Make Your Mark

GPM (00:02.367)
One, two, three. Okay. Hello, FUTTIES, and welcome to episode 615 of your FC Friday goodness. Yeah, it may be a two -man show at the moment, and there is no truth in the fact that Ingeve is currently in a Munich beer keller and finishing off his last pint. But he will be joining us in about 10 or 15 minutes. Unfortunately, my messages sound like I speak, and if you're a non -English speaker, or even if you're not Scottish,

My messages don't always make sense, unfortunately. So a wee bit of confusion there on what time I'm going to start tonight. And you have two Scots on the show tonight, and they are desperate to get off to see our team get beat off the mighty Germans. That in the background. So you see that my name is Chris, otherwise known as GPM, or currently known in the Discord as Maradona Kebab. I am the mayor of Istanbul because I got the mighty Turks in the Euro sweep.

talkingFUT (00:43.132)
OOOH!

GPM (01:00.703)
But I'm joined today by my good friend, the King of Croatia. Like Modric himself, he's slightly older. His legs are starting to weigh in a little bit, but he has got loads of skill and plenty of energy. It's my good friend, John Talkingfoot. Welcome, my friend.

talkingFUT (01:16.956)
Thanks very much Chris, thanks for having me on. Looking forward to tonight's show, even if we are watching The Deadly.

GPM (01:23.007)
Yeah, definitely. So as you say, no surprises that you got Croatia in the sweep. So are you looking forward to your team doing well?

talkingFUT (01:30.62)
Yeah, I'm quite happy actually. They're always a dark horse, aren't they? They're maybe not the favourites, but they're certainly good enough to go far deep in the competition and with a bit of luck maybe even take it.

GPM (01:41.029)
no, fingers crossed, my friend, fingers crossed. So as I say, the Festival of Football has suddenly left us. That was a quick summer. It was very much a Scottish summer, that one. You know, one shiny day and the rest is all rain. How was it for you? How was the festival?

talkingFUT (01:56.252)
It was, Tots was terrible and I got to the stage and I think I discorded. I might even have tweeted, that's me done, my packlucks. I think I listed all my packlucks and were shocking. And then the very last day of Tots, I pulled on by a Bon Maty, 97, and she's amazing. And then we went to the Festival of Football and my luck just went through the roof. Got Balak, Haji, Walker, Bruno Guimarães, Captain Villa, Lukaku.

GPM (02:00.063)
Mm -hmm.

GPM (02:13.023)
Alright.

talkingFUT (02:27.004)
Bish, Bash and Bosh. I just need a good centre back and I think I'll pull one out of this tournament.

GPM (02:32.191)
No, that sounds really good. So, I mean, I just have to say that, so I have the Walker card. I paid over a million coins for that. I'm scared to look at what he's going at the moment and I'm hoping he does get loads of upgrades. I do expect England to do well. Did you feel that the Walker card is worth the coins? Meaning a million coins. How does he feel to play in game?

talkingFUT (02:53.084)
I use them at centre back. So obviously I'm using from the Discord Dough Bugets, original 5 -3 -2. So that is balanced full backs, but you get very high up the pitch because you play 70 plus depth. So I'm actually using Cancello on the right and Captivie on the left. So Walker just sits in, it's a really fast centre back, he covers that ground against those fast strikers, playing that high depth. So for me it's great. Again, I don't know if I'd ever pay a million coins for a card at this stage of the game.

GPM (02:54.847)
Right?

GPM (03:04.799)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (03:21.66)
but certainly because I've packed on, I'm delighted, absolutely delighted.

GPM (03:25.759)
And are you sitting now with a load of packs left to open or have you drained your club?

talkingFUT (03:31.132)
No, the club is drained, I've hardly got any tots. Like even, was it yesterday, I threw the Mianu card, apologies for my pronunciation, but that English midfielder, and I'd already put them in the SBC because I'm running out of tots, and tots moments, et cetera. And then you find the objective is the cup to play cup games. It's like, I'll just put one of my best English players that I've got left into an SBC in the hunt for something else. So, yeah, so.

GPM (03:40.959)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (03:59.932)
Clubs getting a little bit thin. But, you know, it always is at this time of year and then one of two good packs and then you're back in the race.

GPM (04:06.303)
Yeah. Did you do any SBCs?

talkingFUT (04:11.26)
Just 85 times 3 every day. But no, I didn't do like any player SBCs. I just did the grind 82 player picks, 81 player picks. All that stuff, just grinded that 85 times 3 gold upgrades, things like that. So, and that's where 85 times 3, that's where I got a Balak, that's where I got a Haji, stuff like that. So for me it worked.

GPM (04:33.551)
So just for me, I did the Crespo one. So I had a load of dupes. I think I had an all black off the top of my head. And I think I had a player from, I think it was maybe Poland or something. So I'm not going to butcher his surname. And I thought to myself, great, Crespo card looks really good. I looked at that one in the Jogba one and one of the benefits of being on the Discord is you can ask someone like Invi, what do you think? Should I do the Jogba card? Should I do the Crespo card?

