Festival Time

GPM (00:06.603)
Hello, FUTTIES and welcome to episode 613. What an amazing time we're gonna have here. We've come off the plane, we're in the Ibiza sun. It's the festival of fun, or festival of football as it's known. I'm dressed for summer. We're gonna throw the cases into the apartments and we're gonna head out and enjoy the party lifestyle. But who better to have fun in the sun than my two good friends? I've got Harry Houla, the Norwegian Indiana Jones, the FUT Gaffer.

Mr. FIFA Database, the man himself, the legend, Ingve hello my friend.

ingve (00:40.78)
Hello my friend, good evening, good day, good morning from wherever people are listening. So good to be back again.

GPM (00:48.459)
It's good to have you back, my friend. And also, we've got a returning guest or returning host, I should actually say, he is the blogger's blogger, the tip of the spear when it comes to writing about FC24. It's my good friend, Kyle. How you doing, my friend?

Kyle (01:02.554)
Hi Chris, hi Ingve I'm good. Hope you're both ready for the world of Festival Footwars about to hit us.

GPM (01:08.619)
Yeah, it's going to be amazing. He says as a Scotsman who plays next Friday and our tournament will be over come nine or 10 o 'clock on next Friday as we get beat off the Germans. But then again, hope springs eternal as they say. But before we go, we enjoy the festival, we enjoy the sunshine, we enjoy a few cocktails. Let's talk about ultimate tots. Was it ultimate tots or was it ultimate let down envy?

ingve (01:33.964)
A little bit of both. There are some of the players of course I didn't agree with that was selected and of course people packed them loads of times and probably yesterday from the ultimate TOTS guaranteed SBC as well. But I had some good pulls, fortunately. I'm very happy with that from both SBC's and from FUTchamps

since I got 16 wins. So for me in that department, it was really good because I packed good players, a good tradable player. So I'm better off after ultimate than I was before it at least, which is very nice.

GPM (02:20.363)
And for you, Kyle, Ultimate Tots, was it a great promo for you or was it a bit of a letdown?

Kyle (02:27.514)
I think it was for me a bit of a let down, like obviously all the usual names got in there and the ones we expected so the Mbappe and Vinicus Junior, those were the upper echelon cards. I think my road to 11 wins I got, I didn't get as good as what I hoped. I got a Valverde and I got a Debena so, okay reds but not really what I was looking for but yeah, I enjoyed it. It was good SBC's I completed the Reus SBC as well along the way last week so.

Yeah, and there was good content, which I enjoyed, but rewards, yeah, didn't quite hit it.

GPM (03:00.587)
I mean, I think some of the players were a little bit disappointed when they came out compared to what the Ultimate Tots were themselves. And I just think as well as I think we had a lot of dupe theory this week, didn't we? For every, almost every night when you did the SBC of the guaranteed whatever league it was, you were guaranteed almost to get a dupe card. I was lucky. I got 11 wins last weekend and got Rice, red pick, and then got the Ultimate Tots back and picked up Rice again.

So that just shows you dupe theory is real for those people out there who have conspiracies like myself. But we'll leave it, we'll say goodbye. They're in the rear view mirror as we wave those guys away. And, you know, when you look at the cards, especially, let's talk about on Thursday, the new season that came out Ingve Some of those cards in there look absolutely amazing.

ingve (03:29.74)
I'm gonna go.

ingve (03:49.74)
There were some surprises, I'd say. EA have stepped up this season. I'll give it to them. There's one player, of course, I was a little bit annoyed whilst there, but I'll get to that. There were some new faces. We can talk probably about the ones that people are really excited to see in the season rewards. If you go a little bit further down the levels.

starting around level 19. I'm pretty sure you're happy with Tierney there. One of your Scotland players. We got a Dudek as well at level 22. Great soft game hero card which looks really nice. John will be happy with Gimenez the Feyenoord Striker at level 24. That's also of course and then...

Kyle (04:28.058)
Hehe.

ingve (04:47.98)
Level 25 is a card Jonathan Clauss I don't know why he just had a team of season card. I know it's going to take a while to unlock him, but I still think that the EA could have selected a player like Pavard or something like that if they needed a French right back slash center back type of player, not one that was in the team of season. I think that's a little bit boring and lazy. Alexis Sanchez, of course, level 26 looks really good.

And we have Bernardo Silva, another card which we've seen a few times before at level 29. But of course the stats looks really nice. Rafinha, level 31. He also got a team of season cards, so I don't understand why he was picked. They could probably have found someone else from Brazil. Level 33, Depay. Looks really, really, really good. But of course it's a long way until we get him as well. But level 34.

