Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Welcome to a brand new week and also a little mini series on the Foot Accountants YouTube channel because team of the season is rapidly approaching and it is time to prepare. So what we do almost every year as we roll into the team of the season timeframe is we do a little team of the season taught preparation series where we have a few videos talking about specific areas of the market and how you can get ready for one of the most exciting promos of the year on the market with your club on this game in so many different aspects and how you can just kind of get in the right mindset for the crazy promo of team of the season and it's gonna take up like the next month and a half on this game when it is released here in a week and a half, two weeks, little less than two weeks now, like week, week and a half depending on the release date, it is almost here. So we're gonna get ready for team of the season today. What we're gonna focus on is just team of the season in general, kind of preparing our, you know, what are your goals for team of the season because that is very important. If you think about it from a FIFA Ultimate Team club management standpoint, how many coins you have, what cards you have in the club, what your current team looks like, that is a big factor in how you should plan going forward into team of the season and also we're gonna talk about one of the specific and I think most popular conversations to really speak on during team of the season is we've had a market crash, we've seen prices that have been dropping continually over the past, honestly, like two and a half weeks. I mean, this Jude Bellingham has gone from 1.8 mil down to 1.06, 1.07, I believe. 1.08 he is right now at the moment and Boppe is down 100K. Lucas Paqueta was 800,000 coins, he's now 460, like what, you know? So we've seen a lot of panic selling, a lot of you guys wanna know when do I buy some of these cards that are out of packs because that's one of the most popular things to do is buy out of packs cards as they rise up after a team of the season comes out in that first week or two. So buying a team, buying cards as investments, we're gonna start that conversation today. That's gonna be an ongoing conversation as we get closer and closer to team of the season because the perfect buy time is gonna be so hard to find. We are in that low timeframe where prices are really, really cheap and it all just depends on what content EA drop and we're in the quote unquote buy window, it just all depends on could prices go a little bit lower if EA drop better content. So we're gonna take a look through all of those things. Also, we're gonna take a look at the Footcappens content from yesterday. Busquets, Payette, Coleman is a W. We had one of the best value SBCs for just a cool card as well and Pepe's like 23,000 coins to do. Dirt cheap, lovely dynamic image, insane stat boost for a card, very usable and that also has to factor into the conversation for how crack team of the season is gonna be this year because the power curve is already so insane. The cards that they're gonna be giving boost to we have team of the season voting as well. I'll show you my vote and talk through how that relates to information on this game. There's just so much to cover. It's gonna be wild. Team of the season is gonna be crazy as well. So if you're excited for episode number one of this little mini series, hit the thumbs up on the video and of course, subscribe if you are new. So let's take it from the top, right? The number one thing that I always think about with team of the season is what are you gonna do? How many coins you got? Of course, team of the season brings so much content to this game. SBCs like guaranteed tot SBCs. We're gonna talk about those and fodder later on because fodder moves so much during team of the season and it's affected so much by all the SBCs that come out. Upgrade packs, right? Today on Monday, we hopefully will get upgrade packs inside of the Foot Cap and Steam 2 promo but upgrade packs and trying to pack as many team of the season as possible is something I love to do during a team of the season. But also you think about all the insane cards that are dropped during these promo and during this whole month and a half long promo of team of the season.  You're gonna wanna try out a lot of cards. So you might need to have some coins for that or you might need to have coins to buy some out of pack special cards, foot birthdays, foot captains, maybe a hero captains card, a fantasy foot, any of these number of crazy promos. We've had so many promos this year. There's more special cards than ever on the game this year and you might wanna buy a couple of these for your team when you start trying out a team of the season cards. You know the market's dropped off so much. So you're like, yo Nate, I need to buy some cards whether it's just for my team or to make coins. There's gonna be opportunities for all of that during team the season. But the first thing you really have to nail down is what combination with how many coins you have and again stuff you have in the club, what combination of those things are you gonna do? Kind of break up the amount of coins you have, right? Technically at the moment I have got like 22 million coins in total. Got about 22 mil and I'm telling myself, okay I want to spend, I at least wanna end the team of the season with like five million coins still. So I've got 15 mil to spend on upgrade packs and SBCs during the promo itself of the five or six weeks that it's gonna run and stuff like that. So