 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Of course, we're in January now in 2024, and with it being January, there's one promo that comes to mind. Arguably one of the biggest promos we see of the entire year of Ultimate Team, and that is Team of the Year. And guys, for the first time, we have news and leaks about what Team of the Year might look like, the biggest team of the year ever. Yeah, potentially might be coming to this game. So we have to talk about that, and we actually got some news from EA. It seems like EA woke up a little bit from the holiday days off. They actually had to just take an SBC off the game if you're wondering about the Team League upgrade. We're going to talk about that. There's a compensation situation coming there, and more content today on Wednesday. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's look over yesterday's content to start off with things, and it's not going to take very long to look at this, because there was only one SBC yesterday, and that was basically the entirety of content. The Roy Keane continued the streak of SBCs that was just not well received for the price, for the card, the upgrade, medium-high work grades, three-star, three-star on a right-footed left back. Yes, you can also play center mid and left mid, but honestly, you don't even have to look at the price of this card. Just look at the card itself. Unless you're a Manchester United fan, you really want to get Roy Keane done. It's just not great, man. Once again, we are unhappy with the player SBC that was released. So, again, the streak continues to another just average player SBC below average, honestly. I don't think a lot of people are getting that one done for the stats. Unless you're going to put them into an icon evolution, which there were some people talking about, seems a little early for an icon EVO, but there were a couple of movements on the market yesterday. So, watch out for leaks, watch out for some news. Yesterday, I think there was a couple icons that went from, like, mid-price and spiked. Now, they're back down to mid-price. So, hey, I don't know, man, see suspect stuff like that on the market? You never know what's going on, but that's SBC is out for a long time. So, you'll be able to do it if there is an EVO and then put them in. So, anyways, that was the biggest news of content yesterday. Now, the bigger news actually came later, a couple hours ago, late here in the late night, Tuesday night into Wednesday hours. EA has actually removed the team of the week player pick for a glitch, a compensation situation where it was giving out only gold cards. It looked like it happened to a lot of people. I had a bunch of people tweeting me, Nate, I'm only getting gold cards from this SBC and literally not even an hour after the issue was first tweeted out. Like, Footshare have tweeted it out at 9 p.m. my time and it was taken down at 9.40 p.m. So, obviously, EA was on this. They took the SBC down because of giving out the gold cards, right? And they said that they will be refunding players. They'll retain their progress once the SBC returns and players who received incorrect player items, a.k.a. golds, will be messaged in-game with the correct player items in the coming days. They'll probably give you a compensation player pick is what it sounds like to me. So, that is why the player pick is not there, which is very unfortunate and it hurts crafting. And it actually might be the cause as to why some team of the week prices are going back up a little bit on the market right now for, I don't know how long this SBC is going to be down, but I think that is a bit of the cause. I think team of the weeks are still $32,000, $33,000 coins, which in my opinion is too expensive. With the SBCs that we have out right now, I'm not sure how these are still holding a $33k price. I feel like they should be lower, but I do believe that, I don't know, maybe there's a leak that people know of something that's coming today as an SBC or something like that. I'm not liking the team leak investment, but that is that situation there. If you don't see the team leak player pick, that is why it was messed up. EA took the SBC down. Hopefully it comes back soon. We need that SBC out. The longer that SBC goes or is away, and if we start getting more SBCs that require team of the weeks, that could mean that team leaks on the market go up because there's really no other way to get them except for buying them if that player pick is not there. But the reason I think EA took it down so fast is because it is such a massively important SBC to this game for basically everybody that doesn't want to spend $33,000 coins or more on a team of the weak card. Now also recently, guys, this is why I said in the intro, sounds like EA got back to work. The holidays must be over for them because Basha got upgraded, Guiharo got upgraded, these RTTK cards that were due. The upgrades finally got them, so Basha has reached her final form as a 90 rated card. Guiharo is up to 91. I just checked her card on the market. I believe her price has gone up a little bit as well. She was like $400,000 coins. Now I think she's up to like $420,000, $430,000 coins because of that one. Still actually waiting on upgrades that are due for Alfonso Davies and Gerd Muller, though. Alfonso Davies should be an 87 rated thundershot card. There was a mistake with it wasn't the next four matches for Bayern because they had one that was postponed and technically he should be an 87 because he did achieve in four league matches that were played, that win that he needed to get the