 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Winter Wild Cards is on its way out and the next promo is coming to FIVA 22 Ultimate Team. And we basically know what it is with a combination of leaks and things that EA have already shown us in the game of FIFA already. Headliners is coming soon. There's a lot of leaks. We're gonna talk about it all today because I do expect there to be a loading screen coming out today, either on Wednesday or on Thursday. And I wanna talk about all of that. I wanna talk about the headliners promo, what it means. Again, just kind of reminder of these cards and how they may or may not be that hype. Like, yes, they are live cards. A lot of people like that. There's some big names in the leaks. But after the insane promo that we have just had, is EA gonna live up to that level of hype once again for another promo? Or is it gonna feel like a step back? We will talk about that in today's video as well. So if you're hyped for headliners, especially if you know some of the leaked cards that you're supposed to be in already, give this video a thumbs up. Because it could be an insane promo. Of course, subscribe to the channel if you are new. We're gonna be covering all the market movements related to headliners up into and through this promo, as always. So, one of the reasons we know that headliners is at least gonna be coming very soon is because EA Sports have already added the card design into the game. I mean, this is one of the jokes that we've been making in the past week. They still have not added the card design for the versus promo, the ice or fire cards, which was literally like a month ago. They have not added those card designs into this game. Yet we have headliners and headliners streak cards already added inside of this game for a promo that's not even out yet. So that's kind of in the joke with these cards. But EA adding this into the game makes it seem like, and going along with the leaks, also makes it seem like this is gonna be the promo that we're gonna be seeing this Friday on this game. And also, we might be getting a loading screen today, right? That could be our first aspect of confirmation from EA Sports besides this is a loading screen coming on the game today on Wednesday. That's how they did it last year, heading it to headliners. So, without further ado, let's take a look at what headliners is just to kind of run it back and to get this idea and promo fresh in our minds because this is not a new promo. But hopefully there's some new ways this year that EA spiced it up because I want you to notice this. This promo, since they changed the ones to watch for FIFA 22, this promo seems almost identical to ones to watch, let me explain, right? So, headliner cards are live items. We haven't had live items in a while, but we're gonna have some new ones this Friday at the launch of the event when they drop headliners. All of these cards will have a one-inform upgrade above their latest qualifying performance-based inform. This is where it gets interesting, right? So in the past, a performance-based inform has included hero cards and team of the group stage items. But as we are well aware this year, team of the group stage items, according to the ones to watch upgrades verbiage here, it says qualifying performance-based inform, team of the week and man of the match, it does not list the team of the group stage cards, which is exactly why we didn't see Ronaldo's ones to watch get an upgrade when he got a team of the group stage and a lot of people thought that he was going to. So EA changed that for this year. So this year, the headliner cards are gonna be live items, but they're basically only gonna upgrade from team of the week items or man of the match cards, right? And man of the match cards usually start coming out in February, especially for the European competitions, Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League when they start releasing those man of the match items during the knockout rounds of those tournaments. So that's kind of one part of this, a little bit of an L, right? When if they were to do team of the knockout stage later on this year, the headliners items that could potentially get into that would not get upgraded at that stage, but headliners are most commonly upgraded through informs anyway, so that shouldn't be too big of an issue. Now again, in the similarity to ones to watch, headliners get the one-time additional boost if their club achieves some sort of win goal, right? For the ones to watch cards this year, they had to win five out of their first 10 league games and they got an extra upgrade, right? You guys remember like Tomori, right? Milan won those games really fast. Tomori got an upgrade, right? He was one of the first ones. Now these headliners kind of work the same way and again, we're gonna look at some of these cards and talk through this as well for the league team this year, but it almost seems like this is ones to watch 2.0. So hopefully this year in FIFA 22 they're going to do something different and we're gonna talk about that here in a second, but this seems very, very similar to ones to watch. It's just that we're starting with cards that are boosted higher because we're further along in the game, if that makes sense. Now, let's talk about leagues. These are the leaked players that are supposedly in team one that will drop this Friday. Again, these leagues were out like two days ago, almost three days ago. It's crazy that they're out this early, but it is what it is. That's how the game is this year. That's how this market and how this, for some reason, EA is not clamping