 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We are approaching a massive weekend on EAFC 24, not because of a new promo coming or new content that's expected, but because of a gameplay piece that is finally gonna become available, and that is Foot Champs. Guys, we have the first Foot Champs of the year, and I think it's so important for you to get qualified and to get into this weekend's competition. It's gonna help out your ultimate team a ton. I wanna break that down on why that's the case in today's video. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's look at yesterday's content really quick before we get into that discussion about Foot Champs. Yesterday, we actually had some decent content, not because all the SBCs were great, but at least we had multiple SBCs, one of which is seen in a very positive light, and that is Francis Coughlin, a live Road to the Knockouts Europa League SBC player. He is pretty good statistically. Four-star week, foot medium, high work rates. He's pretty short, five foot nine, only one play style. I think there's some positives to this card. I also think it's just kind of mid as well. Some of the stats look a little bit mid. Some of those, obviously only having one play style is a bit mid, in my opinion. Will he get some upgrades? Potentially, the biggest W about this card is, he is a French midfielder in La Liga, which is amazing for Lynx and squad building, and he's also only 46,000 coins, and a lot of people are doing this SBC. I might be one on the, I guess the small portion of the crowd that says that they don't like this SBC. I think it's just kind of mid. I'm not gonna do this SBC. I think the fodder is not worth this card's time. I just don't see this card being super usable for like more than another two weeks in this game. That's my personal opinion, but for 40K, you could do a lot worse SBCs, and of course he does have the nice Lynx. Now, because this SBC was dropped, and it is very favorable, you see 1,900 people uploading this SBC, you saw a lot of midfielders drop in price yesterday, and also a lot of players that link to Cochlan go up. Frankie DeYoung has the cards down a lot right now. He was 70,000 coins when all of it on a 63K is now back to about 65,000 coins. I'm hoping that some of these midfielders, especially the top tier rare and meta ones, actually have a bit of a bounce back, kind of like we had, remember when the Kudus SBC was dropped and Diabi and Informed Dooku dropped off a bunch in price. It was on Saturday. Yeah, these guys went from 55K down to 44,000 coins, but look at Diabi over these past couple of days. He's come right back to the mid 50K range. I'm hoping some of the same thing happens with a guy like DeYoung and some of the other midfielders that dropped a lot in price yesterday on this game. It might not happen, but it could. So that's where I'm seeing a lot of market movement right now, especially with this Cochlan SBC. Now, road to the knockouts, there's a lot moving there too. We'll talk about that a little bit later, but that SBC, again, I'd give that like a seven, maybe an eight out of 10. I just think for those of you that are doing it, he needs to get upgrades quickly. He needs to get upgrades really both of the upgrades, right? He needs to get a plus two, which is semi favorable for the way they're sitting right now in the Europa League. He needs those upgrades though, for him to be a usable card for at least a month or so into this game, into the future. Now, other SBC we had yesterday was an 83 plus upgrade pack, which we'll be able to do again today. Guys, 82 rated squad requirement for this. It really is not that great a value, but a lot of us have 82 sitting around in the club. I did this yesterday. The pack weight actually seemed really bad. I mean, I was not a fan of that. I think I got an 83 rated card from it, was not a big fan of the pack weight. I know it is a chance at packing something great though, right? And there's a lot of cards now with having, of course, a promo team in packs. You've got a new team of the week that's coming out today. That 83 plus pack will be an SBC that a lot of people want to go and do, but it's definitely not worth it. It's just kind of a fun game able to do if you have some 82s in your club. Now, let's get to the big conversation. This weekend, especially impacting the market, but really your ultimate team, my ultimate team, a lot of us have the chance to get a lot of coins this weekend through the biggest competition that runs on the weekend's footchamps, guys. The weekend league as it is called. If you've been grinding division rivals, you've been working on these qualification points to get yourself the opportunity to play in champs playoffs, which then you play and all you have to do is win four games and 10 from that. And even if you don't get it the first time around, you can actually get another shot at it. I'd like to make that known as well. A lot of people forget that if you don't qualify, you can technically qualify again. It's just you have to play a lot more rivals to get your qualification points up, but all of that work to get