 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Another Friday inside of Festival of Football in FIFA 21, we are getting path to glory upgrades today. The first PTG upgrades are here today on this Friday. We'll talk about the potential for when those could happen because it really could happen at any time, what that could mean for the market, and as well as what's our content gonna be today on Friday. Now we've had a first two, a pretty good two weeks of Festival of Football with PTG team one and two. And I'm honestly remembering, this is kind of how last Friday felt as well. We kind of figured there was a team two coming for Festival of Football, Path to Glory, but we weren't 100% sure about it. And again, here we are on a Friday with not really a lot of hints, not really a lot of information to kind of look at and think that we really know what we're getting today content-wise in FIFA. And that makes me a little bit worried, right? Especially with these Weekend League Plus objectives that are live in the game for this Weekend League that is upcoming and starting today, because you guys know we've mentioned it, right? The Weekend League Plus objectives usually drop on a weekend where there's not a lot of content released on that Friday. So I really don't think EA would want to do this, but I guess if we had a non-tent Friday inside of the Festival of Football promo, I don't know, I really don't like that opinion or that option, but I guess that is kind of one of the things they could do today. I think it boils down to two different options in terms of the content today on FIFA. I don't want to talk about that as well, but first let's talk about the upgrades, right? Because you guys know we have got this path of upgrades here, three wins plus two overall upgrade. Now we've already got multiple nations that have hit that three win threshold and they're getting some plus twos today. The list is pretty solid, right? The list of players that are getting upgraded today are pretty solid. Firmino, Hazard, Wijnaldum, Militao. I think those are the players that are in the team number two that are getting upgraded today, of course. Firmino and Militao from Brazil, getting that late winner from Casamiro just a couple nights ago to maintain and to get that three win in margin. We are getting upgrades to Vinicius Jr. as well. Verate is getting upgraded. Delict is getting upgraded. Thorgan Hazard is getting upgraded, along with the SBC, not Verate, Florenzi. That card's gonna get upgraded today as well. Also, couple comments, right? Florenzi is transferring to Roma, but that is not going to be active until the 30th of January and also with Wijnaldum going to PSG. The transfer window is not open yet. So I do not think that when those cards get upgraded that they will change yet to their new teams because, again, that transfer window is not open. Those cards, even though they've signed agreements, they technically have not transferred yet. So I think what it would take is for Wijnaldum and Florenzi to change their team inside of FIFA, they would have to win that fourth game. Basically get a win inside of the round of 16. If they do get that win, then I think they would upgrade, get that plus one and EA would change their team on their foot ultimate team card. So that's kind of the little situation there. But today we're getting some of the plus twos, right? And just like with road to the final upgrades and even some of the headliner upgrades that we've seen in this last year of FIFA, it's probably going to be very random in terms of the timing of when they upgrade these cards today. One thing that we've always known is that Fridays at content drops really have never been like the focal point for EA to upgrade cards that are like live cards upgrading in the game. Fridays, if it's been a nighttime on Friday, right? That's when they used to update the road to the finals and stuff like that is the late Friday night timeframe into Saturday. And that's kind of what I'm expecting today, but it honestly could come at any time. Again, we know that it's going to be today as the upgrade day because of this official webpage from EA's website saying that after a path to glory item qualifies for the upgrade, the earliest the item will be upgraded is Friday. Upgrades might take up to 72 hours to appear in game. Of course, there's their disclaimer. But some point today on Friday, and I think it's going to be later in the day. That's my personal opinion. Unless EA is on top of things and they drop it right at the content drop today, which I guess could happen as well. But some point today, we are going to see these cards get some of their boosts. Hazard going to a 97. Now again, this card design that we've been talking about for the past few days, this one right here. I know it's a blurry picture, but this is a screenshot from the PlayStation website, which has now been updated. But this card design we're really curious about. Are they going to actually use this for an upgraded card for a PTG item? Or does this relate to summer stars? We were really thinking before that that card design related to summer stars. And that is one thing that I think people are hoping for today when people are mentioning a team of the group stage, right? People are mentioning, you know, like some man of the match item, some cards that, you know, represent what