 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. The big upgrades came yesterday on those fantasy FC cards that we were looking for. But EA made things interesting with some big mistakes that actually led to cards going up on the market. Over a million coins because people were buying them in hopes of compensation. Yeah, we're gonna break that down today. And there's more news about Ultimate Birthday Team 2, or at least the beginnings of the news. There was a player not included in Team of the Week yesterday that a lot of people thought he would be, which is leading them to think he might be in packs tomorrow with Team 2. We're gonna cover that and what else to expect today on the last day of Team 1 of Ultimate Birthday. If you're excited for today, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go into the content from yesterday really fast. Our daily Ultimate Birthday SBC player was a W as we had hoped. And it's not because it's a crazy, insane card that everybody wants to put straight into the team, but it's because it's a fun, affordable with a big upgrade type of SBC. I mean, a Harith 5 star, 5 star, he already had the skills, they gave him the weak foot, Tiki Taka Plus and Trickster Plus. The Tiki Taka is not often a playstyle plus that you see. I think it's a pretty good one, but that's just my opinion, especially for an attacking player. Like this card is, he can play on the left side and center forward. And I think his stats for a 35,000 coin SBC are really good. I mean, there's no complaints to be had about this since it's so cheap. Literally guys, at least for me, I'm looking for somewhere to put 83 rated fodder. And that is all this squad, this SBC requires an 83 squad with a team of the week. It doesn't get much easier than that. It's even downvoted on foot bin, 48% downvote, but yeah, upvoted, I guess, downvoted 52%. But that is just, that's a must do SBC with extra 83s that you get in the next couple of days. Just like sub him on as a super sub. Why not? I mean, maybe he's useful for a cup in the future. That's a card that you do really easily store away in your ultimate team. And yeah, it's affordable for basically everybody. So that's a W in my book and nothing else. We had another SBC yesterday as well that was unexpected. And I don't think it's an SBC worth completing. I'm going to be completely honest. This is the ultimate birthday 100 upgrade pack, 100 players, which sounds super crazy. Oh my gosh, 100 players in a pack sounds insane. 40 golds, 35 silvers, 25 bronze. I think this is the third or fourth time we've had this pack this year. It first came out during like the Centurions promo or something. Guys, I don't think that this SBC is worth it at all. I know that has the appeal of 100 players. Wow, only 40 of those players are gold and for two squads, both being 84 rated, one needing a team of the week for a total price of just right around 70,000 coins. I just don't think what you're getting back from this pack is even worth the gamble. I would rather do an 82 times 20. I'd rather do the 85 plus player pick instead of this with my 83, fours and fives that I had in my club. And there's really not too much else for me to say about this, except think of it this way. You can actually go and pick up three 89 rated cards right now for the same price that you can do that SBC and get yourself 153 players, albeit some of them won't be your rares like they are in that pack. But you will get 153 players that you can then put back into player picks and upgrades. Whereas in the other pack, you're only getting 40 golds. You know what I'm saying? So hey, that's what I would do if you're going to spend coins to do that SBC. Just do the 89 exchange three times because the cheapest 89s in the game are what 22,000 coins. So bang, 66 K to get those and you get 153 players. So that's my view on the whole situation right there. I think that SBC content today was just kind of average. Now also, we had the icon player pick refresh, which I'm still chipping away at the first one. Guys, this SBC is without spending coins and without getting a ton of rewards. I didn't have the best champs rewards. I didn't have the best rivals rewards today coming to me either. So it's a little bit difficult to craft, especially as I keep putting higher ratings into exchanges. And with the player pick grind and with the 82 times 20, it's not as easy to get crafted this week without the 83 times 10 there. But a lot of people were doing this yesterday, but it didn't make fodder go up that much. And I want to talk about the fodder and the market a little bit before we get into the big news from yesterday as well. The market was really quiet. If we're looking at foot birthday cards, some cards moved around here or there. I was able to sell the De Bruyne. I sniked late last night at 1.7 sold him at 1.87 or something right around those lines. Some cards are a little bit lower. Jota was down at 580. He went back to like 660. They're fluctuating a lot. This Rodrigo was down a little today. A Raoho is up. So it's a mixture of things. Saka is up. He was like 1.6. Now he's 1.9 million. Same thing with the icons, right? Some of them went downs and Brato was like 2 mil. Now he's back to 2.2. Butra had two price range updates now and he is finally on the market at 3.8 million coins. I think he had two price range updates. Yes, his final one here is at 13.3 mil. He was on the market and then he got updated again and now he's finally on the market. So that is