You dont have to be one of the 450 victims of sackaholic Jim Ratcliffe to wonder.
Based on performance, Ruben Amorim should surely be next in line for a pink slip.
But those sackings are a symbol of an epic failure off the field more than on it.
The Independent accuses Ratcliffe of putting financial gain before Manchester Uniteds infrastructure, legacy and culture.
In trying to clear up a mess he inherited, hes making it worse.
Amorim may well become a victim, but right now hes useful in deflecting criticism from the big man.
Even with a narrow midweek win over Ipswich, the Manchester United boss has won less than 30% of his matches in charge.
Whatever their roles, few of the 450 could have been performing that badly.
And Ratcliffe said the cull was purely a cost-cutting measure.
Amorims win percentage is just over half what David Moyes achieved and way below all the other post-Ferguson managers even Ralf Rangnick.
And the beleaguered Portuguese knows the situation is dire.
Commenting on the sackings amid the miserable plight of this once-mighty institution, he admitted:
It has a lot to do with the lack of success of the football team because we are the engine of any football club.
Almost too honest for his own good, the 40-year-old, who has only been at the wheel since November, is on thin ice.
Results suggest that hes actually made the team worse since taking over from Erik ten Hag.
And his insistence on playing three at the back is out of kilter with the flexibility of the modern game.
Its just one reason there has been no new manager bounce from the man who hit the ceiling with Sporting Lisbon.
No one expected a meteoric rise up the table but, apart from the Amad Diallo heroics, theres been zilch to shout about.
And then Diallo got injured in training and is out for the season.
Amorim was seen as a dynamic young manager who could make players better, but two notables, who have improved, have done so elsewhere.
Marcus Rashford is recognisable again at Aston Villa while 81m Antony, a leading candidate for Uniteds worst signing of all time, appears rejuvenated at Real Betis.
Of those who stayed, only stalwarts Harry Maguire and Bruno Fernandes are delivering on a consistent basis.
Andre Onana has become jittery again while Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee are enduring goal droughts.
Even academy jewels Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo have regressed and might have been sacrificed in January.
As fees for homegrown players go straight into the book, they may still have to go in the summer to fund the signings Amorim wants.
The Argentinian came close to going to Chelsea which would have been an especially painful outcome for Devils fans.
But the winger is clearly not happy and stormed down the tunnel when pulled off against Ipswich.
The problems are unrelenting and the bad news seems magnified when it coincides with Liverpools imperious progress.
The Reds are moving ominously towards equalling United with 20 league title wins and would be everyones favourite to be first to 21.
Yup, its the finances that are the real concerns especially galling for United when compared to Liverpool, a self-sustaining club.
They are going to win the league with hardly spending a bean in the last two transfer windows.
And theyve managed to turn Anfield into a larger and more imposing stadium.
Even the multi-millionaire players are not immune to the gloom and doom prevailing at the shipwreck that is Old Trafford.
Although protected in their bubble, Amorim said this week, they are suffering from the negativity and criticism that had come on social media and from pundits.
Ratcliffe may be prescribing the wrong medicine but to be fair, the real damage for this entire debacle was done by the Glazers.
How unscrupulous, vulture capitalists without a scintilla of sentiment for the club or the game could by using their own money for just a fraction of the fee hijack a storied, global sporting institution on borrowings is well, regardless of your allegiance, outrageous.
It is the greatest failure of the modern games financial structure. And English football allowed it to happen.
Now Ratcliffes INEOS people are like archaeologists uncovering layers of a lost civilisation.
And each dig seems to unearth something new.
The soul of a once-great club is down there somewhere.
Which is why, for all the schadenfreude from rival fans, it is a threat to the very fabric of the game.
Yes, the jokes are unrelenting. After the closure of the club canteen Let Them Eat Fruit was an irresistible headline.
Now they are to come to Malaysia for the first time since 2009, some fans, it is hard not to jest, are wondering if they will have to pay for autographs and take food parcels.
Even the date immediately after the season finishes is an illustration of Ratcliffes priorities putting the money before the players welfare.
When Spurs and Newcastle flew to Australia at that time, Alan Shearer called it madness as this is when player burnout takes hold and injuries mount.
But Ratcliffe sees only a 700m debt that needs servicing.
United have lost money in each of the past five seasons and their current absence from the Champions League is costing them dear.
They go into the knock-out rounds of the Europa League next week knowing that winning the trophy is their only way of getting back on board the big boys gravy train.
United were in a mess of their own or the Glazers making, but the choice was sportswashing from Qatar or being stripped clean by a rabid capitalist with the Sadim (opposite of Midas) touch in sport.
Amorim is a convenient fall guy the current malaise is not his fault and he deserves sympathy.
But like everyone else, hell be a victim of the greed of super-rich owners for whom football is just another way of getting even richer.
The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of FMT.