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Couhaib Driouech leads five pronged Rangers transfer attack plan as mighty Andrew Cavenagh claim rings loud Rangers are closing in on a £7million swoop for the PSV ace and more will follow Rangers are set to seal a £7million swoop for PSV ace Couhaib Driouech - and Andrew Cavenagh insists there could be another four new faces to follow. The Ibrox chairman is under pressure to provide boss Derek McInnes with fresh weapons up top after their troubled start to the season. But Record Sport understands moves are already being made to tie down Moroccan winger Droiuech on a four-year contract. Burnley and La Liga outfit Celta Vigo were also keen on the 24-year-old but Gers gave beaten both to his signature and he will arrive in Scotland on Tuesday to complete the deal. Now Cavenagh will turn his attention to filling the other gaps in McInnes’ squad - with talks ongoing with AEK Athens for a loan move with an option to buy for James Penrice - while also moving on others. Galatasaray could return with a fresh bid for Youssef Chermiti having seen an opening £22m offer rejected - but only if the results of a scan on the knee injury he sustained during Sunday’s defeat to Hibs do not prove as bad as first feared. Mohamed Diomande is also on his way to Turkey after gers accepted a £4.5m offer from Corum FK. Responding to criticism of Gers’ recent recruitment record, Cavenagh said: “The transfer window isn’t a supermarket where you can go to the winger aisle and grab two right wingers and move on. Different parts of the window move at different paces and oftentimes you can get stuck. “There are three weeks to go and we expect activity. I would expect three to five players are probably coming in and I would expect a number of players to go out. We continue to believe that we have a blueprint that works. We are not there yet and we know it. “It sucks that we have to play a bunch of matches, including really important matches, before we are done. But that is the way the window works and we have to deal with it. We will continue to build over the next few weeks while trying to get results.” Cavenagh was speaking at the club’s shareholder meeting at a Glasgow hotel, where fans queued up to question the missteps taken by the club in the transfer market since last year’s San Francisco 49ers-backed takeover. Former boss Russell Martin, departed sporting director Kevin Thelwell and current recruitment chief Dan Purdy were among those singled out by one irate punter. But Cavenagh defended the way the club goes about finding fresh talent. He said: “Recruitment is a team effort. It will continue to be that way. We will never point fingers. “We are going to win together and lose together as a team. We are not going to say ‘it is Derek’s fault’ or ‘it is recruitment’s fault’. “We all have responsibility or nobody has responsibility. We chose to have everyone responsible and we will win together or lose together. “I think there is the criticism of recruitment and then I heard a bunch of individual names. How recruitment works is that it is collaborative, there are a lot of different hands in it. "Derek has a voice. Everyone on this stage [Cavenagh, former vice chairman Paraag Marathe and CEO Jim Gillespie] has a voice. "It is the club that is the responsible and I would like to avoid singling out individuals. Unless you are in the room with all of us, it is not clear who does what and I am not going to explain to you every role that everyone does because all that does is create an incentive to pick on people and personalise it and I think that is wrong. You should pick on the club, not an individual. Don’t make it personal.” Meanwhile, Marathe insists fans are right to feel aggrieved at refereeing decisions after VAR against made headlines during Sunday’s defeat to Hibs. The Leith side were handed an early lead when Vanja Dragojevic was penalised for a penalty box tussle with Jason Kerr - prompting one shareholder to claim Gers had been “cheated”. “Listen, you’re not wrong,” said the Leeds chairman. “Let me say that, you’re not wrong. I still can’t believe yesterday as well. If anything, I thought it should have gone the other way. "So it’s frustrating. As a club, we can’t put ourselves in a position that makes it even worse for us, if that’s even possible. And some have to try and manage that delicate balance to fight for what is right and fight against what is wrong. But we also don’t want to put ourselves in even more of what feels like a disadvantage. But whether it’s reviews after the fact, it’s just very, very frustrating. You’re not wrong.” Gillespie told the meeting the club was doing its best to hold both the SFA and the SPFL to account on governance and refereeing decisions. He added: “What is really important is that we don’t want to be seen or known as a club that shouts and stamps its feet, but then does nothing. Some of those conversations will take place behind closed doors. But we will always be informed, professional, ready and willing to do things in an appropriate manner.”