 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. This loading screen telling us footballers is coming tomorrow as our next promo is not at all what we're expecting to be talking about today on this video. But alas, it is no foot birthday yet. It's not meaning that foot birthday's not gonna come. This promo does not replace the upcoming foot birthday promotion. It just means that it's maybe delayed or pushed back. We're gonna talk about what this footballers promo is because a lot of us are confused. We have a couple of leaks to go off of, but we don't really know. And of course, with the foot fantasy promo ending and a lot of these cards, all of them actually leaving packs, a lot of them are going up in price as investors look at this promo as not that exciting and live cards more exciting so their prices are going up. So we'll talk about that, how the market is reacting in other areas, especially with a new season today. We have some new pack code that might tell us some very interesting packs. And other things about this footballers promo that still might make it an interesting upcoming promo on this game. If you're excited for the video today, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's start with a little content roundup from yesterday because apart from the whole promo drama that was going on, we had an icon pack on a Wednesday. That is not usual. And it was the 89 plus FIFA World Cup or Prime icon upgrade once again. This is the third time I believe this has been released and EA said, hey, it's the third time we're gonna release it. So we'll give it to you three times. It's the same exact requirement as before as well. Around 500,000 coins. One of the most expensive icon packs we have had so far this year. But since a lot of us, myself included, had high-rated fodder in the club from a week's worth of upgrade packs and SBCs. And we haven't had an icon pack in a while that has taken our high-rated fodder anyways. A lot of people were doing this SBC and the market shows it. If you take a look at footprint, you take a look at this SBC, 550,000 coins. It is very heavily downvoted, but that's just because it is so expensive. And I think the fact that we've had it three times now, I hope after this we get something different. Come on, EA, mix it up, throw us another player pick, at least change it up with another icon pack in the near future. This is actually out for like nine days though in total. So I think it's gonna end up going away at the end of next week. So like next Friday or Saturday, I forget when it's gonna go away. So it's gonna be out for a while, but we can do it three times. If you take a look at fodder, guess what? It's going up 87s, 23, 24,000 coins apiece. These guys were like 20,000 coins yesterday. I don't think anybody saw the release of this icon pack coming, but you can tell that people are interested in doing it. And especially like I said, with a lot of us having fodder in the club, already investing in fodder as well because a lot of people had invested for a play of the month in Bapé. This was a very smart decision from EA Sports to drop this pack when they did. Now some of it messy actually went from 63K up to 66 and then went back down. And now he's about at 66K once again. If I have invested in fodder, which I have, I still have a lot of 90 ones on my transfer list. Even though I did this SBC yesterday and I'm this much tempted to do it again, probably not though, because you know, that kind of ruined the club doing that SBC. With all the 90 ones that I have, I am not listing them yet, right? We got a lot of these. I know a lot of you guys invested in the high-rated fodder with the way this footballers promo looks and with the potential for a play of the month in Bapé SBC as soon as today, that sort of players on the market, those fodder players, I think are a whole. And we'll talk a bit more about fodder later in the video. But I mentioned footballers and maybe not opening packs and maybe with this promo fodder going up. Let's take a look at footballers and talk about why that may be the case. This is the loading screen once again. The only thing to notice about this is there's two cards on the loading screen. What could that be? I mean, I've kind of looked over it. Is this like something we're supposed to spot the difference here at EA? I don't think it is. They're the exact same card, but is there some sort of hint we're supposed to see with having two cards in the loading screen? I don't know. Hopefully they upgrade it today. Show us something new. Tease us with something a little bit new. But that is very, very interesting that we have just two of the same card on the loading screen. Now, this is the big information that we had yesterday that started to throw everything kind of in a crazy spiral. Thinking about, oh my goodness, foot birthday is actually not the next promo. Like we so thought it was gonna be. Guys, we had a leak literally 12 days ago from foot sheriff saying, foot birthday is confirmed to be the next promo after fantasy foot. Well, he asked to hold that because he is incorrect. And this is instead going to be the promo. Him and FIFA Romania both tweeted about it. And again, you can see here, he says there's not going to be players in packs or there shouldn't be players in packs. It's gonna be objective and SBC based. He's also saying that there's rumors that it would be similar to the numbers up promo. In that promo last year, if you don't remember, one stat on every single player's card would get kind of boosted up to 99 in different segments. It sounds cool, right? But if you remember this promo last year, most people agree this was the worst promo of FIFA 22. And that does not leave a nice taste in our mouse hearing. And it doesn't sound that nice hearing that this promo