Former Everton manager Frank Lampard has taken a swipe at the man who owns the club.

Lampard ripped into his old boss Farhad Moshiri given the Toffees' struggles over the past few years.

The ex-England midfielder was in charge of the Goodison Park club for less than a year, saving them from relegation in 21/22 but failing to improve the team the next season.

“I'm not exactly sure, and I'm not saying that loosely because I came into the club four or five years after he'd been there. You could see that there had been five managers – Marco Silva, Roberto Martinez, Carlo Ancelotti, Rafa Benitez, and Big Sam – high-level managers," Lampard told the Stick to Football podcast.

"I came in and you could see with the squad that there wasn't a strategy, and this happens at football clubs. New managers come in and want to go a different way, but you can have a strategy of what you want to be – I wasn't sure what it was.

“We were having conversations about how I wanted to coach the team, I've got an idea but we're going to have to recruit for that because I can't make this team what I want it to be now. We fought our way out of trouble, which was great for me having that experience in a tough moment.

"But in terms of what the club idea was at that point, no [I wasn't sure]. I don't want to sound like this is making a real negative on Moshiri or the big decision makers over those years, because I'm sure they did what they did because they bought Everton to make it into a fantastic club, a success."