 Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. What in the world is EA doing with these footies' SBC requirements? And how did Zaha beat Sasoko? I'm gonna try to talk about those two things today, because I am at first just appalled that Zaha beat Sasoko as a huge Spurs fan. And of course, you know, Sasoko is a meta FIFA card, bro. I guess that was not enough to push him through in the vote that we seemed so sure about that he was gonna win yesterday with that SBC being released. Now, we had a new vote at yesterday via Dama Objective, which we were expecting, and that finally did come. And also, an 85x10 repeatable. I'm gonna talk about all three of those things in this video today and look forward into Thursday and what you might see on the market relating to Batch 2, relating to weakening rewards, and how you can maybe stay ahead of the game before probably another market crash on Friday. So, let's talk about this first things first, man. This is Zaha SBC, man. I was appalled today when I opened up my FIFA Ultimate Team SBC section, and I saw this card, five-star skills. They didn't even upgrade the weak foot, three-star weak foot. Nice card. Five-star skills is dope. Please, EA Sports, update the weak foot. And then you click in and you see there's 12 different squads, man, and this is where it gets a bit hairy. And this is where I think people are unhappiest because 12 different squads, that's basically an icon SBC. There were less SBCs for me to do Prime Icon Moments Mateus than this Williford Zaha. Now, albeit, the Zaha card does cost about 300,000 coins. So, you know, they could have very easily just done like an 85 and an 86 or an 87-rated squad to reach that same price point. But no, instead, you have to turn in a lot of different cards. Let's do a little bit of math here. Let's do a little bit of math. 11 cards for each squad, times 12 segments, 132 cards that you have to turn in for Zaha, when usually it's just two or three SBCs for a player, you have to turn in 132 items. It just seems like so much work, so many cards, and so much time to put into an SBC that a lot of people didn't even want, man, check out this Zaha, bro. 30, 300 down votes, right? The price isn't the problem. It's the card upgrade, no four star weak foot, and just the fact that it cost you 12 different squads. I think that is the biggest issue with this SBC. But I want to talk about why I think they did it. This week's upgrade packs were not that good. I bet that EA knows right now a lot of people are not doing the upgrade packs because it's just not good value to do an 82 plus player pick and the 83 to 89. Just not good value. So people are grinding foot draft. They're getting all these win objective packs and draft objective packs from objectives. And I think people have a decent amount of stuff in their clubs, and EA is saying, hey, we're going to be dropping some big new cards and packs rereleased this weekend with preview packs and all this stuff. Let's try to drain people's clubs and take everything out of it possible. So right now, if this is you, and you have a lot of gold non rares, a lot of low, basically 81 and under the cards in your club, this is speaking to you because you're like, man, I can throw the cards in here that are junk, and I can get the Zaha card. Well, the only issue is number one, 75 chemistry, 80 chemistry on a 77 rated squad. What? Like that's also extremely, extremely high. But EA Sports, why are you trying to drain clubs and then drop new stuff and packs on Friday and get people to buy those packs with the fever points in freaking August at this stage of the game, right? It does not make sense. So that's why I think Zaha is probably the biggest L. This is one of the biggest L SBCs on the year, in my opinion, just because of how little sense it makes to turn in 132 cards for 195 rated Zaha at this stage of the game. For an icon, it makes sense, right? Yeah, 14 squads for Garencha. This guy was four million coins at one point. It was three million coins like when this SBC dropped. And you're getting an icon card that links to every single different player in this game. And it's Garencha, right? It's icon. They're iconic, right? We know to expect that with the icon SBCs. But with an SBC like this, it just seems like a lot of work for just a very mad card. I think that's why people are upset. Now also, they kind of did the same thing with the 85 times 10 upgrade, but this one's repeatable. And that's a W. And I think there's going to be a spot and a time and a place where this 85 plus times 10 might actually be grindable. Let's talk about it, right? Four different segments, 11 rare golds and 80 rated and 82 and an 85. So for some people, this is like, man, last time you released this, it was actually 20K cheaper. It was just an 87 rated squad. But this is actually going to be pretty easy to kind of piece together and craft as you get packs in the next week. This SBC is not as huge of an L as it was before. And I kind of changed my stance on this because when I first saw it on stream, I was like, man, I don't like turning in 44 cards just to get 10, right? That does not seem like a very good deal. But when you think about it, you know, you're only turning in 85s, 82s, very low chemistry. This is basically an SBC design that you can chuck unwanted cards in that you're not going to do an SBC with and try to pack some of the cool items that are in packs or get some high rated fodder for SBCs. Now this is where this SBC could be a W, right? New cards in packs Friday, batch two, team of the seasons, maybe a couple PTG, maybe a couple summer stars items, right? That's where this could be a W. It's out for six days. It's repeatable. If there are upgrade packs that come out next week that are grindable, no squad requirements like an 81 plus, 81 double upgrade, 80 plus player pick, something like that. If we have upgrade packs like those, this squad could be very grindable with all of the 82s, the 83s, the 84s that you get, you can easily do this SBC and get yourself a chance at some higher rated cards that are going to be in packs. So that's where I see this being a dub. And honestly, as I think about this right now, I wonder if they're doing an 85 upgrade times 10, and they're going to basically, since that's repeatable, they're going to replace their footies player