 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Nobody expected EA to do what they did yesterday for the start of the footballers promo. They went absolutely all out with the SBC content. I wanna talk about all the stuff we got yesterday and how it really could impact the market in terms of prices going down. We could be at the beginning of a true market crash on this game. Over the coming days, this content has potential to impact the market big time. So we'll talk about that. And of course, this promo has a good idea behind it, but there are two major problems with this footballers promo that I wanna unpack with you guys today and also look forward to what we can see today on day two of footballers. We actually already know what SBC player we're gonna get. We'll talk about that in today's video as well. So if you enjoyed the video at any time today, drop a thumbs up on it. And if you have not yet, please do consider subscribing to the channel. Let's try to just go over all of this content that we had yesterday and talk about what in the world footballers is. First of all, the main point of this whole promo is that they are giving us SBCs, the footballers, right? And they are gonna give us SBCs, which we will then take two objectives and we will complete objectives with that SBC card dropped every single day to earn an upgraded version, right? Of course, yesterday, like the loading screen we saw heading into the promo was Luis Diaz. All we have to do is do an 83 rated squad for the 86 rated Luis Diaz to get this 88 rated card. And you might be like, that's only a plus two, it's not that big of an upgrade. Take a look at his dribbling attributes and some of his upgraded player traits, 92 straight down on all the dribbling statistics. If you take a look compared to his gold card compared to this 88 rated, it's a plus 15 on balance and like plus nine reactions and composure. It's really a big boost with a kind of cool dynamic image, right? With Luis Diaz on the sideline, with the hat on and the code and stuff, manager Diaz as people are calling him. It's really an interesting upgrade and I'm super interested to see the rest of these cards as they drop. That's kind of the hype with this promo. Oh wow, they've given a dynamic image to Edison and now Jack Grealish. Like this promo is just different because it's all of the players like not even on the pitch. It's like in their warmups on the sideline and that's kind of just the different part about it. But these objectives, if they continue like this Luis Diaz, it is gonna be fun every single day to log on to this game. Look, it's set up right in front of us, the 18th today, 19th all the way to the 23rd next Thursday, we know what player SPC we are going to be getting because EA have told us on that little loading screen, on the infographic here, on the news tab, it shows you, right? You have Luis Diaz, Bamford, Kulusevsky and the Ox and you basically will do the SPC and will get that card, go into objectives and then upgrade your card via those objectives to the nice dynamic version and the better stats and all of that stuff. So, as long as it continues like it did today with Luis Diaz being pretty cheap, now of course, fodder prices are going up like crazy and we'll talk about that. But if Luis Diaz and all the rest of these guys are pretty cheap like this, it's gonna be such a W promo because it shouldn't take that much effort. Five squad battles games, scoring a finesse school guys is really not that much work for really a super cool card that is gonna be pretty meta in game with the very interesting dribbling boost that he has gotten. So, if you don't think that's really worth it, then of course, that's up to your opinion but I just think that is super cool, super grindable content that is so easy to do and you have two weeks to do it, right? The objective and the SBC are both available for two weeks long, so you have time to do it. You can also combine it with other objectives like the Saudi League objectives that we had yesterday to get extra rewards and squad battles and extra stuff done at the same time. So, there's a lot you can do right now. We're gonna get even more today. Now, more content yesterday. This was the part that kind of blew my mind, right? Think about this, you know, for example, upgrade packs like the 75 times five, the 83 double, the 82 times 20 and an 85 plus mixed campaign player pack. We got all of those yesterday. That's like a week's worth of content but wait a second, take a look at this. You can do the 83 double 20 times and then you can do it 20 times again today and tomorrow it refreshes every single day 20 times. The 82 times 20 refreshes two times every single day. The 85 plus campaign upgrade, which unfortunately does include ones to watch is the first one I did, the only one that I did. I packed Antony, little underwhelming but I saw people packing foot fantasy cards from this, team of their honorable mentions. You can do that five times a day as well and not to mention on top of all of that, we got Mid Cruyff as an icon SPC yesterday. This is on par with one of the best icon SPCs. We have had this