Real talk - signing Arnautoivc at this stage in the window during the "mega rebuild summer" is vile. A damning indictment on everyone at the club, especially Murtough and his "scouts" but also ETH, and a spit in the face of all the fans.
Could go for Toney, or Jonathan David, or silly money moves for Schick or Sesko... at least you could explain that. And then if all else fails sign Arnautovic on August 31st at midnight.
But doing it now with 3 weeks to go?! Fecking disgraceful. There's not a shred of intellect or nous anywhere in the club at the moment. Murtough is a clueless 'jobs for the boys' number cruncher tasked with a job orders of magnitude above his competence level.
The whole point of having a DoF is you dont end up just signing players who the manager has experience of.