qualified for footchamps. And guys, this weekend is the first champs, right? Of course, it was delayed. We saw the counter counting down to last weekend. Didn't make sense. It's right counting down to this weekend. Guys, the rewards this year are different. And I think it actually, while you may compare to last year and say, ah, Nate, it's actually worse than last year, I think some of these rewards, not including the tradable team of the weeks, but instead including 85 plus packs as tradable rewards, it gives you the potential of getting something even better than last year. Now, also at the same time, this is the biggest and best competition every single week going from here forward for you to basically upgrade your ultimate team via doing SBCs, via just getting coins and players from packs. Rank five, which is 11 wins, the most popular finishing position in the footchampions weekend league. This year for the rewards, you get 30,000 coins, which is massive. The coin injection that is gonna happen to this market on the weekend is gonna be crazy. 30,000 coins to get for that. Don't write this off, by the way. 1,300 XP, that's pretty massive. A 125K pack, which is about, what? Let's say 30,000 coins worth of untradable value just from packing one or two halfway, maybe 84s or 85s in an ultimate pack. And then also all the quick sale value from everything else inside of it, that's probably about 30,000 coins back from that pack. A 50K pack, which you can probably at least expect to see 15 to 20,000 coins back from as well, let's just say 15 for good measure. So right now we're up to 75,000 coins of value. And then this is the new change for this year. There's no red picks and there's no tradable team in the week, it is just three, one of four. This is for rank five, untradable, 84 plus rare gold players which is better player picks in last year and really good fodder, by the way. I think I prefer this over the team of the week red picks personally. But then also an 85 times two rare gold players pack and guys, that's tradable. And as you look through some of the other ranks, it just gets better. Rank three, you get an 85 times three and an 85 times two, a 100 and a 125K pack and 85,000 coins, which is an increase for coins from rank three from last year. Even if you go all the way down to rank six and seven, you get an 85 plus pack for rank six, a 50K and an ultimate pack, that is much better rewards. Last year, if you like Nate, I can barely qualify for week in league. Why is it worth the stress? It's worth the stress because you could potentially make 100, 200, 300,000 coins. One pack pull from week in league rewards makes all the difference. I mean, you're guaranteed to make 50, 60K if you get nine wins in week in league. If you get six wins in week in league, which is rank seven, you're getting a one of two 84 plus. You get two 84 plus cards, a 50 and a 100K pack and 15K coins. You're probably making 40K off of this. Like 50,000 coins potentially. Obviously the ceiling is, the sky's the limit, right? You could pack promo cards for this and make hundreds of thousands of coins. Guys, this competition is the cream of the crop competition and it is the best place to be involved. And I think it's so much worth your time. If you've been grinding rivals, it's so much worth your time because of the coin injection and the facilities that you will have after playing this competition to upgrade your team. It's gonna put you so much further ahead and give you all those coins to go then and buy players for your team to upgrade your squad. And I think that's why it's so important. I think it's so important to be grinding those games. I know a lot of us doing evolutions, that is a big draw to the game right now. But the fact that you could potentially pack, we don't know what's gonna be in packs technically after six PM on Friday as when a lot of people will be playing for champs. But whether it's road to the knockouts team too or whether we have a different promo that is incoming, we might learn a bit more about that today on Wednesday. I really think guys that it's worth your time because of all the tradable rewards that are being added in this year. Now, some people might say, mate, taking the team of the week tradable packs away is actually an L, isn't it? Because you're maybe making less coins. I think maybe on average, you might make maybe 10,000 coins less per week because you're missing out on a couple of disc card informs. But at the same time, the sky, like the ceiling for what you could pack out of those 85 plus packs is higher because now you're gonna include promo cards that could be packed in those and in Bape, I mean, I don't know about 85 plus packs. Could they contain heroes or icons? Usually those rating specific packs don't, but you never know with some packs like that from Weekend League, you just never know. So I think it's worth the grind guys and that's why I wanted to spend time talking about it in this video. If you are unmotivated to try to get there or if you're like, Nate, the rivals grind is getting to me. We've got today on Wednesday, right? To get your rivals