And England says, well, it depends what you want. If you want a battering ram, strong man, big man up top, who's, you know, I think Wimby says he's been absolutely terrific for him. He drug buzz your man, 100%. You know.

talkingFUT (05:14.012)
He looks great. I think for me, I had the 94 draw bar, but I also pulled the Lukaku, who's an absolute battering ram, and I've already got really good options up front. I was one of the, was it 0 .7 % with the Messi? So I swithered and thought, I can't justify the 4 -DAR when I've already got good players, so I didn't do them, but I absolutely understand why people would want to do that draw bar.

GPM (05:29.279)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (05:41.948)
the crest, but I just thought it was too many packs for me, because it was just a lot, a lot.

GPM (05:47.167)
Yeah, for me, I looked at it and I thought, so great, you know, it's an icon. I might do them. I don't think, I'm struggling a little bit with Harry Kane. I think I've mentioned that in the Discord. I've got the 97 rated, talks Harry Kane. I find him a little bit slow and a little bit out of position a lot of times where I read him to be so, Ingrid says, look, I think Crespo is probably the way to go. And I thought to myself, brilliant, I'm going to do Crespo. So I did the 92 rated squad with the dupes that I had. I thought to myself, I'll just grind it. You know, just grind my way through the rest of the season.

and see how I get on and I'll slowly but surely build up Crest but I'm sure he's going to get, you know, Argentina is going to go pretty far. And so I just happened to look on, I think it was Wednesday to see they had three days left.

talkingFUT (06:25.692)
yeah, that's right, you didn't have a lot at the start.

GPM (06:28.159)
No, so again, you know, usual me, didn't actually look at the small print, didn't actually think to myself that, you know, this is going to be a very quick one. So I've actually had to throw loads of cards in, but I wouldn't like to have lost. But no, I've done that. I haven't actually used them. I finished them last night. I think he's got maybe till tomorrow to go. He'll probably pick up on weekend league for there. But Harry Kane is going to come in, of course, because I'm going to do the cup at least with the English players.

talkingFUT (06:55.292)
That went smoother than I thought because I did the cup in, I think, nine games, possibly 10. And that was with a couple of people backing out on me, so pushed me into an extra game, but actually worked really well for me at the minute. I just like that tactic by Obelgar. I know people will call it a ratty five at the back, but considering you're playing, both midfielders on getting forward, both your strikers are getting behind and are not on comeback, and both your full backs are unbalanced, I think it's very attacking.

GPM (07:25.247)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (07:25.424)
I played with a women's goalkeeper in the whole cup and I still got it done in nine or ten games. I also had the St. Johnston Evil player, Dre Wright, and then Wright Wainback rated 76.

GPM (07:31.103)
Right, okay. -huh.

Right, okay, and did you...

GPM (07:42.271)
And so did you get anything with your packs then? Did you get anything?

talkingFUT (07:45.628)
Actually, as a fib, the haji card came out of the 10 coupling, one of the objectives that was like 10 out of 12 wins. I'm getting mixed up in my objectives now, Chris. There has, there has, but I got a haji out with one of those, because my brother -in -law was like, that's not fair.

GPM (08:05.983)
There's been so much mate, it's no problem.

GPM (08:13.855)
Yeah, I must have got Dabber Suker and actually got Petit but it's weird because they don't make the team so I'm really looking forward to it. But just, yeah, and actually he done really well last night in qualifiers. But just on it, John, then just before we wrap up on this promo and we say goodbye to it, are you surprised like me? There was no team two. And also the fact is it felt like a massive promo but for it only to be seven days seems quite surprising.

talkingFUT (08:21.98)
I think everybody goes super.

talkingFUT (08:43.356)
No, because I think it was always going to be about the Euros go live and we're into the new Euros make your mark and obviously copper. They go live. That was always going to be the way. So, pass the glory, one week, one team. Possibly the mini release could have been a little bit bigger. But outside of that, I think you had SBCs for showdowns. You had...

GPM (08:51.103)
Mm -hmm.

GPM (09:04.095)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (09:12.22)
plenty of pack releases, plenty of opportunities, 85 times 3, et cetera, et cetera. I think that they've absolutely nailed it to the extent it was almost like so much to do.

GPM (09:21.439)
Mm -hmm. No, I understand that. I was very disappointed, actually. I must admit, and we're going to get onto the new promo when Invi joins us as well. I think we need Invi's experience just to tell us roughly how we're getting upgraded. But I thought this was massive. I mean, you know, we'd started the new season and then we had this promo festival of football. I realize it's still going on and maybe I'm, you know, taking too much of the path to glory teams, et cetera. But I thought it was a great promo. I love these live cards.

talkingFUT (09:23.292)
What was your thoughts?

GPM (09:49.663)
And I thought these are really good ones because actually we get to make your mark. We'll talk about how that's more an individual based performance. But this one was team based. So you weren't potentially relying on, you know, your players performance, but actually the team. And you can look at some of them, you know, I even got a Subitzer card, 95 rated player. And I don't expect, you know, it's Australia plays for to do great, but that card's an amazing card. And, you know, and it's fitted really well in my team because I've got quite a strong.

talkingFUT (10:15.228)
Yes.