might be up next. So that's kind of like where people saw this yesterday and people were very underwhelmed, especially because we had our expectations up here. We were so excited for foot birthday. It's just like a bummer. And it's unfortunate because a lot of us have been saving packs as well. Maybe you've been saving your 83 times 10s. You've been saving some of the upgrade packs and rewards and stuff and player picks waiting for foot birthday. And we do actually not have foot birthday coming up. So there's some questions though with all of this that's going on. And I wanna talk about some of that. If there are going to be no players in packs, what is EA gonna do? And also with all these SBCs that are out, how are we supposed to get the fodder to do the 83 times 10 or the 89 plus FIFA World Cup Prime Icon upgrade? How are we gonna get the fodder to do this sort of stuff? Upgrade packs are still out. Like what is going on here? This is kind of a crazy scenario where right now we have no special cards in packs, no re-released cards in packs, but we still have SBCs in packs that we kind of wanna do. EA is really trying to drain fodder from our clubs right now. And they're really, really, really trying to drain coins as well. That is obvious with where they're going in this game. Now one thing I think they might be doing and this is kind of evident and if this is any little bit of like a hint, take a look at the pack code. We have a bunch of pack codes that have been added in the past couple of hours and there's a lot of these review packs. There's an elite New Year review pack. There's also a premium New Year review pack, a New Year review, two different New Year review packs which is very interesting. They're gonna have to adjust this and change the name because that is literally the same pack, name on two different packs and that probably can't happen. But as you notice with a lot of these Winter Wildcards, Centurions, Team of the Year Honorable Mentions or Future Stars are all listed as different card types inside of these packs. 25 rare gold players with five of them guaranteed to be those former promo cards. What do we have in here as well? Five gold rare players with one guaranteed, 30 gold rare players, 81 or above, two guaranteed promos, contains two guaranteed promo cards with some player picks in there as well. And even this New Year review pack contains a foot birthday swap token. So for those that are still hoping and waiting for foot birthday, we have now kind of guaranteed by the pack code a foot birthday promo that is upcoming because of this and also a swaps program. So that's nice to see and nice to know that that is still coming. It's not just kind of not happening. Also 10 coin packs are back. Contains three rare gold players. Anytime there's a 10 coin pack, we love that. Also in here, you see a foot birthday team one player pack. I have some thoughts about that but I really do believe that this promo, it could just be, remember how a couple of weeks ago, actually when I was on holiday, we had the showdown series promo with a rivalry re-release where they put old players back in packs. That could be happening again this weekend. I don't think EA often do that in back-to-back succession so quickly. Like, I mean, literally two, three weeks later, they're doing the same thing by putting old special cards back into packs like Future Stars, the team of the honorable mentions were listed, Winter Wild Cards and Centurions. And right, that kind of fits how those mixed campaign player picks, those sorts of promos as well inside of them. But that is a, I mean, very possible thing that could happen in the coming days. Wait for more leaks, wait for more information until we really know that's gonna be sure. The other thing to think about here is, I would imagine all of these packs are untradable. I mean, very rarely ever. I think only like one or two times has EA ever released a pack in the store with past special cards inside of it that was a tradable pack. I think it happened once last year and people were like not very happy about it. I don't think that would happen again this year, but this would cause some movement on the market if you have any of these cards, you know, in the middle to low tier range from those previous promos from earlier on this year. So just kind of watch out for that because that is possible. Hopefully get some more leaks and some more information. And I hope they put something in packs because if they don't, then it's gonna be probably a really, really quiet week of this promo because when there's nothing in packs, it just feels like there's not too much to grind. Even if it's an SBC based promo, still do a best of EA. We would like that. Of course, if you have some of those cards in your team, you have to be careful. They could lose a lot of coins and value being back in the market. So that's the obvious downside to it. But looking through a few of these leaks with these footballers cards, we have two player leaks right now. Number one, Oxlade Chamberlain is a card that is added to come. Now notice here, trading Romania doesn't say anything about it being an SBC, but of course, Sheriff tweeted that there should not be players in packs. So unless that is incorrect, then this is probably one of those SBC or objective players. And then also we have Mason Mount, two English players coming as an SBC. This one is specifically stated as an SBC. So a Liverpool player and a Chelsea player and Mason Mount, those are the two leaks that we have right now. Watch out for some more leaks today, but I just have to wonder if there would be less leaks because if this is not a pack-based promo, then you're probably not gonna see as many of the footballer cards starting in the game right away. Cause if they're gonna be, again, SBCs