 Hey guys, it's Nate A.K., the Foot Accountant, and welcome back to the channel. I've got a bold prediction, guys, and it has to do with that loading screen and the upcoming FC Fantasy promo and what it could do to FC 24 Ultimate Team. Today, I want to look forward to that because that's all the hype in this game, right? Now, Future Stars is ending. Today is the last day, but I want to look forward to that FC Fantasy promo and how it actually might change some things, at least what I think, for the better on this game. We're going to talk about that, some leaks that we have with official players already coming in that promo, and a lot more. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's go over yesterday's SBC content, which was not the Udogi SBC, yet again, another day without seeing that player SBC. Today has to be Udogi Day, or else it's going to go into the graveyard of unreleased SBCs with Foot Miss Gabrielle Jesus, if you know, you know. Let's talk about the SBC that was released yesterday, though. It was the other French center back, two days in a row, with French center back SBCs. DeSasi two days ago, and Bade yesterday, sick dynamic image with the mask. The card itself, I think, is also pretty good as well. If you compare it to DeSasi, which is what I think a lot of people are doing, it's pretty comparable, and in my opinion, it might even be better, but it's not a Premier League card. And I think that's why he is less upvoted on Foot Ben than, of course, the DeSasi is. Taking a look at Bade, he has 39,000 coins to complete. It's literally just one squad with an inform, but he's got more downvotes than upvotes. The SBC as well is way more downvoted than upvoted for 40,000 coins, but this card can do something that DeSasi cannot do. I think it's cooler in that way. It can go into the Glow Up Evolution, which takes him to an 89 rated card. If you're doing this Bade SBC, I would tell you to do the Evo. If you haven't done it already, this would be a really good card to put in that Evo. Absolutely insane looking card. If you put a shadow or maybe an anchor on that, that is a disgusting looking center back card. Pinged pass, you could say might not be very useful, but actually it could be very useful. 99 short passing with pinged pass. He's going to be able to deliver a ball to your midfielder to get the ball up into the attack very quickly. Slide tackle, maybe not the best, but he also has anticipate bruiser and jockey, which are very solid. Of course, anticipate is by far the best defensive play style. So I'm not trying to hype up this SBC. All I'm saying is, if it fits your team, if it's something you want to do, go ahead and do it. Good play styles, solid price, good card, and I think better value than DeSasi. Some people are going to say, oh, Nate DeSasi is cracked in game. He's just, he's different. I'm not going to argue with that. DeSasi is his own kind of beast, right? I think body is going to be a pretty good card as well. The dribbling difference is the biggest thing. 70 dribbling versus 85. That's a crazy, crazy difference. So pretty cheap SBC. At least we like that. Also yesterday, the bigger news was probably the refresh of the 88 plus icon player pick, which I don't think I'm going to do this time around. I just don't have enough fodder for it, and especially I'm looking to do Yudogi if he comes out today. So that SBC refresh though, which did actually make fodder go up. Your 87s are now 16K per card, which is crazy. Your 88s are up at about 12,000 coins. Sorry, not 88s. 86s are 12K. 85s are 7,000 coins. Fodder in that low to middle tier is up, up, up. 88s are 22K a piece as well. They even went up. The 89s, 90s, and 91s continue to stay very low, as there are no major leaked SBCs that are coming out soon that are going to require those 1 million coin plus type of SBCs with the 88, 89 rated squads inside of them. So this fodder though, the 86, 7, 8s is what is moving a ton again because of this. I would say if I had it, I would probably sell it. I don't understand. I don't see at least a market where those cards continue to go up today with rewards. At least go up much, especially with marquee matchups coming in. And I think a lot of people maybe starting to save packs for the FC Fantasy promo. So that's kind of what's upcoming also yesterday. You probably heard a lot of conversation about compensation. This is the tweet all the way back from January 28th that EA put out about the mistake with the hero player pick guys. And a lot of you maybe got compensated yesterday. Now, the good thing is I don't think they're done with compensation because they haven't responded to this tweet saying that people who had an incorrect player pick have been compensated. Whenever they replied to this tweet and say that the compensation is done, then it's probably done. But yesterday it seemed like some people were being given out player picks, but I was not one of them. And I know a lot of you guys were not in that list of players as well. And I opened that hero player pick and I looked back earlier today. I had an 86 in the player pick when I should not have. So I still am awaiting compensation on my