entire year. I know it's March. I know Mid Cruyff has been available in the game since the start of the year but at two million coins, it was lower than its price on the market. It is definitely craftable. It's out for a long time. You're gonna be able to craft during birthday swaps. That is a super end game, super emotional player for a lot of people in this game and it's awesome that we got a big name icon SPC out there to craft and to work on at that interest you. So all of that content dropping on one day yesterday was just like unbelievable, right? We'd like never have that on a promo Friday. Usually we get the player SPC and it's all about what cards are in packs but yesterday it was the exact opposite, right? And that's just the whole premise of this promo but with content being as absolutely insane as it was. Looks like Cruyff has bounced back a little but he was two million coins basically flat just under 2.1. He's now back up about a hundred thousand coins but this SPC is still a good value in my opinion because he was a 2.5 million coin card before content and some of the best parts about this, I know we talk about leaks all the time and we even had some of the leaks for this promo but especially for the SPC content and the Cruyff it was so refreshing to be genuinely surprised yesterday at content with everything that was going on in this game. So that's all of the good stuff. In my opinion, there is a big problem with this promo actually there's two, right? The first one is there's no players in packs and that is the tricky situation right now where a lot of people need fodder and I mean we'll talk about that a bit more but I'm still holding some packs here and I'll talk about my methods here in a second but there are not any special cards in packs right now which is making people not want to open packs except for maybe some of these in the store the New Year Review Pack or the Premium New Year Review Pack which if I'm being completely honest guys don't touch this one. I know it's only a thousand FIFA points but we opened a bunch of these yesterday they were not good. This one at least for 2,000 FIFA points you get 30 players. This one you only get two players. I don't understand what's going on with this pack. This one if you're gonna spend FIFA points that's the one to do. It's only a thousand FIFA points more and you get 30 players instead of two. So that's kind of there. It's out for a couple more days. I do expect to see more store packs today and the provisions pack right now is actually very, very useful because common goal players are very useful for multiple of those upgrade pack SBCs and we'll talk about crafting. That's actually what I wanna talk about really quickly. It's a struggle right now to get fodder on this game. That's one of the biggest problems because a lot of people are not wanting to open packs because there's no special cards in packs which if we would have had special cards in packs with this promo, this promo would have been absolutely nuts, right? With special cards in packs, something else out there to kind of grind for and not feeling like you're missing out on something when opening packs, right? Because usually people feel like they are if there's nothing in packs besides a team of the week when they're opening them, this promo would be absolutely nuts. But one of the best ways in my opinion to get fodder on this game right now is by cleaning out your club and this is what EA wants us to do, right? This whole thing that EA is doing right now, they are so smart, they're always ahead of us, they're always one step ahead of the curve. But the premium bronze upgrade and the premium silver upgrade that are here right now, if you have unneeded bronzes and silvers in your club, specifically for myself, the silvers, do these until your club is basically dry apart from maybe a silver squad or a bronze squad that you need, get your club rinsed. Out of all this stuff, that can turn into a bunch of common golds. And from there, you can turn in those common golds to the 75 times five upgrade pack, which I think is not as amazing a value as the 83 times two, but this one does give out, it is five players and it is, it's still two squads to turn in. So you get like, it's actually like a 75 times seven because you get a 75 plus rated player from each of those. And then of course, you get some fodder, you get some rares, you get to also turn those higher rated cards into like an 82 times 20 or an 83 double. You could also put that into an 85 mixed campaign upgrade or maybe into Croy for an icon pack if you're crafting one of those. So that's kind of the basis of how you might want to start crafting right now is clean your club out of bronzes and silvers into those two upgrade packs. And then once you've cleaned the club out, bronze pack method is gonna be absolutely killing it right now or buying bronzes for 150 coins to then put into those upgrades. And if you want to just skip all of that, you can just buy gold commons and gold rares off of the market for a little bit inflated prices. I believe gold commons are about five to 600 coins. Looks like 550 right now are sitting on the market. 