GPM (10:19.487)
Bounda's team has mixed in with the Prem and the Women's Premier Leagues. I still use the James card from the Women's Premier League and the hemp card, which was, I think, was very, very stark, you know, for there. So, no, I was a wee bit disappointed with this one. And maybe when we get on to make your mark as well, the design of that card also just feels a little bit.

talkingFUT (10:42.204)
Yeah, it feels a little bit off the copper, make your mat and cars look a little bit nicer. The UFO one looks a little bit just off colour for me. I think part of that, and you'll probably hate it, is if you did another Path to Glory, because you have to put in those players that are missing. So, Walker was in 85, for example, so Bitsur was 85, like you talked about, Balak, Haji 85s. If you put in another pile of 85s and maybe had to add that little bit extra, so 86.

GPM (10:49.279)
Yeah, bye.

talkingFUT (11:10.908)
those potentially will go to those 86, 96, they'll be going to 99, right, before the FUTAS cards even come. With these new ones that you'll come and talk about, you know, you've got a 96 or a 97, there's no guarantee they'll get those two upgrades because of what's being asked of them.

GPM (11:17.823)
Yes.

GPM (11:30.915)
huh. Yeah, no problem. So I just say, I thought these cards were, you know, this was going to see us through the finals. Just my naivety there on that one. So I mean, just it was a little bit disappointing and they will get to make your mark for there. Just on that, John, then just before we, with the Euros now going live, I think our game kicks off in 20 minutes or so. How is that going to affect your, there's three games, Saturday and Sunday. How is that going to affect you in terms of playing FIFA?

Are you going to stop playing or are you going to just play it safe?

talkingFUT (12:00.988)
No, I think I'll try and play but I'll try and squeeze in like I think I said before we came on here. I'm at five rivals wins for the week. I probably won't do champs. So I'll get my other two rival wins, keep my time for some objectives, maybe a need row and then I'll watch as much football as I can. So that's the plan. What about you? What about you? Balance.

GPM (12:22.655)
I think I've played, tried and played in between, but I think, you know, with three games sitting down at two o 'clock UK time tomorrow, we won't be leaving probably till 10 from the sofa after watching three games. Now, I think for me, it will impinge a little bit, but hopefully it'll whet my appetite as well to try some of these cards for there. I just also, just on that last bit of promo, I'm right in saying there was no Mbappe, was there? There was no Messi.

I realised Neymar probably won't go because he's been injured, but was there any of the really big meta cards in that promo? I can't really think of one. Yeah, the one that just passed, am I mistaken there or?

talkingFUT (12:59.932)
Well, I don't know, it just passed.

talkingFUT (13:04.188)
No, no, no, and that's probably because they're either going to be in this one, slash, if not out now, no spoilers because we're going to preview, they may come in the mini release, but also it's that, the rating now, what they would have to get. Let's say you put him back in now, he'll have to start at minimum 97. Realistically, he'll do what they're asking, or go far. He could be again at that 99, so I don't know. I really don't know.

GPM (13:09.055)
Mm -hmm.

GPM (13:32.703)
Yeah, no problem. So just on that then, as I say, there was a new batch of Academy upgrade players out tonight. Right, and saying it's midfielders. Is there any of them that's caught your eye?

talkingFUT (13:39.228)
Yes.

talkingFUT (13:44.86)
I think they're all good cards. Madison, again, a little bit, for me, my gripe in this one was you had French and English players in the first one, you got French and English players in the second one, there were no Scots in the first one, there are no Scots in the second one, there were Argentinians and Brazilians in the first one, there's Argentinians and Brazilians in the second one. Do you know what I mean? So it's a bit repetitive, I get why they're taking the bigger nations. And again, but I think...

They're all nice cards. If you've got a relatively new team, so James that was on the special pod, some of these people may make his team, but even John said, as you heard, that his team's better than John's. But potentially if you've got a second account, some of these guys will come in for a short space of time. I don't know if they'll be in your team for two, three weeks time when you look at the cards that are available now. So I think they'll all be nice. If you've got them, 95 rated, possibly.

GPM (14:33.151)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (14:43.707)
the ICSBC for it because that's unfair but I'm not sure unless you're a Tottenham fan, an England fan and you want a Madison. If there was a Scottish player I'd do it, I'd try and play him you know I'm still playing my Nicky, evil Nicky Clark 89 rated up top in some games because that's fun.

GPM (14:53.247)
Yeah.

GPM (15:00.959)
Mm -hmm. No, definitely. I mean, I'm just looking at it. You know, there are some decent cards on there. And, you know, I think we'll be worth doing. I did the Elisi card from there. And just there, as we've mentioned, Elisi, here he is, the man himself. Hopefully the king in the north. A man so handsome. Do you know this? That Elivier Giroux has his poster on his bedroom wall.

talkingFUT (15:18.588)
Can't get that off.

ingve (15:22.945)
song. Do you know this?

talkingFUT (15:29.372)
Ha ha!

GPM (15:30.431)
He is our own Napoleon. Yeah, it is my good friend, Ingvi. How was the Munich Beer Keller, Ingvi?

ingve (15:33.473)
Yeah, my good friend Enki, how was the...

