Liverpool legend Graeme Souness says it's tough seeing Everton struggle as they are this season.

The Toffees are on a Premier League record winless streak, with the club's sale to 777 Partners yet to go through.

Souness wrote for the Daily Mail: "It's been another extremely tough week for Everton. On Monday, their financial results showed they'd doubled their losses, to £89.1million, last season. On Tuesday, they set a club record for games without a win in the Premier League.

"Their supposed No 1 striker, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, scored his first goal since October, 24 games ago, in that draw at Newcastle. And there, in a nutshell, is your problem. They don't score enough goals. Only Sheffield United have scored fewer in this season's Premier League. Please don't look any further than that.

"Because of my history and association with Liverpool Football Club, it might be perceived by some that I don't like Everton. But I assure you that nothing could be further from the truth.

"I lived in that city for eight years as a player and some of my close pals were Evertonians. Of course there was banter – there always is in Liverpool – but I would always want them to do well, so long as it was not as well as Liverpool. It grieves me to see the state they are in now.

"This club have given a masterclass in how not to recruit players. And why is that? Because of the scandalous way they have been run into the ground by those at the top of the club.

"This club's crisis comes down to total – and I mean total – mismanagement by those further up the food chain. By that, of course, I mean owner Farhad Moshiri, listening to the wrong so-called 'football advisers/agents' telling him which footballers are worthy of playing for Everton. I cannot reinforce strongly enough the folly of taking such poor advice. It has brought years of purgatory to one of our most distinguished clubs."