or objectives, they'll probably be dropped a little bit slower. But those are some interesting cards if they have good enough stats. If there's, you know, some people think that the footballers mean it's gonna be five-star skill move upgrades for all the players. I mean, shoot, that'd be cool, right? EA, go ahead and do it. But that's not confirmed. So watch out for more leaks today. Watch out for more information on the loading screen for what this promo may be about. So again, like we mentioned as well, since this promo is kind of underwhelming, let's move to the market side of things. Let's talk about the market. You've got fantasy footcars that are rising in price. I bought an Upa McConnell yesterday right as I saw the leaks that this stuff was going down and that this promo was coming. And I saw that foot sheriff tweet. I went out and I bought another Upa McConnell at 700,000 coins. And like this card is rising in price, a lot of the other fantasy cards are rising too because people see these as better, more exciting, potential to make profit with the game's upcoming as soon as tomorrow. On Friday, especially for guys like Esok and DeMarcos and Taglifico who have a game tomorrow, these guys are all going up because people are investing. Chan is 320, Ben-Aser is 380, Hazard 680. Jota is still kind of low, but I think that's because Liverpool did not do well yesterday. Jota didn't do amazing himself and they don't play for a while, right? So the upgrade for Jota is gonna take a minute. Rubid Diaz is over a million coins. Taglifico, Zubaslite, these guys are all up in price. Fantasy from team one as well. Llorente 1.6 million coins, he just keeps rising. So a lot of these cards, including some of the heroes are just going up in price because nothing is stopping them now that they're out of packs and they're live cards and this footballers promo is a little underwhelming. So one thing I'll give you guys as a word of warning for this is, especially for a guy like DeMarcos, I know a lot of people have invested in him, but be very careful with this card because he does play on Friday and that is good, right? Because he's got an early game, which means you have the potential of this card to go up even more, but you really have to depend. It's just like a live card in other areas, like road to the final, selling in the hype is going to be a very big key with a lot of these cards, especially for the lower tier ones that are probably over invested. If they do not keep a clean sheet, if they do not win the game and he doesn't get an upgrade right off of the bad, his price is probably going to drop in value. Just be careful with a card like this DeMarcos and one other thing I want to share with you is, remember that Lauriente card, the right mid from team number one, I don't even know if I'm going to spell his name right here, but we're going to give it a shot. Is it this guy, Armand Lauriente? I believe he's extinct on the market, so I don't know why I'm searching him up here anyways, but in team one of Foot Fantasy, this is one of the most cards that's gone up the most. Did I pick the right guy? Yes, it is Armand. He is extinct at 45,000 coins. He exploded from the weekend. Now, something that's interesting about this card is, I would consider selling it in the hype. 85 rated, one of the lowest rated cards in the Parable team, and I was unaware of this at first, but this guy has been pumped on TikTok big time. People are saying he's going to go over 112,000 coins. Shout out to Teddy, another FIFA trader, dropping the following streams on Twitch as well. He's mentioning this tweet and look at the comments, man, bro, the upgrades start on March 17th. Yeah, he gets upgraded on the 17th of March. So you can see a lot of people that are misinformed about these cards believe that they're going to be getting upgraded this Friday. Be very careful with some of these cards. If you have this one, maybe you consider selling into the hype. Yes, it could go up in price, but if you think about it, there's going to be a ton of investing on this card because it's solo rated. Be careful. So that's kind of my, I guess, speech about selling in the hype, right? I mean, selling in the hype, of course, was a really good idea on a lot of these other cards as well with the road to the finals. Raspidori is down from where he was, even though Napoli are confirmed, he's through. Just like Calvin Phillips from yesterday, just kept dropping even after the game. He is down even lower. And speaking of Calvin Phillips and some of those guys that played on Tuesday, Barela is still 370,000 coins. So there was a good bit of market drop on some of these cards when that icon pack was released because again, a 500,000 coin icon pack, it's going to take some people selling some cards to go and buy the fodder that is now going up in price to get that done. So that was a normal kind of market dip that we had. So if you bought any cards yesterday during that dip, that was a great opportunity to catch some cards at a little bit of a lower price. But I wanted to point that out with Barela being down. Firmino, really interesting fluctuation. We talked about this on stream. I don't know if we mentioned it in a video. I bought a Firmino right here. Basically, when the game was in like the 75th or the 80th minute, Firmino was dropping big time in price as people were like selling him and like, oh my goodness, they're going to lose, get knocked out and you know, they're no longer going to be alive. Card and, you know, Liverpool are done. They're knocked out of the UCL, right? Which they are. This card does not receive any upgrades. He was as low as 690,000 coins. I picked on up at 699 and literally an hour later, he was back up to almost 800,000 coins. I sold just a little bit early. I sold at 787K, but