I was busy. They didn't want me to leave, so I had to kind of sneak out. So that was really fun.

GPM (15:47.391)
Good stuff mate. So just we're just we're talking there on the the make your mark the academy players from there and just to say that was there anything on there that any of those players that kind of tickles your fancy?

ingve (16:03.553)
Maybe Madison, if you put him in the attacker evolution, because it will be double five star. I haven't had that much time to check all of the options, but that one kind of stands out since he fits the theme of the weekend. If you're going to do the England objectives in the weekend league. So that I think that could be a good option there. It looks really good card as well. I think maybe.

be the Mr. Kazamiro will be a popular option, but you have to put them into the attacker as well. So if you're going to eat, if you've done one attacker and you want to do Kazamiro and Madison, you have to kind of be selective if you want Madison to have five stars, Kimoos and weak foot or the midfielder option one, I think is four stars.

talkingFUT (16:55.9)
But Evie, as I was saying to Chris just before you jumped on, they're all great cards and they'll all be in your team for a short space of time, but they're not going to be there for long I don't think when you look at all the other cards that are available. But that's why they're easy, I think that's why they're easy to grind.

ingve (17:09.217)
That's why the VT, I think that's why the VT is a great team. Yeah, that's true, but I can't understand why they chose Czerchki again, since he had a team of the season moment, so that's kind of wasted. And I also thought since it was academy players that they would be younger players.

talkingFUT (17:26.94)
Is it not more around, I could be wrong here, is it not people that didn't make the national swabs?

ingve (17:33.185)
It seems like that, but...

talkingFUT (17:36.124)
I think that was the basis of it. So if they were in the national squad, this is what they could have evolved to if they went to the final. But these guys didn't make the squad.

ingve (17:43.585)
Yeah, but the name, they could have used the younger players then. You have Curtis Jones, for example, if you want to go with the young England, I'm pretty sure you could. Yeah. So, and of course, it's some well -known players in there as well. So, there are some interesting ones that could be good. I think the Canadian Johnson could be interesting if you choose him.

talkingFUT (17:52.028)
Yeah, it's the word Academy I think is the bit that's wrong.

ingve (18:13.825)
But that also has to kind of go into the, no, that's sorry, that's in the team. I'll mix it. Yeah.

talkingFUT (18:17.66)
So they look at Chris's grinning because it's so tickly.

GPM (18:19.743)
That's a shock horror that one there, Wingway. That was a disaster, Niena, for a Friday. We're mentioning Celtic players already.

ingve (18:27.009)
I'm sorry, they look kind of the same design here. I'm just jumping in. Alcaraz could be good, a little bit low composure.

Bonanotte maybe because Premier League links, et cetera. It's always nice, but there's so many of these positions already. So it's like, yeah, I don't know if I would stress to do. Well, Bonanotte would be double five -star, of course it's going to be nice. But if you did the Olysee card, you already kind of...

set in that position I guess as well.

GPM (19:14.303)
Definitely, definitely.

ingve (19:15.329)
They're not that interesting, I think.

talkingFUT (19:17.852)
No, and how many people did the other French winger come striker from PSG as well? And then you've got Alisi, like you said, you're covered.

GPM (19:17.887)
No.

ingve (19:26.337)
Yeah. So yeah, that's, I might do a, that's probably Madison is the only one that looks a little bit interesting. Maybe Casemiro since I haven't done any of the attacker ones from Copa. So, but I don't know. I don't think any of them would kind of make the team anyway. So yeah, would be maybe waste to spend time doing it.

GPM (19:50.943)
No, definitely, definitely. So we're just, we're talking about, so is it, Invi, in your point of view of the make your mark, what is your feelings on, can you first of all, sorry, tell us how do we upgrade our players if we get them?

ingve (20:04.641)
Yeah, that's... They're a little bit different than the Path to Glory ones. But... And I think some of them might be difficult as well, because I don't know how many of them are actually starting. That would also be a little bit interesting. And they need to play five appearances for the maximum...

Plus so they start with one added rating, of course, and then they will get a premium chemistry if they make their tournament debut. That means that they will have better links and easier to put into like the Path to Glory cards. And if it's a midfielder or attacker, they need to score two goals or have two assists.

to be able to get a plus one. If it's a defender or goalkeeper, it's clean sheets, two clean sheets. And for the second one, of course, it's five appearances for another plus one. So these upgrades might not be as obtainable as the Path to Glory ones, I think.

talkingFUT (21:23.996)
Yeah, we were just talking about that just before you logged in, I said that, I think that's why it's maybe not such a good promotion.

ingve (21:31.969)
Yeah, so and the cards and the car design, this is I'm sorry to say, but the car design is awful on at least on the European. I'm sorry to repeat. Yeah, well, just confirming.

GPM (21:40.575)
Hahaha.

talkingFUT (21:41.724)
Yeah, we said that as well. No, no, no, it's just confirming and that just shows that we're all going to save wavelength. The graphics for the cards all season have been pretty much spot on and that's a big lead down.

ingve (21:54.145)
Yeah, the copper ones are nice. They look a little bit too similar to the Academy ones, but other than that, they're quite nice. I like the stars in the background and I think it looks really nice. But the UEFA Euro ones, my God, I don't know. That's a pretty big miss from the design team. Yeah, I'm not a fan of those.