Butra's price range at the moment. He is actually out. Schweinsteiger I think got a price range update as well for the skill moves version. Both of those items are around 450,000 coins. So all of our cards are on the market now besides Hullet. And that's because his price range is of course maxed out at 15 million coins. But it was a pretty quiet day yesterday. Even for the fodder with the icon player pick refreshing, it didn't really go up that much guys. Like the 88s, the 89s, the 90s, they're really just kind of stuck in the same areas as they were before. And I really don't think that bodes well for their prices even today with rewards coming out, which we'll talk about that impact in the market a little bit, which I don't think is going to be that crazy. But if they ran lightning rounds on Tuesday and yesterday and Wednesday, they're probably going to run lightning rounds again today on Thursday. And that's going to bring a little bit of supply, but also I just don't see a bunch of demand for this fodder today. And of course, you get into a promo Friday, people get worried about the supply of packs being opened up for the new cards that will be in packs. I would probably say if you have this fodder, it's maybe just time to get out of it because it could actually go a little bit lower this weekend as a lot of the special cards are already lower than especially the 89s and the 90s. The cheapest 90s in the market right now are Poletano and Marmouch. Marmouch, who was just upgraded and barely moved yesterday. Same thing with Candreva. They are 7,000 coins cheaper than the next gold 90 rates, which I think could actually end up pulling the gold's down a price. So that's kind of the fodder situation. It's just not that great, except if you had 84s to 86s, that part of the fodder market is flying once again. I think if you have this stuff, you probably want to sell it right after content today if you're still invested in this. But this is what a lot of people need right now to do the 8220s and all the SBCs, so that is why it is going up. Maybe we remember that for next week. That might be the better place to invest for fodder rather than a top tier because that is what is moving the most at this time. Depending upon, of course, what upgrade packs we get. Now for the meta market as well, there were a couple of big drops on some specific cards that top tier. And this does a little bit correspond to the leaks we're going to talk about in just a minute. But team of the year Holland, remember when he was 8 million coins a couple of days ago? Yeah, he went down to 6.6 million coins yesterday. He's now back up a little bit, right? When you see a big panic sell and a huge card like this, usually you do see a bit of a bounce back. But a lot of these team of the years are down bad and it's not just him. Jude Bellingham was down like crazy yesterday as well. I think it's because of what is coming of team two and at least the hype that team one has brought. No, people know that can be replicated for team two. Now, the biggest thing yesterday, we were all excited for the upgrades, right? And the stat upgrades like this 92 roll foe and my goodness, before we talk about the mistakes and all the craziness, what a card, okay? They gave her an even bigger upgrade. I think it was the shooting into dribbling than I expected. 90 pace, 89 shooting, 91 passing, 94 dribbling. This is a unbelievable card, whether you play here at left back, maybe at left wing or in the midfield. Like I think a lot of people, including myself, plan to do this roll foe card is insane and she is going to be everywhere and weak in league. Like Timo Werner already is. He got another really good upgrade, too. They gave him plus two defense this time and plus two passing, which his passing has gone from, I think it was 80 when it started off. Now it's all the way up to 88 or maybe it was 82. Now it's up to 88. Crazy boost there makes us make him a really all around top tier attacker. Now we have 98 short pass, still has a pretty low long pass stat at 75. This Werner card just keeps getting better, has one potential upgrade left for him. Porro did not get an upgrade yesterday. He did not deserve one. So if you're confused about that, Werner did get one for his third appearance. Porro only has two appearances right now. He'll get one more in their next league game. For Rich, speaking of cards in my squad, for Rich looks really good. A great SBC and then still being very lucky to pack delict. He is definitely going to be a center back. It's either him or Akaji starting in my team. I haven't really decided who I like better out of those two. But those were two of the really good upgrades right there, Werner and Rolfo. Now EA, I don't know what happened with this Gundawan card, but they gave him a massive boost, right? He got a plus two, but he got plus three pace, three defending and four physical. That is the biggest plus two upgrade they've done for any of these cards. I don't know why he got such a massive boost, but he did. Fair play to EA. We take those. This card looks unbelievable now. And he actually did end up rising in price. He's over 300,000 coins now. He was like 270 yesterday. So a big rise there. Aspas card actually looks decent too, but he's most so just fodder. Same thing with Orban dropping both those cards technically drop. So if you sold in the hype, G, G's there. Then there was plenty of other upgrades as well. And even if you're looking out for like what upgrades could still