 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Another day on the EAFC 24 game and another market crash. This time brought to you by Road to the Knockouts, team number two. But what's things the most about this one is, it happened on a day where we were expecting prices to actually go up because of that Foot Champs Weekend League demand that we were waiting on for the past week or so in this game. Guys, EA can't keep doing this. They probably will. So what are we even doing in this market? We're going to talk about that today and, of course, break down all the content that could be upcoming because there's some big SBC leagues which did partially impact the market and the panic yesterday. So if you're excited for the video, drop a thumbs up on it and, of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over the content from yesterday because there were a lot of SBCs starting off with the player SBCs early before the real content drop even happened. We had two Player of the Months, the first one being the best value, in my opinion, of a player SBC that we got yesterday. Kubo, of course, not Jude Bellingham, but four star, four star, explosive, left-footed. He's got all the alternate positions that you can maybe need to put him into a team. He's got great stats. Actually, if you compare him to, like, Raphinha and Rodrigo, guys, he's actually up there with those two as one of the best right wings or center attacking mids in the La Liga. So really good links there and the price for this is the second best thing. Only 45,000 coins for this Kubo, kind of an emotional SBC and you don't have to do it right away because, like all Player of the Months, you do have 30 days to do them. So I'm a big fan of that Kubo, Gigi's EA, Santiago Jimenez, not a bad SBC. If you run an air-to-visey side as well, a usable card and only 12,000 coins to do one squad. I think it's an 83-rated squad or 84, so very easy to do there for him. And then we get to Jonathan David, which honestly, this card right away looked a bit expensive to me, but I don't hate it. I just don't love it unless you're running a League One team. You know, if you are running a League One team, then it's probably worth it for you. The 5-star weak foot's very nice. The high-high work rates, he would track back a bit on defense. Look at the shooting stats. 90 finishing, 91 attack position and great penalties. The dribbling is a little bit lackluster, but 90 heading and 94 jumping with 92 stamina. That's a pretty nice card, guys. It is pretty good. It does run a little bit expensive though, 140,000 coins. So if it doesn't fit your team or if you're not a fan of Jonathan David or a Canadian or something like that, then maybe you hold off on that because once again, at this early stage, putting your coins in a time of the game where coins are so king and so important on this game, I think a lot of people are kind of hurting for coins as well right now with the market, you know, doing the things that it is doing and prices dropping as much as they have dropped. I think I would steer clear of doing an SBC like that because that could just potentially drain some more coins off of your account unless you're a really big fan of that player or really want to do an SBC. That's the advice I'd give you right there. Now, the third or the fourth in final SBC we had yesterday and in my opinion, the best because of the fun value and also the price is the team of the week upgrade. Guys, it costs you 10,000 coins to do. I did it. Don't expect anything massive from it, right? Because a lot of these lower level team of the weeks like maybe in Oheda or Halilovich, Mafia. Of course, all team of the week cards are 80 rated or above now. So you don't get any like 75 rated team of the weeks, which is kind of nice. But this SBC is just fun to do and it's the same price as a discard inform, which a lot of people just did it from the club anyway. As you can tell, fodder didn't really move yesterday. I think 82s went up a tiny bit and 85s since the requirements for this was an 83 rated squad with 185 rated player. I do believe 85s did have a quick spike at content for this SBC and then they went down. Fodder just really didn't move that much, but it's so easy to do that. I think a lot of people didn't actually have to buy fodder. So I'm a fan of that one. That one was cool. Now, let's go to objectives because we had a couple things there. One thing really a new player objective. It was Darmian, right? We mentioned that Darmian was coming. Didn't know whether it was going to be SBC or objective and he did come in the objective section. 12 games is a lot. That's the only problem for this card. But Darmian does look decent. He's got a five star week foot. So a five star week foot player in SBCs and objectives and he's got really high dribbling stats for a center back. He can also play right mid, but he can play right back, which I know some people would maybe be interested in fitting him in a Serie A team at right back. He does have pretty decent defending and physical stats, a little low on the strength. Also 92 short pass with a five star week foot. He actually would be a pretty decent defensive midfielder if he could play there or maybe you play him there in game. Lacking a little bit on the pace and medium, medium work rates aren't the best. But 12 games, I think people see this and you're like, it's not really the amount of grind that I would want to put in for a card like that. So that