GPM (22:22.783)
So just on that then, so as we did last week, could we pick one high rated card that we like and then one hidden gem? We can take it from the Euros or you can take it from the Copper? I'll let you go first thing, V.

ingve (22:39.873)
must be fun, like with four play styles is probably insane to be honest, even if he doesn't get any upgrades. Of course, that's 10 millions. If I was to pick one out of the pack, I would really like to pick that one. If I was going to go with some kind of hidden gem that's...

ingve (23:06.529)
kind of difficult I think because I would prefer them to have four play styles since some of them have and some of them don't so that's a little bit annoying as well. None of the ones with four play styles are cheap so but I think maybe the McTominay card could be decent in game. It's cheap as well.

GPM (23:28.607)
So the Victimony card, I mean I know John you probably would echo that being a proud Scotsman. What would be your one that you think high rated wise and then one hidden gem please?

talkingFUT (23:40.54)
It was.

Exactly the same. I've highlighted Virgil van Dijk, best defender in the game. We'd all love to have him. And then I was going to either go to DiMarco, left back, left wing back, Cardinal McTominay because I'm Scottish and I think, like Evie says, he could probably even get a way playing centre back the way I play. But certainly a really good CDM. And again, I think your Picknum Johnson from Canada is really good and maybe from the Kop of Macalester. I think he'll drop a little bit.

Peebellies, cat to have, physical fantastic stats.

GPM (24:15.999)
Yeah, no, definitely. I mean, I'm, well, I was going to give people a warning actually, to be honest with you. There's the Colin Mulaney card is there, he's 96 rated. He is a 1 .5 million at the moment. He looks a tremendous card. All I'd say is that France have Giroud with them and Mbappe as well. And Colin Mulaney has not scored many goals this season. He was one of the stars in the World Cup, wasn't he?

talkingFUT (24:17.276)
Bob, are you Chris? Are you going for it?

GPM (24:42.591)
last time so that's just a little bit of a warning for you because if you look at that 96 rated you can imagine that France will do particularly well for there so you could see them getting you know right to the end and that being what a 98 rated card I think we would say that would be possible for that card.

ingve (24:57.729)
Yeah, but he need to have been on the pitch for fire matches as well. So I, that's not for certain either, unless there's an injury to any of the. Yeah.

talkingFUT (25:01.468)
Yeah.

GPM (25:01.727)
Hope to see you soon.

talkingFUT (25:04.828)
and then he needs to score two, or assist one, assist one goal. But he needs two contributions and five appearances, which will be quite challenging. Unless they bring him on for, like, Giroud comes off and he comes on for the last 15, 20 of the game.

GPM (25:07.527)
Yeah.

GPM (25:20.671)
Yeah, of course. No, I think for me the McAllister card probably is the one that is probably one that's attainable at the moment. You know, you expect Argentina to do prickly well and he has, you know, he made his name in the World Cup, so I imagine he will be a starter for them. He's had a particularly good Premier League season as well, so I don't see many players get in front of him for there.

ingve (25:22.305)
That could be it.

ingve (25:40.993)
No, I think it'll start and I think it should be possible to maybe get two clean sheets as well for Argentina. So, your 98 rated card would be quite crazy. I'm a little bit annoyed, of course, since he already have a team of the season. And I know a lot of people that got him in the, footchamps red picks and they've like done three evolutions to get him to 95 rated and spent lots of time. And now there's this card.

It's like, yeah, I think that's a little bit annoying. Of course, it's a cool card and a love that is from the playing for label, but I wish they could have selected someone else.

GPM (26:22.399)
No, definitely. I mean, I was just saying this before you come on, actually, that there hasn't been an Mbappe card. I'm right in saying that there hasn't been a Messi card, probably because, as John rightly says, the upgrades would probably take them to something that's never been achieved before in FIFA history or FC history. So is that, do you think that's the reason why we haven't seen any of those big, big sharks there?

ingve (26:46.497)
No, I think they're saving them for the footies. They're going to be 99 rated SPCs or something. So that's, that would be a little bit too much, I think, putting them in this promo and then in the footies as well. So I think maybe let them breathe a little bit and then we'll see them in the footies promo with at least four playstyle pluses and 99 rated and maxed out in every possible way.

GPM (26:52.095)
Mm -hmm.

talkingFUT (27:09.724)
Yeah, it's a good show, Amy. Good show.

GPM (27:11.655)
Yeah. John, I know you need to nick off now. It's three minutes to kick off. I can see there that you are desperate to get off there to shout on the mighty Scots. Hopefully we are celebrating. But I did ask you one thing. I did ask you one favor before you go off is I'd ask everybody, the guys to come on us. We're trying a new feature tonight called Hosts versus the Audience. So John, could you please give me your forecast score for Germany versus Scotland tonight?

talkingFUT (27:38.972)
going to go with the heart and not the head and a 1 -0 Scotland win.

ingve (27:41.601)
Thank you.