be happening this weekend, what cards are still live? Like Madsen got a really sick upgrade too. We went to a 90 rated card. He has one game left. If they score four goals, then I guess technically he, did they mess up on his card? One, one, two, three. No, they didn't. He'd go to a 91 rated card if they scored four goals. So him and Timo are kind of the same situation there. Marmouch even looks decent for a 28,000 coin striker with aerial plus and 98 pace. A lot of great cards you're out of this fantasy promo. It's really the upgrades have created some really nuts cards. Even though we knew the upgrades were going to do that, actually seeing the cards now is like, wow, it was really worth it to do this Timo, to do this Rolfo, especially for some of the cards being as cheap as they were in the SBCs. This fantasy promo is turning out to be kind of a dub for the players that were now able to rock in our teams because of the upgrades and the accomplishments that these teams have gone on to hit. And then of course upgrading those players. Now, let's talk about the craziness because it all revolves around a couple of heroes. Yaya Turei was the first one. And this was the Yaya Turei yesterday when the cards got updated. This was the Yaya Turei that was shown on on game. Yaya Turei who actually of course is not a Premier League player. He was upgrading for Barcelona guys and EA yesterday. The mistake they made was they changed the Yaya's league from La Liga to Premier League. It has now been fixed. But when this happened, everybody saw this and was like, oh my goodness, EA made a mistake. This is crazy. He got an upgrade as well, right? He went from a 90 to a 90 run rated card. Look at this graph. Bro went from 1.9 million where he is back down to now all the way up to 3.3 million. I saw a couple self like even three six. This card went crazy, crazy, crazy in price. And it was up at that price for about three hours. And it's now starting to drop after they have fixed this issue and fixed their mistake. Now, how did this happen? I don't know. Honestly, I do not know. Now, I will say one thing. It kind of feels like before in the past, there's been mistakes with like live and upgrading sorts of card. Like what did I just see right there? What did I just see right there? 1.8 mil? Wow. He's even down a ton more. They've made mistakes with live and upgrading cards before, but this one was just different because it literally gave him the prime links in game and turned them into basically his base hero card for links. And he got those really good links. So while all this was happening, people weren't just buying up the card because they're like, oh my goodness, it's Yaya, it's Prem. That's what's so hype. The reason his price went up so much is because people were reminded of this situation earlier on this year, which has happened three times. And it was the first time this year this happened. But it happened with Cruyff Thunderstruck, right? It was early on. Those who bought Cruyff Thunderstruck when it had the wrong play style plus on the card, we're going to be contacted in game and sent back their ultimate team coins. And I remember earlier on this year when that happened, it was crazy because people had actually bought Cruyff during the time and they got 6 million coins back because it was a 6 million coin card. So they got to sell the card for 6 mil and then also get 6 million on top of that. That also happened earlier on this year with like John Joe Shelby and most recently during Road to the Final with Gen Duzzi. If you guys remember that, they put him out as a Marseille player instead of, uh, no, they put him out, they put him out as a League of One player instead of Serie A Lazio, right? So they messed that up and they compensated you if you bought the player during the time that it was messed up. So everybody went out to buy this, uh, this, yeah, I got Tore and as I started to say, Wesley Schneider, both yesterday, we're starting to get invested in because Wesley Schneider also changed from La Liga. You can even see here, it's still listed up. Airdivizzy. These are the cards that were listed up before it changed. Like it's weird how when the card is still active on the transfer market before a change is actually made, it'll still show as Airdivizzy. But once this card expires and is re-listed or put into a team or whatever, then it'll change back to La Liga. It's kind of weird, but that's kind of the situation that happened yesterday with this card. So what people were doing was also with Wesley Schneider, buying his card, right? He went from 2.3 mil up to 3.2 buying his card, hoping that this sort of situation would happen again. And you're like, Nate, how does this impact me if I have less than 3 million coins? Which at the time, I did. I did not buy Yaya Toure. I did not risk it because with so many people doing that and trying to exploit this potential, it's not even a glitch. It's just like a compensation situation. I feel like that makes EA less likely to want to do it because they're probably looking at all the data right now of people that bought Yaya Toure's for 3 million, hoping that they're getting 3 million coins back. And they're like, if we do this, this is going to impact the entire market. Think about how many maybe thousands of players because when this Yaya Toure was 3 million coins, it was literally just people paying this much for it to then turn around and sell it on the market so that other people could just buy it and