You've put some canny negative spin on the job he did at Spain mind. Laudrup got Gatafe to the final of the Copa del Rey as well as the UEFA quarters. He did that and they only dropped 5 points from the season before when they qualified for Europe through the domestic cup, not the league. You can't compare that fall from grace with ours when we went out of both domestic cups at the first attempt, the FA Cup against Brighton and we went from 5th top to 5th bottom with a 24 points drop season on season.
Are you trying to claim that Laudrup was responsible for the decline at Mallorca? More spin. The club were screwed before he arrived as they were skint and had to flog anything that moved. I'm sure Shepherd was rumoured to be interested in buying them but he was pipped by some other Walter Mitty who didn't have the money to buy them. They were declared bankrupt and kicked out of the UEFA Cup because they couldn't rub 2 pesetas together. It was a massive plus for Laudrup that they actually managed to stay in the top division after losing the best part of the team.