GPM (27:44.095)
So 0 -1 and a Scotland win and then Spain versus Croatia.

ingve (27:47.425)
Spain vs Croatia Because I'm Caucasian in 3P I'm going Spain 0, Croatia 2 And then finally England vs South Africa

talkingFUT (27:48.924)
Because I've got creation this week, I'm going Spain 0 creation 2.

GPM (27:53.535)
And then finally, England versus Serbia.

talkingFUT (27:58.3)
England to Serbia now.

GPM (28:00.607)
as a proud Scotsman, I know that was hard for you to do. So we will reconvene next Friday and we'll give everybody a shout out for the scores there. Ingo is going to give us his and then Adam, Adam is going to, I've got his ones as well from our Euro predictor game as well. But John, thank you very much for joining me, my friend. Enjoy the game. Here's hoping we're celebrating come 10 o 'clock tonight. Fingers crossed. Take care mate, cheers pal. Bye.

ingve (28:04.929)
We will reconvene next Friday and we will give a shout out to the scores there.

ingve (28:19.201)
Cheers guys!

talkingFUT (28:23.772)
Cheers guys. Cheers, bye bye.

GPM (28:32.287)
So, Invi, we're just you and I now, so just very quickly then, the Chavie Simons SPC, what's your thoughts on that one?

ingve (28:33.025)
It looks quite nice actually and it doesn't look too expensive either I think for the kind of hype his cards usually have as well. It's like around 400k of course it's a little bit but people have quite a lot bit of fodder I still think they have at least.

So I thought he was going to be more expensive since he has the four playstyles, which I find really interesting how that's going to work in game. He has the technical plus, Trivela plus, Rapid plus and Deadbolt plus. So it's not like the most game breaking ones. It's good, of course, chosen different, but I still think he's going to be really smooth. He also has the normal chip shot, which is...

kind of useless, but Tikitaka is nice. Whipped pause is nice. Flare is nothing special. First touch is nice to have a quick step. So with the rapid plus and normal quick step, he should feel really snappy in acceleration and sprinting around there. Some really solid stats all over. Five stars skill must force the weak foot. High, high work rates and can start as a cam right -winger or left -winger, which is nice to...

to build into teams. I think he's quite close to starting or at least one of the first subs that they will put on. So he has goals in him. He's had a good season for Red Bull in Germany. So I can see if the Netherlands progress, I think he could be on to get both upgrades. So it looks like a good SPC.

GPM (30:26.207)
Mm -hmm.

GPM (30:30.143)
I know John is super confident of the Dutch in this tournament. We had a show last night with James, which is a well worth a listen if you haven't caught with that and he was rocking the Dutch shirt and he is very, very confident that they're going to do well. Would you be putting your fodder into this or is your team too stacked at the moment?

ingve (30:53.441)
team is too stacked, but I still think I'll do the SPC because his former cards were really fun earlier. So it would be nice as a sub. And I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be surprised if we get some kind of objective where you need at least five players from Holland or something, maybe a full squad as well. You never know. We already have England and Germany spin already. So that's possible as well.

So, I'm pretty sure I'll get dupes enough to do. I already have two high rated dupes, maybe three that I can squeeze off the highest rated quite easily. So I think I should be able to do that. And also there's another showdown as well released today. Argentina versus Canada. So we have Kamal Miller from Canada.

GPM (31:42.335)
Mm -hmm.

ingve (31:50.433)
as one of the options, so center back, 93 rated. He can, well, he can run for sure, at least. 91 acceleration, 95 speed. He is six foot. He has high, high work rate, so he'll be a little bit aggressive. Only thing is like he has 82 composure, which I'm not a fan of because I feel that they might make some mistakes with passing and stuff, but he has anticipate plus, slide tackle plus, intercept.

GPM (32:10.911)
Mm -hmm.

ingve (32:20.129)
Plus he also has a normal power header, long ball, jockey block, bruiser, first touch and aerial. So he has all the good play styles as well. It's 45 K so a cheap one, but a Argentina should beat Canada at least on paper. And that Paredes card looks really good. CDM center mid, forced to skill five star weak foot high high with some really nice.

Well, he's quite stacked stats wise already. Power shot plus intercept plus technical plus with incisive pass to guitar, anticipate slight tackle, bruiser, rapid, flare and Trevila. So with a plus two, he could be really, really good. He plays in Serie A as well. So easy to, to link him with lots of players. And if you're doing the Indian objective to unlock the Argentina player.

which is a little bit strange and so of course you have a link there as well. So I don't know what you think about the England objective where you unlock a player from Argentina.

GPM (33:23.359)
Mm -hmm.

