 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I wanna take a look ahead, even though there's a lot going on right now, I wanna take a look ahead to tomorrow on Friday for a big time SBC player of the month that could be coming out. Player of the month, Messi, could be coming out on Friday. So I wanna talk about that, talk about the SBC, possible link investments, rating of that card, how much it might cost, and of course what that could do to the market. But then also I wanna circle back and talk about rewards today. We're heading into rewards. Fodder has dropped off a little bit. People are waiting for their rewards to go out and do that base or mid icon player pick pack. We have got upgrades on price ranges and our first ever what if card being upgraded and Babu has been out and upgraded. They finally boosted Holland to a 90 as well. So I wanna talk about that. So there's a lot going on in the video today. So buckle in, get ready. I got the polo on, right? We mean business. Let's talk about Player of the Month, Messi, because every time there's an SBC for Messi in this game, there's people that are interested in it and there's always people that wanna complete it. Now, Messi is in the voting. It's behind my face game, you can't see it. I've shown you guys this screen before. This voting finished, I think, at the end of the month. On the 28th, I think it's closed. And usually looking back, both El Nezri and Asbas, the last two La Liga Player of the Months were released on Friday. So with that expectation in mind, we are expecting Player of the Month, Messi, to drop tomorrow. Now, of course, Messi this year has got three special cards. He's got the Inform, the team of the group stage, and the team of the year. Now, last year, we had a Player of the Month, Messi, as well. It was this 96-rated right-wing card. And this was a very highly-towed at SBC, because this was the first ever Messi-SBC to grace FIFA. The first ever Messi Player of the Month, first ever Messi-SBC. Now, the only issue with this was, last year we had a 95-rated Inform, a 95-team of the year nominee, and a 96-rated team of the group stage. And I've seen a lot of concept cards for this Player of the Month, Messi, this one included, and they're giving him a 96. This year though, just like last year, it looks like EA could either go one or two ways here. EA could either make Player of the Month, Messi a 95 and equal the rating of the team of the group stage, or they can make it 96 and up that by one. I honestly don't know what makes the decision here. Maybe it's just if they know they're gonna give Messi more special cards throughout the rest of the year. Of course, last year we got that team of the season card. He did get his shapeshifters, and he got a second Player of the Month along with the team of the week moments. But when EA released this SBC in December, they definitely weren't thinking about having to do the whole team of the week moments stuff with COVID that went on. So I think this year, I could very easily see EA going both ways, either 95 or 96 rated, but I wanna do point one thing out. Messi, and this goes for all Player of the Months, not just Messi, this concept card here is shown as a center forward, but Messi's Player of the Month most likely will be a right wing because when they release Player of the Months, they usually put them out in the position that their base card is in. So Messi PLTM should be a right wing. Now again, whether you think it's gonna be 95 or 96, I do think that impacts the price. Fodder's very expensive at the moment, right? We all know it's expensive because of that mid-prime pack. We'll talk about that. But with this SBC in mind from last year, the 96 Messi and knowing what these informs and what this team, the group stage and the team of the year cost right now on FIFA for FIFA 21, I think that EA could kind of go either way here with how they price Messi. And I also think it'll give us a little glimpse into the future of what they maybe even plan to do with SBC fodder. So right now, again, this Messi team, the group stage card is about 1.7 million coins. It has dropped off a lot with the market as a whole, has dropped off a lot of panic selling, a lot of crashing going on on this game right now. But I think people are starting to sell off this Messi a little bit because they expect Player of the Months coming on Friday. I think if they make Messi a 95 rated right wing, you will probably see that SBC somewhere priced between 1.75 and like 2.25 mil. That's my opinion, right? I think if it is a 95 right wing, EA never make these cheap, right? Last year, the Messi 96 rated Player of the Month when it was released was 2.1 million coins. It dropped down to 1.8, 2.1 and it's kind of flutter between 1.8 to 2.1 while it was out. I believe that was about the same price or around the same price as this 96 Messi that was out too. So in December, this Messi was like 2.1, December 20th is when that card came out which is around the same time that this one came out. He was 2.1 on December 12th. So this SBC was just a smidge cheaper than that 96 Team the Groupsage card. But I think this year with how expensive SBC fodder is, you're gonna see the Messi SBC be a little bit more expensive than this current Team the tournament, Team the Groupsage Messi because think about it this way, right? This also might give us a little bit of a plan or a little bit of like a future and some insight onto what EA plans to do with SBC fodder because they know this is gonna be a big SBC. If they make Messi cheap, right? Cheap for right now, like 1.5 