THREE into one doesn't go. Especially when we are talking about three goalkeepers with every reason to regard themselves as Rangers' bona fide No 1.

There may have been a setback for the club's recruitment plans yesterday when midfield target Toumani Diagouraga opted to sign for Leeds United, but one area where the club do suddenly find themselves blessed with an embarrassment of riches is between the posts.

While Wes Foderingham currently has the gloves - the regular last line of defence in a unit which has conceded comfortably the fewest goals in the division - he suddenly finds him vying with Cammy Bell and Maciej Gostomski to be the first name on the Ibrox team sheet. Previous first-choice Bell, a 29-year-old with a League Cup win and a Scotland cap on his resume, is fit again after a knee injury and reportedly ready to ignore interest from clubs such as Aberdeen to win a new deal to take him beyond this summer, while this window saw the club bring in Maciej Gostomski, a 6ft 5in, 27-year-old Pole who, having helped Lech Poznan to the Polish title in 2014-15, hasn't come here to sit on the bench either.

"It's testament to the quality of the goalkeepers we have here that we are all used to being No 1s," said Foderingham this week, ahead of Monday's Championship visit to Greenock. "But only one can play and whoever is training and playing the best will play. So it's my job to keep working hard to keep my shirt."

From loan spells at Bromley, Boreham Wood and Histon, to a five-year stint in Swindon, Foderingham has never really been a back-up and he has no desire to start now. "To be honest, since I was 19 I've always been out on loan," he said. "I was at Fulham when I first went out on loan, then Crystal Palace and I gained experience there. When I moved to Swindon Town I went straight in as No 1. So for the bulk of my professional career, that's what I have been used to."

Gostomski's Rangers career has been limited thus far to one appearance on the substitutes' bench but he is a big character who has made quite an impression on the goalkeeping sessions put on for the three men by Jim Stewart. For all the casual exchange of banter, no-one has been brave enough yet to quiz him on the youthful misadventure which saw his time at Legia Warsaw cut short after he was pictured smoking and throwing a pineapple at a window on a team night out.

"He's a very big lad!" said Foderingham. "He's got a different style and technique coming from Poland, but he's been fantastic and he'll do well. He will add strength to the goalkeeping department and he's a lively character and joins in with the banter.

"It's just a different catching technique that he has got, but it is very effective - because he doesn't drop it!" the Englishman added. "I've not asked about the pineapple story yet, I want to let him settle in first! He gets involved in training - we have a two-touch game in training between the boys which is very competitive and he lost today so he wasn't happy."

While they are easily lampooned for earning bucketfuls of cash for doing very little at all, the life of the substitute goalkeeper at a big club can be a frustrating one, with managers needing quality, experienced cover yet chances for first team action being almost impossible to come by. One way to keep everyone happy is the old Walter Smith route of having one goalkeeper for league play and another for cup matches, and while Foderingham may have stolen Bell's first team shirt that doesn't mean he is unsympathetic to his plight.

"I'm sure it is difficult for Cammy," said Foderingham, who became a minor social media sensation with some strange dancing this week as he celebrated his birthday. "He's been the No.1 and played all the games and he's had a prolonged period on the sidelines through injury and I've come in and started playing the games now. He was on the bench last week. That's football though and these things happen. He's a professional and he's training very, very hard and I'm sure he wants to get back playing, but I want to play as well."

The 25-year-old was beaten twice on his last match against Morton, once in bizarre circumstances by his pal James Tavernier, but whether he is busy on the night or not, another clean sheet like the one he racked up at Cappielow in September would provide the foundation for he Ibrox side require to push on.

"It can be difficult if you only have one or two things to do and you don't do it well, it looks like you have had a bad game," said Foderingham. "So when called upon, I need to be able to do my job."