrade pattern with these cards this week or last week, because I think they were just waiting to see all the teams progress through, then they'll give the upgrades out. So it's gonna be an interesting situation this Friday night if we do have a new promo because we'll have the whole new promo, a lot of stuff going on with that. And then road to the final, Champions League and Europa League upgrades happening this Friday. So I think that's almost set in stone guaranteed. This last Friday was expected, but I guess EA had different plans. So that's kind of the road to the final upgrade situation. And then again, what if upgrades? We have a couple more of these getting upgraded. We got Ricardo Perea, because Lester had a clean sheet. So this guy is a little bit up in price. Berchiche kept a clean sheet. He's up in price a little bit right now. And then Oda Guard for Arsenal, they got their goal allotment because of a penalty that Lacazette made on my beloved Spurs. We played awful by the way. If you guys watched that game, Lamella with an absolute beauty, right? Goal of the year contender people are saying and we couldn't, we could play it off. We didn't deserve to win that game. Anyways, this guy is getting upgraded too. He was like 430K today post game with a panic selling. This card's gonna look nuts. Five star skills going to a 90 rated. I mean, his pace is shot dribbling and passing, going even higher. It's gonna be a crazy cracked out card. So that card's getting upgraded. So is Mr. Sancho, because Dortmund scored a couple goals over the weekend. Now I've got one of these that I bought at 1.1, right around 1.1 mil. And this guy is kind of weird. He just does not want to fluctuate much in price, but he doesn't have a lot of supply. So if there's not a lot of content that happens throughout the week this week, you might see these what if cards continually gradually rise up into Wednesday before they would be getting their upgrades. Now let's talk about what could happen at the end of the week, right? End of the week, foot birthday. That is kind of the quote unquote plan, or that's what seems to be the thing that would make the most sense. The content, the promo that we should see. I mean, two weeks without a promo from EA Sports seems very, very unlikely to me. So I think that we do get a promo this weekend, whether it's foot birthday or whether it's not. Foot birthday makes the most sense. And EA, just like Future Stars, EA in the past have really loved to really hype up foot birthday. So, you know, sometimes we see loading screens on like Wednesdays, that's usually a little bit early, but then Thursdays for sure, we start seeing those. You know, with Future Stars, we saw loading screens like right away outside of when Team of the Year ended. We might have a loading screen if they're really doing foot birthday. We might start seeing loading screens early and often of this week if they're really trying to pump that promo and get us excited for it. I mean, even this Tuesday, as early as Tuesday we could see a loading screen at EA really wanting to start hyping things up. So that's all I'm saying is, watch out for the loading screens this week. I feel like the market this week is probably gonna stay pretty chill. I don't think a lot of people we're gonna be doing too much in terms of like trying out that many cards, maybe a couple of the new upgrades that you see for what ifs. There'll be a little bit of price movements around those. Maybe some of the League One, Play of the Month stuff. But if there's not a lot of content this week, if EA doesn't drop anything as a surprise, I do expect that markets maybe just kind of rise in some areas. But also if we do get confirmation of foot birthday coming, I do think you will start to see more of a sell-off. You know, especially on some of these prime icon moments that are down a little bit now because of the panic today and of course weakening sell-off in general. But some of these cards, I think you'll see a little bit more sell-off on because foot birthday is known again as a very hyped up promo with really, really good content. So I think you will see a bit of sell-off when foot birthday is confirmed, if that does happen. At some point this week. So, you know, icon moments are gonna be great to trade with this week because people are still trying these cards out, right? There's a lot of cards to try. They get super rare on the market and you can get a crazy high sale at some times. And, you know, people just hype these up because they're going out and they're trying them. Especially if there's not a lot to do. Like last week, there wasn't a ton to do in the mid-week. Of course, we did have the whole player days promo, but some people got pretty bored of that. So they went out and they tried some of these. They were great to fluctuation trade with because they're still decently rare on the market. And there's a lot of them that are pretty hyped. So, people are trying them out. Now, of course, your out-of-packs, your rare special cards are gonna continue to fluctuate as well. And just, again, if you're gonna be trying and trading with stuff this week, make sure you focus on what's hot in the game, right? The what-if upgrades, those are popular. You know, some of the headliner cards that could possibly be in team of the week, like Benzema or a guy like Hyunmin Sun, who of course lost today on the potential three, if they would've won today, this would've been a card that would've gotten upgraded. Sun was down to 750 and it looks like right now he's still hanging around 800K. So a big time drop off on the Sonodo card. But yeah, right? I feel like this whole entire week, there are some things that could happen, but it just feels like another week where we are just yearning and we are wanting a promo. And hopefully EA drops that promo for full birthday. This week is an L if we don't get full birthday on Friday, in my opinion. We kind of need to EA sports, drop it, all right? It's late March. Again, it's the perfect time to drop, not late March, middle March. It's the perfect time to drop that promo later on this week. So that's where I think a lot of the attention and a lot of the focus is gonna be on. We'll see if EA switches it up at all. But again, the main thing right now about people's clubs is we're waiting for that next promo and the saved up packs. We're gonna talk a lot about those later this week. If there are some issues or not issues, but if there are some loading screens and stuff tweeted out because that would be almost guaranteed, I would say, that you're gonna have a lot of supply during that first bit of the promo this Friday, which I think there should be one. So that's kind of what we're thinking for this week's market outlook. I know I had to cover a lot of stuff. Trading this week is gonna be maybe a little bit of a grind. But again, at this stage of the game, we say it almost every single week. Bids are your best friend. You're gonna make coins off of bids. Find your rare cards that people like to try out that are rare on the market. Like Kulusevsky is one of the future stars that I like watching his price fluctuate. This Kane, I like watching his price fluctuate because he always has a little bit of demand. His card moves around a decent amount. And it's very flippable. So open bids, out-of-pack specials, out-of-packs icons, flips, SBC fodder, the what if cards. That's where I would be focusing my efforts this week unless you have a surprise for us. So that's kind of the market outlook for this week, right? We're waiting to see what that promo is gonna be on Friday. And we'll see what happens. Of course, play of the month this week can be pretty big as well, depending on how much they price that SBC at and who wins. But that's the market outlook for this week, boys, to be completely honest with you. We're kind of waiting for that Friday and to see what happens on FIFA. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. I will catch you guys later. Peace, out.