GPM (33:32.575)
It's weird, let's be honest. It's weird and it does feel exceptionally tough. You know, I'm a player who never hits 12 wins and I think I've done 14 wins in my time. I think to hit 12 wins seems really tough at this stage of the game. I don't think you need to do that. I mean, that is in finals, isn't it?

ingve (33:39.329)
Yeah.

ingve (33:54.369)
Yeah, it's in, it's the only one, you only have one footchamps finals to do it in. If it was two, then I would, okay, that's, that's fair. I think because then a lot of people could do it, because it's an England team. It's not your main team. You're not used to the players probably as well, unless you've been rocking an England team all, all year, but I doubt many have done that. So it's kind of, you need to a little bit relearn your players. If you're not a, got a...

photographic memory or something, how they behave in game. It takes a lot to first of all get 12 wins and with a totally new team, with new players versus you're not going to face only new teams. You know that there's going to be people using their stack teams to get an easy, they think at least run for the rewards. So...

That's a really tough one. Of course, the card looks really good. But if it was an Argentina team and you unlocked an Argentina player or if you unlocked an England player, I would understand it. But it's strange to use English players to unlock Argentina. That doesn't make any sense to me at all. Although the card looks crazy good.

GPM (35:11.838)
I mean, I've been unfair to EA in saying that it is too hard, this one.

ingve (35:19.489)
Yeah, I think so. But of course it's going to feel maybe special. But then of course, if you're lucky enough to unlock him and people see him in the starting lineup, they might just zero, zero, zero quit you just for that as well. So that's also going to kind of be demoralizing for people to see that player in the starting lineup. They know they're going to face a really good player. And that, you know, the mental part is also quite...

GPM (35:28.639)
It's just quite like for gear.

ingve (35:49.441)
important in the game. So if you kind of get a kick in the leg before you start the match, then it's going to be an uphill battle. So yeah.

GPM (36:00.447)
Definitely. And so just to bring this new promo to an end, I was very critical before you come on out to the fact that Festival of Football, I felt could have went another week longer. It would have been nice to have seen a team too, because I loved the card design. I loved the idea of the actual live cards. I mean, for this promo, have EA stepped up to the mark, or do they need to be marked down?

ingve (36:21.601)
Yeah, I think this is a kind of, yeah, yeah, I would, I don't know. I'm not a fan of this one because the upgrades are not as big. It's more difficult and celebrate players making a breakthrough on the international stage during first. Some of these players have already played in the world cup, so it's kind of pointless having them in this then. So yeah, it's, I think it would be better to just have another week of a festival of football and just skip.

This one, I think.

GPM (36:52.639)
Yeah, definitely, definitely. And just so, just one question I wanted to ask you, and sorry I've kind of sprung this on you, is myself, I'm finding the experience point to be a right grind. It's so low, the points that you can earn daily. It seems to be really hard to get to these four extra players that you need to play with to get, to complete some of the objectives. You know, are you feeling a bit of a grind for the season rewards?

ingve (37:21.761)
Yeah, that's I'm a little bit annoyed that the daily ones are like 75 K and I think it was 300 earlier in the game. So I think it should be easier now when we're in June. I think those should be like thrown at us for fun. But I've done pretty much everything until the new ones that we got today. I have got the seven ladder players.

So I have three out of 10 wins for the last XP there. That's 350 to finish that one. And I think there's a euro throwback, which is new objective where you can get 2000 points. But there's kind of riddle thing, which I've posted what players, et cetera, to need it to do in the discord we have. And there's some.

GPM (38:08.127)
Mm -hmm.

ingve (38:21.149)
that you can unlock 2000 with a home and away kit but of course you have to buy that in the store and I think it's almost 50 ,000 coins for 2000 XP so of course if you have a stack team and lots of coins you can kind of get easy 2000 points there but I hear many struggle to get going I'm at level 50

GPM (38:46.687)
Mm -hmm.

ingve (38:50.465)
now before doing the ones that came up so I'm just looking forward to the kit at level 18 the Polish kit from that looks so cool polo 1974 kit looks absolutely awesome so that one I'm looking forward to so

GPM (39:08.191)
Now I am on just on level 8 thing, but that's where I'm at the moment. I've played a lot of the game recently. I've played a fair bit and I've tried to do as much as possible and trying to get to these XP was it seems really hard. And just to say for anybody who's listening, the Discord is free. So you do get this information for Invi. He's posted it. He's put the teams on there. I won't spoil it for the Discord members, but if you're thinking of joining us, look at us at discord .com forward slash footenreview. It's free to join.

But a lot of new members start this week as well. Some of us have actually even joined our Euro Predictor game, so thank you to them who've done it. But again, if you think about it, if you need any sort of help, you've got people like Invi on hand to help you with these puzzles.

GPM (39:51.807)
And just in terms of, is there anything else in there for this promo that you want to bring up or anything that we might have missed that you've noticed?

ingve (39:52.129)
Yes.

ingve (40:02.209)
I don't think we missed anything. I'm pretty sure we'll have some evolutions on Saturday and Sunday because it seems like Friday, Saturday, Sunday is the three days we get some evolutions. So we're going to get some paid ones, I guess, tomorrow to do some kind of, I don't know what kind of evolution are coming. I haven't seen any rumors either. It's not going to be the Academy one. So it's going to be interesting. Hopefully we can.

get something cool. I'm still waiting for another founder evolution, which we haven't seen for half a year now or something. My 86 with the Darwin Union is still waiting for an upgrade, but I'm probably get a special promo card before I get another evolution. So that's a little bit of a shame really, but it is what it is.