upgrade, same for Gerd Muller. So I don't know what's going on there, but that is not, he has not been upgraded. So that was that and then also EA updated their website. Remember the tweets we usually have on Mondays, the This Week in Ultimate Team. This is straight off of EA's website, the Ultimate Team Hub. This is the This Week in Ultimate Team tweet, which is a little confusing to me because some of these things we've already had. The Winter Wild Cards Cup, we had that last week. Now we have the draft objective, right? Of course we have our daily Winter Wild Card SBCs, upgrade SBCs, challenge SBCs, like the new evos. Technically would the evo on Monday count for this? I think so. But there's our questioning, LaLiga Player of the Month. We wondered where this was going to be. I believe this SBC will drop on Friday. LaLiga Player of the Months almost always do. And then the Flashback SBC Player, guys, is also a part of content coming the next week. If I had to guess, I think they might be on Friday because we're getting daily player SBCs up until Friday with the new promo Fire vs Ice. It sounds like this could be our SBCs coming to the Friday or on the weekend at some point. So watch out for leaks because we haven't seen any Flashback leaks, but there have been a few players that have retired. Maybe, I don't know, maybe a Flashback, Ugo, your Reast or something, you know, moving on from Spurs to LAFC. That's just a Spurs fan's take. But watch out for leaks on that because that could be pretty interesting. Now, let's get to the big news, okay? The big news is we're talking about Team of the Year because, yes, it is January and when you start to think about Team of the Year and you think about Market Crash, you think about insane content, you think about cards that are tough to pack, but worth sending your account for type of cards because they're so insane. And once again, I think Team of the Year this year is going to be crazy. I always go for it with the content and the SBCs. It's like Winter Wild Cards and then Team of the Year are just two promos in the same like one month time span that are super duper insane. This year, Winter Wild Cards, maybe not as insane, but Team of the Year never gets a point. That's why there's Hype Building. And there's going to be Hype this year because we are getting two full teams of Team of the Year players. This is the leak that started everything off yesterday, a foot share of saying there will be two full teams, one men's team and one women's team. I'm guessing we will vote on both as well. Not entirely sure how that's going to work or how it's going to happen, but there will be two full teams of Team of the Year. He says 24 Team of the Year cards, which if I have to actually think about it, it might not be 24. Maybe it's 22, maybe it's 23. Is there a 12th man voting for the men and the women? Maybe. So anywhere between 22 to 24 cards, I could see happening for the actual Team of the Year release, but it's like, okay, sweet, Team of the Year cards, 24. They're going to be easier to pack, right? More chance to pack them. Guys, they're going to be difficult to pack. Team of the Years are always hard to pack, but again, that's why it's worth sending, right? That's why people save packs for Team of the Year and save up fodder and save up everything for Team of the Year to open because those cards are cards that take your account to the next level. They're all insane to pack. That's the whole point of Team of the Year, right? And this year I think they're going to make Team of the Year more desirable because right now all cards in this game only have one playstyle plus as their maximum, and EA had said that this year there will be the opportunity to get up to three playstyle pluses. Yes, up to three playstyle pluses on one card and Team of the Year cards, in my opinion, will be the first. We've been talking about this for like a month now, at least a couple of weeks in the streams. We believe that Team of the Year cards will be the first cards with two playstyle pluses showing on the front of the card, which will make them super duper insane and super duper in demand as well. So that's the first leak. But we have some more news, right? From a very reliable leaker as well. Run the icon market. He's leaked a lot of stuff before. He has the official Team of the Year dates pinned to start January 19th with the full team release January 26th. So we are not that far away. When the clock turns into or when the calendar turns into January, we know we're not that far away, but this kind of cemented in our mind like, okay, okay, the 19th, that is two weeks from this Friday, right? So we've got the Fire Nice promo, maybe running for a week, then a pre-Team of the Year promo, and then bang, we're in a Team of the Year, which also means that the voting should be starting very soon as well. And he also tweeted out saying that voting starts next Monday. So between this Saturday and I think Monday is probably the time where we will see the voting. So January 6th or January 8th, you've already started to see a couple people on Twitter tweet about potential voting. I don't think this is an official list of actual goalies that are in the Team of the Year vote. I think this is just Sheriff is running his own vote just to see and based off of who he thinks might be in the vote. I mean, let's be honest, he has a lot of leaks. So this might be a pretty close selection of who's in the Team of the Year vote for goalies at least. But watch out for more tweets from him and some more votes. But those are not the official votes, guys. All