To be honest, it was blatantly obvious against the hun that we needed another option up front. It's also blatantly obvious that it isn't Maynard. When you looked to the bench you could see the dearth of options and it was the weakest area on the pitch in terms of starting 11 and options. If we don't get a striker in this window and May doesn't regain - and retain - fitness then we'll really struggle to finish second.
We don't even need a striker that scores goals, just an option up front that can bring other into play and retain the ball for more than 3 seconds. It's blatantly obvious that Rooney isn't that option, and it's obvious that McInnes sees that too, given he started Stockley every time we played the hun or tim last season.
He might turn out to be pish, but we absolutely need to do something in this window and I expect there is little available. We obviously need to ditch Maynard ASAP too.