GPM (40:53.375)
Do you think we'll see any icons of that? Maybe with the path to glory or the greats of the game, sorry. Do you think we'll see anything like that or heroes?

ingve (41:00.289)
No, I think that's kind of finished. So it must, I haven't heard anything that there's going to be any icons during this promo, which is a little bit annoying, but because there are players that should have gotten some better cards than they have now. So, like Van Basten, it would be perfect for him to get a Euro kind of icon card, greats of the game. He was insane, insanely good player in the Euro. So a little bit strange that he...

didn't get anything. And of course, Ken and Darglish got one, but he didn't play in the Euro, so there's that. So I was hoping for more hero cards as well. That's like, nope, doesn't look like that.

GPM (41:38.239)
Yeah.

GPM (41:45.599)
Yeah, I just feel that it just feels I don't know about you, I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer here when I say this, but this promo seems to have taken a lot of the air out of the Festival of Football, I think. The last weeks I was buzzing for, but this one just doesn't seem to hit the mark.

ingve (42:05.217)
No, the festival football one, the path to glory was, I liked that because that's easier for the players to get upgrades as well. And you had icons, you had heroes. And if you had a second week, you could have had more icons and more heroes, which I think would be really cool. And of course there's lots of players which you could give special cards as well. So that doesn't have, so there could be...

without any problems have been another week of that as well with nicer car design of course.

GPM (42:37.187)
Of course, my friend, definitely. And then so just so I get your predictions in. So Germany, Scotland, the game is 0 -0 at the moment. It's 10 minutes in. What do you think the final score will be for that game?

ingve (42:52.609)
I think it's gonna be 1 -0 Germany, sorry.

GPM (42:58.015)
It's no problem. Spain versus Croatia.

ingve (43:02.913)
That's gonna be, I think, 1 -0 Spain as well.

GPM (43:06.527)
One note to Spain and then England, Serbia on Sunday night.

ingve (43:09.857)
One one.

GPM (43:13.055)
1 -1, that's going to be a tight game. So Adam, as I say, he's representing our listeners. So Germany, Scotland, he has 1 -0 to Germany. Spain, Croatia, 2 -1 to Spain. And England, Serbia, he has England getting beat 2 -1. So what we'll do is we'll keep these scores running throughout the tournament, the two hosts against the listeners. And what we'll do is we'll post on our socials the three games for next week's show.

And our listeners can then, whoever listens, can post in on our socials and we'll pick someone at random to represent you guys out there and see if we can actually beat the hosts. Just as I say that, got the scores in and Germany has scored, Yngwie. So you are onto a bit of a winner at the moment. Live update, Wirtz has scored. So thank you very much, Mr. Wirtz, for ruining my Friday already.

ingve (44:05.889)
I'm gonna call Nagel's mom and tell him to park the bus, we don't need more ghosts now. We only listen to...

GPM (44:08.255)
The one that was enough, don't go any further than that then. So yeah, typical Scotland, we do it the hard way, but I'm sure we'll get there in the end. Just finally on that, what's the plans for this weekend? Is it weekend league? Is it watch the Euros? Less FIFA, less FC?

ingve (44:20.289)
Yeah.

ingve (44:30.113)
little bit of everything. I think I'll go for try to get the Enzo Fernandez card. I will also watch the Euros of course and I'll probably do some objectives to get that at least that Poland kit as well on the way to hopefully Enzo Fernandez if I'm lucky if not then shame at least I tried so I don't think I'm gonna play less because I haven't played that much during the week I just played now and then and on objectives and...

qualifiers. It's not even been more than an hour a day maximum. So I'm not burned out. I still have lots, lots to give. So, but of course I'll watch a lot of football as well. And it's going to be cool to have a Euros going.

GPM (45:16.511)
No, definitely, definitely. As I say, at the moment, it's 1 -0 to Germany. I'm still smiling if you're watching on the video here. Fleur inverts with a Joshua Kimmich assist there. And I've just received a text from my wife who's watching the game to say that Craig Gordon would have saved that. So there you go. I've not actually seen the goal, so it must have not been a good one for the goalkeeper there. So, no, as I said already in the show, I'll probably play a little bit, taking the Euros. I think this is a good fun part of the game.

I would say to anybody who didn't catch a last night show or special show with James, it's worth a listen. Just to hear the mindset of a new player and to be fair, I learned a bit as well myself last night off of James, being a new player and the fun that you can have just with playing the game and not putting too much pressure on yourself. But I wanted to say thanks, Invi, thanks for joining me. I'm sorry about the confusion with the text messages today at the start times. It's great to have you on.

ingve (45:50.057)
Yeah.

ingve (46:13.089)
Sorry.

GPM (46:14.558)
It's no problem mate, it's absolutely no problem. And as I say, thank you for coming on and that's explaining to us what make your markers and have a great weekend my friend as we hit the 45 minutes here on the show.

ingve (46:26.273)
you too and good luck you never know if Scotland turn it around so we'll see

GPM (46:30.719)
Fingers crossed, mate, but there's one less thing to do, and that's to drop it.

ingve (46:35.457)
Drop it!