was our objective content yesterday. And then going to the store, we're going to talk about this in relation to the market a bit more. We did have some new packs added. The 10K pack is back. Never heard anything about the whole Danish language glitch. Last week EA never said a thing. I haven't heard anything about that. EA hasn't tweeted about it, so we'll see. But they dropped 50K packs, 45s and 25Ks once again. And I think they dropped more packs per day than they normally do, except for the 50Ks. Those have been stuck on two. And then we had these packs right here, which honestly guys, these packs look insane with like the pack design there. Like they look absolutely insane with the UCL kind of logo and stuff on there. A 175K and an 85,000 coin pack. And here's where it gets interesting. Look at the pack probabilities for this 2000 coin FC point pack. 15% chance of packing a UCL Road to the Knockouts player, which actually that is up because before that was only 12%, that is up to now 15%. That is a crazy, crazy high percentage guys. These new cards that dropped onto the game yesterday, we're going to talk about them a lot in today's video. They are so supplied and they're uber cheap, man. We talked about it in yesterday's video, right? EA looked like from the predictions that they were dropping a lot of cards in packs and the predictions didn't look very good. So we all thought it was mid, right? We're like, oh, team two is going to be so bad. But then what happened was, EA juiced these cards like crazy. Awar going from a 76 to an 86 with plus 10 on every stat or above. And he's 19,000 coins. Roma already won their first game of Europa League. So he's basically one win closer to a plus one inform upgrade already and one to that second upgrade for getting out of the group. This card is absolutely insane. Actually guys, if you take a look at some of the highest statistically rated players in the game, he has some of the most in-game stats. I think he's like in the top 20. He's only like 10 in-game stats behind Yaya Toure. I know it's a lot different card than Yaya Toure. And he's got high, low work rates which throws some people off. He's not French anymore. He's Algerian. But that card for 18K seems ridiculous. Klaus is like 20,000 coins as well for a high, high right back in League One. Insane card there. And one of the most cracked cards from the loading screen that we saw and knew was going to be coming kind of. But when you look at the card stats, it's just amazing is Joao Pedro. Now he's not cheap. He's expensive, but they boosted his skill moves. Four star, four star. He has got guys 99 jumping, 99 heading accuracy, 90 positioning, 90 finishing, 94 dribbling, 95 agility. Guys, I mean, this is the second week of the game and EA is boosting up some of these cards like crazy. Where's the power curve going? I don't know where the power curve is going but with these insane upgrades on cards that are going to get live boosts. I know the boosts aren't going to happen for multiple weeks down the line. And maybe that's why EA is boosting them as much as they have been in these past two weeks which actually I commend EA for because honestly, the road to the finals and road to the knockouts of years past did fall behind when we had these international breaks and times between Champions League, Europa League and all the European competitions games. But these upgrades are insane. Like GGs to EA because they boosted these cards and also it's nice to feel like you can pack a promo card or go and buy it off of the market and it's really impacting the market a lot with how cheap some of these cards are. So we're going to talk about that more in a minute in relation to those cards but let's talk about the market guys. Why did everything not go as planned yesterday? I think there's a lot of reasons and we have to actually go back before content drop to really talk about and look at why the market started tanking before we got to content. Guys, there was really not that much panic on the market. As I said yesterday's video I wasn't expecting a lot of panic based off of the leaks. The promo team looked mid. Those predicted stats that everybody was assuming that we're going to be in the game. I know they're predicted stats but that was our expectation, right? It was just mid. It didn't look good. And then Foot Sheriff tweeted this, Beckham is coming as an SBC soon bots and this was tweeted out and everybody started to go crazy. At the round the same time people also started finishing their weekend league and that started to bring extra supply to the market. Guys, this is the first weekend of the new weekend league. So we're still learning how that's going to impact the market every single week with those brand new tradable 85 plus packs in a lot of the rewards as I try to find a way to my foot champs here which by the way is foot champs is not fun guys. I'm one in three. It is not a great start. As it says here, ultra competitive right there. Yeah, it's ultra competitive this weekend as everybody is trying to get the best rewards possible. But I think it's a combination of the Beckham SBC which we'll talk a little bit more about at the end of this video. I know it's a massive SBC leak for this early on in the year. The weekend league rewards, those two things and then also guys, I really just think and let me know down in the comments how many coins do you have right now in this game? I've got 1.5 mil. My coin balance has been