It's a little bit of a hard one for me, since it's the end of an era, Tony Kroos and the greats of the game icon, Steven Gerrard So both are players I would like to have, but I think I have to select Gerrard, even though Tony Kroos now has four play styles. So that's new as well. Along the way, I wish we could have one for each level 34 or 35 or 33, or just move things around so we could get...

all of them and of course level 35 with the 97 rated Puskas card it looks insane so those are really good and fun cards of course some could have been other players but i really like that you can unlock players this is something i would like to see in the start of the game you can unlock players to start lower rated as long as they're around the curve at the time the season starts.

You could have lots of fun players, players that you could evo later, that would also be fun. So I hope they continue with lots of players in Season Rewards. That's fun for me.

Kyle (07:06.49)
and Chris you're on mute.

ingve (07:11.788)
I think Chris got a little bit speechless.

GPM (07:13.803)
Sorry guys, sorry guys. I was just putting the order at the bar there for us. I didn't want people to realize we were getting six Red Bulls and vodka and four zombies at the same time. We are going to party tonight. Sorry about that guys, I was busy putting the order at the bar. Sorry, I'll just ask you there. Are you someone who grinds to level 35 normally?

Kyle (07:17.562)
Ha ha ha.

Kyle (07:22.842)
You

Kyle (07:34.106)
Yeah, I usually get to the end of the end of the season pass though I usually leave it's like maybe the last week when the a decided to give us a load of objectives for XP or they throw a cup in there so I'm not I'm not usually racing through the levels, but I will get there eventually I think most people will if you play the game regularly enough you can complete your division rivals and You compete in FUT champs as well. I think I really like this season. I think there's a lot in there that

that you can sort of really get excited about. I'm really looking forward to getting to the level 35 and trying that Puskas out. That looks an absolute worldy of a card. The 88 .5 that's the alternate option may be interesting if you're trying to collect a Futties maybe, but I'm not, I'm not going for it at the moment because the Ingve is shaking his head. I'm with you Ingve as well on the Puskas there. I think, yeah, the one just before that, the Kroos or the Gerrard.

as an Englishman I'd really want to take Gerrard but that Kroos card looks really good and yeah it's an end of an era card as well with the four play styles and obviously the real Madrid links as well which are very hype at the moment so yeah looks a good card I agree with Ingve as well that the season passes itself has got a lot of players in it this in this season which is really handy I think there's an objective for

and send them off the Copa american players as well so it's worth picking those up as you go along and not only

ingve (09:01.932)
You need them for the objectives, so don't put them in any SBC's or anything because then you won't be able to do the objectives where you need, I think, seven of them or something, I think, to be able to unlock the last level there for some XP and packs. So keep that in mind on the way.

Kyle (09:26.586)
Yeah, I think on those levels, I think the alternatives are like 83 plus packs. So there's almost a signal there to try and hold on to those players if you can. I'm not swapping those. Even though at the end of it it's high rated fodder which I can chuck into an SBC. So yeah, pick the players.

GPM (09:26.699)
Yeah.

GPM (09:44.491)
Yeah, no, for me, the Stevie Gerrard card, I finally think I can go over the fact that he left Rangers. My heart is sort of mended a little bit and I love the card design. And just as we were talking about these cards, Ingve are these cards live cards?

ingve (09:44.78)
Yeah.

ingve (09:58.956)
Yes, they are, which is...

GPM (10:00.523)
 instance, if I'm looking at it, so the season ends at roughly the 10th of July, by which point England will have definitely scored the number of goals it's required and I'm sure qualified for how many rounds there is left at that point. So when you pack this Stevie G card, and we're gonna talk about how you upgrade, will that card automatically jump up from 86 or do you think that's got the upgrade built in it?

ingve (10:29.548)
This is the launch, so that's... I'm saying that that has to be kind of like it was in packs now. So if England does the score four goals, etc. He should get the full upgrade as well. So it would be just wrong to kind of put the already finished...

GPM (10:38.987)
Mm -hmm.

GPM (10:51.787)
Yeah.

ingve (10:57.804)
evolved card as kind of predicting England would win when they release the season. I think that would be a little bit strange for EA to do. So I think also if you go to the information, it says that they're eligible for upgrades. So he has a starting point and now if England would score two and four goals, then he's going to get the plus two. So

the two upgrades that he can get. One will be plus one overall upgrade. And the other one is either it's a playstyle plus or a 99 face stat on the card. So in theory, Gerard can get his fourth playstyle or he's going to have a 99 stat in one area. And I...

really hope that's not gonna if they give him a 99 stat it's not going to be shooting because that's already 98.

GPM (12:00.459)
give it plus one. So just on that, so just so our listeners are clear, what is the, so there's three teams out, isn't there? There's the great, the Euros team, the Copa America team, and I'm going to get this wrong, I was trying very hard to remember it, greats of the game team as well.

ingve (12:13.612)
Yep.

ingve (12:19.564)
Yeah, there are actually four because they were great greats of the game icons and the greats of the game heroes.

GPM (12:24.235)
Alright, so is there three paths to upgrade or is there two?

