Berrada spoke at the Financial Times Weekend Festival in New York, where an attendee later posted on LinkedIn that he had addressed "why a previous head coach didn't work out."
Berrada liked the post, which framed the problem clearly: "Not tactics or talent. Rigidity. The coach came in mid-season with no pre-season to prepare, and under constant scrutiny, he held onto his ideas too tightly at exactly the point when adapting mattered most."
Amorim was sacked in January, a week after a post-match press conference at Leeds United in which he demanded to be referred to as "the manager" — a reference to a meeting two days earlier in which director of football Jason Wilcox had criticised his handling of a 1-1 draw with bottom club Wolverhampton Wanderers. Amorim had also learned that Wilcox had used the same terminology with staff at Carrington, a slight he found impossible to overlook.
The 3-4-2-1 formation Amorim deployed throughout his 63 games in charge never produced consistent results. Manchester United's longest winning run under him was three games. He recorded 24 victories in total and oversaw a 15th-place finish in the Premier League in 2024-25 — the club's worst league campaign in 51 years.
Michael Carrick replaced him a week after the sacking and won 12 of 17 games to secure third place and Champions League football, earning the job on a permanent basis. When Amorim departed, United had won eight of their first 20 league games and sat sixth, level on points with Chelsea in the final Champions League qualifying spot.
Berrada was travelling on to Boston to watch England's goalless draw with Ghana at the World Cup. The assessment from him is consistent with the picture that emerged during Amorim's tenure — a manager built for a stable environment who struggled when the Premier League demanded compromise. Carrick's success with largely the same squad reinforces the view that the problem was managerial rather than structural.
Amorim has since been appointed head coach of AC Milan.