mil is what I would kind of say would be cheap. If they make him 95 or 96 rated, if it's a 96 rated card under two mil, that's in my opinion kind of a W with how expensive SBC fodder is right now. And if they make a 95 rated Messi under like 1.6 basically cheaper than this card, then I think that means EA will look to keep fodder higher for like the next month because they know if fodder drops off a decent amount. I mean, right now, we have 86 rated cards in this game, right? I look at the 86s all the time. These are kind of like the middle ground for SBCs because they're smack dab in the middle. Some people use them for 84 squads. Some people use them in 89 squads. These 86 rated cards, Thomas Muller is 39 or 40,000 coins, 40K. These guys were higher a couple of days ago too. Yesterday, 40K for Muller. Can we just look at his graph for a second and can I tell you, you guys know how high this is, but this dude was 25K last week and that was even pretty high. Now imagine if SBC fodder dropped back down to like, these 86s were back down at like 30,000 coins. And you talk about all other high rated fodder right now that is through the freaking roof. You look at 91 rated cards that are 135K, that used to be like 80 or 90,000 coins Oblak was 85K last week and we were like, wow, that's pretty expensive. Imagine what that would do to a messy player of the month card if they released this messing is worth two million coins right now, how much cheaper he would be worth throughout his 30 day time period if fodder were to drop off. So we might be able to kind of figure out what EA is gonna do with fodder or what they plan to do with it as a whole over the next month by how much this messy player of the month costs. So that's gonna be the most interesting thing to me on Friday, but regardless if you wanna do messy player of the month I do not think fodder can withstand this high of a price that long. Again, with more promos coming out every Friday we don't have mid-icom player picks. This is a brand new SBC that we've never seen before. I do think fodder is gonna settle off maybe not back down for like 20,000 coins for 86s but maybe 86 is going back to 30K I think is pretty legitimate and pretty reasonable. So that would make me think that if you're wanting to do player of the month messy you wanna wait as long as possible to do it. But that also makes me think EA might over price it. Now I guess if we wanna talk really quick about what's gonna happen if they release messy people are gonna go out and link invest right away. This is gonna be the first card they go ahead and try to buy up because messy of course should be a right wing. Even if he's a center forward you might see other Barcelona links go up. You'll see like the young special cards go up maybe like Usman then Bailey freeze. Cards like that could rise up a little bit instantly on Friday when that SBC is released but I will say if it's a really outrageously priced messy you probably won't see much more of a longevity on a rise on these cards. It might just be a quick up. People realize oh the SBC is too expensive so then they go and sell their link investments that they just made. But I'm not gonna be link investing for this and unless it's somebody like you know your 100% guaranteed you're gonna do player of the month messy then that's the only reason that I would say you wanna buy a card like this if you're gonna have destined messy in your team for the rest of the year. So that's kind of what I have to talk about the messy SBC. I feel like it's gonna be interesting to see what EA does with that and I'm curious to know what they're gonna price it at what the rating they're gonna give him and yeah I'm honestly really curious to see that SBC. Now of course he did get into team of the week this week and we did have a brand spanking new team of the week that was released today on FIFA. I wanna talk about that just for a second. We're gonna see these guys get packed a lot during rewards. Levin Dossi is 524 that's actually crazy cause I sold one today at 670K. I bought him during the fourth or fifth hour that he was out in packs. I got him right here at about 600K sold him at 670 and now he's back down to 520. That was a really nice flip right there but this team of the week is just pretty average right? There's Gareth Bale which is dope wants to watch upgrade on him. No Goretzka this week we were maybe even looking for Osman Dembele we did not get that. This Boadu card is 100,000 coins right now. I think he is massively overpriced he's gonna be dropping 100%. I know there's a lot of links right now to the AirDivisi but I think this is one of those cards that people are just trying to snipe up and keep extinct even though he has a lot of hype I expect him to drop down with rewards today and if he manages to stay extinct at 100K that's crazy but I think that car will start to drop off here before rewards since they haven't updated the price range and that's just one thing people like to do this year is they like to snipe in forms and make them extinct first day to hope that EA updates the price range and then they can artificially increase that card's price I don't understand but it's something that we've seen a lot of this year I think a lot of trading groups are trying to do but the next thing we gotta talk about is these freaking what if cards man these what if cards are they gonna get supplied at rewards today I think they are a little bit but honestly after rewards I do think you will see people going and investing into some of these as we head out people who have completed their icon