Kyle (12:25.626)
Mmm.

ingve (12:33.324)
That's the kind of confu... The grades of the game has won, so I'm guessing it's both for the heroes and for the icons. Yeah. So the nation has to score two goals, then the plus one, and the nation score four goals. It's a plus one playstyle plus or a 99 face stat, and that's something EA will decide, of course. So, yeah, it's the same for Path to Glory. It's one path to glory for both.

GPM (12:41.835)
Right.

Kyle (12:42.074)
Yep. Yep.

ingve (13:02.828)
is the same for the Copa America and the Euros. So they do kind of start at the same point and end at the same point. The Copa America and the Euro cards, they have a card at launch and if they win one match they get plus one rating. If they win three matches they get a Playstyle Plus, which is cool. If they have three they'll get another one, it's four. If they win the quarterfinal it's a plus one. If they win the semi -final...

It's a double five -star skillmove weakfoot or a plus one overall if they already have double five -star when they reach that point. And the winner gets a plus one overall as well. So in theory, if the card starts at 96, it could end up being a 99 rated card at best.

GPM (13:53.771)
Wow, so thanks to Ingve Hopefully we cleared that up for everybody out there. It's gonna be super exciting. So I asked you guys at the start of the show before we came on if you could each pick one player from the greats of the game, the Euro team and the Copa America team, and then one hidden gem as well. So if we take Kyle, if you'd like to go first, you pick your first player, please.

Kyle (14:17.914)
Yeah, so I looking at the Euro squad, I really like see I'm a sucker for a Juventus card. So I really like that. Chiesa card sitting at a cool 2 million right now. It's just a just release, but I always like a good, good Juventus card. So yeah, Chiesa, he's got five star, four star. He's, he's max out.

acceleration max out sprint speed agility 99 but dribbling 99 like that's that's a cool that's a cool winger there's 95 rated and he probably have a chance to definitely get a few upgrades i'm not fully aware of the of the group but yeah i've got a few good serie arc cars in my team at the moment so i won't mind packing that that's my that's my stuff

GPM (15:06.411)
And then your hidden gem then that's, you think, potentially from either the Copa America or the Euro team.

Kyle (15:14.618)
So let's have a quick look at the Copa America. I think... Who's gonna tickle my fancy? You've got A. Davies at a very high price. So I think Prem Links, there's a really cheap Almiron card there at 90k at the moment. He's 5 star, 4 star. Again, similar to Chiesa, not quite as...

high acceleration not quite as high sprint speed but paraguay they could they could do quite well but paraguay for 90k that's not that's not a bad that's not my little card

GPM (15:53.099)
Okay, and just for people who are listening, Italy have Albania, Spain and Croatia. So it's quite a tough group, you know, Croatia and Spain there, but the Italians are quite good when it comes, generally when it comes to tournament football. So they normally squeeze past and you never know, they've won many a tournament haven't they? So Ingve, yourself, from the Euros and the Copa America, what team, what player, sorry, is the one you're really fancy and then which one is a hidden gem?

ingve (16:21.74)
The one I fancy is a card that usually always surprised me. It's the bodyguard, Messi's bodyguard. De Paul, playing for Atletico Madrid Argentina. Argentina should be able to get a few wins I guess. So he should be, could in theory get up to 99 rated as well. He's sitting around two millions as well. Double four stars, gamers, weak FUT, high high work rates and...

Technical Plus, Relentless Plus, Deadball Plus, and got the incisive pass normal, ping pass normal, long pass normal, bruiser, press proven aerial, power shot. Just really, really fun card usually. I've used the Pundit pick version, the 89 rated. It was really good for a long time. Really fun card. So I think that...

could be a very surprisingly good card and it was 99 passing and vision and short and long and 99 free kick accuracy, 98 curve, 99 stamina. It's like, yeah, perfect box to box player as well. So that's the one that I like the most from those two. Hittengem, I think we talked about him just before the show started and that is...

Mr. Šefer Lukic, I think his name is. He is from Serbia. He plays in the Premier Liga for Fulham. Also four star skillmoves and weakfoot high, high work rates. But he's pretty much 90 plus in everything except shooting as well. But he has incisive pass plus, block plus and anticipate plus. Also got normal jockey, finesse shot, intercept and bruiser.

so he could do a job as a defensive type of player as well.

ingve (18:22.188)
There's like kind of no real weakness, I'd say, on that card. And it's around 35 ,000 coins. I don't think you can go wrong with that.

GPM (18:33.163)
And so from that then in terms of then the heroes or icons, Kyle, who really tickles your fancy there?

Kyle (18:43.29)
I think I think hero for me is Di Natale He's currently extinct. But yeah, I always like a Di Natale card. I was looking to pack him as hero a few years ago and yeah, really enjoyed that card. But that looks an absolute again, another Italian absolute worthy of a card. 96 rated. He'll get I hope he gets a plus one plus two, which take him to 98. They could do quite well. So and I think I think the Di Natale card are always good. He's a

got good alternate positions as well, he can play left mid, centre forward, left wing and his main position is a striker so he can play all across that left hand side and a bit centrally as well. Yeah, really top top card. I think if I get an opportunity to pack him or play with him then yeah I definitely will be and I'll enjoy that one.