pick from team one with that SBC. Now we'll find out tomorrow, of course, footies batch two, team two will be in packs. We'll see if they do another one of these player picks, but I wondering if this 85 plus times 10 is kind of a replacement for that, but we'll see. I hope it's not, but this could be grindable. At least right now, I do not think that it is 200K for an 85 plus times 10. Maybe you stack one or two of these just to try them out on Friday when the new cards come into packs, the 86 plus player pick, I'm probably going to be doing this one with the rewards that I get. Maybe today, if I do open a pack or two, but honestly, I'm saving a lot of packs right now for that batch too. I'm saving basically everything. So I want to talk about that in a second, but first things first, we had to align it up a little bit. We just talked about all the negative stuff and stuff that was confusing. Let's talk about Adama, man, because this was an objective that we thought was coming, and it actually did end up coming 95 rated Adama Treore. This was the bright spot yesterday. The only, I guess, issue with this is that he's got the 80 reactions and 84 composure. People are very quick to point out those two lacking stats that are in this card, but five star skills forced their weak foot right wing. The only, I guess, small issue I have with this is I wish that the 92 rated card was a striker, because I think people wanted to have different positions like they did with Atal. The Atal right mid, then the final card was the center mid, just so you can move them around. I think that this 92 Atal as a striker would have been a great addition to kind of change this SBC up a little bit too, but 95 Adama, everybody's doing it right. 1500 thumbs up, very popular, just like the Atal card. Adama being a mainstay from very overpowered earlier in the game this year and even last year as well, kind of made a name for himself. So because although it had the same foot birthday objective kind of thing as Atal did, you saw this Adama Trey Ore card basically have the exact same fluctuation that the Atal did last week on Wednesday. This guy was already rising into the morning. He went from like 70k up to about 90k at the content drop. He exploded to 140,000 coins. He was 140 on both consoles for a quick second. And then of course, people get the objective done, they go and do them, and bang, this guy's 56,000 coins on the market. So there was a lot of, you know, people that bought it up, a lot of people that made profit, got the objective done, and then they sold it up. Because if you buy this card, instead of getting it from the objective, you can save yourself a little bit of time, which is what I'm going to do now. This card's 50k, which is kind of where we guessed the 60k range. He's 56 right now. We kind of guessed he was going to drop back down there. He might go lower tonight with rewards, since I'm recording this a bit before rewards, but definitely makes it a little bit easier if you just go and buy that card off the market, because then you can get to this 92 in like four or five games. Save yourself a little bit of time, especially at this stage of the game, where people are trying to get things done pronto and get things done quick. So again, content yesterday was interesting. The Adama was a dub. The price movements on the market, a lot of right wings went down because of that Adama, which you would expect, right? I mean, I sold the team of the season Salah last night at 470,000 coins. He's literally down like 100k. I sold these Pharaons at 140 actually. He was like 170 in the morning before the SBC, and he dropped down. You saw a lot of right wings across the game. Eddin Hazard's card was down. This De Bruyne was like 700k plus with the weak and the plus objectives. He is now down like 650, I believe. It's where some of his cards are at. So you saw a lot of right wings in the game really take a dive today. And even some of the other primary cards like this Sun 430k after being all the way up at 500k because of people expecting that Soco, that was a very interesting price drop. Now again, you have a lot of cards that are still up on the market. Now, let's talk market here for a second. You've got a lot of cards that are still up. A lot of your cards from the Prem. You look at this Laporte, 250,000 coins. He is up. Phillips 132, he is up. A lot of your Prem cards are up in price because people are buying them for the objective 232 for Sanchez, 880 for Foden. Again, what I'd be very, very careful with this weekend, especially today is I really think that with Batch 2 coming, it could cause a pretty big market crash on this game. And that's why I just want to sit here and tell you today to be careful. Once again, like we talked about yesterday, I think there's a very high probability that a lot of team that season cards get rereleased back into pack. So this is probably going to be another opportunity for you to sell some of these cards before they could get rereleased. Now, of course, team of the seasons are going to get supplied today at rewards, right? So last week, that was actually a really great place to trade on the market last week on Thursday at rewards day. Watch some of these team of the season items, especially some of your cards. Oh, I got this at 550 and how much is here right now? 617. Yeah, I'm going to take my cash at 610, man. That's a really nice flip right there. But the Tots cards on rewards, they are actually great flips because they get supplied, but then they also get bought up for the weekend league. So those would be cards that I would watch out for a quick fluctuation on today. But again, just being careful about cards that could get into batch two, we really expect to see team of the seasons in there. And I do think that is a space on the market that is not really dropped yet that is going to drop a lot more. You guys remember, you guys remember the type of panic selling and the type of price drops that we saw even on cards like this Adama for birthday, right? These big drop offs, Adama going from 300,000 coins to 60k, right? Huge, huge drop offs. That is going to happen with the cards that get re-released back into packs tomorrow and Friday. So again, keep an eye on this stuff, right? If you have cards tradable in your club, especially Premier League, I would probably be getting them out pretty soon. I'm not saying all Tots cards are going to be in packs, but I think it's a highly likely that a lot of them could be. I think they're going to really juice it up. And of course, if we're moving along, we've already done all the low tier ones, right? Maybe they'll throw in a couple more team of the years, batch two tomorrow. But again, I'd be very, very careful with this sort of stuff if you have it in your club right now in this game. So today on Thursday, let's talk about that for a second too. Preview packs yesterday were just average. We'll probably have some more of those today. I don't think any of those preview packs are, you know, like multi-day ones. I think they were just 24-hour ones with the 25k packs. Okay, never mind. 25k packs are out till Friday, but it's rare mega preview will be gone tomorrow too. That's going to affect our fodder supply, maybe whatever SBC that they bring out. Now last Thursday, I believe it was last Thursday, we had the dynamic duo, the first one released between Allen and Bernard. I think that was last Thursday. Yeah, it's got 14 hours remaining. They were out for a week. So this makes me think that we might see another dynamic duo. I don't know if it's Chelsea, Lester, Wolves, Spurs. I don't know who it's going to be, but I feel like there is potential for another dynamic duo. And I just thought of this right now. If there is another dynamic duo and it is from Tottenham Hotspur, that would make me, that would make sense why Sysoko maybe did not win the SBC, depending on who it is. I would love a Regulon and a Hoybjerg. All right, I'm done being a Spurs fan for a second. Wearing the Spurs kit today, of course, Harry Kane's birthday yesterday. And I was really hoping to see Sysoko as well, but it didn't work. Anyways, I would expect to see, you know, some sort of SBC come out today. Probably another pack one, like the 85x10, 86 plus player pick. Expect something along those lines today. I don't know about a player SBC. All I know is a lot of this stuff tomorrow and Friday is going to be gone. I mean, you go through all these live, these SBCs, they're going to be reset, they're going to be gone, a lot of them, except for some of the ones, you know, that we know are going to be here for a while. I mean, look at these 14 hours remaining. One day, 14 hours, say Maxman goes away, the upgrade packs, Coman, Bruno Perez, the voting day SBC, Marquinhos goes away in two days, but a lot of this stuff is going to be going away. So that is one thing to kind of keep a watch out for and to keep an eye on is just all the stuff that's going to be going away. And, you know, I don't expect a huge day of content today on Thursday because I think the focus for EA, especially after the way they did the SBCs today, the focus for EA sports is really on tomorrow on Friday with batch two, a new fan vote. Which did I talk about this? I don't think I did them. Let me hold up. Let me talk about this for a second. We had a new fan vote yesterday. So our SBC on Friday will be either Ali Watkins or Dan James. I voted for Ali Watkins purely because we just had a Dama and why do we need another right mid if we just had a Dama? That's my take. I understand Dan James' five star skills would be a very ratty card. I'm all about the English striker Ali Watkins. I used him earlier on this year. His informs, he was great. I got him in footchamps rewards. I'd be down for a five star Ali Watkins. So Dan James, in my opinion, would probably win this. But again, after Soco not winning, whom I'd say I know was going to win, man. Unbelievable. Still, that's a Soco card and not win. Now, if you guys are upset about Soco, technically he can still potentially get a footies card because, again, the losers of all the votes are going to be thrown into like a second chance type thing towards the end. So that is something to remember as well. It's not all dead hope for Soco. He obviously could end up getting a card at some point in this part of footies. So again, rewards today as well. Again, we mentioned team of season cards. Watch out for those today. Those could be great flips. And just be careful with this stuff on the market, man. If you've got tradable stuff that is especially a Premier League that is up, I would be especially team of season cards. Be careful with it because that stuff could be dropping 100%. And I'm saving packs. I'm saving packs. Rewards today might supply the market a little bit. But I think a lot of people are going to save their packs as well for the big day, which will be Friday. Friday is going to be a madness again, right? So get ready, get locked in. Just get your coins and get all the objectives you need to done. I got to do seven squad battles games, man, because I got to get my icon swaps finished so that I can open the last and icon moments pack from that. And then I think I need to also, also need to get done the at all, which I guess I technically have time for that. I'll probably loop a tall and a Dama together for, you know, a future, future date next week or something to get those done and get them in the club. But we just got to sale. I bet it was for Charleston. And boom, there he is, boom, big profit right there. GGs. So that's the video for today, boys. I don't understand why really EA did what they did yesterday, but I think it just comes down to them wanting to clear out our clubs and I guess make us want to spend FIFA points on Friday with preview packs. Doesn't make sense, but hopefully Friday is a big day of content. Hopefully you get good rewards today. Good luck if you are opening those. And hopefully another dynamic duo would be nice. Those are pretty fun SBCs, especially if you're a fan of the team that gets a dynamic duo. And I like what they have going like that. Maybe a transfer SBC as well as we've seen new, new cards coming in. But I think EA is going to go all out with the content next week. So just be careful with your father too with this stuff in here that's just, you know, kind of average. I think they'll go all out for next week for the first week of the batch two of the footies promo. So that's the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy, smash the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nate The Foot Accountant. I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.