right, just to make sure those are just kind of like prediction votes that he is running just to see. So that's big news. Team of the Year, men and a women's team. Voting starts this next week, basically in the next week. And then also we have got the actual start of the promo coming in two and a half weeks. That is big news. Now, how is the market reacted to this? There have been a couple of movements, but really guys, there's not a lot of panic, which is really kind of what I would expect. Like the only panic that you have right now in the market is on the top tier. We're going to have some of these players that have the really expensive big time cards. Mia Hamm is 3.3 million coins. And she, to start the day off yesterday on Tuesday, was 3.7 million. There has been some panic, but it's in the areas of the market that people who have tons of coins to buy these big time icon players, I mean, Thunderstruck Neymar, Neymar was leaked for the Fire and Ice promo, which we kind of knew was coming. So his card is down because of that anyway. A lot of your top tier players on the market are dropping and we're talking really top tier, really expensive icons like 1, 2 million coin cards. Those are the ones that are dropping right now in this game because the people that are selling these are trying to get their coins ready for team of the year. But we're still two and a half weeks away before any of those cards will hit the market. So yeah, maybe you have to be careful if you're selling or if you have any of these really, really expensive cards. But like guys, you see my coin balance, right? I'm still almost fully invested. I still have some of the Doku's. I still have the Adiyamis that I invested in because this part of the market shouldn't be impacted by this team of the year league. Again, it should be only the really, really top tier expensive cards in my opinion that are impacted by this league. So I'm still holding on to basically everything that I have got on this game right now in terms of investments. And I feel pretty good about it because the low tier side of the market, cards just, they just keep ballooning. Like we can look across the market and you can see that cards in the lower tier thresholds where we've been talking about investing for this entire week, they just keep going up in value because that is where the demand is on this game. So we'll be talking a lot about team of the year as we get closer and closer again, guys. Right now, I do not think you have to panic sell. I do not think the market, based off of just the team of the year news would take a hit because it's going to be until we get the voting, I think. Until we get either a loading screen about voting coming soon, which usually there's not a loading screen for the voting like a countdown. It's like, okay, the voting is out. Here are the nominees and the loading screen. So really next Monday or maybe even later on this weekend, maybe Saturday, Sunday in preparation for the voting that could potentially start on Monday, then you could start to see a little bit of a dip. But I think the real dip on the market will probably happen next week in the middle of the week as we are voting and getting ready for team of the year. And also maybe starting to stack up some packs for team of the year as well because it's still two and a half weeks is a long time. But it's also not that long of a time at the same time. It's kind of weird, right? It's in that like middle ground kind of zone. So we're talking a lot about team of the year. We'll be dissecting it, looking at the market for what happened last year, for what could potentially happen this year. We will be all over guys and I'm super excited to get into the team of the year goodness because it's going to be fun, man. Team of the year is one of the most fun times of the year. And right now that's why we're trading as much as we can. That's why we've invested because we got to get coins for team of the year to do a lot of upgrade packs and try to pack team of the years. And that's why we've been grinding the market a bit. I did sell some VVDs. I bought one of these like 88K. The other of these I'm breaking even on. I'm losing tax on. I bought those for like 96 to 97 because today we are supposed to get the John Stones SBC and that could impact some of those center back prices. I'm not going to risk it. I'm not going to take the chance. So I have sold off on those cards. But as I take a look at the rest of the market yesterday was another solid day to trade since the market was such a... I mean it was a pretty quiet place. That means good things for the market. You see Enzo's over 100K. Balday's 83,000 coins, 84K. Yesterday on stream we tipped Barela. He was like 315. He's up to 340. And I could go, man, I could go look through all of these different out of packs promo squads. Team of the group stages, dynasties. We get fine players in here that are up from where they were at the content drop like Virts is up a little bit. Who else is up? Timber was in the 170s. He went back up almost to 200K. Not quite, but almost. Radioactives were fluctuating yesterday. Same curves up like, you know, 100,000 coins. There must be a rarity spike right there. Let's see. Sobo Slice, 124. He is up pretty big. It's those cheap tier cards that have been moving the most guys. Again, wow. Vialli is up a lot right now. Milito continues to go up. Company is down. Kessler, Bomb Pastore are up. But it's that cheap tier. I bought a Julie yesterday at 130 or 129. And he is now to 144. But that's a card that I'm going to keep holding on to because that could continue