GPM (19:32.811)
And for you, Ingve if there's any of those guys from the greats of the game, who would you pick?

ingve (19:38.444)
There is of course King Kenny Dalglish, double 5 star skill moves, weak FUT now. He's around 5 millions. Yeah, just looks crazy good. 97 rated card with a finesse shot plus press proven power shot. Also got a chip shot, tiki taka technical, rapid flare, first touch quickstep trivela. Yeah, great finishing stats all over.

I have the Centurion's card and it's a very fun card. I used him for a long time. And of course, the Legend of Liverpool as well. So he would be the obvious pick. But I also think the Vintage card will be really good. If you can pick him up, he's extinct as well. So that looks kind of really good defender and really good attacker. Rivaldo, of course.

Probably crazy good. The heroes, I like the look of of course, the Natale. He's always fun, but also the Capdevilla card. I think he could probably be the best left back in the game. But of course he's extinct. I remember the World Cup card for Capdevilla last year. I don't know how I used it for so long. So this one looks kind of in the same way at the curve.

GPM (20:56.715)
Yeah.

ingve (21:07.18)
moment and he has the whipped pass plus as well that I like and quick step which is nice to have relentless plus so he can run an overlap and cross hole match which I love long ball pass normal jockey normal block normal intercept anticipates light tackle rapid and first touch so you can't go wrong with that I think.

GPM (21:30.091)
I mean, I'm a wee bit surprised that nobody picked the Alvarez card, just under it. The Julio Alvarez plays for Man City, I think it says.

ingve (21:35.564)
Which, which alt bar is?

ingve (21:40.396)
 did the SBC so from here as a team of season Card I'm absolutely not interested in him.

GPM (21:46.763)
That's a shot there down there, sorry about that Julio. I'd like to apologise to Julio's mum who's just turned off the pod. We do apologise, we were not talking about him as your son there. Ingve just went in there two footed and put him right up in the air. It's not going to VAR the referee's decision is a red card. You don't need to go to VAR for that one. That was a shocking challenge there, Ingve, when Mr ... is. That was a 19...

ingve (21:50.188)
hahahahah

Sorry.

ingve (22:06.12)
That's proper Graham Soonest tackle there with the both feet.

Kyle (22:09.85)
Hahaha

GPM (22:13.067)
Early 1970s tackle that was with you know, you pick the player up I mean because if you look at Argentina's group, they've got a Canada Chile and Peru's yeah, you imagine they will go quite far the other world champions as well and to be under a million coins for that card And maybe you can help me my math's no great that could potentially go to a 97 rated striker. Is that right potentially or maybe even higher? So, you know

ingve (22:20.204)
Yeah.

ingve (22:37.004)
 card is probably good, but I, as I said, I'm not a fan of all those cards that already had a team of the season card that now has a path to glory. We have Alvarez, we have Alphonso Davies That's from the Copa America. And then of course we have, Quaradona, Saka, we have, Saliba.

Trossard has a showdown card so that's probably quite okay. I just was hoping that we would see some players that maybe wasn't already in the end of the season that maybe didn't have any promo cards like Pavard for example which I talked about Clauss.

GPM (23:26.347)
Mm -hmm.

ingve (23:33.58)
Lukaku has quite a few cards as well, so yeah.

GPM (23:33.899)
I'll mention one more player maybe and hopefully Disney don't upset his mum as well. The Kyle Walker card then, 1 .6 million, plays for England. I'm sure Kyle probably feels the same as me that this probably is one of the best England teams that's ever traveled to the Euros. Gareth Southgate seems to have picked the right players this time. He's 95 rated, Kyle right back. Can't also...

ingve (23:38.828)
I'm sorry.

GPM (24:01.931)
play centre back as well. What's your thoughts on that, Kyle?

Kyle (24:04.698)
Yeah, I don't think we've had a special Kyle Walker card in a little while in the game. So, he's maybe one of the cards I'm actually pleased to see. Yeah, Luke's a really, really good card. I think, yeah, if you need a right back and he'll fit there well with his 98 pace there. So, yeah, he's going to be absolutely rapid, rapid fast, isn't he? Also playing centre back, and that's ideal if you've got that bigger, more stronger...

turn it back a lot of people win the Virgil van Dijk or the Konate card so you've got Prem links there, City links as well 1 .65 million that will come down but yeah that's a really really solid card and I think on the total upgrades if England go all the way that can go to some top echelons of 99, 98 rated so yeah that could be a really really strong card by the end of the tournament.