between like 1.3 to 1.5 in this past week. It hasn't been a good week of making coins with the market being as bad as it has been. I lost probably about 50, 60 K yesterday trying to flip these cards and I just wanted to get my coins out just now so that I could maybe go and flip some other things into Saturday. But I want to know how many coins you have because I also still feel like with the start of the way that EA has brought this game out guys. We've had a lot of player SBCs. We've had a lot of SBCs in general even though not all of them have been very good. It impacts the whole entire user base in this game when EA drops SBCs. Even the upgrades like the loan icon and the loan hero. I think a lot of people do those just for the chance at packing something sick. So you've got the constant market drops where people have been losing coins over the past week or two on this game that they've been on the game like people were buying cards last week when they were first getting on the game and you know like you bought Rolfo for what 50, 60 K and now Rolfo is 15,000 coins. Probably going to live in ultimate team infamy forever as one of the craziest price drops in the early stage of the game. We're going to remember Rolfo for a long time. That's for sure in the trading sense. But I think it's a combination of the constant drops plenty of SBCs and the untradable store packs that have been in this game more often than we've ever had before to start off an ultimate team. It is really continuing to bring this market down. It just feels like right now that nobody has the coins to buy anything. And I think all those are the reasons, right? The Beckham, the New Weekendly Rewards and just a lack of coins in general which hopefully that changes a bit after this weekend. Hopefully Footchamps does allow people to make some coins and then go out and you know, spend some coins on a team or do an SBC and buy SBC fodder and then those prices move a bit. It just feels like this market right now is one-sided. That's the best way that I can think to describe it. It feels one-sided where it's all supply and not as much demand and that's why the prices just keep dropping. And we were hoping that the demand would kind of flip the switch this weekend with Chance and it really has not done that just yet. We have so much more supply still coming in. So the question is, will it keep going lower? And to answer that in a one-word response, I will say, yeah, I honestly think that it is going to keep going lower guys based off of what I saw yesterday. There's going to be some fluctuations here or there. But one of the things I mentioned in yesterday's video was the promo team and the prices of it. And since we have an insane promo team with boosted stats that are pretty crazy high, like you're telling me this Di Maria with the five-star skills, upgrade potential, seven play styles including a play style plus by the way is 80K? Like have you guys seen Fabio Carvalho? Not Fabio, Ricardo Carvalho going up in price today. This guy exploded because everybody is running to the market to use this Di Maria card because he is so absolutely freaking insane. And you know, these cards are nuts guys and they're cheap and it's that combination as well that just continues to make me think that gold cards are going to be devalued except for some of the top tier meta. Once these crashes are done, some of those can rebound a little bit. But a lot of cards are going to maintain the dropping prices because guys, these new cards are insane. Looks like we're going to get maybe some good SBC content upcoming as well. That's going to drain more coins that maybe EA is putting onto the game through the week in the rewards this weekend. Honestly guys, gold cards just seem to be dead on this game, right? I don't think I want to buy another gold card for the rest of this game unless it's for like a quick flip trade or something or other because this is honestly crazy. Alex Morgan was 42,000 coins and is now 26K. And people say she is one of the most overpowered strikers in the game on a budget with the Finesse Shop Plus trade. So crazy market drops. I do think that it goes lower. There could be some fluctuations today that we could trade in and out of. My best advice to you is try to run as untradable as a team as you can. And honestly, if you want to buy players for your team, you're like Nate, Rafael Veran was 110K and now I've just got the coins to buy him or whatever the reasoning may be. I want to buy somebody for my team. I would just tell you whenever you get on to play the game, buy the cards for your team, right? And then use them until when you're done using them and then maybe you just sell them. You don't want to be buying and selling players like every single time you get on the game because a lot of times you're going to lose a lot in tax that way. But I do think the market could drop further down today on Saturday and even tomorrow on Sunday with the content that could be upcoming and still more weak in the rewards, more store packs and stuff like that, you know, on tap. So it's crazy guys. I know it's not at all what we expected but what we did in yesterday's video really warned that the prices of this promo team and how good they're boosted would have an impact on the market and we got an insane team and they're cheap. Let's talk about content today a little bit because we have this leak. Guys, when's the Beck MSBC going to be dropping? That's the big question