at the same time I also wanna try to make some coins so that I can increase that coin total and even spend more coins if needed during the duration of that promo and keep enough coins liquid and not be so 100% invested that I can't go out and try brand new TOTS cards that are on the game. So for me, it's a combination of doing upgrade packs, trying out new cards and making coins. But I know for a lot of you guys you really wanna buy some cards for your team and that's after you kind of decide what your mindset's gonna be that's the question that I wanna tackle today. So of course we have to talk a few things related to the actual release date of team of the season. Of course yesterday we had this community TOTS vote that was released. And of course upon this being released you did see a few more cards dropping on the market but there wasn't any crazy content yesterday that really drained coins. So prices are yes down but a lot of prices aren't down like tremendously amounts more than yesterday, right? When we convened last night for the video we were looking at Sancho and I believe he was like 580, right? He's 566 at the moment. Paqueta was 480 yesterday, he is 450 I believe right now. Paqueta 480 he went down to 427 and then bounced back up a little bit. So this is what you're looking for, right? The panic selling days like this it's like Nate Paqueta's down like 50% in price is this too cheap? It's getting really, really freaking low for Paqueta in my opinion. Again, the hardest time for buying a team and buying out of pack special cards. I know there's so many insane ones this year especially with the captain's cards that we just got. It's yes it is about the timing but in the general scheme of things we are in the low point right now and like Nate what are you talking about? What does this mean for the low point? We've seen prices dropping. This is a throwback to last year. We've seen prices dropping just like this for the past month but always what happens during the first two weeks of team in the season is people open packs, people come back to the game and use FIVA points or saved up packs. They open all of these card packs in the game and it brings coins on the market and that makes card prices go up. Everybody is scared to buy before team this season because they're worried and then of course the switch flips and cards go the other way. Look at this Bukayo Saka Future Stars, right? Really great card last year for the power curve. 800,000 coins out of packs card by the time team of the season is going for Premier League which is like two weeks later. He goes from 800K to one million coins. So at 200,000 coin rise, if you buy some cards it's an investment and also you can use that card in your team, right? It's kind of like one of those opportunities like before Black Friday we had earlier this year which every single year for team in season we see that sort of movement but I really wanna focus on this year's market and the movements we've seen this year because this year's market is so much different than in years past. I'm looking back to Black Friday, right? We had some crazy panic selling for Black Friday the week before that promo came out very popular in meta card like this rule breakers Usman went from 550K down to the low 400s and then exploded back up over 500,000 coins after Black Friday. Same thing with the Joao Felix card numbers up went from 800,000 coins down in the panic selling to 600K it was also right after he went out of packs so his supply was still pretty high right there at the moment and then a couple of weeks later boom, 790,000 coins. I know there's a little bit of a live upgrading aspect to this card so we have to factor that in there as well but oftentimes what you see is what we just looked at with these graphs you see panic selling, panic selling, panic selling then you see the cards bounce back and they rebound after team of the season or even like right before leading up the team of the season you start to see that bounce back because people are like, oh my goodness these prices have got so low people have been panic selling for the last month now and the switch kind of flips. Look at this Debala man 1.3 mil all the way down to 850, right? I know Siria Taz is not for a longer while it's normally, I think it's actually at the end of team of the season this year based off of the leaks which we have some very interesting leak conversation to talk about today but regardless of what cards you really wanna buy for your team the cards that are gonna rise the most if you're looking purely from an investing perspective the cards that are gonna rise the most are gonna be the most meta popular usable items, right? That paqueta is a big name that I think will rise very well after team of the season if you wanna buy one of those for your team you're probably looking for the low 400s for that card to pull the trigger same thing with this Jelson, right? He was 600,000 coins albeit probably overpriced he's now down on the 300s if this drops like to 350 a five star skillar I know that he's got Ben Yetter links I know League 1 Taz isn't for a while but this guy's meta people are gonna wanna buy him put him back in their teams that's the team of the year cards as well like a Georgino, Marquinhos, Hakimi, Cancelo those are all cards that I would really really watch I think this week is gonna be your time to buy some time in the next seven days between this Monday and probably next Monday or Tuesday of course it all depends on the content that EA released that's the caveat with this and that's why I'm having this conversation