down on the leagues this year and it's absolutely crazy, but there's some big names in this promo, right? There's some really big names. Mbappe, Vandy, Kulabali, and Kunku. I think everybody was expecting NKUKU with the insane year these have, and so many special cards already. He's gonna be getting another card. Serge Nabri, Akunya, Carrasco, Luis Diaz, Simeone, Sabineer, Sangare, Rhys James. Now, some of these cards only have one inform, of course, and Kunku has already got multiple technically performance-based special cards, and Bapi's got one inform. So, again, this just seems like a promo where EA is putting some names in, putting some cards in. Maybe even though they haven't had that insane of a season, Van Dyke has one inform. You know, Akunya has one inform. People would argue that Van Dyke's not having that insane of a year, but this, in my opinion, is just to sell some packs, right? This is EA trying to sell some packs, but this is the lead team one. So, as you look at a lot of these players, right? Let's take a look at that Van Dyke, for example. What is Van Dyke's card going to look like on this game? He's got a 90-rated inform, so of course, with these headliner cards being one upgrade above, their highest rated special card, this Van Dyke that comes out this week should be a 91, and then, of course, would have a nice upgrade on top of his 90-rated card right now, and it would also be a live item on top of that, right? That's why these headliners have some hype, is because they're live on top of the already boosted card. Now, the thing that's a bit interesting is what is tweeted out here. Footshare, for one of the guys that leaks a lot on Twitter, he says some different upgrades on headliners, and he's gonna be posting some stats soon, so there's gonna be a lot more information, probably in tomorrow's video, and maybe as we head into Friday, about some of the stats on these cards, and I think this is where I'm coming down to whether this promo is gonna be hype on FIFA or not, because we are coming out of a promo where the boosts, or these Winter Wild cards on this market were insane. I mean, the stat boost on some of these cards, like the Martial stat boost, going from low, low work rates, just going from an absolutely massive boost. I mean, you look at the Zlatan card, you look at all of these items, and Bolo, even just the fact that some of these cards on this game are so cheap, like the Pal Tourist Center Bank, being as cheap as he is, but being as insane as he is, this is their lane card, it's like 70,000 coins, right? And he's got those kind of stats. We are coming out of a promo that has been so exciting, such good content, one of the best promos that we have had in the past couple of years of FIFA at this stage of the year. Everybody has been loving it, right? With the cards that we have in this promo, I really think that EA is gonna have to do something extra special with this headliners team, because right now we have, our content expectations are sky-high, because we are coming out of an absolutely insane promo, and what EA has done in these last couple of weeks with the Winter Wild card items is they have really, really, really increased the power curve, right? The stats that they are putting on these cards, like these Winter Wild cards are just such an increase on the power curve on this game in terms of these cards are so much better than a lot of the other ones that are out, that people are flocking to use these, the newly upgraded items on this game, and we've kind of taken a jump up, right? And I think that a lot of times, and they've done that this year, and we've talked about it before, is that we kind of hit a plateau, right? I think Winter Wild cards has bumped the power curve up, and now that this headliner promo is not gonna bump it up again, right? In such a quick succession, it's probably gonna stay at the same level and these headliner cards are just gonna kind of fit in, right? They're gonna kind of fit in with this power curve, but I think even in order for them to be hype for these cards that EA are releasing, there could be some really dope items in here if they throw a couple position changes in like a Cunha center mid. Here's a prediction by Harrison, Elidige, and Foot Donk. I'll put the link to this in the description if you wanna take a closer look at it. They're gonna have to do some massive boost on some of these cards, because yeah, they look pretty good, right? Kula Bali looks solid, and Kunku looks pretty good. Van Dyke with a 91, and Bape, of course, is gonna be the one that everybody wants to get. Carrasco looks solid. Nabri looks pretty solid, but they're gonna have to give these cards some big boosts, and they're gonna have to do something different, again, because the similarity to ones to watch and just how insane the Winter Wild Cards content has been, and just how fast they're making insane cards. They're putting such higher rated cards on this game so much quicker this year than they did last year. It's crazy, and they're putting so many more special cards, and they're boosting the stats more than they ever had. So they're gonna have to continue that with this headliners promo on this game. So again, the cards that are leaked, we're gonna have to see some big boosts on these. Now supposedly the mini release is Shik, Kandreva, and Ramsdale, and I'm being completely honest, I'm looking at this team. Yes, there's some cool cards in here, but the mini release, that gives me zero hype at all. EA's gonna really have to do something different with headliners this year to make it an insane promo. That's kind of my