teams and what players have done well in the past couple of weeks of these competitions. I think we're really excited for those cards, especially to see what they look like, their ratings and stuff like that. I think we're really hoping for this today. I think that'd be the most fun thing, right? A team of the group stage slash summer stars. Now the PlayStation website has updated this picture because it did show this before with this card design. And as of right now, we have nothing added to the code telling us that that card design has been added to the game code. So again, right now, summer stars, team of the group stage, whatever you want to call it. It's not looking super likely yet. Could it come later today? Absolutely. We don't have a loading screen. We haven't had anything tweeted out or put on their Instagram from EA Sports. And that's again, what has me just a little bit cautious about today. A little, little, little bit cautious today about some of these cards on the game. Now let's take a little trip down this path and let's say that we are gonna get summer stars today on FIFA. We're gonna get some new cards and packs, which I hope EA does because I mean, they've been doing pretty well during the summer festival of foot summer promo that I want them to continue that. Right? Now this goes until July 16th. So if they were going to do some sort of team of the group stage or summer stars and start that, I think they'd do it now, right? I think it'd be a little bit too late to release another PTG team. I think a Path to Glory team three would not work. I have another idea of maybe re-releasing Path to Glory cards. We'll talk about that a little bit more as well. But if there are new packs added to the game, sorry, new cards added to the game today, they're going to be supplied like crazy with lightning rounds. Now if regardless of whether there are lightning rounds today, whatever is in packs, regardless of what's in packs, they are gonna get supplied a lot because people now know that the preview packs, they come in here every single day at 6 p.m. They open their packs, if they get anything good, they redeem it, they pay for it, if they don't, then they just go on their way, right? And that happens big time on Friday, Saturdays and Sundays with lightning rounds, as we've seen, because that is three different hours, actually four different times because you have the lightning round one, two and three, and then a reset with another pack coming in after that for the rest of the, to finish out that 24 hour period until Saturday at 6 p.m. And that's just so much supply, right? So that's the only thing that if we do have new cards in packs today, they're going to be supplied a lot right away on the market. Just like we saw last week with the PTG team, two cards, guys like Firmino, guys like Hazard, guys like Wyaldum, these guys got, I mean, you guys remember Felix, right? He started off at like a two million coin card, went down to a million coins. Everybody was like, oh my goodness, he's so cheap. And he was right compared to the team one of Path of Glory that was just crazy, crazy expensive. This guy was really cheap. He went all the way down from a million coins with the third lightning round to like 780, 790,000 coins. Then he rose back up to a million. So all I'm saying is it's gonna be similar fluctuations in price as last week with Path of Glory team two. If we were to get summer stars items today, that would be what I would expect from this market is a lot of supply right away. If there were new promo cards, you see them supplied on the market, they would get low. Then they would rise back up later as the supply stops and people want to use them in the weekend league. Now part of that is the French nationality players would have a lot more, I guess, demand if there aren't any of those dropped today. And that might also, since we have these weak and the plus objectives where a lot of the demand right now on this market is for French teams, that's gonna be a place on the market where we're looking today. Cause if you're playing a weekend league, you know, probably 95 to 99% of you guys if you are playing are doing it with the eight French players in your squad. Cause who doesn't want extra player picks? It gives you something else to play for, it makes us fun. I love this actually for me as sports. We talked about it earlier in the week, big fan of them doing this cause it mixes it up. It adds some, you know, it just adds some flavor to the game. At this stage of the game, sure, do something like this, it's awesome, right? It's not like you're requiring everybody to use French cards, they don't have to, but if they want these extra player picks, they can. So that's why I'm a huge fan of this weak and the plus objective, again, I hope it just doesn't take content away from us because EA would want people focusing on that instead of the content on the menus. So hopefully we still get good stuff today in packs. But again, if there are summer stars items, they're gonna be supplied today. And even if we don't have like lighting rounds and promo packs, I feel like you're going to see maybe some of the SBC fodder drop off a little bit. Because again, just like it's been the past couple Fridays, a lot of these SBCs are expiring today at 6 p.m. Greelish, the Belgium Nation player, the Netherlands Nation