with you guys early today is because we need to start looking now and again as we talk about planning and setting goals and hey what cards do I need to buy for my team for team of the season just again start to plot that out build a concept squad so you know what cards you need to watch that you wanna buy for your team before they start to rise up after team of the season actually comes out and I think in the next seven days we are in the buy window we really really are a card dropping 50% in price like this Lucas Paqueta is he gonna go back up to 800K? No, could he go back up to like maybe up 100K to like 550 or 600 in the next two weeks? Potentially, right? Full birthdays are so unique because they have that five star either weak foot or skill move upgrade and a lot of the cards as we know like Cruz, Paqueta, so many other examples got that double five star five star, five star weak foot and skill moves so there's a lot of hype for those cards as well and the power curve is such an insane point this year that these cards are still like almost end game and so usable because of the crazy stats they have some Tots cards are gonna look just like this they'll be really cheap but the power curve is so insane that there's gonna be really nuts Tots cards but there's also gonna be some that just fall in line with where the power curve has been recently and there's potential to underwhelm with that which I think out of Pax cards this year could do really, really, really good even though there's so many more of them with all the promos we've had I think out of Pax cards are gonna really, really do well because they've done well so many times this year in panic selling and then bounce back especially for the most meta items so one thing that we have to talk about with this is what is actually the leaked date for team this season community? When is this actually gonna start? When's the show gonna start? Well, this was the voting that we had yesterday by the way, this is my vote I know we've clicked on this page a couple times and looked at it what I really chose here is I guess it's technically my vote but I really tried to put together a vote that I think would be really realistic and if I look at this team and I compare it to the community Tots squad of last year of course Zaha was in I think FIFA 20 Tots he had a really cracked card people were excited about him I would say Lacazette, Nabri, Fred, La Porte, Yoriz I feel like those are basically like shoe ins honestly like I've said before this voting is more like a popularity contest more than anything else last year during the season like look at the teams and the clubs that are represented in here Spurs, Bayern, Manchester United you've got Leicester, you've got Real Madrid, Leverkusen, Leipzig, PSG they're gonna be putting in cards into these packs that represent the biggest clubs in the world because that's what sells packs and that's what people wanna see in FIFA as well so you take a look at the vote this year I mean I think Fred is a shoe in I really hope Bremer gets a card because if he is in the voting for community Tots that most likely means he's not gonna be in Serie A team this season and I really wanna see a Bremer special after the year that he's had of course I'm voting for the boy Yoriz Carrasco would be cracked again Nabri, Suarez, Zaha, Lacazette just got a captain's card but hey if you're gonna give him another one of EA sports go for it so I think this squad right here is one of the most realistic ones of course there could be some other guys that get in I really think that another one of these English defenders like honestly Conor Cody or Batman maybe Dawson could get in from the defenders from the midfield there's a lot of options here Parejo could potentially be in Zambo on Gwisa from the Serie A would be a really cracked card John McGinn could potentially get in Vanneken possibly, Kaka Ray maybe some OP people voting for him after how OP he was earlier on in the year and Douglas Louise right Moses Simon there's a lot of good midfielders in here I feel like Fellaini after his rule breakers card which I still have in the club there's so many great cards that are in the voting here but again what it's gonna boil down to is yes more of the most popular players are gonna get in now this was released yesterday on Sunday but can we take a quick look into this this is me putting my thinking cap on here this voting is only open for three days and this is what confuses me a little bit everybody has been saying this is the leak right here that team of the season is not starting that these community cards are not getting released until April 29th but I'm just confused as to why the voting is so short it ends 10 a.m. April 20th at specific time so that's gonna end up that I think that's like that's content drop time that'd be 6 p.m. UK on the 20th which is what Wednesday so Wednesday the 20th at 6 p.m. voting ends I don't think that's enough time for EA Sports to release this community team of the season on Friday the 22nd because they would have to make up the cards tally the votes create the items send out all their information for the stats and there's a lot of communication that has to go on with these cards I feel like it would be such a short turnaround window for them to release tots on the 22nd I think the 29th seems the most legit I know it's leaked but again we have to always take leaks of the grain of salt I think that makes the most sense to me but it still is a bit interesting to me why the voting is open for only those short few days I don't really understand that but again