for right now. A, do we need to invest in fodder for this? And B, how is it going to impact the rest of the market because this is like a crazy, crazy early icon player SPC leak. I don't think this Beck MSBC is going to come out until at the very earliest tomorrow. Honestly, it still seems very early for an icon player SPC but EA seems to be doing things earlier this year than in other years. So it does match up really well. I don't know if any of you guys have seen the Netflix documentary that just came out about David Beckham. EA is really, really smart with this, with this leak and this SPC coming soon. It's very smart of them to kind of play off with the hype of the Beckham documentary and all that is going on there. This could be coming out again, like I said, either this weekend, maybe tomorrow or it could be next week sometime, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, somewhere in there. That's kind of the timeframe I would expect for this as it is leaked by foot sheriff. Now some people are holding on to maybe a pretty crazy theory that foot sheriff leaked David Beckham but actually he meant Jonathan David because they both have David but I'm pretty sure that would not be the case. That would be a big fraud moment if it actually was and I would laugh pretty hard if it was but I think a Beckham SPC is probably upcoming especially with the things that we mentioned. So I don't think that's coming out for a hot minute but other player SPCs that could be incoming, Sheriff did leak a dynamic duo yesterday and this one actually is kind of cool. Jeff Eno, what a name. He's a five star skill left mid in the league one. He does have a three star weak foot and these are predicted stats as well. So I don't know how much Eno are going to juice these cards up and then Henrique. It's kind of like the dynamic duos that we've had in previous years. It's a perfect link between those two players and they would probably drop as a two SPC set. These cards are never that insane. So I don't expect them to be that, you know, I don't know if there's really an opportunity to invest here if you look at league one players or Brazilians in the league one like Marquinhos or something like that, you know, you add a Marquinhos into the mix with Jeff Eno and Henrique and you've got yourself potentially a squad with a lot of chemistry. Maybe you have to add in one more player but these usually these SPCs don't move the market too much unless EA boost them a lot and this would be the card that I think most people would be interested in. It would need to add some play styles though because this guy only has one play style. It is a good one. But I think you'd have to add some more to make that pretty meta. That could be today. I think there's actually a genuine shout for that being today and that also could be an objective. So watch out for that. And then also, of course, we've already seen Darmian and Jonathan David guys. I'm really worried about this Diego Carlos. I know that I mentioned that I think in a previous video this last week, but a Diego Carlos like that, it feels like every single year we get the first Premier League center back SPC. It's always a good one and it's one that everybody wants to do because so many people run Premier League teams, a Brazilian as well as a Premier League link as well for that Diego Carlos. Like a guy like Veran, maybe Virgil van Dijk, maybe Saliba as we mentioned before could really be in for another extra drop in price if they're going to continue to boost up these road to the knockouts really, really well. I know Diego Carlos has 67 pace, but guys, I mean, the boost that we've seen in this team have been pretty crazy. So don't sleep on a Diego Carlos Bergwijn or Hector Beller in SPC coming out in the coming days. I would imagine we get all three of those in the next like a week, right? Before next Friday when the road to the knockout promo would end. So I don't know when which days those are going to drop, but I'm a little bit worried specifically about the Diego Carlos. So probably just a player SPC or two today on this game. Saturdays are usually pretty quiet. Last week we had the Kudus. That was a pretty big surprise. Maybe a new store pack dropping today as well. I think last week we had like what a 275K pack. The pack that we didn't see yesterday was the one that had 80 players in it. That one has yet to be released. And if that were to be dropped in the store, that could even mean some more coin drain off the market because of just how crazy that pack would be. A lot of people would want to open it. Now let's talk about the market a bit really quickly to end this video off. Investing guys, I just showed you a Beckham SPC. A lot of people are asking Nate, do I need to invest in fodder? Now I'm going to break it down into two simple things. Number one, we have not had a ton of SPCs yet that require higher rated fodder. A lot of SPCs have been what? 83, 84, 85 rated squad requirements. It's going to become in a time where we need these 87s, the 88s and the 89s because they're going to be requiring those higher rated squads. And yes, in the grand scheme of things, 87s under 10K are low, 88s under 13 are low and 89s under 20K are very low. Like the first icon or player pick SPC, a hero SPC that comes out, probably going to push these guys up into the 20K range, maybe like 25K plus. That's the sort of investment opportunity that is here. It's more so of a question of when because you