player, Hattabor. Now you have some cards that you're still gonna stay out, right? The Scotland Nation players, they are out for another five days. That's how it was with the Swedish Nation players as well. Those were out for a while. Raketic is still gonna be out. And the Prime or Moments player pick is gonna be out as well. So you still have a couple lingering SBCs, if you will. But a lot of that SBC demand is going to go away because of what is expiring. And that, again, that makes me feel like we're gonna get something else today, like new. I really think we're getting something else new today with the SBC content and refreshing. That's my hope and that's my wish. But we will see if that does come true. Now let's talk about something else, right? Let's say if EA takes maybe more of the lazy route today, which I feel like we're getting to be towards the end slash done with Path to Glory cards because, again, two solid weeks of these cards being in packs with two different teams, could they go back today and release both sets one and two back into packs? Now, if they did that, some of these cards are so cheap already. I mean, your guess is gonna see them drop off because there's gonna be A panic selling and B just another insane round of supply coming in from lightning rounds. And it's especially gonna hit team one the most, right? Vinicius Jr., four million coins. If these guys were to be re-released in packs today, it would just destroy anybody who's been investing in these cards. And right now, if that is something EA wants to do, a lot of people have invested in these items, right? Millie Tau was up 40,000 coins. Firmino is up over 120K, Felix was 320, Hazard was 580, even some of these lower tier guys, Paredes was, I was getting him at 65,000 coins today, I got a Chilwell in the 60K range as well. So you're seeing a lot of these items really start to go up in price because people have invested in them, they're buying them for the potential upgrades that are coming today or maybe down the road a little more. So they could release these back into packs, but I really feel like if you're really gonna keep doing the pushing like the live cards EA, I don't know, I just feel like the live cards have to stop at some point with, if you're gonna release live cards for a promo, I think they have to stop at some point. So we will see if that is the case today as well. I just wanted to throw that out there as an option and as an opinion of what could be coming out today. Also, SBC and objective wise, I feel like we get some sort of SBC and objective player today. If it's not a new promo, maybe it's some sort of like, you know, End of an Era Rommels would be a great SBC they could drop today, EA Sports, if you did want to do that, that'd be awesome. We would love the End of an Era Rommels, just make them higher rated than this team of the year, make it an insane SBC, just juice it up, right? That would be a great SBC for them to drop today. I would love that. I think a lot of you guys would as well. So many people are looking forward to that SBC and in hopes that it does come. But if, you know, if there's, again, a lot of supply coming to the market today, a lot of your fodder is up, right? 83s, 3.9 to 4,000 coins. This might be an opportunity to cash out if we do have more lightning rounds coming today. Now, if we don't, obviously, these cards still might drop off, but they won't as much if there's not a lot of supply coming in, right? 85, 13,000 coins. I mean, if we take a look at the index, it's just like we've had every single other week this in the past few days. We see fodder get really high towards the middle to the end of the week, drop off over the weekend, and then come back up during the next week with the content that is released. So if you did want to have basically a little no risk investment payout and cash out here, I think some of your 83s to 87s, honestly, you could cash out on. I know that Icon Play-Up Big SBC is still out. I don't think it's good value. I don't know how many people are doing it, but that is some place where you could maybe look to cash out. Now, also, if they were to release an SBC today, keep an eye out on these team of this season items because some of these TOTS cards and informs were very expensive earlier today, but they didn't require them for the Big SBC, which was the PTG Guaranteed. 84 rated informs are 32K. They were 40K earlier today. Team of the season cards were around 50,000 coins a piece themselves. Now some of them are down. Wang is 35K, 40K. You can probably snipe some of these around a 30K range, which is not bad in my opinion. As long as E8 is not supply these, they're gonna continue to fluctuate a lot on the market and actually be a great place to trade with fluctuations because we've had one SBC that comes out that requires them. We have one SBC comes out that doesn't, right? And you have that kind of bounce back and forth with some demand, but with little supply and those cards are just continuing to get taken off the market. So we will see what EA has in store today. I feel like they have to supply those TOTS cards soon. I know right now they're saying, yo, we have a team of League SBC out, supplying team of League cards, but that, I don't think many people are interested in that because it's not an 81 plus SBC at the least. Now let's talk about market a little bit