it does seem like the 29th of April is going to be the timeframe for when we will see community team of the season on the market so of course as we talk about buy times for these cards yes we are in the low right as we take a look through some of these special cards like the Comma Vinga is down Stones is down Lucas more is down a lot he got his plus three upgrade confirmed on the weekend a lot of those fantasy foot cards are going to get upgraded this coming Thursday by the way and some of them will be getting their plus three their third final upgrade while Suarez is 375 but he's in the voting for community tots so that's really interesting Odegaard being a 5-5 Allen with such great links I know we might get a Fred but I think Fred would be so expensive for a tots card Allen would probably still be a card that would bounce back Tony Cruz, Noodle Menge you know there's going to be so many cards focusing back onto the buying a team and investing in cards that are going out of packs there's going to be so many items that bounce back so well after the first two weeks of team this season it's all just about figuring out which cards you want to buy for your team or for investment purposes and just start watching their prices and as we have content come out even today on Monday today on Monday could be a potential day where we see some more prices dropping because we've got a big SBC that is ending in this icon moments upgrade and I would imagine of course with a big promo coming, EA like they did last week are probably going to release some gamble pack SBCs they're going to release some content that is going to drain coins off of this game and off of the market and I would be shocked if they didn't have another icon gamble pack type SBC whether it's an icon moments upgrade like this again maybe a bit of a cheaper cost if it's a player pick that would drain even more coins off the market I think they're going to re-up another sort of icon gamble SBC and that could cause some more panic on the market today I don't think the panic is necessarily done all I'm saying is we are in the low right it's going to be nearly impossible to time the perfect opportunity to buy each and every one of the cards that you're trying to find but if you just get them in the low and you know they've dropped off like 40, 50% like that Lucas Paqueta has dropped off 45% in price or like foot birthday Fakir is down so much as Bellingham is down so much in value you know that you're getting such an insane price for a rare meta card like that which by the way those are going to be the ones that rise the best these rare out of packs meta cards that people are you know using the most if you want to know which cards people are using the most just go on footbin and under the players tab up here I look at this page all the time if you guys didn't know how to get here you go players down to popular and these are the cards that people are searching up the most on footbin's website and that really tells you cards that you see here all the time like this Paqueta Ginola is one that you see here like all the time team of the years are a mainstay oh my gosh Rubidias Rudeger 339 my guy dude this guy was 700k 660k when the panic selling started he's down literally 50% in price and people are going to buy this card back up after team of the season starts because they know he's one of the most meta and usable and also going to be linkable center backs in the game I know if a Laporte comes out yeah that'd be sick but Rudeger is just so cracked people are going to buy him back so that'd be a card I would put on my short list for a card to rise after team of the season comes out as well but just watch out for more panic this week again it's going to be hard to time that absolute low point but if you find and maybe if you set some low prices like okay if I find Paqueta at like 410,000 coins or 420 like he was yesterday 427 okay that's too low I'm going to buy it that's kind of the stuff that you have to do when you're buying in this week on this game so that's kind of the whole conversation about buying cards and buying a team and we're going to follow the market all week this week right of Ken the captains I'm honestly some of these hero captains cards like Robbie Keane, Mario Gomez some of these guys are so rare it's going to be interesting to follow them especially since they're still in packs Robbie Keane is what 696 but he has two pages of supply on the market where's that Betty Pillay he was like 1.05 earlier this guy just keeps dropping I think one million coins for a Betty Pillay it just seems so cheap it's crazy right it's really really crazy like of course everything keeps dropping so you just kind of have to watch these drops I'd be more careful with the cards impacts and focus on the cards that are out of packs more so so that's kind of the whole buying teams conversation and we're going to follow prices every single day throughout this week I know that's a really really big topic for a lot of people and that's why we're going to continue to talk about it and that's why I wanted to talk about it today once again so let's take a look at today's content on Monday we already talked about the icon SBC I think they're going to re-up one of these last week on Monday we had the 85 plus player pick pack it was our first of three gamble SBCs that we had last week I believe that it would be an EA's best interest like I said again to drop another SBC like that we don't have any leaks right now for a big time SBC the only leak that we actually have at the moment is for a Canales and Gabriel Polista