personal account. And I'm sure a lot of you guys are as well. But EA did start giving out the compensation for that yesterday. Some people were getting four player picks. And I have to imagine something with that is messed up. Because again, it was a two times repeatable SBC. Again, back again almost a month ago when it was released. So EA maybe messed up with the compensation as well. But if you got four player picks yesterday, I think you got a little bit extra. So yeah, that's kind of going on right now at the moment. We don't really have much else to talk about except if you didn't check your ultimate team yesterday. Maybe check the store. Hopefully they finish paying out that compensation today or soon because that is kind of embarrassing if they mess up the compensation as well. Let's talk about the team of the week that was dropped yesterday because it includes something that ties along with my prediction for FC Fantasy. Two playstyle plus cards in team of the week. We have Correa, we have Joel Gomez, and we have Bastoni. All of the featured cards in this week's team of the week got double playstyle pluses and more cards in general got regular play styles. That seems to be almost like the bare minimum. Now, apart from like a couple cards here in the bench, like this Schlotterbeck card, actually he does a playstyle as well. Do all of these have playstyles? Does every single one of them have one? Okay, yeah, see that to me, this goes really well with what we're going to talk about today for FC Fantasy and the changing seasons on this game. I think every single one of these Inforums, even the 85s, has a playstyle plus, of course, besides don't ruin because goalkeepers don't have any. But that's a big change for team of the week. All the featured cards are going to be getting playstyle pluses, two of them now, it looks like. The team of the week is not that crazy. Corea does look pretty good, but Flare plus, again, Trivella plus, cool, Flare plus, that is probably the most usable, less usable, least usable playstyle plus that is in the game. So that was a team of the week that was dropped yesterday, bit of a downgrade from where, of course, we were last week with Holland, Vinnie, and Theo. Let's talk about road to the finals because there were some more movements with these cards yesterday. Pedri with the draw. Napoli and Barca drawing in the first leg. It is Pedri and Zambo and Guisa both getting upgraded. Pedri's price went to the moon pre-game. It's like 1.2 million coins, which is crazy for that card. He's going up to a 91. Zambo and Guisa is going up to an 88 rated card. These upgrades should take place tomorrow on Friday. And Galino with their shock, his goal, his last second goal, really, he got himself the upgrade, scoring against Arsenal in the 90th plus and added time. He's going to go from an 86 to an 88 rated card and Gabriel Jesus is not getting an upgrade and he is down horrendous. 2.1 million coins after he started the day off yesterday between 3.2 and 3.6 million coins, technically. Yeah, that card was very, very expensive. I mean, was it worth that much? Probably not even with Arsenal winning yesterday's game. I don't think his card was worth 3.6 million. But they lost, so this card is down to 2.1, down over a million coins. A crazy drop there. That's the risk that you run with playing with these cards. We have some risks today. Rafael Leal and Romulo Lukaku are both playing in the play-in games to get themselves into the round of 16 in the Europa League. So watch Lukaku and Leal today. Those are the only live cards that actually have a game. Nobody in the conference league, Gonzales, Bailey, they're already upgraded and moved on, right? Tella, Emerson, Fatih and Nunez are the same way. So watch Lukaku and Leal today. If you want to sell on the hype, go for it. Still 4.5 million for Leal. It's crazy, but today they are playing for an upgrade. If they move on to the next round, Lukaku will go to a 90 and Leal will go to a 92. So that is there. They actually have a chance to get upgraded today, but I wanted to mention that. So then, yeah guys, I think these upgrades should take place tomorrow. The ones that deserve them, like Suley getting an upgrade this week. The cards from yesterday's games and Tuesday's games getting upgrades very soon. So that's kind of everything that is going on in this game at the moment. Yes, there was a really quiet day to be completely honest. Day to get some gameplay done. Maybe craft a couple of SPC's, do some player picks and the like. And of course, it got the conversation stirring with the loading screen about Fantasy FC. And that's what I want to talk about for most of the remainder of the video today. Guys, because we do have a couple of leaks and some big names and it all started off with this loading screen. And I want to get to the big prediction that I have because it just, it makes sense, especially with the team of the week changes that we've just seen. This is the loading screen. Pretty simple, pretty just average. Shows the two different cards says, hey, this is coming in a day in 23 hours and Fantasy FC, something with the background looking