At risk of creating another all-in brawl, I'm really not understanding this panic.
I still think the quality we have at DMF is less than striker and that's where we should've purchased. Upgrading Flamini for me was more critical than upgrading Giroud. But even then we have 3 DMFs in the squad, the first choice has been performing as well as any DMF in the world over the last 8-9 months, and Arteta is perfectly adequate as the back-up. If both are injured we have Flamini.
Personally I would've liked Kondogbia in for Flam to really up the competition, and also as a natural replacement when Arteta finishes.
I feel the goals will come. They've come before with this group, they're not unproven, there are goal-scorers all over the park. When they click, the goals will flow.
We would surely only be interested in strikers that are an obvious upgrade on our first choice, in the same way we bought Cech. Buying a lesser keeper than Cech would have been absolutely pointless with Szczesny/Ospina on the books, in the same way that buying Austin or some other striker at less than the elite level would have been pointless.
We obviously failed to get one of these big superstar strikers over the line for whatever reason. We have the January window in 3 months time where we will start again. Will be interesting to see what strikers are unhappy and can be sniped at that point. Will be watching Benzema and Cavani's situations with interest up until then.