sell it at the same time so that they could get that transaction right on their log or whatever they were trying to do sort of thing. And I understand why they did that because they were trying to take advantage of the situation, but is EA now not going to allow that and not going to let that happen because there were so many people that did that because if they gave back 3 million coins, which was the prices of that card when it was getting bought and sold. So all the people that did that, they would be giving out so many millions of coins that it would probably make a lot of the top middle the top tier part of the market on prices that are expensive. It would probably make those prices go up because people just have coins out of nowhere, right? It's kind of like just putting coins in people's accounts kind of like they took coins away from me, right? When we had the coin wipe situation. It's the opposite of that. They're like giving you coins. So that would impact the market a lot and it would make player prices go up if they were to do that sort of thing. Guys, since they haven't tweeted a thing about it, I don't know what they're going to do. I don't know what the compensation is going to be if there's compensation, but we have to talk about that because that was really, really crazy when it happened yesterday. Also, here's a small thing that they messed up on. For some reason yesterday when they upgraded Kiesa to a 91 rated card, they removed the skill move. He was 5-4. He is now, but he was showing us 4-4 for a couple of hours. So those are the three big mistakes. They made Yaya and Wesley Snyder the wrong nation, not nations, but league links and they changed Kiesa's weak foot and skills. So I don't know what's going to happen with that. Watch EA's FC direct Twitter account. But yeah, that would impact this whole game a lot if they were to give out the coin compensation for that. I could also see them just sweeping it under the rug and doing nothing because it was only three hours or so that that was happening. We'll have to see guys. We'll just have to see, but that's the situation that went on there. Now let's talk more about foot birthday and the leaks because there was a foot birthday card back a couple of years ago that everybody remembers as one of the most iconic foot birthdays of all time and it's this mad lad killing Mbappe and the rumors is the rumors are the fact that there was not Mbappe in a team of the week that was just released yesterday. So foot sheriff is saying here that he doesn't have double confirmation, which is this foot sheriff saying that he has two leakers. I don't know. He doesn't have double confirmation, but it seems very likely that he will come in for birthday because Mbappe scored a hat trick over the weekend and that is like if you're ever going to get an inform a hat trick is, duh, you deserve an inform, right? And since he didn't get one, it's kind of like, hmm, there's a good chance that he could be in this promo instead of being a team of the week. I think there's some validity to this argument, but until it is an official leak that is posted by sheriff, then I'm, you know, it's that will be a crazy addition to team two. And undoubtedly this Mbappe would be extinct at 15 million coins. Just like the team of the year is on the market currently still extinct at 15 million coins. So there's that, but it would definitely be a pack seller 100% for EA this weekend. If they were going to do something like that. I also saw a couple other tweets and I don't think they were official leaks, but it was just kind of like a speculation. How many doesn't have any special cards? We still have many cards who haven't seen them. Is it time? He says Mbappe was also leaked to be in team two. Maybe he's confirming that leak or just going off of what sheriff said. Guys, I still think, you know, it's very possible that a Christiana Ronaldo gets in because if there was a messian team one Christiana Ronaldo and team two, EA likes to do that messy Ronaldo back and forth. They like to feed into that. I think it's possible for him to so I wouldn't say those are concrete leaks, especially the Mbappe one. It looks likely for him, but we'll just have to see. I don't know if they're going to drop a loading screen today because the second weeks of promos, they don't often tease loading screens, but I feel like they should for team two because if they're going all out, they want to build the hive for it. I hope they do drop a loading screen today. And I don't know about leaks guys because last week we didn't have any leaks until EA leaked a whole team themselves. We'll talk about that tomorrow, of course, with whatever situations come up, but maybe that'll change. Maybe it won't. Now, speaking of other leaks, we actually do have a little insight on that car design that we showed yesterday that was that hero design with the triangle in it. It was very reddish orange. We have some more news because there is an icon design that is similar, but not the exact same. This one really looks like trophy Titans. I know this leak says the design seems to be a fusion between record breaker and trophy Titans. That's trophy Titans to me and that just must be the car design because last year the trophy Titans design had that same orange edge around it, right? You guys remember that for sure. If you played this to me is trophy Titans and that's probably the promo we have after ultimate birthday. One of the promos that will lead us into the end of