GPM (24:56.555)
And in terms of playstyle pluses on that card, Ingve, are you impressed with what he's got or the fact that he's, is there anything missing there that you'd like to see? Particularly if he's going to play centre back because he is quite...

ingve (25:09.42)
For center back I think it's fine with the jockey plus light tackle and rapid. If I was going to use him as a right back I would have preferred the anticipate no sorry whipped pass plus because I prefer my full backs to attack and cross a lot. So he has the normal one but I think he will be kind of like the team of the season Theo Hernandez.

It's really good, but the crosses are like kind of missing the cutting edge when he gets around past the fullback and in for a cross. The Theo Hernandez, he does everything great except for the crosses. So I think I'm fearing that Kyle Walker would do this, but as a center back, I think he could be very good because he has all the good playstiles for a center back at least. So I don't think you can go wrong with if you put him there in a free back.

At the center back system, he would be perfect. I think insanely good in that anyway. So I think it's a good card if you get him, you can't go wrong really for that price either.

GPM (26:17.931)
Definitely. So also, to fair to EA, they've been very generous with us. They have picked some players who I didn't know weren't going to the tournaments. I thought it was Academy players that were getting their young players back to when I seen Ciro Immobile I thought, no, that can't be quite right. He's nearly as old as me. So these are cards that you can upgrade in EVOs. Is that right, Ingve?

ingve (26:39.34)
Yeah, that's the Evolutions. They call the Academy, I think that's a little bit misleading, to be honest, to call it Academy. I would probably call it something just missed out, Evolutions players that could have been in the preliminary squads and that was not able to go to the Euros. That would be nice if they picked players from there, but I don't think Sterling was even in that or close to getting to the Euros this time. So...

That's a different story as well. And if you look at Sterling and Immobile, they already have the Power Shot Plus, which is one of the plays that you unlock. So those two will only get two plays that plus if you do the evolution, which I think it's a little bit. Yeah. I think that's a little bit something EA missed. So I wouldn't do either Sterling or Immobile just for that reason. And.

GPM (27:40.395)
So I mean, I think Olise is an almost must do. I think we'll probably agree with that. French, Prem Link's an absolutely stunning player. So if you were to pick one other one from the Euros, Kyle, who would you pick?

ingve (27:43.532)
Yeah.

Kyle (27:45.05)
Yeah.

Kyle (27:53.306)
So I've gone and put in Adeyemi. I know we've had a Topps Moments card for him. He was really cheap. But that Adeyemi card, he's got Lightning Speed, he is German Lynx, Dortmund Lynx as well. I've just completed the Reus card, so it fits my team really neatly. And yeah, I think it looks a really solid card. And yeah, the Evo itself doesn't look too difficult to complete. He gets Power Shot. He's got a load of ball control play styles.

ingve (27:59.116)
Yeah.

Kyle (28:22.074)
with technical plus and quick step plus on the card as well. So yeah, really, really good card and yeah, probably fits the more the academy side. I think he's still quite a young guy on the international sort of scene as well. So yeah, no, I'm going to complete him.

GPM (28:39.979)
So I mean, these cards go to 95 rated, which is pretty amazing. There is probably quite a few levels to do that. But then again, we've also not only have they given us the Euro ones, they've given us the Copa America as well. Ingve, who in that sort of thing would you look to upgrade out of those players?

ingve (28:56.396)
The Copa America once I there's thought there's only three players so you have to you can do so you have to and of course Once again, yeah managed to pick up team of the season card Icardi So I don't know why there must be someone else that it could have picked any card. So that's Pretty annoying. So if you have Icardi, then of course you can only do the Ricarlison or the Lozano so Hint EA, please don't

GPM (28:58.443)
Mm -hmm.

ingve (29:26.828)
pick the type of players that already had a promo card in the next promo. So there must be some other guy from Argentina that they can put in these evolutions. I would of course prefer it to choose my own players, not being forced to kind of select someone. That's just a little bit annoying. Well, sorry about that. But of course the Icardi card looks really good. It's not...

Well, it has a few stats better than the team of the season, but a lot of stats worse. So of course that is a little bit annoying as well when I look at it. So EA have really annoyed me today. I'm sorry. Then it's like Richarlison Richarlison, and then the Lozano you're stuck with. Lozano is of course a player we know from before should be fun, probably easy dribbler and he links to.

Kyle (30:11.802)
Hahaha!

ingve (30:25.356)
players in the Ere Division, so there's lots of cool cards there already. Richarlison is usually quite good as well, so... But of course, that's a card we've seen a few times. But I don't feel that they are as good looking as Olise, because I think Olise could be really good with double five -star skill moves and weakfoot But... Yeah, you kind of have to...

Kyle (30:56.09)
I think all the cards get double five star in the end pretty much. So yeah, I like the Olise card as well Ingve I think that's a really, really good card and French links and Prem links as well, which should be really, really easy to come by. So easy to link them in.

ingve (30:56.204)
to Richarlison and I think.

ingve (31:00.876)
Yeah. Yeah.

ingve (31:13.26)
Yeah, the... Yeah.