opinion about this promo and about how it looks. So again, we don't know too much right now, except that we are probably gonna see a loading screen either today on Wednesday or tomorrow on Thursday, telling us that the promo is coming and that we are gonna see that promo soon. Of course it is expected because of leaks and stuff like the transfer markets showing the actual cards in there as a item. It'll be coming out soon, but that's kind of what we're expecting, and those are all the leaks and that's all the information that we have right now on this game. Now let's talk about the market a little bit, right? Because again, we spoke about today, content on Wednesday, new team of the week today. I've been scrambling for these wildcard tokens, right? Because I've kind of fallen behind and we're almost, we've almost completed our comeback, right? So to speak, I've got seven tokens in this squad and I believe that I just got one more. I did the trippier objective to get one of my, I need one more token after this. I'm almost there, boys. I'm almost there. 85 times 10 is coming ASAP, right? It's probably gonna come in today's stream, to be honest. If we get another SPC today, but that's kind of what people are doing right now on this game, right? And that's why I think EA is gonna start building up the hype for this headliners promo because I think they know that people are finishing up the swaps here. And usually in the second week of a two week promo, EA starts to kind of slow the content down and push towards the next one, which would be headliners in this week's case. But I think that's why you see the content just slowed down a little bit. Of course, yesterday we had the party bag SPC that we knew was coming. We just didn't know when it was gonna come. They dropped it again, same requirements as last time. It didn't really move the market that much at all, right? There was not that much panic. There were a few cards that we flipped yesterday, but the bigger content, and I think this just goes to show how right now on this game, everybody has fodder from doing the 85 plus times 10, opening a bunch of packs, doing player picks and upgrade packs during this promo and even all the packs that they're giving out, like for the daily challenges, right? Those are some decent packs and really supplying cards in people's clubs. Everybody was asking about George Best and Zola are these good SPCs? And if you take a look on Footbin, because this is actually crazy, I'm gonna show you guys this, the George Best SPC has a 91% upvote. I do believe that this SPC is pretty solid value. 556K is not bad for a George Best for a right wing card that I think a lot of people are doing right now because they have extra fodder. It's a good card. It's priced well and it's nice links for the right wing side of the game. Building squads, that's a nice kind of place to link together maybe a hybrid squad and it's a usable item that people have enough fodder to kind of craft right now at the moment. And George Best's card, if you take a look again, we'll look at last year's headliner cards in just a second, but George Best is like 630,000 coins on the market. He was 700K, 780K just a couple of weeks ago, just a week ago and this card is down a lot since the leaks came out, but a lot of people are doing this item based off of this and I think it's just because of the fact that EA Sports right now have just supplied so much fodder into people's clubs with the swaps packs and everybody's grounding the swaps. That's why people love this promo. So I think a lot more people are doing best and Zola than they normally would just because they have that fodder at their disposal and SPC fodder prices in general are dirt cheap at the moment. But that was kind of the content yesterday on this game. Now again, speaking about Wednesday once again, what do we always know about Wednesdays? Wednesdays are always a down day on the market because people know that the rival's rewards time period is coming and the weekend is coming and the rewards are a period for people to just rethink their teams, restructure their teams and stuff like that. So that's kind of one thing to keep in mind usually Wednesdays or down days. So for a lot of these winter wild cards that have been up in price a ton, especially from team two, on Sunday night, Monday morning, these guys got very, very low. Like Lucas Morrow was like 510,000 coins. He's now up to almost 600K. Sterling is up like 80,000 coins. You've got guys like Gen Duzzi, right? I know a lot of you guys really wanna buy Gen Duzzi for your team because he fits in really well with a lot of the popular SPCs and popular cards that have been dropped recently. This guy's 160,000 coins and he was 110K, right? He's up like 50,000 coins. It's crazy how much this guy has gone up in price. Looking around the rest of the market as well, right? Alice Andrini is up a lot. Hazards up like 30K. Martial is up like 60,000 coins. And of course, you still have this Latani Ibrahimovic card that is to the absolutely freaking moon right now, 3.3 million coins, which is just absurd. I think you're gonna see all of these cards drop off in price today because people know supplies coming. And with the new team of the week coming out, again, Wednesdays have been days where they've run lightning rounds. In the past two weeks, they have run lightning rounds on Wednesday. So I think you're gonna see some people selling off on these cards today with that expectations of lightning rounds coming. Now, a quick zoom in here on team of the week predictions. It's gonna be an interesting team of the week. This week, a lot of