rewards, I gotta get another win and I gotta win more than just one game because I'm gotta work up to my qualification points amount to get into play playoffs and to get into the Weekend League. Now also with the Weekend League, you think about the market a lot because it's like, well, people wanna have the best teams to compete in the Weekend League at the highest level possible. And let's talk about the market guys because yesterday on Tuesday was a pretty crazy day. Now, a lot of prices really didn't move a whole lot. We talked about the midfielders that dropped off a lot, right, like D'Young was a card that dropped off a lot yesterday, Chalmany was a card that dropped, but of course, that's because people were doing the Cochlan, SBC, that's a direct replacement, a substitute for him. Trying to look through a few other cards that I know that dropped, I think Modric dropped yesterday. I think actually Llorente dropped because he can play center mid. Now, Jude is up, there was a couple of reasons for that. But for the market is in a general sense, a lot of prices are just kinda in the same, right? We just looked at Messi, he's 190,000 coins. Yesterday on Tuesday, he started the day at 190K, he ended the day at 190,000 coins. A lot of the market's still up, right? Kyle Walker's another example we've been looking at. Kyle Walker's still almost 130,000 coins, which he basically is, bar that 125 undercut. That's kinda the same place that he was to start the day yesterday. So, the real question is, what's gonna happen to the market today, tomorrow? I think it's gonna be kinda the same thing. You're gonna have some prices for certain cards that maybe move around because of an SBC or maybe we do get a little bit of a supply SBC today, that UEFA market matchups that we talked a lot about yesterday still could potentially happen today on this game. It's dropped on Wednesdays before. But I honestly think the market's gonna be either staying the same or maybe just dropping a hair, right? Maybe just a couple cards dip in price from where they have been. Now, other cards went up yesterday too. Griezmann, he's maybe down a couple thousand coins right now, but he went up yesterday from about 99K, 100K flat to about 110 because of the release of the clock with an SBC. There were other cards that had movements like that. Ferland Mendy was one of them, obviously with the French links. Now, Jude Bellingham is moving up because people I think expect him to get into team of the week today. And if he doesn't get into team of the week, he's playing insane anyway, so he's gonna have to get some other sort of card. Right, we saw Europa League, Conference League and Champions League player of the match cards. That card design was added to the code. Now, we haven't actually seen it in game. So maybe that's something that's coming later on, but Jude is after yesterday's game and just with how he's been playing in general going crazy. So I think a lot of people are investing in his card for a potential rise in price for a team of the week today. But if you bought cards for your team and they're up in value from where you bought them, I think I would just continue holding, use that team, use those players that you're enjoying and get those rewards that you can get with the best squad that you can possibly get. Now, one thing I will say is with Cacolin dropping yesterday, let's move into a little bit of like trading conversation here. If you're trying to make coins right now, Cacolin SBC made shadows basically go extinct. I think they were extinct at one point here in the late night hours. They've started to get listed up. They're about max price, 5,000 coins for all shadows. What that has done is it has created an opportunity for you and me to trade with cards with those chemistry styles because now instead of going and paying what, two or three K for a shadow to go put on whatever card you want to go put it on, right now some of these cards and this is a trading opportunity that will probably form more over today, maybe tomorrow and into the weekend if the shadows stay expensive is, people are going to say, I don't want to go try to snipe a shadow if they stay extinct at 5,000 coins. I'd rather go buy the card with the chemistry style already applied and that is a trading method that might work a little bit better today, tomorrow than it did previously because those shadows are more difficult and more expensive to find on the market. So people just say, let me go buy the player with the chemistry style already applied. So that's kind of a market synopsis of what's going on right now. Now yesterday, how did I make some coins? We talked about it in yesterday's video, road to the knockouts. They're going to be moving more today, guys. There's still fluctuations on the market every which way in direction. Focus on the rare. If you have more than 100,000 coins, focus on the cards that are rare, especially out of packs cards like Nike Mad Ready cards like this Kiesa, he fluctuates a lot of price every single day. BVD moves up and down. Sam Kerr who I flipped, it moves up and down. Team of the week one, I bought