500 are getting sniped pretty fast. But you can tell there's gonna be so much demand for these SBCs because A, you can either save them a four foot birthday, which is definitely the next promo upcoming or you could open some of those smaller packs right now to be doing the SBCs like Croy or like the 85 plus mixed campaign. This is my rule of thumb right now. As you see, I have packs in the store. And again guys, we're talking a lot of like theory and menu stuff today, just because that's kind of the conversation of the content right now. You don't have to do it this exact same way. I'm just trying to offer you my perspective on what I think is maybe the best to do right now. I think you can do a combination of saving packs and opening packs. I am saving packs that have rating guarantees that are above 83. So 84 plus, 85 plus here, my 83 times 10s, I will be saving those. I will probably save the 82 times 20 if I get around to doing some of those as well, just because those are big packs that I might save up to try to pack promo cards from. But anything other than that, let's say Rivals Rewards later this week, Weekend League Rewards, Squad Battle Rewards, anything I get from a cup or a draft or even doing some of those smaller SBCs inside. If you're like, if you're crafting Cruyff and you, you get like a Rare Players Pack or that's probably too big of a pack. But maybe a Prime Electrum Players Pack or something from doing one of these SBCs. I'm opening those packs to at least get some gold cards back into the club because oftentimes from those, you're not packing promo cards anyway. And if you're opening tradable packs right now, it's actually a fantastic time to do that if you take a look at the price of fodder. And that's the second biggest point I wanna talk about today is the second biggest problem with this promo is it is very difficult to get fodder. Most people are in opening packs, that's why. And secondly, there's so much demand for fodder, it just keeps going up and you hate looking at the 84s and saying, wow, am I actually gonna pay 7,500 coins for an 84 rated card? And here I'm gonna tell you today that those prices are just gonna go up unless EA do something crazy. Yes, I know it's crazy and I know it kinda sucks, but fodder is the biggest part of this promo right now. But that's exactly like I said, what EA wants. They want to be draining coins off of this game with all of this content that is refreshing every single day and it's going to work, guys. I honestly think that if you're like, I'm about to do this, I'm about to go club stock some 82s, 83s and 84s so that we can do some more SBCs and so that I can do more SBCs later on this weekend because I just don't see anything apart from EA doing something wild with a tradable pack or like giving out like a 50K pack for like basically free, if you will, it's tradable. I don't see fodder being impacted negatively over the coming days because most people are just saving packs for a big promo like for birthdays upcoming because right now there's nothing going on. So fodder right now for me on some levels is an investment but on other levels it's more of like maybe just do a club stock and do what you have to do and just this is a promo where unfortunately, guys, if you don't have a lot of coins you have to be really, really careful because you can get stuck in an area here where you're doing a 50K campaign upgrade pack every other day and this type of promo drains so many coins from the market because it's a little bit here. It's a little bit there but it doesn't seem as bad or seem as much as like doing an icon upgrade pack that's 500,000 coins but if you think about it, if you do like, five of these, that's 250K plus, if you're doing a couple 83 doubles you're getting up to 50K so it adds up very quickly and you gotta make sure you have fodder because with this whole grind of the play-to-style that we see as the ban for that's gonna be coming out today, right? EA have shown us the kind of the dates on this. We're gonna get banned for today, right? One of the reasons that EA is kind of getting us sucked into this and kind of reeling us in and making us want to do this objective and complete it to its full is read the top line right here. Play-to-earn a footballer's mounts and to unlock the play-to-style plus objective containing a foot birthday team one pack as a reward this coming Friday. So if you complete all the objectives Bamford, Kulusevsky, Oxley Chamberlain, Grealish, Madhuweke and Ederson you're gonna get all those cards plus Mason mount plus an 80 plus times five and you're going to unlock another objective. That's why you can't see it right now. A play-to-style plus objective is gonna be unlocked next week that we will be able to be able to get a foot birthday team one guaranteed player from that objective. So that's where that's going on. But guys, again, right now I would seriously say club stocking the fodder is a decent place to be. I know that it's crazy expensive and it even pains me to be spending some coins right now on some of this fodder. But if you have coins available really