Ebbsfleet United manager Dennis Kutrieb says new striker not practical and backs squad to share load in absence of injured forwards Dominic Poleon and Rakish Bingham

Ebbsfleet boss Dennis Kutrieb insists he won’t race into signing a striker to boost their injury-hit squad.

Leading scorer Dominic Poleon has been ruled out with a thigh problem while Rakish Bingham is a long-term absentee having not featured since March.

The Fleet missed some gilt-edged opportunities in their 1-0 home defeat to Dorking Wanderers in National League on Tuesday night.

But Kutrieb insisted that he won’t panic into bringing players in who won’t be able to make an impact.

“It's always possible to make signings but they need to improve us,” stated Kutrieb. “If I would make a signing with a player who possibly needs four or five weeks to get fit, it doesn’t help me.

“If I bring a striker in who has the same record like the strikers we have who are not scoring at this moment in time, it doesn’t help me.

“If it’s a striker who is sitting on the bench for the last 18 months, it wouldn’t help us.

“Just really good options would help us now and they are simply not available at this moment in time. Or they are just too expensive, as simple as that.

“We wouldn’t go crazy now, we have our budget, it is what it is and I am totally happy and fine with it. There’s nothing where I would say ‘oh yeah we need to do something’ and I throw the strikers under the bus.

“We have still scored enough goals by the way. Yes, we haven’t scored against Dorking but that is the second game we haven’t scored in 12 games. All the other games we have scored.

“I don’t want to put too much attention on the strikers, we still need to make sure we don’t concede goals. When we have clean sheets, we will be fine.

“Dominic Poleon was on the pitch against Chesterfield and we still didn’t score a goal so that’s too easy for me. We need to make sure