Prem, to be honest. Lukaku is thrown in here. Donfries, Laporte, wordprouse, Kessie, Saka, Benzema, Antony, Clivert maybe, Arajo could be a decent card. Team of the week's, after this last week, of course, we had an insane team of the week compared to what we have had normally. I don't think the team of the week is gonna anywhere live up to the hype that this team of the week has with some really, really dope cards like Upmakano, De Bruyne, Levandosky, Mara's, Quadrado, Usable, and big name cards from last week's team of the week. So I think today's team week is definitely going to seem like a little bit of a let down. And again, it's just gonna be people that are getting ready for these headliners' cards to come into this game. Now again, I should have talked about this a little bit more earlier, but these were the headliners' cards from last year. EA always puts in some big name players, right? I mean, you can compare this squad right here to maybe some of the league names that are in this upcoming promo, right? Bruno Fernandez would be kind of on par, but not as on par with the Mbappe from last year. Bruno was so, so hyped last year on FIFA 21. He was crazy, right? Joao Felix was mad, Ben Yetter the rat was mad, Bomba, you know, a Fabinho center back card. Again, this was a position change last year. So again, they had one position change in Fabinho. So maybe a position change in Acuña would be something that could possibly happen, right? There's potential with that as well. But I just think we're gonna have to see some big upgrades and hopefully EA on the loading screens either today or tomorrow kind of tell us and hint at us what the hype stuff could be about headliners because really it just doesn't seem that insane. It just seems like a newer version of wants to watch if I'm being completely honest coming into this game. So team two last year, Benzema was dope, Goretzka's son. There was some nice usable cards in here, right? But especially for this first week, we're really gonna have to see some insane cards, in my opinion, to make things move really well. But again, for the rest of the market, a lot of stuff, as we mentioned, is just up, right? A lot of stuff is up. And Mbappe was like 930K on Sunday. He's back to a middle. Veron, I mean, some of these gold cards are down because they've gotten packed so much in the past few days. But you know, I've got some cards on my transfer list from yesterday on this game that we are trying to flip and make a quick buck from. Like I bought Fodans at 219 to 220K. I bought some Joel Gomez at 260, so those are 290. Got this Bruno at 542. And then I do have a couple more, I got a couple more Fodans at like 218. I got a baby Rio for, you know, 630,000 coins. Right now, it looks like he is 685, so I'm gonna go ahead and take the cash on this. I was hoping to sell this at like 670 highs. It looks like that's playing out really well. I've got another Rio, and I got some other special card just kind of randomly chilling. But I'm gonna probably get some of my coins out here into this morning on Wednesday, just because, you know, I'm gonna keep it safe, right? And we're gonna head into that Thursday rewards time period, which I do think you will see a market rise from, but we're gonna head into that period, probably with some dropping prices all over the game. So, lightning rounds are something to watch out for today, a new team of the week. Of course, today as well, on Wednesday, people are still hoping for some sort of icon SBC. I don't know how big of an expectation that can be, like an icon upgrade pack. There's still potential for that today. I've only done like two 78 plus player picks, and maybe I need to do a few more of these, but these just aren't getting me hype right now. I'm trying to get that 85 times 10. That's kind of like my big goal at the moment. And if I get one more token, then we're sorted. And then we'll see if we can snag an insane Winter Wild Cards item. I'm not gonna save the pack from that, just for me, is not super worth it. But use this time, if you're grinding the Wild Cards tokens, trying to finish that out, or even icon swaps. I know I've kind of put icon swaps on the back burner, but use this time at the second half of this second week of Winter Wild Cards. If you've got the swaps done, you know, if you're not grinding player picks that much, and you feel like, yo, it's kind of quiet, and I'm waiting for headliners, what do I do? Maybe go back if you have icon swaps to play, and finish this off, because the icon swap stuff is gone in 12 days, and that's gonna be here before you know it. I gotta get on this stuff, because yeah, I gotta get on this, because I need to get some swap tokens for the packs, to take the times 25 packs again, or to finish those off, and I'm gonna forget about those if I don't get on it pretty quick. So that'd be one of my recommendations to you, I guess, as well as we head into this headliners promo. So more information's gonna be unloaded, of course. We're gonna have more content today on Wednesday, and we'll cover that all tomorrow as that happens. But I just wanna talk about headliners, because yes, of course, it is up next. I think that was known by a lot of people. But just kind of talk about it, and put some of my theory on it, my spin on it, because it really just seems like a newer version of Once2Watch, unless EA do something different. So we will see very soon what they will do. If you did enjoy this video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions, and subscribe if you're new. It has been Nate, The Foot Account, and I'll catch you guys later. Peace, out.