Blackburn Rovers have been turned upside-down in the couple of weeks. First the team was sold to India-based chicken-nugget outfit Venky's, then manager Big Sam Allardyce was unceremoniously turfed out on his ear. Now new owners Balaji Rao and Venkatesh Rao are weighing up further changes – including a fetching rename Rovers' stadium from Ewood Park to, yes, Venky's Park. The fans are upset, the results are disappointing and there's frigging snow everywhere.
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So things are a little unstable at Blackburn these days. And it's exactly that kind of instability that could be detrimental to the future of might-be Canadian international Junior Hoilett. Hoilett seems perpetually to be on the cusp of making a breakthrough, but he never quite gets there. He's still waiting for his first Premiership goal, which, to be fair, has been a long time coming, but he's been getting more and more regular minutes with the senior side, and hasn't looked out of his depth in the big leagues.
But these developments could scuttle Junior's steady development with Rovers. He's always had huge promise, and just as he started to find his feet, he lost his patron when Big Sam got dumped. Worryingly, the new owners – as new owners are wont to do – are making all kinds of noise about buying new players and delivering their side to a new golden age. And Venkys seems serious: they've promised five million pounds for each of the next six transfer windows to buy new players. That sounds good for Blackburn supporters, but bad for on-the-fringe Blackburn players like Hoilett.
In the end, what lay in Junior's future will depend on who takes the helm at Chicken Nugget Stadium – Alan Shearer? Martin Jol? Diego Freaking Maradonna? Hopefully they'll see in him what Sam Allardyce saw, and keep giving him the opportunity to develop into the player we all want him to be: a free-scoring Canadian international who regularly lends his fame to do exclusive interviews with Canadian Soccer News.