When Latapy took over our WCQ team in the last campaign, I actually thought we looked better in some departments, but overall we looked the same.
Now he's playing with a sub par local group, it's really difficult to tell how much of it is his fault, and how much of it comes down to the lack of quality in the team.
As far as his player selection it seems as if he's avoiding complicating the travel schedules of the overseas players to the extent possible, and seeing what kind of core he can build locally. I like that idea- at least the attempt to not be overly dependent on the foreign based players, as we've always been. Whether or not the experiment works is a different story. When the foreign based play sh*t, we bawl for the locals, now the locals playing sh*t, iz because we doh have the foreigners...bottom line is our players local & foreign are just not that good, and we're working with what we've got...simple
I agree with Arazi that we're taking this a bit too seriously. Ok we've lost two friendlies, and it is very humiliating but there are potential learning opportunities in these games. Our FIFA rankings will drop some and it will be marginally more difficult to get players overseas contracts, but let's be serious- it's not like we have a bunch of players lining up for contracts that all of a sudden have lost that opportunity because we lost two friendlies- it was always difficult for our boys- we've been ranked low by FIFA for a while now...Latas hasn't really changed that landscape.