blurry, making it look like futuristic-like, fantasy-like, I guess. Card design pretty simple though. Again, we've seen this. We know that it was coming, not too big of a surprise there. Let's start taking a look at these leaks. First leak that we had yesterday was Furland Mendy, which a lot of people saw this and were like, oh, yeah, another special card for Furland Mendy. And also, of course, good to point out that Furland Mendy's special cards this year have not been performance-related. He had an Ultimate Dynasty and a Centurions, which were, of course, promos that were just kind of like Ultimate Team promos, nothing to do with live cards, nothing to do with a performance achievement upgrade, anything like that. This one, I guess, is also not like a performance achievement upgrade as well. Like, he didn't play well to get this card. He's getting this card and then we're hoping he plays well and Madrid play well so that it gets upgraded, right? That's kind of how it works. So, another version of Furland Mendy. These are predicted stats, of course, not confirmed, but that's a big-name player. So, he's going to represent Real Madrid for all these potential upgrades. Once again, this is how these cards upgrade and this impacts our conversation today. Greatly, it's all about getting a goal or assist for attackers or midfielders. We haven't had this confirmed yet, but I'm assuming for a defender like Mendy, it would be keeping a clean sheet in the next four games, club winning two games in the next four, player making three appearances in the next four, and then, of course, the hard one to get is going to be scoring 11 goals in the next four domestic league matches. So, what we're going to do is we start to see these players leaked and, of course, as we see them dropped into game is, it's going to be time to look at some schedules and see who plays who, how likely is it that they do get the upgrades based off the health of the squad, where that player's position is in the squad, and, of course, the fixtures, the form of the club as well matters a lot with this, but Mendy's going to be a very, very expensive left-back, very, very expensive. Let's look at a couple other leaks that we have. The other one that we got yesterday was Delict. Another pretty big-name player, I'm going to be honest, and this kind of fits right into my prediction as well. Big-name players, big cards. Delict is a standard-back card. He always lacks a little bit of pace, and he hasn't had too many cards this year. I'm trying to remember, does he have an inform? What are the specials does Delict have? I think he's got just an inform, and I think that might be it. An 88-rated inform card is the only thing that he's got, and it does have 80 pace. He could be pretty good. He really could be pretty good. His base inform does not have anticipate, but it does have block, slide tackle, bruiser, long ball, and power shot for this 88-rated card. Could be good, and again, I know Byron are not being viewed in the best of lights right now. They're having some trouble. Their form is not that great, but it's still a Byron special card, and there's potential for upgrades here for sure, especially with the run of fixtures that they have upcoming. So that's a pretty big-name player. And the last leak that we have is actually for an SBC. So we're getting two Spurs SBCs in the next week, Yudogi and Werner. I guess that's what it sounds like according to the leaks, still, right? Team over, this is the wrong pace, by the way, guys. It's got to be 96 pace because his base goal is 91. So that's just a graphics error there. And this stats predicted for all these cards, of course. But that could be a really, really nice SBC. Now I'm excited for it as a Spurs fan because, you know, Spurs. But also, this could, Timo Werner, this could be a really nice card. And of course you would hope for some upgrades. I would imagine that a Timo Werner could at least get an assist in the next four games. He has been coming off the bench a little bit more since Sun came back from international duty. But he has been subbed on, I think, in just about every single game. He does have a couple assists, but that was when he was starting. So I would hope that he could get at least a plus two for the appearances and the assist or goal. And then I would hope that Spurs could win two as well so that they could get a plus three. So I don't know. That's a very early look at the potential upgrades for a Timo Werner fantasy foot SBC. Those are all the leaks that we have right now, official leaks, right? But here is what I want to talk about with this promo upcoming and with these cards upcoming, guys. Here's my prediction. I think that EA is going to turn it around. It's a bold prediction, guys. It's a bold prediction we're about to make. I think EA is going to turn this game around with this promo. They are going to drop cards with boosted stats that we're going to be excited about. Skill move and weak foot upgrades on the base version of the cards. And I think they're going to give every single card in this promo to play style pluses. I think every single card is going to get in his promo with two play