BE careful what you wish for. That  might well be the advice Blackburn Rovers supporters would give their Everton FC counterparts ahead of kick-off  at Goodison tomorrow.

While Everton’s faithful are agreed  fresh investment is vital to prevent the  club from losing even further ground  to the leading Premier League clubs, a  split remains on whether the only way  to achieve that is by ousting Bill Kenwright and the current regime.

Blackburn underwent a change of  owner in November 2010 when Indian  company Venky’s made the Ewood  Park board a £23million offer they  couldn’t resist.

It hasn’t gone well.

Only this week, Venky’s  controversial ownership  came under renewed scrutiny following the publication of a letter signed by  three members of the previous board a year ago that expressed concern at the new  direction of Blackburn and  the decision to sack Sam Allardyce and replace him with  Steve Kean.

Kean has been hugely unpopular  with the Blackburn faithful to an unsettling degree, although the vitriol  aimed at the beleaguered Scot has  eased with an upturn in Rovers’ form  in recent weeks.

But the unease remains. What  should have brought stability to Blackburn has instead prompted uncertainty and threatened to turn a  once-proud club, one of only four winners of the Premier League, into a  laughing stock.

Of course, there are examples of successful takeovers. But many don’t  work out.

And, as was proven at Blackburn  and, in the last week, at Queens Park  Rangers, new owners often leads  swiftly to a new manager.

However, Everton’s board, stating an intention to protect the best interests of the  club, shouldn’t be restricted by assuming it’s better the devil you know. As  things stand, the lack of transfer funds  made available to David Moyes this  month will only be further exacerbated during the summer transfer window unless the Everton manager  cashes in on one of his prized assets.

Moyes would rather not. But, to aid  the restructuring of a rapidly-ageing  squad, he may not be left with any  choice. And once again, Everton will  become reliant on the creativity of their manager in  the transfer market.

He can only go to the well  so often, though. The talent  in the lower leagues is not  what it was, and in any case  the days of picking up a Tim  Cahill for £1.5million are  long, long gone.

Even that would be a push  for Moyes, the Goodison  manager having splashed out barely  half of that fee to bring Darron Gibson  from Manchester United.

The cynic would suggest United  manager Sir Alex Ferguson would  rather bring a 37-year-old out of retirement than entrust Gibson with a  first-team midfield role at Old Trafford. But Gibson will be a player with  something to prove. And, if recent history has taught us anything, Moyes is  better than most at channelling such  hunger into performances.

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