player pick pack already if they're going to do it or if they're not gonna do it at all they know that these are live cards and live cards get invested in a lot to go out of packs and they usually do pretty well out of packs because again a lot of these cards look like they're going to get upgraded smalling is literally at the lowest price he has been since the first hour of lightning rounds when he came into packs because of the Roma non clean sheet today 662 I do think you'll see some of these guys kind of bounce back Sancho I have my eyes on Papu Gomez I got my eyes on Odegaard on three goals Le Melu is on four goals right now he all he really needs is nice to score two more goals in the next game and this guy is getting upgraded I believe he's on four goals yeah they scored two goals in their first game two goals yesterday so he's on four again Sancho is on three and Babu got upgraded and this is the point I want to talk about right now this in Babu card just like we had with the headliners and the headliner streaks if you search for him Babu under the what if filter you're not going to find him right and Babu is not going to show up unless they like somehow fix this which I don't think they would have this is not like the what if upgraded card right you can see on the quality it doesn't have the two arrows as white so this is not the updated version so if you want to find him Babu on the market you have to do it as the old way we used to do before all these quality filters and FIFA in and you have to actually search by the special quality and then use a price range so in Babu got a price upgrade tonight they double this price range up to a million coins he dipped down to about 440K went to 480 and is now back down to 450 so he's fluctuating a lot yes this card does look absolutely cracked but also a lot of people I think are scared to buy into this because rewards is coming soon but also there's a lot of hype to try this card out because he does look pretty cracked it does look pretty good and it looks like he's getting bought up around 440,000 coins at the moment people are saying they want to use this guy at center back which is crazy but I guess you could that's just the meta this year fullbacks at center back but I think I originally thought this guy was going to be above 500K when the price range was updated but my thoughts on that quickly faded after we had the mid prime pick released earlier this week because that really just destroyed the whole market and I did think that this guy was going to drop after they updated the price range after we saw all that whole market stuff go down with that mid prime so I'm not surprised by this at all but it is nice to see our first card upgraded and it is nice to know the time frame that they upgraded these what if cards on as well they did not upgrade Marcelo now Marcelo clinched his upgrade earlier yesterday on Wednesday with a clean sheet but he did not get upgraded so we will look to next week a week from yesterday so six days from now is when we will see that Marcelo upgraded most likely and hopefully through the weekend we see a couple more of these cards upgraded as well whether that's because of clean sheets or because of more goals being scored and stuff like that so that's one thing we're really watching for today and one thing we want to keep our eyes on I know that there's a lot of hype right now again on this SBC right here it's the mid or prime player pick a lot of you guys are maybe even waiting for rewards right if we take a look at the indexes really fast I'll use this tab to look at the index 86 we did see SBC fodder drop off a lot today and it's still kind of going down until rewards but here's the thing we talked about this on stream today I even talked about it in my video yesterday about Thursday flipping I actually think that when rewards hits yes you will have some pack supply but the people that will be there will be people that want to invest because more supply will be coming for high-rated unless EA juice rewards this is what I see happening and EA can juice rewards whenever they want right that's a variable that we live with every single week they could juice rewards and that will maybe drop some fodder down and then it would rise back up as people go and complete that mid-prime pick SBC but at rewards time you're gonna have people investing in fodder because they think it's gonna go up because people are gonna complete that SBC and also people that will be opening their rewards getting SBC fodder and being tempted and wanting to go and finish having more coins and more fodder in their club to go and finish that player pick SBC so I've actually bought a few fodder players they're on my transfers right now I bought some 87 yurises because he was down around 50,000 coins and he was 62k earlier today so that's why I bought a little bit of him Sterling at 67k honestly looks pretty low too I'm honestly a fan of looking into the stuff before rewards and taking a bit of a risk because I know there's still a lot of demand post rewards the only thing that worries me just a slight bit is that there's still maybe the amount of people that are still waiting to do this SBC is less than I originally thought but I think right now there's still a lot of people that are wanting to do this SBC and they're gonna be doing it after they get their rewards or after they get coins from opening rewards so that's why I'm invested in a little bit of fodder because I saw how high it went yesterday and I feel like the hype here isn't 100% done and of course one thing we have to think