GPM (31:13.355)
Because I was just going to say, sorry, just going to say the Lozano card will link with the Gimenez card, which is in your season's rewards. And if you look at Mexico's group, they have Jamaica, Venezuela and Ecuador. You'd imagine probably Mexico will go through there and maybe score a few goals. No mean to do the dirty on Jamaica there, but that probably is one, that's their first game.

ingve (31:21.292)
Mm.

GPM (31:37.195)
The Copa America looks like it kicks around off around off the 20th of June. So slightly later than the Euros, a couple of weeks later than the Euros or a week or so later than the Euros. So that Lozano card, I wouldn't worry too much about links. I imagine you'd get almost three star, three chem on that card. You'd probably need it according to John. The Gimenez being in the Eredivisie and Mexican and also the fact is the Lozano's PSV and with the Eredivisie as well in Mexican. Would that be right, Ingve?

ingve (32:03.052)
Yeah, but I think these, well at least the normal Path to Glory cards, they are a plus start on plus two, at least the one you unlock from level two, I think. Yeah, so I'm not sure about this. There's not kind of much information if they do have, but of course there's a lot of Team of the Season Plus players, the Timbre card you can use.

GPM (32:16.779)
Right, okay.

ingve (32:32.108)
link this Lozano as well so it's no problem squeezing him into any teams anyway and double five stars Lozano should be really fun. Only thing I don't like if I'm gonna be a little bit critical on that card is the composure 86. Wish that was a little bit higher but yeah but he has some fun stats and lots of nice play styles as well.

So Power Shot Plus is nice, Technical Plus, so it'll be fun to dribble. Trivela, so he can kind of curl it on the outside of the FUT as well with normal technical. So he should feel really, really light and fast in game.

GPM (33:13.371)
No, definitely. I mean, I just also, you know, I think for free cards, it's pretty generous of EA this, and it's a free EVO's as well, so there's no FIFA points, no coins needed. I don't think we can complain too much with that. Yeah, it's definitely. And just the last thing, really talk about this is the fact that there's a showdown card. Showdown cards, Ryan Christie, ex Celtic player, plays for Scotland, and he's up against Thomas Muller, the German. That's next Friday, that game kicks off for me.

ingve (33:17.708)
Yeah.

ingve (33:23.564)
Yeah, that's nice.

GPM (33:41.835)
It was a definite pass on Christie for us to be honest with you, but I think Germany at home against Scotland, I don't see much hope for us. Famous last words when we win 3 -0, but I think the Miller card's at 177 coins, which probably if you've got fodder as well, you've got a 95 rated cam there. Would you guys consider doing that? The amount of cards that's flying about here, the free cards, you know, the ones that we'll pack as well. What do you think about this showdown?

ingve (33:51.852)
Hahaha.

ingve (34:09.676)
Well, I think both are like, I think Christie could work fine in game as well, even though it doesn't get an upgrade because the stats are really good. 96 composure as well, 95 stamina and ping pass plus rapid plus chip shot plus and normal finesse bruiser, technical flair, quickstep, relentless so he can run for days. So it would still be a more than usable card. And if there's some kind of Scotland objective, it would be perfect for that as well.

Kyle (34:09.914)
I think...

ingve (34:39.212)
Of course, he isn't as good as the Thomas Muller card and usually the Thomas Muller card are really underrated and cheap for some reason. I remember last year and the year before and he was really good in game. And if he should, as you said, be 95 record, I think he could be really good with five star. We could as well. His pace is perfect now. 97 composure. He's tall. He can jump. He can head.

He's got the first touch plus, Tirela and Power Shot with also normal power header, incisive pass, ping pass, long ball pass, technical and relentless. So I think he could be a really fun card to use as well. So he can play striker and center forward cam, probably center mid as well. So.

Kyle (35:24.666)
Yeah, defending 65 is a little low for .... Yeah, you go forward.

ingve (35:28.236)
In a three midfield he would be fine as an attacking type of it. And he's tall and lean as well.

GPM (35:32.807)
So, yeah, Kyle, would you be doing this, any of these cards?

Kyle (35:37.114)
I'm not rushing to do these cars. What I see them more mainly as is you get duplicates, high rated duplicates. This is probably where I'd end up putting the cars if I didn't want to do an exchange SBC. I think they're both really easy to complete. I think Christie's an 86 squad with a team in the season and Muller is an 87 and an 88 squad with no team in the season requirements. So they're really, I think for me, duplicate sort of a...

fodder for the dumps if you if you if you get a high rated dupe. So I like I like the Muller card. I think that's based off one of the SBC value. That's the one that I think EA are expecting to get upgraded. But you know, you never know. I think we had Alexander and others that are meant to get upgraded and didn't in the end as well. So yeah, I think if you want to do these, then you've got you've got six days to do them. But.

GPM (36:20.235)
I'm going to go.