that is one thing to watch out for. For cards that are very popular, very meta, especially if they lost a lot in the first leg, lost by a lot and they're way down on goal difference. People will sell the card expecting it to go lower, but then after the game, people realize, wow, this card is actually way too cheap for what he should be, even though it doesn't upgrade anymore. Like for this Firmino, it's the only special Firmino in the game. It's a really good card with five star skills. So it just naturally went back up as people were like, I got to buy this for my team because he's so cheap, that sort of thing. So that's kind of what happened with Firmino yesterday. I would say with road to the finals that played today as well, same thing with Atal guys, even though they are favorites to win, you've seen it all week long. I would take the cash in the hype just because there's a lot of investing here and it's the safe route. You never know what's gonna happen. So unless you really want to risk it, I would sell these guys in the hype and look for another opportunity to pick them up after the game, like Raspidore, even Davide Alaba. That's one card we haven't talked about as a road to the final. Madrid won, they're through, right? And Alaba is down. He was 1.55 yesterday, he's in the 1-4 lows. I just saw him at 1-4 flat. He might be rebounding a little bit. These guys are upgrading on Friday, all the upgrades from Tuesday, Wednesday, and today on Thursday with the Champions League, Conference League, and Europa League cards, those upgrades will go live Friday, but just keep a very close eye on the market with those cards because they are dropping. I even lost some coins on the Calvin Phillips, trying to flip in, it didn't work out, so I'm losing some coins there. It is what it is, we bounce back. But I wanted to point that out for the market and talk about that just a little bit. Last thing that I want to focus on in the video today is just a little bit about fodder and the season resetting once again. First thing is when you're watching this video, the season's probably gonna be reset or if you're really, really early, you might be seeing the season kind of refreshing. One thing I want to show you guys from that pack code that we looked at was foot birthday team one player pack. This is one of the packs that was added to the code along with some of these super loans packs. I would not be surprised. This would be really cool if they added this into the level, I don't know, level 27 or something, level 30 even, a foot birthday team one player pack, that might have been added to the code because EA plans to add it either into the objective kind of season progress path or it's a part of foot birthday swaps or it might be a part of, I don't even know the moment store, right? So I think that pack code could be upcoming pretty soon. Remember last time we had the future stars Balungun inside of season progress, maybe they'll give us a foot birthday player inside of season progress today. So watch out for those rewards, hopefully there's something nice in there. And then the super loans, I mean, the super loans are not super useful for a lot of us unless they're really good players, but I would imagine these are gonna be somehow tied into objectives as they have been in the past times we've seen super loan players. Now I mentioned fodder one more time and I do want to mention this again, high rated fodder is going up, we're holding that, right? We mentioned that low rated fodder as well. Again, like we said, with nothing impacts at the moment, unless you see that there is going to be a re-release of special cards, impacts, and that sort of thing is gonna be going on. I think I would just keep holding on to your fodder. It seems very, very expensive, but that's what it's gonna take. I mean, 84s guys are 7,000 coins. Ben Yetter is 7K, 7.3K, that's crazy. He's shown as the cheapest 84 right now on footbin. I mean, I know this is very, very tempting to sell these cards and if you wanna take the cash you can because 7K for 84s is actually ridiculous. 83s is about, they're about 3,500 coins as well. That's big time profit for that low tier fodder. And I know that the 83 times 10 and the, what is it, the campaign player pick are not gonna last forever. Those are going to expire. So maybe in the lower tier fodder, you can take your coins, but yeah, for the higher tier stuff, keep holding because hopefully today, we get a player of the month in Bape. Watch out for leaks for that as well. That should be a part of our Thursday content today or could be. It might not be released today. If it's not released today, don't panic. Don't worry. High rated fodder is gonna do great with these icon SBC that is out here and with the potential of that in Bape, it's gonna keep doing great. So keep that high rated fodder, keep holding on to it. One other player of the month that we could see today is Bundesliga because Julian Brandt is gonna be expiring himself. I did that SBC a while back. That player of the month is expiring today and I think we might have a new one released either today or tomorrow. So watch out for that. And marquee matchups today with the new season. I mean, that's really all to expect today with that updated loading screen and maybe some news about the Foot Ballers promo. But drop your opinions down below. What do you think of Foot Ballers? What do you think of the news? How do you feel about it? I know it's not Foot Birthday, but we'll see how it actually plays out on this game. If you're excited for that promo, hit the thumbs up. Again, comment down below your thoughts and opinions and questions. And of course, subscribe if you are new. I'll see you guys on the Twitch stream today. It's been Nate the Foot Account and catch you guys there. Peace out.