style pluses. Maybe some of the like the fodder fodder ones have one. But one of the things that makes me think that is what they just did with the team of the week, right? They started giving out two play style pluses and at least one play style plus to the entire team of the week. I think that's changing the meta just a little bit. But I really think this is where the meta is going to change, guys. I think they're going to do it because the biggest complaint in the last couple of weeks in this game is none of the content, none of the players, except for the top tier most unpackable ones, even from future stars, get into my team. The SBCs have not been that insane. I packed Trinity Rodman and she almost doesn't... I feel like I'm putting her in my team because I have to use her card because I packed her and it was a very rare pack pull. That's how it feels. I would rather play Rogoni because I have more fun with him or maybe even the new Cloudia Peña per se. But it feels like for a lot of us we haven't had great very meta cards to put in our team. We talked about that literally yesterday with the disaster SBC. I think EA is going to change that. I think EA is like, all right, it's been a couple of weeks now since team of the year. It's been three weeks of promos. We're getting more and more double play style plus players released. But I think this is going to be the promo that actually takes it to the next level. Now another reason why I think that is, again, look at the upgrade path. These, for upgrades, for all these cards, say nothing about play style upgrades, play style pluses doesn't add a weak foot or skill move. So in my mind, I think they're going to add that at the beginning of the promo and then they're just going to upgrade the stats along the way. So they're going to get us excited with maybe a weak foot or skill move upgrade for a card that deserves it and maybe even adding a play style plus, right? Two play style pluses for those cards or two PS pluses depending on who gets into the promo. Make those cards seem really juice straight off the bat and really insane that we want to go out, try them, put them in our teams. So it's going to be a combination of the skill move weak foot, double play style plus and the stat upgrades that are going to be good in my opinion. And then from there on out, we'll be excited for the cards to still get further upgrades. And I think that's what's going to bring the hype with this promo. So that I think is what EA is going to do. Now for the pack weight sake, who knows? Like pack weight, I don't think these cards are going to be crazy packable. But as long as they're semi-attainable and we have decent SBCs, then it will create hype because again, that's how team of the year was, right? The SBCs were so great. The team of the year cards weren't very packable once the full team came out in terms of a team of the year sense. But it created a lot of hype for crafting and for SBCs and all that sort of jazz. We're going to have heroes impacts as well for FC fantasy heroes. So yeah guys, that's why I think they're going to do it. And I think it's going to impact this game a good amount because that's what people have been asking for. So if something comes out that makes people actually change their teams, it's going to shake some things up. And EA know that this game has been dropping off drastically since team of the year. People have been saying, nah, it's not good enough. I don't want to play this game. It's just, it's repetitive. It's dead, blah, blah, blah, right? EA definitely sees all that. I'm sure they see the usage statistics of the people that are logging onto their game, interacting with the content, buying packs from the store. EA's got to give people to get excited again and I think they're going to do it again. I'm trying to think from EA's perspective here guys. It's been three weeks of road to the final and then two weeks of future stars where it's just solid downhill. I think they're going to, I think they're going to juice this problem up. I think they want to shake some things up. And we talk about the valleys and the rises, the mountains and the valleys all the time. I think we're going to be coming out of a valley now and rising back up. That's just my opinion. Again, it is just a prediction and we'll actually see how it goes down. But that's what I think will happen. Now, if they go ahead and do this, if they juice these cards up with double playstyle pluses, I think it's going to impact the market a bit. I would say that we said this for like weeks now that team of the year cards are probably just going to maintain their price, slowly drop over time. This could be one of those moments where a team of the years take a little bit of a dip. If every single new card comes out with double playstyle plus and they're not as cheap as future stars, maybe, but like halfway affordable on the market, you know, for some of these cards, especially because they're live. I do believe you would see some people selling a team of the year, selling maybe a road to the final card that's very, very expensive or even a future stars. Some of the future stars cards still