to go higher today. So again, I'm lazy listing my cards. I got my cards up on the market for really high prices, hoping that somebody mistakenly buys it or sees a price there for whatever. Basically a lazy listing is John Barnes. I'm listing him for like 10,000 to 15,000 coins over what he actually goes for on the market. And I'm hoping to get a lazy sale where somebody just checks the market and buys the card instead of looking for the lowest price. That is what lazy listing is. I'm even doing it with fodder. And you can see that I got a lazy sale this last hour on an 84 rated Ginter who I bought for 1.6 or 1.7 on bid. Sold over 2.7K. You can do this all the time, especially in the market like now when it's a little bit slower, but when it's good trading. And when people are doing SBCs and it's the 83s and 84s that people are buying a lot to do the 85 plus. If we get another SBC today, that fodder could be more in demand. So that's kind of where I'm trading at the moment. Now we talked about informs already for fodder. Let's talk about the rest of the fodder market since we kind of just mentioned it. 83 is still 950. 84 is 1.8K. This part of the market is still low. The low tier fodder, it will go up, but it's more of like, all right, we bought it. Now we're just sitting here and we're waiting. What actually is happening though is the top tier of the market is doing pretty good. And the reason I think this part of the market is going up as much as it is is because people have started the SBCs, especially with the 83 times 10 that came out last week and all the craft and the menu grind that is there, even with the 80 plus player pick still being out, the SBCs like Mbappe or the icon of SBCs specifically like Hullet, Eusebio. I think a lot of people are doing Zidane, Eusebio, Hullet right now. And to finish off these high rated squads, they gotta buy the 90s, the 89s, the 88s, the 91s. It's that high tier part of the market that people have to purchase because the 83 times 10 is not giving it out slowly, but surely, you get a walk out from one of those every little bit, right? You know, so I think people are buying those cards since the craft in the menus isn't as good. It's still good, but it's not as good. You're seeing more prices go up in that higher tier than the lower tier for right now. So we'll keep an eye on that fodder market today. EA ran like no lightning rounds yesterday, or at least tradable ones. So there could be some lightning rounds today, I do believe. That's why I'm continuing the lazy list, that little bit of fodder that I do have. But more so for the lower tier fodder, it's kind of just like, okay, get it on a low bit, as low as you can, and just sit on it and wait because our time will come. It's just not here yet because it is stupid low as you look over time. Now today, potential opportunities in the SBC section, at least for it to be interesting again, guys, for real. Like, we have a player that is getting an SBC today that actually is, I would say, like the biggest name player well since Allison, right? We've had Allison. We've had Martinelli. Kai Havertz, big names, right? Today's John Stones, Manchester City player. He's been popular for evolutions. A couple people have used his card in Evo's like the Keep Up and the Rare Defender Upgrade. But hopefully his SBC today is better than both of those. Hopefully it's like 88 or 89 rated, and it's got 80 paced, right? This could be an SBC that has potential today, right? This is the second to last SBC that we are going to be getting. The question is, will he be a center back, right? Allison was a center mid. They didn't change the Yada's position. Emobile and Babu, they were all the same positions, but they did change Havertz, right? And they did change Allison Beckers. So, will they make John Stones a center back today? Will he be a center defensive mid, which actually would be semi-accurate to where he has played in real life for City before? That's the question. But what is not in question is, this is an English Manchester City player that has some hype. I really think it might be an Allison-type situation today where this is an SBC that people will do regardless because of who it is. It's the player, right? But it might end up being a bit expensive and maybe underwhelming, right? That would keep on with the trend of winter wildcards if it's underwhelming. I hope that it's not. I hope it's a good SBC. And I hope it shakes some things up. A prem center back. Who doesn't need a prem center back? A lot of us would love a prem center back like John Stones if he's good in game. Since they've already made Allison a CM, I don't know if they'll make John Stones. A center back, or sorry, a center defensive mid. Just thinking about that right now as well. I think John Stones will be a center back. I don't know. That's just my guess, guys. That's why I sold the VVDs and took the tax loss because if Stones is a CB, VVD could go down a little bit more. So I think there's going to be potential for that SBC today, not for investing in fodder, but I just think it might make some other prem center backs go down if he is actually a decent SBC and a center back in position. So we'll see, man. But it's a big name player and that might be the last chance that we have for a good Winter World Cards player SBC. Now, could we also get another gamble pack today? Maybe, right? Again, the fact that Team of the Weeks are still holding a price of like 30,000 coins makes me think that somebody knows something. I don't know, man. We had the 85 double that is out right now. The year in review player