guys I don't see this going anywhere but up. So club stocking some of the 83s try to get as close to 3,000 coins as you can. And if EA do release any tradeable pack supply over the next couple of days that could impact these cards a little bit but I doubt it would impact them enough for it really to drop their prices a lot. So that's why I'm doing this right now and just putting some of these in the club because I know that I want to do some more of these SBCs whether it's just to save the packs or whether it is just to do some of the upgrades and have some a little bit of the fun. That's why I'm stocking the fodder right now. I do think these card prices will just continue to go up as we're just going to have more SBCs each and every day on this game and more people doing those SBCs. So that's also why I'm worried about the market. There was so much content and we had to talk about it for a minute but that's why I'm worried about the market guys because you can tell that some of the market has started to drop, right? Case in point, my transfer list, I've got Upamakano. I know a lot of you guys have invested in the foot fantasy cards. I'm right there with you 730,000 coins for an Upamakano card that was 780K yesterday, right? It is painful to look at some of these price drops. Hazard is 625. This is the price that he was in packs. He went all the way up yesterday to being 700K plus before dropping off. This is how a lot of the live cards and the most recent promo cards on this game look right now, prices are going down and I want to talk about why it's these cards. The foot fantasies besides a couple of them are dropping the most and they're dropping the quickest along with someone like Road to the Finals and stuff like that. Since content yesterday, a lot of those cards are dropping the most because the investors are selling. The people that are market savvy on this game, a lot of you guys watching this video that are interested in the market more than the casual FIFA player know that this promo with all the SBC content that's gonna be dropping every single day on this game, this is the type of content that drains coins from the market at such a high rate that the market is not gonna be able to withstand the high prices that we have held since Team of the Year for very long or for much longer at all. So if I have tradable cards in my team right now, I would be careful. If you look at the rest of the market, you know, you look at like some foot fantasy cards or sorry, some future stars. If you look at Team of the Year honorable mentions or Centurion's cards, yeah, some of these guys are down but they're not down that much. I mean, look at like Fred. Fred is still 300,000 coins. Yesterday he bounced between 280, he's actually up a little bit right now. Now that could be because this is an entirely Premier League based promo. It doesn't look like we're gonna get any other leagues represented inside of this promo guys. It looks like it's just going to be Premier League, which I think is disappointing. Could they just do this footballers promo later on and continue it throughout the year with other leagues? I hope so, because this idea is really cool. And if this was going on in the background of FIFA, like all the time during the year, that'd be insane, right? That would be great. But if you take a look at some of these other cards, there's not a ton of panic on this stuff. It's more so the recent stuff. Jordi Alba is like bouncing between 90 to 95K. That's where he's been. But the investors have started selling fantasy cards, fantasy heroes and road to the finals because they know and we know that this market is not really headed into a really great spot. So I do believe you're gonna see the market continue to fall off. And you know, I'm just keeping an eye on some of these cards. I still have a lot of stuff on my transfer list. There are still opportunities to trade in this market. Cards have gone up. Some of the cards have gone up, right? Trent Centurion, who we talked about in last night's video. He has gone up in price. I'm continuing to hold this card as the investor sell. But as more people complete the Luis Diaz, as more people complete maybe Bamford today to try him out, this is just a card that I think still has potential to rise with the links. As a lot of people maybe form their teams around some of these new footballers cards. So I'm not selling everything just yet. I'm still trading a little bit. I bought this Sancho at 3.20 yesterday, right? Trading with rare cards out of packs. There is still a very viable trading method. I still have all of my fodder trading with a couple of Salahs, a Martinelli. But I'm starting to get a little bit just fearful of how this market's gonna go. And I think it will drop further today, right? I have the Mcconnells for 700K. I got the trends for 240. I picked up a Foden, I picked up a Martinelli at 3.70. Couple of Salah informs just trying to trade with them. But the way the market feels, it feels weak and it feels like prices are gonna be continuing to drop off. So be careful. That's just my words. I'm honestly a word of warning to you guys. I