about today is we should get you not you wait for market matchups but regular market matchups that could impact the market a little bit in terms of SBC fodder with supply so that's one it kind of squishes us into a short timeframe where usually market matchups brings a decent amount of supply so unless EA dropped some sort of player SBC today or another pack SBC like an 85 times five or some sort of pack like that with a new set of market matchups coming out you might see fodder dip back down later in the day today as well so that's one thing to kind of be mindful of and to be I guess watching out for today on the market now of course I'm looking at a couple icons a couple of these other out of pack special cards that I think could look pretty nice for a small rise after rewards I'm not expecting a big rise but since so many people are like scared to invest right now there might be just normal people buying some teams or buying some cards to play with and nobody's gonna be wanting to buy those cards or to invest in them so you'll literally have like no competition on the market which you know that creates a scenario where you could make some Thursday flipping profits so I'm gonna keep an eye on some really, really meta players and some really rare cards as well as you see me looking at Kane I love trading with this Kane card that Rashford card, I'm a big fan of watching him fluctuate so we'll watch some open bids before rewards maybe look at some icons, see what happens watch this team of the week as well I do feel like that Levandosky that I sold today at 670 I know that was very high and it was a one time thing but I think this guy is pretty cheap I honestly do Levandosky's informs are always cheap just because he isn't the most meta card but this guy being 520k before rewards already even though this should drop further kind of makes me curious to see what's gonna happen after rewards or even during rewards as people open their team of the week packs and stuff like that so I'm gonna keep an eye on this card obviously it'll be very rare he will fluctuate a lot he's Bayern, he's one of the best strikers in the world so he does have some demand but one other thing to be on the watch for today would be potential and I'm gonna say it and I'm not saying it's guaranteed but if EA are really trying to take coins off this game maybe they don't drop a player SBC today but maybe they bring back icon SBCs you know they used to do throwback Thursdays that used to be what we had on Thursdays and Feefield was icon SBCs coming back on Thursdays I'm not sure if they're gonna do that today it's been like what 52 days since we had icon SBCs released crazy hopefully they do release some of those we'll see there's potential for it not guaranteed right but every day further we go beyond having no icon SBCs there's just a little bit of potential so we'll see if that happens today or potentially one of those pack SBCs or something like that also EA have they're kind of all over the place sometimes with the second week of promos but definitely keep an eye out for a potential loading screen today with new promo players on it for what if team two because we are expecting a what if team two and that loading screen if they were going to drop one could either come at the content drop today on Thursday or possibly two to three hours afterwards sometimes they've been doing those delayed loading screens so definitely keep an eye out for that as well but of course this was our new objective player from yesterday I wanted to shout this really fast they're already on two goals right six goals to upgrade this card now I don't I would think he would get a plus two just like all the other ones but since he's a silver is the boost any higher like EA if you wanted to boost this to an 81 like or a 78 I don't know that'd be cracked so I think it probably goes to a 74 but Leo is already on two goals after their game yesterday so that card is out for a few days but if they keep scoring it might have already been upgraded before the objective ends which is kind of crazy and if you want to do a last second buzzer beater caputo objective which expires on Friday Sasuello I think right now is on three goals three or four goals it might be actually just three because they played Napoli today it was a three three game so they're already halfway to getting upgraded this card to an 89 which would be nice SPC fodder four sure so that's the video for today boys right we talked about that player the month messy today on Thursday on the market it's gonna be a wild one there's potential to make a lot of coins it's gonna be really interesting to see where that demand is at but I think people seeing that this SPC has dropped about a hundred K in value themselves getting rewards and being able to do this or finish off this SPC I do think since it's an SPC you kind of like work towards right this is almost an icon SPC that you have to like take three to four to five days to try to craft your way towards it or to get enough players to do it with rewards and coins and stuff so I think you will see a decent amount of demand for this SPC again because again the picks have been interesting right some are cracked some are not cracked so that's gonna be a lot of what goes on today but of course player the month messy tomorrow we're gonna keep an eye out for that and hopefully we get some cool content on Thursday that we can interact with as well but if you guys enjoyed this video smash the thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan with a count and I will catch you guys later peace out