seem a little overpriced to me. Cold Palmer for three, six. Like watch a card come out during this promo that has similar or maybe just slightly less stats to that but with two playstyle pluses that are pretty good, like in the Premier League for sure, might drop this card's price a little bit. You know what I'm saying? So it comes down to, of course, how much they boost the cards. But if they drop boosted two playstyle plus cards, I think that people will be excited about. Then you're gonna see some price corrections on the market and they could be pretty significant. They really could be. It all just depends on how much they juice the stuff and also the SBC. So that's one thing I wanted to point out. I wouldn't tell you to go out right now and like Panic Cell team of the year cards for any stretch of the imagination but I would tell you just be prepared. If you have some of those cards in your club, if we start getting official stats leaks, guys, that's the big thing. Today on Thursday, maybe late in the day, we'll start to see some official stats but then probably tomorrow on Friday before the promo drops, that'll give us a big hint into what this promo is looking like. So again, I have no leaks. I have nothing except just how I know EA tries to operate this game and how I think they might do it this time around to make me think that this could be the way that they go ahead and do it. Now, of course, also a couple other things to mention. Last year, these cards made a pretty big splash on the game as well, especially because we were like, oh my goodness, these cards with these upgrades are going to be absolutely insane. Like, yeah, it's only four matches this year for these cards. If they give them these good boosts that we're thinking they could and then there's upgrades on top of that. We're going to have some crazy, crazy cards leading up to an early start to team of the season this year because it's only four league matches. Last year, it was six league matches to get these cards upgraded and you see how the Alexa Sanchez went from like 88 pace, 89 shooting, 89 passing, 94 drill. If that card were to drop in this game right now, people would go crazy for it. Give that card two-play style pluses with those stats. That is nuts. I know that's one of the top cards in the promo, but this year, Rente with two-play style pluses, that would go crazy. This Saliba, I know we just had a Saliba SB. This Saliba with two-play style pluses would go freaking nuts. So that's why I'm saying I think this promo this year can change it up and make things really, really hype. Now, also we have heroes and we already mentioned it as a part of this, but I think the SBC players for the heroes really, really matter as well. They really matter. Like we need, I'm not going to say yaya toorai, but like maybe a Lucio. Lucio is one of the card for the hero's cards that gets shot at all the time. He's like, oh, he has had a special up this year. He needs one. It's possible that Lucio gets himself a fantasy heroes card for sure. 100%, it's possible. I haven't seen any official leaks, but if we get an SBC for a player like Lucio or, you know, back during trophy Titans, I was at last year or two years ago, we had the Marquisio, right? The Marquisio SBC that we had, that's kind of like a middle to higher tier hero card that could definitely get an SBC that would be hyped enough and also expensive enough for people to want to go and craft. So I think there's potential there for some of that as well. Again, I am very optimistic guys, but I just think it's been enough weeks of mid slash L slash not meta enough content that it's got to be shaken up. So that's kind of what I'm trying to portray today to you guys. One thing we can also look out for is the more leaks that come out and the players that come into this promo. Again, we've already got big names. If they keep coming out with the big names from the big clubs, because you know the big clubs are going to be represented, right? Madrid, Barça, City, United, Chelsea. We're going to get players from all those clubs. This has been a two week promo in the past because it's live cards. EA know they get people excited with live cards. But if they keep putting out big players from these clubs as well, then it could be, again, kind of to our point. So that's kind of what I want to get across today, guys. I think this promo could go crazy. I really think that it could. And if it does look crazy, you're going to start to see a little bit of panic. But you may not see a ton of panic also until people realize that it's crazy once it drops and then you see prices dropping later on this weekend. So that's something that's possible as well. Again, the flip side is if this promo sucks and if it's just unpackable cards that aren't boosted that much, maybe they do have two place-out pluses, but they still aren't that good and they're super-duper expensive, then yeah, it's not going to be that fun. It could be literally Road to the Final 2.0, right? Road to the Final wasn't that great. Yeah, we had some cool cards. Yes, a lot of people invested and made coins off of these, myself included. But it didn't feel