Kyle (36:34.778)
for me I think if I get any higher rated dupes which I don't have a lot of right now so I'm not rushing to the nilies but if you do that's probably not a bad place to put them and if you like a little bit of a place your bets on who you think is going to win that game that's a good place to do that as well.

GPM (36:51.403)
Definitely. So I know what Ingve's going to say, because I've actually spoke to him before the show, but I'll let you go first as a non -Liverpool fan, the Luiz Diaz SBC Kyle. What's your thoughts on that one?

Kyle (37:05.306)
Luiz Diaz so he's 9 .5 rated and yeah looks a really good card I played I've seen I played against his card his team the season card a lot over the past couple of weekend leagues as well so I think it's very similar to that card I think it's fallen into the Ingve trap of EA releasing cards that have just had a promo card so not not the most ambitious player I think EA could have could have possibly picked but

Not a bad looking card, he's a 4 star, 5 star, he's a live card so can get upgraded. He's got Finesh Shot, he's got Rapid Plus, he's got Trickster, Normal and Press Proven which I've heard a lot of good things about Press Proven play styles as well. So yeah, overall it's not a bad card. He's 7 squads to complete, an 86, 87, 88, 87, 89 and 90. Again, if you've got lots of, there's a 91s peeping in the back there as well. If you've got lots of fodder...

I think, and you're a Liverpool fan, yeah, I think this is probably one you can go and complete, or you can just go and get his Team of the Season Moments card off the market as well and use that. It depends what coins you've got and what fodder you've got. It doesn't look like a bad card. It could get upgraded as well. I'm not sure what Colombia's group is in the Copa America, but...

I'm sure they could win a few games as well. So he could be 96, 97 rated quite easily as well.

GPM (38:33.003)
But I have the teams here, so they have Paraguay, Costa Rica, and the mighty Brazil. So that might be a tough group having Brazil there, but you'd imagine not being an expert on South American football and North American football, even Paraguay and Costa Rica, they're not sure. I think you'd fancy Colombia against Costa Rica historically anyway. So as you say, make upgrade, Dengvi, is this a must do for you?

ingve (38:59.5)
Not really, I'm quite covered in that position. But since he's a Liverpool player I'll probably do it since I already started, so I'm kind of committed to it. I would prefer EA to have chosen Darwin Nunoz instead of Diaz, since Diaz already has the team of season card. But since he's there I think I'll just get him done, because the team of season card is insanely difficult to face.

because it's so fast. This one looks just as fast and with 98 composure as well so he can play I guess attacker fine with 99 jumping and 99 stamina so he can run for a while. So I'll do it but it's not a must do but the team of season card has dropped quite a lot so he's down to 260 ,000 coins so it's

crazy drop just for a few hours and that card is also really good so you can't go wrong if you don't want to do the SBC so but it's not a must do i'm pretty sure we'll get other cool SBC's as well.

GPM (40:11.691)
I mean, Delighted and Secret, I think they were, EA did actually invite Darwin Nunes to come, but he missed the appointment like most things that he does, so.

ingve (40:21.128)
He missed the train.

GPM (40:23.851)
So, and just on that then, just before we wrap up the show, I was going to ask, and we ask this every week now, we've got dupes, I think most of us have got dupes, I think a lot has kept packs as well. Is it still exchanges for you guys, or is it a case of putting them into these SBC's and trying to get these fun players as we near the end of the game and go into the silly season?

ingve (40:47.948)
Depends on what kind of rating the cards have. If it's an 89, 88, 87 I will consider putting them in the exchange but if they're over that then I think I'll try to squeeze in a squad for one of the players that I think I could use.

ingve (41:09.868)
because I'm pretty sure we'll have other cards as well. But 88 and below, I think I will just, if it's only one dupe, I'll put them in the exchange. If it's like three, four, then I'll see, is there a score I can do on a player? Then I'll do that instead.

GPM (41:28.459)
And for you Kyle, what's your kind of tactics that you use?

Kyle (41:30.618)
yeah i'm i'm i'm along same lines as as in the i think i think maybe the exchange for me is if i've got a gold rated dupe so like the highest gold rated cards or sort of 91 rated i'll probably put that into exchange unless i'm trying to complete a player sbc so as i mentioned i completed royce so that's where all my high rated fodder went anyway and i didn't do any exchange exchanges last week i think for me at the moment i'm

I'm trying to rebuild that fodder so if I do end up getting a duplicate and I haven't got that much higher rated fodder then it makes sense to do an exchange, complete a few player picks, see what I can get from that, rinse a few team of the week's SBCs as well into the upgrade packs as well. I'll probably do that until I get a player that I, or a cos or a upgrade pack that I really want to complete as well so.

I don't think we're all that far away from the silly season of the 85x10s and things like that where we're going to be getting lots of high rated cards and lots of colourful packs but we're not quite there yet so yeah I think the more I'm within me on the more high rated special cards I'm probably not putting those into an exchange unless I'm getting them time and time again they'll probably end up in a player SBC that I want to do.

