Chelsea will only bring in a new striker next if one of the club’s three forwards leave during the January transfer window.
Blues manager Jose Mourinho can currently call upon Samuel Eto’o, Fernando Torres and Demba Ba and sees three forwards as the perfect number in his arsenal.
The trio have only scored four goals between them though, while Romelu Lukaku has banged in twice as many after being allowed to leave for Everton on a loan deal.
Mourinho unsuccessfully attempted to prise Wayne Rooney away from Manchester United in the summer before the England forward decided to remain at Old Trafford.
Rumours were flying that Chelsea could reignite their interest in Monaco’s Radamel Falcao last month after the striker reacted angrily to be substituted against Nantes.
Mourinho has become unhappy by his front-line’s lack of form in front of goal but publicly maintains no new striker will be sweeping into Stamford Bridge next month.
For that to change, Chelsea would need to first sell one of their misfiring forwards, with the Special One stating his belief that he has the ideal number of players up front.
“In the striker position we have three, which is the perfect number,” he said. "Sometimes I like to have two on the bench, other times I like to play with two, other times I have Fernando [Torres] and Eto’o injured.
“Three is the perfect number. All of them are getting minutes and matches. They are working very well for the team. The number of goals [they have scored] in the Premier League is not the number I want though. That is obvious. In-between them they have four goals.
“Strikers live on other things as well of course, and they are giving us everything else, but they are not scoring enough goals to make me happy and to make them happy. We have to try to improve and wait for better days to score more goals.”
Chelsea were beaten 3-2 by Stoke on Saturday, with no recognised centre-forward able to find the target.
Andre Schurrle chipped in with two strikes and Mourinho says the Blues are working hard to adapt to a very attacking style of football.
“It’s much more difficult to play offensive and creative,” Mourinho said. “The easiest thing in football is to organise a team to play defensive. The dynamic we are giving to this team is the most difficult thing. We are playing good football but we have to score goals.
“Oscar, Mata, William, Schurrle, Hazard, De Bruyne. These are lots of good players and all give a good answer. Kevin is the one who I’m giving less chances because I have so many there. The defensive phase is very important as well in a team that attacks and they are improving in this.”