like that great. Wasn't replacing cards in our teams. If that's how this FC Fantasy promo feels and it's going to destroy the game even more, and that's why, again, I just feel like EA is not going to let that happen. So I'll get off my soapbox. We're talking about that for too long. Let me know in the comments what you guys think. I know right now it's really easy to be like, ah, this game sucks and all that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's going to turn around at some point. It always does. This is kind of the normal cycle. It's just hit a little harder, I think, this year after Team of the Year. The negativity with, and honestly, it's EA's fault. It is, to be honest. It's their game. It's their fault. The menu content, not being as crazy, but it spiked up so much during Team of the Year. We've talked about this, and then, of course, the gameplay issues, all that combined. It's been tough, but we'll see if it changes. Let's talk today, all right? Let's move past that talk today here right now. Thursday content, Marquis matchups. You guys know every single week. It's going to be refreshing today. So watch out for that. And then I would also say for today, we got to get Yudogi men. If Yudogi doesn't come out today, there's going to be a lot of upset people, especially for that Evo. I believe the Evo, you only have a couple more days to do this one. So if you want to do Yudogi like myself, like, I got to get that SBC done. And then, yeah, three days. Is that what that said right there? You have three days to unlock the Future Star glow-up. So if we don't get him today, then he's going into the SBC Google log. And if we don't get him, then I don't even know. Would I put in Richardson for this? Maybe I'd put in Richardson, but I tried him out yesterday and I wasn't super impressed. I, maybe I'll do, I don't even know, man. I'm not sure who I would do. I'd have to get something exciting about somebody in that. Maybe I'd try to get to level 10 and do Musa, but I'm only on level six right now. So that would be a grind. We need some XP as well. I mean, I'm not, don't feel like I'm super behind. I don't want to go and pay whatever 85K in the store to go get some XP. But I do feel like we do need some of it. I know I'm going to get some here with the weekly, which I got to get this done because it's going to refresh. Got to play one more game. It's going to refresh tomorrow. Weekly objectives to get more XP, but still, that's like not even enough. I think they decreased the amount of XP you get in that. And yeah, we need some more EA. We need some more XP to get us a level 10 here before that EVO goes away so that we can put in Musa if we so desire. And yeah, guys, I think it's MMS today. I hope it's Yudogi as well. And then an updated loading screen and some more leaks. That's literally today, guys. Get those quality games done. Get ready for the footchamps, the Week in League, all that good stuff. Get those games in today. Just get your four and dip. I don't know what it is for you guys, but I'm going to get my four there. I would dip. And I think I'm going to do a little pack save, just a one-day pack save. I'm going to save the 82 times 20. And I'll maybe save the 85 plus player picks as well from the refresh today for tomorrow with FTFC Fantasy. I'm going to call it FTFC Fantasy so many times. We know what we're talking about, right? FTFC Fantasy, basically the same thing. So that is that. I still have on my transfer list, Zair Emory. Yesterday was a slow day for flips. I lost coins on Korea. I lost coins on Korea because it looked like it was going to work. And it kind of did. He went up and then he went down. And we were playing games in the meantime. So I've lazy listed my Suleys. And I still have the Zair Emory, which I'll probably try to get out for hopefully just shy of 2 million coins today. Oh, last second. Will any of these cards rise up out of packs? A couple of them could. Like Hoylan, two-playstyle pluses. It's Hoylan. I have been cooked by that card multiple times in-game. I could see him rising up a bit just because it's Hoylan. If he's like 200k flat, that's pretty good, I think. Olyse, you know, he's already up so much that if you can get him for low 80s, I think that's fine. But I think he just kind of is rising with the saucy and the French links. So and he's actually pretty good out here. So yeah, I think he's going to keep going, but you got to get him at a good price. Other than that, I'm personally not going to put any coins into this team, especially with what could become this weekend. I'm just going to sit back and wait it out. That's what I'm going to do. Watch the leaks today and see what happens. But that's the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy and if you're excited for FC Fantasy as well, it's a live card promo at the very least. We'll get excited for that. Drop a thumbs up on the video, comment below if you have any questions, and subscribe if you're new. I will see you guys in the Twitch stream today. Got to get some qualies wins and open some more player picks. It's been Nathan with Accountants. See you guys there. Peace. Thanks for watching.