GPM (42:49.835)
And so time's nearly over, nearly at our 45 minutes. Just to quickly mention the ANDREAS CHRISTENSEN card, that's an objective. I'll quickly read them. So, concede one goal or less in four separate matches, squad battles or rivals or champs. We know that it's the drill there. Score an assist using a Danish player in two separate matches. Play six matches on minimum semi -pro or rivals or champs. I think, you know, if you play the game, you'll get that done pretty quickly. And then win five matches in squad battles.

Well, having three minimum players from La Liga, which, you know, if you've got some high rated players, I think you could do that fairly easily. Denmark, I've not actually looked at their group. Inge, do you think that's a card that you'll just automatically do as you play the game?

ingve (43:33.644)
Yeah, I'm gonna unlock it anyways because it's very easy to unlock and the card is quite usable as well according to the stats. I'm not sure Denmark will get that far, but yeah, for a 93 rated card it's kind of worth doing it in squad battles if you don't want to do it in rivals or champs by just playing. So yeah, it's an okay card, I guess. It's not top.

top tier, but it's usable.

GPM (44:06.219)
I mean, to be fair, and we'll ask Kyle because he is the Englishman on the thing. They've got England in their group, Slovenia and Serbia. So I mean, it's a group that they could potentially come second. Even third place teams do qualify. For you, as one that you'll do, will your team automatically fit that or will you need to change some players around?

Kyle (44:06.65)
Kenzie.

Kyle (44:23.226)
 probably need to change it around a little bit, but I don't think it's all that difficult. I think the most is having three players from La Liga and scoring with or assisting with the Danish player. I think the others you will do quite easily if you're playing champs this weekend. I agree with Ingve it's a nice card. It's a Barcelona, it's La Liga links as well. So I had a good few special cards over the team this season from La Liga. So yeah, I think not a bad card. You can also link to some of the...

Liga F players as well, they're really high rated with his Barca links as well, so not a bad objective card. Certainly a solid defender, he's 3 star, 4 star, bruiser plus, jockey plus, and aerial, so he's going to win some headers, he's going to be lethal at corners, so not a bad card. Low attacking and medium defensive, so not the most

preferred play style, not play styles, the work rates but yeah it's not a bad card. We also had the Festival Football Cup in there as well and the Daily Play objective so there's a good objective grind to go for this week.

GPM (45:37.291)
Definitely, definitely. So I just want to say to people as well, if you're listening to the show and you love it, please come join us in the Discord. It's free. Look up the Discord forward slash FUT in review. We are just about to start our predictor game, which you then guess the results of the group stages and the top goal scorer and the team that's going to win. So that's well worth joining for that. And also we're going to run the sweep, where everybody gets a team to support one randomly.

and everybody gets a team to support as well. So if you're thinking of joining the Discord, you're loving the show, you think of joining the Discord, please come in. You will be eligible to join in as long as you stay a member to the end of these tournaments. Why not come in? And if you also, if you can support the show, we really would appreciate that as well. So www.patreon.com/futinreview. But we realize times are hard. Summer's coming, you know, but if you could even leave us a five -star review, which is cost you for free, we really, really would appreciate that as well.

Just as I say, we're going into injury time, guys. What's the plans for this weekend? Are you playing Weekend Liga, or are you going to just take the game more casual now? Ingve first.

ingve (46:42.636)
I have to play a weekend league to build up some fodder. Always nice to have towards the next SBC is coming and you never know if you get a good card from the red picks that fit the team as well. So at worst you have good high rated fodder. I'll do some objectives on the way as well. I guess I have some evolutions I need to finish. Soboslai, Saint Maximin.

which I'm already started, so I need to do those and I need to decide if I should do any, well there's lots of evolutions I can do, so I don't think I'm gonna kind of slow down anytime soon.

GPM (47:24.491)
Kyle, are you weekend leagueing it this weekend?

Kyle (47:26.65)
Yeah, I'm playing Weekend League I'd like to also note that EA have kept the timings for Weekend League from TOTS. So yeah, we're not still cramming all the games into Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We've got a little bit more time to spread those games out. And yeah, certainly enjoy a bit of the nicer weather. It's a little bit more sunnier at the moment. Temperatures are rising. So yeah, we can have a bit more relaxing time.

Yeah, I'll probably get my games done over the next couple of days and not rush it too much and have a bit of fun and chill out.

GPM (48:02.539)
Brilliant, brilliant. So I can see the barman waving to us. Our cocktails are ready. The festival is about to start. I cannot wait. It's going to be absolutely amazing. I just want to thank you guys for joining us tonight. And thank you to everyone who's listened. Have a great weekend. Be nice to, if you have free games, please give them away. Let's be nice to ourselves in the community. But there's just one thing left to do and that's to drop it.

ingve (48:24.364)
Drop it.

Kyle (48:24.474)
Drop it.