pick from last week has now gone. It's expired. So I just have, I don't know. I just have a little bit of a thought that there could be some other sort of upgrade SBC today on this game. With that year of the week of content tweet or not even tweet that picture, then I'll show you guys once again here in a second. The fact that EA put this out is, I don't know. It's kind of weird to me. Like, what evolution? Is this the evolution that we had on Monday? Does that count for this? Or are we getting another evolution today? There's no leaks for that. There's no leaks for the Winter, for the Flashback SBC. There's not even a leak for who's won my League of Player of the Month. Although a lot of people believe it's Rodrigo. And then, you know, the cup thing being here, I'm not sure, guys. I really don't know what's going to happen with that. I'm not expecting a, like, Wild Day today, but John Stones could be a decent SBC. New team of the week is coming today as well. And we do have a leak for who's going to be in. For right now, at least the only leak we have is Sala. Yet another special card for Muhammad Sala. He's going to be in team League 16. Those are his official stats and his play style. So I don't know how big of an upgrade that is over his Winter Wild cards, but I believe his Winter Wild cards are the same rating. Isn't it 92? Or let me check real quick. Sala is 92 rated for his Winter Wild cards, but it is a striker version, but it can also play right wing. So he's going to have plus one pace, minus one shooting, but he's going to have better passing by three, plus one dribbling, and less physical compared to this Sala that is on the market. So yeah, there's that for him. And then other leaks that we had yesterday that we do want to quickly touch on, but we'll probably cover more so later on in the week. We do have some more versus ice, versus ice and fire promo, or fire versus ice versus, right? I don't know what this promo. It's got like three or four different names, right? Versus fire versus ice, fire ice, whatever. Neymar is leaked. Kingsley Coleman is leaked. We have a couple more leaks from yesterday. I expect to see more leaks today on Wednesday and potentially a loading screen. Wednesdays are popular days for that, especially if it's a promo that has not been released since FIFA 22. It's been a minute since we've had that one. So maybe we'll see a loading screen with some more information and news about that today on this game as well. Really what this time is right now when the content's a little bit quiet. Again, it's time to catch up on a little bit of gameplay, which is what I've been doing, playing some rivals yesterday. Finally got Darude Hulet, Darude Sandstorm Hulet as we call him in the squad. He is amazing. I'm actually very surprised at his Trivellis. He doesn't have Trivella, but he had some banger Trivellis from yesterday. Really, really solid card. Really enjoying him so far. Got the Kyle Walker Evo finished. He has now evolved and upgraded. And then Basha at 90. The team is looking spicy at the moment. And I'm telling you guys, yeah, this Rogoni card's insane. I'm glad that I got that evolution done. He is so good. And I'm kind of looking for my next Evo project. It feels wrong not to have an active Evo right now. It feels like I'm working on nothing and I'm getting, I'm not like being useful with my gameplay in this game at the moment. So I got to figure out somebody to put into dribbling sensation since that one goes away pretty soon. And I do believe I am going to commit to the Ryan Cessignon evolution as well. Ryan Cessignon's gold card, it's down now. If he goes back down to like 350 or something like really cheap, I'll try to pick him up. But this guy went to 9K. He's back down to 1000 coins. His evolution, if you haven't looked at it, looks really, really crazy. And that's why his gold card went up like crazy yesterday. But if I'm going to do his Evo, I got it started here in the next couple of days. So I'm going to try to pack him first from the daily gold upgrade. And then if I can't do that, I'll pick him up off the market. But that first-owner triangle just hits different when it comes to an evolution. So that's the video for today, guys. Team of the Year hype, it's building, right? I'm starting to try to be careful with how much fodder I'm putting in to all these SBCs as well. Because, you know, yeah, we have time over the next couple of weeks to think about this sort of thing. But now that Team of the Year is coming, it's kind of like, all right, I know that I need a lot of players for a lot of upgrade packs. I need fodder for SBCs. And I need coins to go and buy players off the market for upgrade packs. A lot of times what people do during a Team of the Year is they go invest in gold rares. They go invest in gold rares because these go from like 700 coins up to over 1000 as people are doing the repeatable upgrade packs, trying to pack a Team of the Year all the time, the league-specific upgrades and all that sort of thing. If you want to start stocking your club with gold rares, you're early to the game, but you can do that. I don't know if we're going to go up that much this year. I'm sure they're going to go up to at least a thousand coins. They do just about every single year because there's so much demand for upgrade packs. But you could even start to stock those if you want to get way ahead of the game at 650 coins minimum, or 600 coins a piece for those. So that's the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy Smash, thumbs up on it. 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