On November 24, 2023, Black Friday will also come to EA FC 24. A week earlier, it will begin to cast its shadows. We provide you with the most important tips for buying and selling on the transfer market, so you are well prepared for the event and can not only save coins but also earn them.
What can you expect on Black Friday in EA FC 24? For Black Friday, it is worthwhile to regularly check Ultimate Team. For example, you can expect Flash SBCs, which will be available for a short period of one or two hours and can secure you expensive packs worth 25,000 or even 50,000 coins.
Additionally, player SBCs or Gamble SBCs may appear that you may need to complete within a few days. Especially popular in this context are Hero or Icon upgrades as well as Flashback SBCs of veteran stars, who thus get a fresh look.
In all the anticipation, you should seize the opportunity to prepare for Black Friday by taking advantage of the transfer market. All SBCs have in common that you and everyone else will need specific cards for their completion.
We will show you which cards you should invest in over the next few days so that you do not have to spend many coins yourself, and perhaps even sell a player for a decent profit.
Shopping for Black Friday: These tips you should consider
Which players should you buy on the transfer market? There is no definitive answer to this question, as we cannot confidently say that Black Friday will play out the same way as in previous years. However, we can make predictions based on last year’s SBCs released on Black Friday in FIFA 23 about which players may be in demand and therefore could become expensive.
Below, we will discuss the individual card groups that, in our opinion, are worth investing in:
1. Tip: Buy 80+ cards that have Perfect Links and play on the wing:
The aforementioned Flash SBCs are a very good opportunity to quickly acquire packs. However, based on experience, they may become somewhat tricky. We assume that some of you will require a chemistry of 25 or more with additional complicated requirements while also needing to muster a team rating of at least 80.
This means you will need specific players from certain leagues who link well together, for example, players who play in the same club and share the same nationality. The focus is mostly on the major European leagues from England, Spain, Germany, Italy, and France. It is worth going through the clubs and buying players that together create perfect chemistry.
Also, keep an eye out for players on the wings, meaning, LM, LF, LV, LAV or on the opposite side RM, RF, RV or RAV, as these are often rarer in the game and therefore more expensive on the transfer market.
Here, the EA FC 24 database by futbin can assist you. You can find Perfect Links from every league and in every club via the link.
If you have bought a certain number of pairs here, you are already well prepared for the Flash SBCs. Now you may be wondering how much the players can cost that you will buy in preparation for Black Friday. We will address this in the next step.
2. Tip: Buy or bid on the players for the minimum price
For how many coins should you buy the players? You should try to buy the cards for the minimum price. This means that you should purchase rare gold players for 650 coins via bidding or instant-buy on the transfer market. For non-rare gold cards, you should not spend more than 500 coins; it would be better to strike for 400 or even just 350 coins.
For this, it is best to choose a mix of instant-buy and bidding methods.
This is how instant-buy works: If you have a little more time, you can try to get the selected players at the lowest price by setting the maximum instant-buy price to the upper limits mentioned above. If your search yields no results, update the search history by adjusting the bidding price up or down and then starting a new search operation. If a player is shown to you, you need to be really quick.
This is particularly suitable for the EA FC 24 web app. TikToker BetzebubTV explains how it works:
However, the sniping described here on the transfer market requires practice, quick fingers, and above all, time.
This is how you should use bidding: Therefore, you should also consider normal bidding. Five to ten minutes before logging out, you can bid on a selected player who appears many hundreds of times on the transfer market at the same time. The majority of your bids will likely not be successful, but with a little luck, one or two players may belong to you after the time expires.
The excess cards are best kept on your transfer list, as if the predictions are correct, it is financially worthwhile not only to buy for personal use but also to hope for a profit with the excess players.
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3. Tip: Invest your coins in players with 83 or more
What do you need high-rated players for? It’s not just the Flash SBCs that make Black Friday so special. Gamble SBCs such as guaranteed Icon or Hero packs or Upgrade Packs have been a staple of Black Friday content in recent years.
Unlike Flash SBCs, these Gamble SBCs are less about having complicated requirements or demanding a high chemistry value, but instead require teams with a high overall rating. Therefore, it may be worthwhile to also bolster your squad with players rated 83 or higher.
However, it is also important to not act rashly on the transfer market, but to first get an overview of the current average price of the individual cards. The following Cheapest-by-Rating function from Futbin may help you with this.
Here you can see all players of a rating starting with the lowest prices listed. Browse through the list and try to acquire the players through instant buy or bidding (see Tip 2).
We recommend focusing mainly on players with a rating of 86 or lower, as the investment remains manageable here. Ideally, you should buy at least ten players of each rating (83, 84, 85, 86) to cover your own needs.
If you currently have many coins in your account and don’t know what to do with them, you can also speculate a bit and buy even more cards. In the best case, you will sell them for double or triple the amount of coins on Black Friday.
This brings us to the end of our tips for preparing for Black Friday. If you generally need some advice on transfer operations in EA FC 24, feel free to check out our general trading tips.
