Rennes head coach Christian Gourcuff has slammed the proposals of Marco van Basten to abolish the offside rule.

The Netherlands legend, who is FIFA’s chief officer for technical development, made a series of 10 proposals to SportBild on Wednesday, some of which proved controversial, though none as provocative as the contentious idea to scrap offside.

“This is the worst crap I have read a long time and yet I did not read it wrong ... It's immeasurable bullsh*t,” he told the press.

“We would return to the time of village vs. village, and at the time it ended with players being killed.

“The offside is a manifestation of collective intelligence. There would be no more collective spirit if the offside rule was removed. The offside rule is fundamental - if you do not understand that, you do not understand football.”