a doku yesterday at 58K right around the content drop time right here. Bottom at 58K. He went all the way back to like 63, 64. Right now he's like 64,000 coins. That's not a lot of profit but if you buy a couple of those, you can make some flips. It's really easy to get those flips moving especially on the out of packs cards and icons guys too. Canavaro is an icon that I was watching yesterday. You can buy him in like 400,000 coins and you can see here he gets rare and goes up to prices of upwards of like 430, 440K. You can make 10 to 15K per card on some of those. Bomb Pastore as a hero card yesterday was down at 100 and like 5K at the content drop on snipe right here. Went back up to almost 120. McMahonman, I mean guys, the list goes on of all of these cards that you could go and search up from heroes and from icons. McMahonman was 140 yesterday and now he's 155, 160. So the flipping is good. The market is moving. There are cards that are fluctuating but I think these cards are what a lot of people are interested in right now as well. And yesterday we mentioned Benucci in the video. We mentioned that this Benucci card is a live item that might have some price movements and we specifically said yesterday to sell in the hype. And if you didn't sell in the hype, this was a learning opportunity because Benucci and Berlin ended up losing the game. So instead of going upwards in price, he actually ended up going down because they lost the game. And that happened in a lot of places yesterday. Oseman because of their loss, Bruno Fernandez because of United's loss and Saka because of Arsenal's loss are down bad in value. Even a card that actually had a winning performance yesterday, Lamer is 220,000 coins. Like if I didn't have coins and other stuff right now in my transfer list, I bought some of those midfielders that I hope can rebound back. I would so be buying a card like this Lamer because it just, every time these players play, we said it in yesterday's video, I'm gonna echo it again for today. If you have anybody that is playing in a match today, which would be Erling Holland, Openda, who else didn't play? Kalulu is gonna be playing today. DePaul, Weefer can't really go anywhere because he's discard value. But anybody who's playing today, guys, sell into the hype of the game or at least if you wanna risk it a little bit, sell while the game is going on, but then get out of the card before the game is over because after the games and even if the players win, these cards go down because people are trading with them. They're hoping that the cards go up and they just don't after the games. That's just a trend that we've noticed for the past couple of years. So during the games though, they're great to trade with. I bought Oseman right when Napoli scored the first goal for 650K, sold them for 740 literally minutes after that. That was a good flip. I bought two Mertens for the low 30s, right? Mertens ended up going to 40K plus. He was 40,000 coins, I believe, after the full-time whistle when they scored the third goal for the United game. And look where he is right now, back down to 32K. Will he go back up? Maybe a little bit. The only other problem is for a lot of these cards, the upgrades or the next games aren't happening for like three weeks, right? That's why I sold the Mertens. I bought a bunch of Machado yesterday, Lens, Shocked Arsenal, sorry if any Arsenal fans, beating them two to one. This guy went to 14K, right? I bought eight Machados and as they scored that second goal to go ahead. I bought eight of these cards at 12,250 or below. So I'm not making a lot of coins here, but I sold them all at 14K right as the final whistle sounded because I knew that he was gonna be dropping back down in price, which he is. He's right now 11, 12,000 coins. He might go back up a little bit, but guys, I would not invest in these cards for the long term just yet. Maybe a card like this that is around this card, okay, there's not a whole lot of risk there, but I do still think that some of these cards are overpriced and they have been overpriced and with the games that have been happening yesterday, it really started to bring the prices down. Opendous, 225, right? That's a big drop in price for him. Like a card like Lamer being in 214, I would feel a lot more comfortable investing in a card like that. Now after they secured a win, he's one step closer to an upgrade and everything are pointing positively towards him whereas other of these cards, I still feel like they're overpriced, but in general, I don't think I'm gonna be investing in these guys too much right now. If they drop at all, maybe today and Wednesday or tomorrow, maybe you put one or two in the team, but for live cards, it's always a bit risky. They usually do end up rising pretty well because they are alive, but with the upgrades being so far away, maybe we have a team two coming out with more live cards that could shake some things up. I think I'm gonna pass for right now on some of these. Maybe my opinion will change tomorrow, but the biggest lesson learned is sell into the hype with these cards and sell before the game is