more. What's gonna happen to these Pat the Glory cards today when they do get upgraded? Since there's been a lot of investing involved, again, I'm a little scared on, especially the team two cards. And the reason why I'm scared for that is these cards have had supply for the entire last week of preview packs, all of the lightning rounds that happened with the preview packs that started to look like and then throughout this past week, every single day people are opening the previews, seeing if they get something good. And it's almost, if you look at these graphs, almost every single day this week, these Pat the Glory cards dropped off after 6 p.m. and then rose into the next day, but they've consistently kind of been going down, right? Now they're going up a little bit extra today because people know, hey, these are going out of packs. I'm trying to make this investment for a live card and especially one that could be getting upgraded, but I'm just a little bit worried that these cards are gonna be a little over invested. And the one thing that made me scared of that today was when the PTG Guaranteed came out. This was what happened with a lot of these cards in the first hour or two of them after that SBC came out. Like this Militao was 440K. He went down to 400 flat, rose back up to 430 with people investing in that item. He dropped back down to 410 and is now back to 440 getting kind of rare overnight. So I don't know, man, I just see, I feel like there's a lot of people that are investing in these for the potential upgrades and for people expecting them to rise once they get an upgrade. And the thing that's different about these cards from like the what if cards that were dropped earlier in the year, the thing that's different to me from these is that they still have more upgrades coming. Now with the what if cards, we saw a big drop off once these guys got their upgrades, but that was solely because they literally had no more upgrades, right? They got that upgrade and boom, it was a one and done, but it's different for these cards with the Path to Glory is because they still have more upgrades potentially coming based off of games that are coming in the future. So that's the thing with these cards making me wonder if there could be a bit of panic selling when these cards get their upgrade, but then a rebound later on, as of course that's selling stop. So maybe a drop and then a rebound depending on the content that comes out as well. But I do think to an extent, most of these cards will have a little bit of a dip at some point where there will be a lot of people that have invested that will try to cash out. Again, like this Joe Alphelix going from 315, 320K today back to 350. I mean, even some of these lower tier cards like Parades being a great linking option for League 1 links, which are probably being used a lot right now with the French weakening requirements. I know he's not French nationality, but linking a couple of those cards together from PSG, you know, maybe you're using Di Maria or Marquinhos as links to your other players that are in League 1 that are French. I see this card being one that is very valued but still could be a little bit over invested as Argentina are on two wins and could get their third pretty soon. So I'm a little bit worried of overinvestment especially on team two. Now team one is definitely more rare because they only had that one hour of the preview packs panic, but a lot of these guys are up a lot too. Verati 514, Urenta 800,000 coins. Griezmann went from 1.42 to 1.96. I sold mine too early at 1.7, made a big flip there. But I just think you're gonna see a little bit of panic on some of these cards today. And if the content is insane, then that might be a little bit more panic than before. But hopefully today we get some brand new cards, whatever shape and form they may be. If it's PTG cards, okay. Of course, if it's something new like summer stars that would be dope as well. I just hope that it's not an L day of content on this Friday. You know, I think sometimes after icon swaps EA has dropped not good content because they think that everybody's grinding swaps or and maybe grinding the weak and the plus objectives and they wanna make it about game play or whatever this weekend. They're trying to take a break or like pump back the content for a week. I just, I hope that doesn't happen because I wanna see new cards. It's just at that stage of the game where just keep pumping it out, EA sports. Just keep going, keep us on the game. The content this past week has been good the past two weeks with all the upgrade packs, the 82 times 10, 87 times three, those are fun, right? The NES though last week was a very, very good SBC. Bring us something like that today as well, right? So that's where our hopes are at for today on Friday. Now again, unless you see something on Twitter from Foot Watch about what could be coming with a new car design or with anything related to the summer stars, which again, this is the car design that we'll be looking for today. But maybe this is the car design they'll use for the cards that get upgraded. We will see, right? We're gonna find that out today. So there's gonna be a lot of finding out, I believe today inside of FIVA 21 with path to glory. So if you guys enjoyed this video smash thumbs up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace.