 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. We have a new promo coming to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team, Road to the Knockouts. I wanna talk about this loading screen that EA Sports dropped yesterday inside of FIFA and talk about what it means, what we could potentially be seeing on Friday when this promo drops inside of FIFA. Now we were wondering if a loading screen would drop and one did, but it's different than what we were expecting. We thought alternate screen, maybe rule breakers. But EA Sports says, hey, we're gonna start off with something brand new, Road to the Knockouts. I wanna talk about how it might not be brand new and how it's gonna affect the market with rivals rewards today. As you can see here on the screen, rivals rewards, of course, Thursday mornings. With this promo coming, I think some people are gonna save packs. I think some people might not be buying teams on today's rewards when they get them because they're waiting for this promo. They know promo packs will be open, new cards will be out. So I wanna talk about how this new promo could impact the market. But before we get into it, if you're new around here, make sure to hit that subscribe button and if you're enjoying the videos, hit that thumbs up. That is greatly appreciated. But let's get into it and let's talk about this loading screen. Again, we know nothing. We know nothing about this promo at the moment except what we see on this loading screen right here. Road to the Knockouts. Right away, I read Road to the Knockouts and it reminds me of Road to the Final. And this car design that they show here for the Champions League car design, it looks very, very similar to the Road to the Final car design from last year. This right away is making me think that basically this promo is Road to the Final started early. And instead of starting it like right before the Knockout stages, they're starting it in the early to middle part of the Knockout stages. And these live cards, these live cards might update from now all the way until the end of Champions League, Europa League and the Europa Conference League. I'm really curious to see how this plays out. But again, we do have a car design here for Champions League, for Europa League and for the Conference League as well. That is what these three different cards mean. And in my opinion, I think these three cards are going to be all live items, right? Again, you read the title, Road to the Knockouts. Road to the, right? It just insinuates progression. It simulates your building. You're getting closer to that end goal. And if the end goal is the Knockout stages, somehow these players are probably gonna update when these cards are released, it looks like they're gonna be live updating items as we get towards the Knockout stages, which is still a couple months away. So it's kind of a decent time to drop this promo if you're EA, it makes sense, right? As we think about it. So let's talk about this a little bit more. Now again, the reason why this car design reminds us of Road to the Final and live items is because I mean, with the stars around the outside, with the colors, it looks very, very similar to these Road to the Final items from last year. Now, last year, the upgrades happened if they qualified for the Knockout stage, if they won their first game, qualified for corner finals, and then kept going in the tournament, right? It was all about the Road to the Final. Now this year, with the way that we're starting out, it's Road to the Knockouts. So maybe, this is just theoretical, maybe what they're gonna do is have a Road to the Knockouts promo, promo, and then a Road to the Final promo later on in December, after matchday six or whatever. Maybe, right? We're just theoretically throwing this out. But for me, it seems like these are gonna be live updating items, and that is the basis to this. I'm curious to see how the upgrades are gonna work and how that is gonna play out when these get released on Friday. But we'll see if we get another updated loading screen today on Thursday. But again, I mentioned the timing. This is kind of a nice time to drop this if you're EA, right? Right now, a lot of these teams are on matchday three. Matchday three, as you can see here, a lot of these clubs, you know, whoever advances, if you look into the groups, it's still kind of in the balance, right? Two games played. The third game is gonna be this week. These cards will be in packs when that third week is happening. So it just makes sense for EA to drop this right now. And if it's a Road to the Knockout stages, the Knockout stages technically don't start until February. Now the round of 16 draw, and you know, we will know who goes to the Knockout stages by the beginning of December. But if it's a Road to that point, then that kind of makes sense. And it makes sense why they could be dropping this promo. So that's kind of my idea of what I think this promo could be. Upgrades based on maybe if they do get on to the next stage. I'm really curious to see what the progression may be and how many upgrades they'll get until then. But this does look like live cards, and that is the bottom line. So I'm pretty excited for that. And we'll see more and hopefully learn more from today's loading screen on Thursday. This also, this card design looks a bit different, right? I mean, you see like the stadium in the background, but it looks like the Road to the Final design from last year. Of course, it's kind of a combination of the two. Of course, the Road to the Final last year had like the UCL logo on it with like the city in the background in the middle. This one has like the stadium, which is more kind of like how we had last year in FIFA 21. Let me refresh this. We had, you can see here how it's got the stadium. This is the man of the match card design from last year in FIFA 21. So it's like a combination of the Road to the Final from last year with the stars on the outside and the colors and the man of the match card. So I'm curious to see again, if that plays into anything with this promo and when it is released. But with this promo coming out, what else does it mean for the game? I think it also means we are gonna see the first UCL cards on this game. The Champions League rare and non-rare cards. Now, of course, these card types and card items have actually already been added to the game. If you go under the quality search filter, there is a UEFA Champions League common card and there's a UEFA Champions League rare card. Now, what they have done in the past two years is these, as we know it, have been the exact same rating, exact same stats as normal gold cards on the market. Everybody remembers them last year. It's basically just the gold card with the same stats with just a blue Champions League item if that player is in the Champions League competition and that's all that it is. Now, in FIFA 19, these items had a plus one overall stat boost, plus one in every single stat category and in rating, I believe it was, too. I don't know if they're gonna do that this year, but I think the Champions League design this year with a little bit of extra colors in there looks a little bit better than the last year version. I do think that at some point in the next week with this promo dropping, whether it be on Friday, whether it be on Tuesday, when these Champions League games actually start, I think we are gonna see these UEFA Champions League rares come on the market, which they act like gold cards if they're the same rating. So that's gonna be interesting to see how maybe some gold cards drop off as there's the supply of these. It's basically like having the exact same card on the market, just two different versions of it with one that looks a little bit better. These usually tend to be the same price or just a couple thousand coins more because they have a bit better of a card design than the normal gold item. So I think those are gonna somehow be intertwined with this promo as well, since they're already added and shown in the game, I mean, they're going to be coming soon for sure. So as of right now, that is what we are thinking for this Champions League, these Europa Leagues and these Conference League road to the knockouts. Now, of course, we're probably gonna learn a little bit more as we head into this week. And it just means live cards, right? And people love live cards on this game. And that, once we get started talking about the market, I really think that that means people are gonna be saving some of the rewards from today. Of course, rivals rewards are at 8am GMT today. And I really think that some people are gonna start saving packs because they're used to this, right? And again, we saw the same movement on the market yesterday that we see every single Wednesday. Every single Wednesday, we start to see sell-offs in the afternoon. Now, yesterday on Wednesday, there was a ton of hype around wants to watch us and we'll talk about that with team of the week four. A lot of cards dropped off, but a lot of the market is dropping off right now too as people sell cards into rewards and ultimately sell cards into this weekend as a lot of people are expecting with more live cards, maybe the Champions League rare items coming onto the market. They're expecting a big crash. They're expecting the market to go down again as brand new cards are coming out, brand new live cards are coming out into this game, which I think is warranted, right? But again, if you listen to kind of what we were talking about in getting a hang of this market and the weekly fluctuations, we knew that that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday timeframe was going to be a peak before we probably had a promo on Friday and a lot of this stuff is getting sold off. So, especially gold cards, right? You start to see a lot of these golds drop off in price over this weekend. Rashford's 116,000 coins, 115,000. Over the day yesterday, he had highs of in the mid 120s. He's not down a ton to be completely honest with you. There's other cards out there that are down more, but you start to see Yerente, 146,000. That is down. Kempembe with 60,000 coins. He's now 55K. Again, you just look across the market. Holland was like 23, 24,000 coins. He is now 19,000 coins. Yeah, Holland 23K, all the way down to 19K. So you're seeing this gold market and a lot of this game really gets sold off as people are preparing for what's gonna be another promo on this Friday. So I think you're gonna see a little bit of that again today. Now again, with division rivals rewards, is that gonna make the market push up a little bit in price? One thing I would keep an eye out for are some of your informs, right? Division rivals rewards are not as hot as they used to be. I know some people, like myself included, have had some insane pack pulls from division rivals rewards, but in general and in total, Thursdays this year do not present as big of market impact as they have in prior years. There's just not as much supply because you only have rivals rewards and those rivals rewards have been nerfed compared to previous years as well. So in my opinion, you might see the market kind of move up a little bit today, but I think a lot of people are gonna save their packs and they're gonna save their team building and buying cards for their team. They're gonna wait until Friday for that, right? And I think that's what a lot of you guys should do as well. I think there is more panic to come. I think there are more price drops to come later today on Thursday and into the day Friday morning because again, a usual Thursday occurrence on this market is marquee matchups and marquee matchups brings more supply. Some people just can't hold packs. A lot of people will do the new marquee matchups today and they'll hold the packs. They won't open them until tomorrow on Friday, but a lot of people will open them as well and you'll probably see just like we saw yesterday, the second half of the daytime after 6 p.m., you'll probably see some prices continue to drop off. So if you're somebody who has sold your team, you're waiting to buy it back, your buy time is soon coming, right? Your buy time is soon coming, whether it's gold cards, like a guy like Marquinhos who has dropped some, let's like over 90,000 coins. What is your right now? Is he 90K? He's right around 90,000 coins at the moment. He was over 90K before. A lot of this happened on the day yesterday with the market dropping off. So you're seeing these cards, again, get panic sold into Friday. And I think for a lot of cards on this market, out of packs cards, in-packs cards, you're gonna be waiting until Friday to see what these new cards are that are released because people go bananas for live items, especially if there's gonna be Champions League games this next week. People are gonna be really, really excited about those cards. So that's kind of what I'm thinking. There might be a few cards that rise up a bit today on the market. I'm kind of watching some of these heroes, some of the team of the week cards, just keeping an eye on some of these, maybe some icons as well. You might see a few things go up a little bit on the market, but I don't think the rise would be that big. I think it'd be a smaller rise, and I think it would be one that would just be a quick in and out trade, if you will, on some of these cards, and less of one that's like a big market rise into the weekend. So I just think for a small rise today, that's what you can count on with the rival's rewards. And with a lot of people probably saving packs, and just again, waiting for what Friday is gonna look like. Now, let's talk about ones to watches and the team of the week four, because we have a bangin' team of the week four. I think this team of the week is still the best one that we have had this year. Mane's center attacking mid position change, Rafinha, Romero, left back, Teo Hernandez, De Pye, I mean, Milikovic Savage, Navas, Gavardiol was not the featured card, but he does have a really good looking in for him as an 81 rated card. Lozano with a left wing position change, pretty solid team of the week. Now a lot of people saved their team of the week packs today, and these guys got supplied massively in the first 10, 20 to 30 minutes, and then they rebounded up. Like, Kailor Navas was at 38,000 coins, shot up to 50, he's now back down to 38. Rafinha was like 75K, shot up to 100, is now back down. Teo Hernandez was like 300K, went to 330, then went to 260, and is now back at 300 again. So what you might wanna watch out for today is some people are gonna try out some of these brand new informs. They shouldn't get supplied that much today on the market, so if you see any of these team of the week four informs dropping into the rewards timeframe today, keep an eye on them, right? Especially Teo, De Pye, Mane, I mean, Rafinha, I would throw in there as well, Chucky Lozano was down at like 50K, he's now up at 61. So as we get into the game today, and as people start to look at some of those cards, keep an eye on them, now you had a lot of ones to watches that were projected to be inside the team of the week that did not end up getting in. Take a look at Sancho, Sancho was 190,000 coins. This guy was all over the place yesterday. 191 right before team of the week dropped, didn't get in, and he's been down at 150 ever since. I mean, these ones to watch cards did get sold off a lot yesterday. De Paul went from 30K, down to like 15, 16,000 coins. Sabitzer went from like 27, down to almost under 20K for a hot moment. What are some other ones? Hakimi is actually back up, he was down at 375, 380. So you had a lot of panic selling on those ones to watch cards. Now just be careful with them as we head into the weekend, but again, we're having club games this weekend. So the games are gonna start counting for the wins to watch upgrade, potential informs for a few of these cards. Some of these guys that are still at discard might be decent pickups, right? Or some of these guys that drop in price as they are live cards are gonna be ones to watch, no pun intended, over the weekend to trade with, right? As we have new cards coming on the game and as these cards are still very viable and a lot of people are using them. So you saw a lot of drop offs with those OTW cards yesterday. Now again, some of the heroes have dropped off, some of the icons have dropped off. If we look at the index icon, usually it goes up at night. We had a little bit of selling at 6PM, it rose up a bit and now it's kinda just chilling. I do think you'll see the most panic on icons will come later in the day today on Wednesday and at the start of the day tomorrow on Friday as we head into the promo Friday. So that's kinda what's going on with the market at the moment. A lot of stuff is your gold cards, your meta items are starting to drop off in price a little bit. You can still flip and trade with a lot of these cards and make some coins on them, like icons, informs. You can still position change, chemistry style trade. There's gonna be some people building teams today so you might see some fluctuations on some items. Like I got this Sabitzer at 22 with a shadow and trying to get him out for about 25K, just a small flip right there. But I don't expect a huge rise on the market today. What I do expect is more people starting to plan ahead and hoping for some more information today on Thursday about what could be coming out tomorrow with that road to the knockouts promo. So again, take all that information with a grain of salt because again, this promo is not, we don't know exactly what it's gonna be, but from what it looks like, it looks like live cards are coming related to the road to the final games, related to the group stage games for Champions League, Europa League, and the Europa Conference Finals. And it's gonna be an interesting day on the market because a lot of people have sold their teams off. Some people might buy a little bit, but I'm not expecting much and probably more panic selling later on today on Thursday into Friday morning on the whole entire market as people prepare for a brand new promo inside of this game. That's the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. 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.