While a brutal hailstorm beat a cacophonous din on the windows of his office at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Monday afternoon, Rapids sporting director Padraig Smith said the team had decided to let an MLS transfer window close without bringing in reinforcements to help the team’s anemic attack.

Things have been stormy around the team for weeks and fans have grown increasingly restless. Colorado has lost five straight — two of them at home — and has been shut out three games in a row. Help may be coming, but not anytime soon.

“We’re not going to do anything,” Smith said of the transfer window, which closes Monday night. “We had a couple of discussions last week and over the weekend with a number of clubs, but nothing ended up working out in a way that we wanted. One of the challenges of this transfer window is that it closes while a lot of leagues are still playing. Teams aren’t quite ready to let players go, players aren’t quite out of contract.”

The English Premier League, German Bundesliga and Spanish La Liga have two more weeks in their seasons. Smith indicated the Rapids aim to land an attacking player in the next transfer window, July 10-August 9, and team scouts have been in Europe in recent weeks evaluating players in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland and Spain. Smith scouted in the UK.

“We’ve seen a lot of games recently and a number of players we were watching repeatedly, but it’s just a challenge with those teams still playing and still competitive in their leagues,” Smith said. “A lot of this is geared toward making sure we’ve seen players multiple times before we make any move in July.”

The Rapids’ have created scoring chances in recent games, but finishing has been poor. They have scored five goals in eight games, by far the fewest in MLS.

“We haven’t been good enough on the attacking side of the field,” Smith said. “We always make sure we’re monitoring all players that may be of interest to us and trying to make sure every deal we do improves the team, but there’s no doubt we are looking for attacking players and attacking talents.”

Last week, one of the Rapids’ largest support groups, Centennial 38, issued a statement criticizing management for the team’s poor start (1-6-1) and a March 31 deal that sent captain Sam Cronin and defender Marc Burch to Minnesota in exchange for Mohammed Saeid and Joshua Gatt. Part of the Smith’s rationale for the deal was that it would make the Rapids younger and that off-season acquisition Nana Boateng was ready to step into Cronin’s role. He started two games after Cronin left but then was injured and missed the last three games with fractured vertebrae.

“If you go back over the last number of years, we haven’t done well enough from the attacking side,” Smith said. “Albeit, our defense played at historic levels last year, you don’t want to rely on that. You want to make sure you are a balanced outfit, equally strong attacking as you are defensively. I do believe with the addition of Nana and the additional flexibility that the trade brought us from a financial cap perspective — this year and in future years — that we were able to improve the team in that regard and bring in the attacking quality that we need to make us better.”

Smith also addressed fan frustration.

“Everybody is very frustrated here, because at the end of the day, we’re here to win and that’s the most important thing,” he said. “We do see some positive things on the field in terms of how we move the ball, how quickly we’re moving it, the spaces and the positions the players are taking. Our ability to retain the ball and drive forward is better than it’s been in the past. But at the end of the day, we need to finish. We need to take the chances we’re creating. We need to score more goals. It is difficult to sleep, but we know the direction we’re going, we know how we want to get there. The key thing now is executing on that strategy.”