over for like literally every single one of them because they drop off post game all the time. But again, watch the players that are playing today, Openda, watch his card for sure, Kalulu, if there's an upset or especially for the teams that are favored to win, those have the biggest drop offs if they don't win, right? Bruno Fernandez yesterday was 700,000 coins when United was winning. And now Bruno I think is rebounding back up a little bit. He's about 450K. These card prices will fluctuate a lot. Like the Lamer that we were just looking at, he's dropping down from 300,000 coins. I bought Wengish, they had 280, sold it at just shy of 310. He's right now back to 219, but this card was 214 about an hour ago. He might go to 250 again today. Like these guys will fluctuate if you time it right. You see how rare he is? He might go all the way back up to about 250K. There's gonna be fluctuations. If you time it right, that's some of the best ways to make coins, but it is difficult, right? It is very difficult to trade with those. So my best advice for you is, if you invest in a card and it goes up before the game, if Openda rises today before the game, sell into the hype. Don't risk it. Take the easy cash and then buy back in later on if the price, even if they win, like they pull off an upset and the card price goes up, the card price will come back down before it starts to rise again as these guys always drop after the game. But it is very risky guys. Those road to the knockouts are so fun to trade with but they are 100% the cards that lose people on this game, the most coins every single year. Because people hold on and of course, everybody's like, no, I wanna get out. I want my coins after a game, especially if a team loses, the investment comes with a lot of risk. So divert all that risk, sell in the hype and you don't have to worry about it as much. Now really quickly, today's content on Wednesday, what else could we have, right? We mentioned it again, maybe that you waive from Archie Matchups' SBC that could bring supply. Yesterday was a pretty good content day. I'm expecting, it seems like we're kind of on a method of like one day's good, the next day's pretty slow, right? You know, Monday was really slow. Hopefully today, in terms of the market, I hope today's actually a bit of a slower day. It might actually help some things rise back up in price a little bit. I'm saying that as all of my, except for 148K, all of my 1.5 mil coins are invested in stuff right now for quick flips and hopefully for a bit of a bounce back. But we could get supply today, that could happen. New team of the week is gonna be coming out today as well. That'll be interesting as new team of the week cards are always really good to trade with. That also means that team of the week, number two is going out of packs. If you've got any investments there, I did pick up a Harry Kane yesterday at like 129K. He's about 140 right now, so not a big rise. But that's a card that I could see moving up just because he's rare, it's Harry Kane. Got that 70 pace, he's got 94 shooting. And it's a rare card in general as we head towards the weekend week. That's a card that I think I might hold on to a little bit if you invested in Metoma or Tolisco or Cancelo. Those cards be careful with, but hopefully they should continue to rise today. And guys, we really don't have any other leaks. The other thing, again, we shouted in yesterday's video that could be content that we see soon is more foundations, right? You've got the squad foundations players like we have Benini and we have Leroy Fair. We got some of these other players in here. I would expect to see Liga, NWSL, we've got the Saudi League and like we mentioned yesterday, MLS and you know, even a couple other leaks that could be featured as a part of squad foundations and those seem to come on kind of a quieter days of content. So we'll see if we get anything along those lines. Some people have been asking about native. We're gonna get Silver Stars. I don't know about Silver Stars, rightfully because EA said that all team leaks are gonna be 80 plus in the team of the week. And there is a Silver Team of the week card searchable in the club search. There's a design, but as of right now we have nothing, so I'm not entirely sure. We'll have to see. Last week we had the themed team pursuit which is not going away, it's still there. We'll see if EA dropped Silver Stars today. That'd be fun at least, something else to grind. And guys, they updated the game yesterday but look, my game literally just crashed right now. It didn't fix a thing, man. So very disappointed by that as I reset the game again and we reset the game so many times yesterday after EA said that was one of the things that they fix. But hopefully today is a good day on the market. We'll be making coins of course as always on the Twitch stream. If you wanna check out that link, it is down below in the description. And I will see you guys on the Twitch stream today. If you enjoyed the video today, drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan from The Count. See you guys in the stream. Peace. Out.