think some of the high tier cards too, even like this really expensive VVD, some of your cards that have been super duper expensive for a long time, I think of like Alucio. And those types of cards, I just feel like with maybe some pros starting to sell. And I mean, foot birthday is really on the horizon, guys. We know foot birthday is next week. I would be careful for some of these cards to finally start dipping down again from some of their crazy, crazy high prices. Even though this promo is based around lower priced stuff, I think a lot of your prices are gonna start to fall off in the coming days and even more today. So I know it's not looking great out there right now. I know that prices are down. I know that's kind of scary and it's not fun to talk about and look at, but it is very, very real and it's gonna continue to happen on this game, in my opinion, with the way the content is set up. Now, speaking of content, what else are we gonna be getting today? Well, we know we're getting Banford today, right? And I can even tell you, we're gonna be getting an 85 rated Banford SBC, right? It's literally right there. Now the question I have is, there are a couple of cards that were leaked that we actually have not seen yet in the game, specifically Furpo and Dan Juma and McGeady. I mean, yesterday with St. Patrick's Day EA, you fumbled the bag. It was a perfect day to drop an 80 and McGeady 5-5. They didn't, but we still have a Furpo and a Dan Juma that have not been dropped yet. Curious to see when those will be dropped and how they're gonna be introduced. Maybe they'll be just standalone players PCs. Maybe they'll be standalone objectives. I'm not entirely sure, but I would expect to see the Banford today. And since Banford is leads, maybe they would do Furpo at the same time. I'm not entirely sure, but I would expect to see him today. And of course the refresh of all of the crazy SBCs that were dropped yesterday on this game. The other kind of question that I have is, we had a lot of super low impacts that were added. Could they do a cup? Maybe we'll have another cup mode this week, which would be very appreciated from a fodder needing perspective. We need fodder really bad. So another cup giving us more fodder would be perfect. So that's just kind of the state of the game right now. I know this promo has got opinions of yes, I like it. No, I don't. This promo is a W. This promo is an L. I really think this idea is a W and EA are executing it very, very well. But without having any special cards and packs, it is kind of painful from a sense as well. I get that too. Now, one thing I will say really fast is we're again in prime time, foot fantasy upgrade potential scenarios. Look at Esauk scoring two goals and getting the win yesterday with his final second goal. He is up over 100,000 coins. I messed up big time on this card. I didn't sell it on the hype. I risked it. I panic sold after they went down 1-0 and then I only bought one on the rise back up and I sold it too early and now this guy's up big, right? Again, sell it in the hype with your live cards because yes, you might lose out on some potential profit but you can of course always buy the card when goals are scored like I did with Esauk's first goal when I bought him at 300K and sold him at 300 and I don't even know what it was like 40 something thousand coins but the other advice I will give you is this is the flip side of the coin. Tagli Fico was 78,000 coins yesterday and he dropped all the way down to, I believe it was below 60K. I think he's back up a little bit now but he was down to like 58,000 coins after being 78K and a lot of people lost coins on this card yesterday. Sell into the hype with fantasy foot cards that are playing today on Saturday even tomorrow on Sunday. You'll be glad that you did and if your player does perform enough to get an upgrade or to get multiple upgrades, just buy the card when you get a notification. If you set notifications on like SOFA score or another live score app, then go on the market and buy that card if you want to risk it then and go for that or if you just want to hold and you know the risk, then you do you. But that's just kind of the scenario with these cards right now on this game. Esauk upgrade timeframe is the question mark for right now. I really think they're gonna upgrade these guys on Wednesday. I really do. That's kind of when they upgraded them in the past so I would expect to have Esauk getting a plus two and going to a 91 on Wednesday with the new team of the week and that's a normal day to upgrade cards as well. So just so much going on in this game right now but it was absolutely unexpected how it all dropped yesterday on this game. If you are enjoying the footballers promo let me know down in the comments what you like, what you don't like and if you enjoyed this video today drop a thumbs up on it. Good luck with your foot champs games and your objective games this weekend. If you have not already hit that subscribe button and I'll see you guys again tomorrow for another upload. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. Catch you guys there. Peace out.