don't want to go unassigned or even fill up your transfer list with cards like this and throw your coins away into a safe investment. If in the meantime, you could still maybe make some coins somewhere else. But I think right now, a lot of people are looking for a safe investment because of the way this market has been. And it's just, it's not fun right now. Losing coins, trading medic cards, especially if you're actively trading the market a lot. So I think a lot of people are running to invest and fodder because of that. And there are some big SPCs that could be upcoming. So just to make it a little bit, I guess careful with your investment or to make it a careful way of thinking of this, I would try to get these on bids, right? And maybe today or on the content drop is a way that you can get those. If we don't get a good SPC today, like a one that really moves prices of fodder, I could see fodder dropping lower after Saturday into Sunday with squad battle rewards. Then maybe that might be your best time. But as always, 86 is at a certain price, 87 at a certain price that I mentioned, probably under 7K, under 10K for the 87s, 88s for like 12. Actually, I kind of like those at 12K. That's pretty good there. And then 89s, maybe a bit of a longer term hold. Your 80, I would say the 85s to 87s have a higher chance of moving like in the next five days than an 89 rated card would just because of the SPCs that could be coming out. But I think it's not a bad idea to club sock some of this and whether you want to hold it for weeks or whether you want to hold it for one week and just see where it goes with the SPCs that we get, fodder is not looking like a terrible, terrible investment. Now, as we've mentioned, price is going down a lot. One thing I do want to mention too is last week on Saturday, prices did go up. But there's a big difference between last week and this week because this week we have footchamps. Obviously, I want to show you Musiala's graph and just talk about a little bit of market today in relation to gold cards and the promo cards. Oh my gosh, 40K for Musiala and it's probably just going to go lower. Last week, if you take a look at the graph, last week on Friday, Musiala was 70K. He dropped all night, Friday night into Saturday morning and then early Saturday morning, 6AM UK time before a lot of people were waking up and getting back on the game to play, not even with footchamps at that time. Musiala went from 67K all the way back to 73. Now, we have had much bigger drop. Look at this from 63K down to 40. Guys, I think there's going to be some cards today that have a bit of a spike in the morning today on Saturday whether it be gold cards, out-of-pack specials, heroes, icons are probably the best place to trade right now, but if they haven't dropped it all in price, I'd be very, very careful. But keep an eye on some of these cards. There could be some fluctuations today as people wake up on Saturday and want to play some games. There could be some movements there, even though everything is down, down, down and is probably going to drop further in the next couple of days and in the week up ahead. There still could be some fluctuations from now into mid-time today on Saturday where midday today on Saturday where you could see some rises there. Also, watch these cards because, guys, these cards are very supplied, but everybody knows that the new, that the exciting, that the fresh faces of cards on this game have the most hype. So keep a close eye on guys like Lewandowski. If you're on a higher budget for sure, that Klaus card, I mean, I can't believe that Klaus is 20,000 coins. That is a crazy price for his card and that could be a card that maybe goes up as people want to try him out today. This is so-called card. It's very, very rare and so is Draw Pedro. So keep an eye on those. Keep an eye on Acunha. And these guys might fluctuate a bit today, but they're probably going to drop a little bit lower into the later part of the day on Saturday. I'm not looking at these, especially with three weeks to go until more Champions League games or investments for a hold, more so just for a quick flip trade. And if you want to try them out today, they might be rising into the midday UK time today and then dropping as we get towards content, right? Usually, kind of like we saw with that Moussialograph, that's the fluctuation that you see. They kind of go up in the morning for a couple hours and then drop as you head into content as people expect more stuff happening on the game. So let me know down in the comments how you're feeling like, I'm definitely, it's frustrating, like losing coins yesterday, losing in footchamps yesterday, definitely a frustrating day on the game personally. I did pack Dianne from a random two-player pack, which was dope, but it's never fun when you're just losing coins day in and day out and it's very demotivating. But at least I'll say this, like the content is good and I'll take good content crashing the market more so than any of the other reasons that it could be because these promo cards are cheap, they're boosted and they're pretty fun. And I'm excited for the content that's upcoming via SBCs for this promo as well. But drop a thumbs up on the video. If you enjoyed it, comment down below if you have any questions and tell me how many coins you got once again. And of course, subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Ford Count. See you guys in a video tomorrow. Peace out.