showdown SBC which both these cards look really cracked I think these are yes that's our prediction but both those cards Polista needs a little bit more pace but Canales looks pretty cracked other than that right now we don't have a ton of other leaks except for our daily icon moments players right that we've been talking about Zaddan and Maldini those are the two big boy icon moments SBCs that people are kind of waiting for and we have not seen them yet yesterday we had Cassius which was a really solid value but we're really waiting for EA to drop the big boys the big guns if you will for these icon moments player SBCs I also think today on Monday would be an upgrade pack day last week and this would also contribute to a lot of more panic selling and prices dropping further on the game this week if they drop another icon upgrade pack today more icon moments player SBCs like they have been doing and they said they will do but if they drop an 80 plus player pick times four once again I spent like 750K on those upgrade packs last week people would be crafting their brains out again this week with that player pick with the foot captains that we have in packs at the moment you've got a Lacazette you've got the Busquets you've got the Henderson people would be crafting SBCs and they would be spending a lot of coins this week so I think it's oh 382 yeah that got bought I think it's an EA's best interest if they release a big upgrade SBC like that today I just don't know if they're gonna do it I really hope that they do and that would really kind of give us an idea where EA might be going with content this week if they go ahead and do that but some sort of upgrade pack I would expect today maybe a moments upgrade and a moments icon SBC like those one of those big ones that we talked about now let me just speak really quickly about a really weird situation I know we have the many of these Busquets as great Payette is awesome Coleman is dope as well and the Cassius SBC from yesterday is a W and need I say more about Pepe right we mentioned him incredible value get this done it's literally one of the best value SBCs that we have had this year 83 squad one team of the week crafted this week if you have nothing else to do the goalkeeper Cassius is a W SBC as well I still think he looks like Ben Davies in this picture Tottenham fans might agree a little bit because you can't see his whole face anyways I think this is a great value craft as well six squads it's like 300 and something thousand coins W for an icon goalkeeper you have got links in goal for the rest of your ultimate team in FIFA 22 if you do an SBC like that now this leak and this is a conversation really quickly to end this video about a end of an era Aguero and I don't think we talked about it here on the main channel at all because you know I just never got around to it to be honest but we had some interesting things happen yesterday on FIFA well our main resident leaker foot share of tweeted out Pepe Aguero and Cassius coming tonight he tagged FIFA Romania which is another leaking account that has been pretty accurate with leaks but yesterday this FIFA Romania account said that Aguero was coming out of the concept card and stuff and foot share of Sarah there was basically it was Twitter a leaker beef drama yesterday because Sheriff was using his leaks from FIFA Romania and retweeting him and saying hey this guy says that Aguero was coming and he's been pretty correct Aguero didn't drop everybody was upset at Sheriff and FIFA Romania and now it's just okay leakers are in the mud a little bit because of this so this is again just a nice reminder to keep your believing in leaks just keep that in check a little bit because you never know when things seem really, really legit even with the Maldini and the Zidane I'm starting to kind of catch myself a little bit like were those legit leaks too because maybe it seems like EA is being a little fishy with these leaks or feelers that they're putting out for whatever reason so yeah I'm being very, very, very careful with the leaks that I believe so that's kind of the situation and end of an era Aguero would be so nasty it'd be so thick, I would love that card I just don't know if that leak was really legit or not so that's why I didn't end up talking about it I'm glad I didn't to get you guys' hopes up if you were, I mean I'd be stoked for an Aguero I would want to do that card I hope he does get one I think he deserves one I know we had one last year but I think some of the guys on Twitter are making a really good point his gold card's not in packs anymore so that would be one strike against him for not getting a new card is if he's kind of been removed from the game even though it's an SBC I don't know, EA knows that stuff of course I don't know like the technicalities the legal aspect of that for FIFA if they pull a card out of packs and yada yada but that's kind of what's going on in this game at the moment it should be a fun day of content we're gonna be back streaming again today check that link down below in the description and hopefully today's video helped you out a little bit more to come, we're gonna talk about SBC fodder we're gonna talk about more of the upgrade packs how you can get ready for those and again follow the market for buying teams and investing and even like trading with team of the season players we'll kind of make some market moves and talk about that as team of the season approaches as well so that's gonna be the video for today boys if you did enjoy smashing them up on a 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