March into April and bridging the gap between ultimate birthday and team of the season, which is bound to be absolutely massive. But that looks to me like a icon design that is for trophy Titans. So just to kind of put that in the back of your mind, that is something that is upcoming here soon as well. Now let's wrap it up. What's happening today on Thursday? Well, first of all, we got rivals rewards. The first big set of rivals rewards since the refresh, I'm not going to get my seven wins in unfortunately ran out of time. It is what it is. But for those of you that are taking rewards today, I'm still assuming that most people are taking the untradables. I'm totally taken untradables like the rewards here for division five three wins is not that good, but a lot of people that are getting division three division two, especially above division two, taking the untradable rewards for the reward upgrade. You're getting some good stuff, right? I think most people are still taking untradable because you get more packs that way and you get more fodder. So I'm not expecting fodder to absolutely like drop in price today because of the fact that those untradable rewards are going to be opened. I really don't expect that at all. Really what I would expect to see is more so maybe more people going out and doing a couple SBCs here or there, but I feel like the market will largely be unimpacted from those rewards, even though they are good. Really, I don't think it's going to impact prices on the market too very much. Now an SBC coming out today. We talk about more Thursday content or the last daily SBC player of the week. It is I think one of the bigger names that is in this entire list that we've seen all week guys. It is Grimaldo and yes, that is Alex Grimaldo, Alejandro Grimaldo, the Leverkusen left back that's got three informs this year and a Winter Wild Cards item. He's been killing it and he's also very OP in this game. If you actually look at the number of games played this 86 informed Grimaldo was very popular early on in the year. He has five million games played. That's a lot for just a random 86 rated informed. This card is very good in game. He's very meta and I don't even want to know. First of all, what a stat boost they're going to give to him. I think they're all the SBCs they've given out so far have been in the base cards position. So like I don't think Grimaldo is going to be a center mid like the Winter Wild Cards. I imagine he's going to be a left back today guys. Can you imagine a double play style plus Grimaldo hopefully with a five star weak foot? All right. I mean five star skills would be cool. If he's going to be five star skills, he better also have the five star weak foot as well. So it's either five five or maybe four five with the weak foot being the five star. I would hope for this card. He could be very cracked. I mean you look at this 88 rated card. We're probably going up to like a 91 maybe maybe a 92. Maybe that's a little bit high rated. I mean quadrado. Coman was a 91 quadrado was an 89 Opendo was a 90. So maybe 90 rated is a better guesstimate. But you're talking a plus two here. You're going above 90 dribbling. You're going at 90 passing 94 95 pace. He's going to be a really really good card and I hope that the double play styles include anticipate plus if they give this card either whips past plus anticipate plus or both of those this card could be nuts. So usually Thursday SPC's don't go that crazy but this one actually has really good potential. So I've actually you've seen me checking the price a couple of times I've picked up some Boniface cards. This was one of my favorite cards earlier on the year. He was so fun to use. I picked up a couple of these at 85 K just because he could be a car that rises up in the links to Grimaldo coming out today. I wouldn't pay anything more than like 87,000 coins and if you look at his graph he does fluctuate pretty good. But if this Grimaldo today has hype then there is a very very good chance that some of those lever cubes and links could rise. I'm not putting a ton of coins into it. I only have like four or five of them but that's just something to watch out for because that could happen today and that could be really really good. So that's our SPC player for today. I don't think there's going to be too much else other than that the store packs for the lightning rounds probably and then marquee matchups and then maybe a loading screen and maybe leaks. I mean again we did not have leaks last week. So I don't know what we're going to see this week in terms of players announced early for foot birthday team to we will just have to see and in the video off with an 81 double we're getting Lukaku. I need all the 84s I can get man. I'm struggling to get any fours. I have every single 82 in the game though in my club. Shout out to those Potter packs and player picks 82 20 man. I don't know. I need that eight three times 10 back for sure. But anyways guys that's the video for today. Hopefully Girmaldo's a beast that will be a card I would be super down to put into my team. I know we have so many left backs but give him left mid positioning to and that could be pretty good and a fun card and a very meta card to try out as well. So if you enjoyed the video today drop thumbs up on it comment below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new I'll see you guys in the Twitch stream today. That link is in the description. It's been made for the count. So you guys there peace out.