Everton have been slammed by journalist Luke Edwards over the managerial merry-go-round over the last few years at Goodison Park.

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On Monday afternoon, it was confirmed that the Toffees had relieved Frank Lampard of his duties following their latest defeat at the weekend in London.

It has been a dreadful start to the campaign for Lampard's side who now find themselves sitting second bottom of the table with Southampton only worse off on goal difference.

And it appears the defeat against West Ham United was the final nail in the coffin for the Everton board who made the decision to look for a new man to take the reins at Goodison Park.

Speaking prior to Lampard's exit, journalist Luke Edwards took aim at the Everton board and slammed the likes of Farhad Moshiri and Bill Kenwright for the constant changing of managers:

"What the problem Everton have now is they probably feel at the boardroom level that they don't have any other choice but to sack the manager and replace another one. And I think this reminds me and Everton fans - this will make Everton supporters angry, I'm sure it will - but they remind me a lot of Sunderland."

"It's true Sunderland were stuck in this kind of spiral where they brought in a new manager and a manager with a big name normally. We're talking about the likes of David Moyes, Martin O'Neill, Sam Allardyce, Dick Advocaat, Gus Poyet, Paolo Di Canio.

"They all came into Sunderland to keep them in the Premier League and they did manage to do that until eventually, they went down. And I think Everton are in that similar sort of place at the moment where it doesn't matter what they change in the dugout."

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It has not even been one year since Lampard was appointed the job at Goodison with the Englishman taking over on the final day of January last year.

However, under the former Chelsea man, the Toffees did endure a relegation fight last season and have shown little signs of improvement this campaign.

But it has to be questioned whether Lampard was given a platform to succeed at Everton with minimal money available to spend over the summer transfer window.

Everton did spend fairly significantly on the signing of Amadou Onana, however, one considerable signing was never going to be enough to see the Toffees transform their performances from the 2021/22 campaign.

And it has been made apparent this season their struggles lie up top with a severe lack of goals crippling the Toffees time and time again this season.

Only one other side (Wolverhampton Wanderers) has scored fewer goals than Everton this season (15) and that can be put down largely to Dominic Calvert-Lewin's struggles.

However, all Lampard was given over the summer to subsidise Calvert-Lewin's goals was Neal Maupay, a player who has only once provided a double-digit return in the Premier League.

So there will now be a new manager taking over the reins at Goodison but it is difficult to see this bringing any significant changes with a history of managerial appointments showing this to be the case under Moshiri's reign.