Scrapping offside would be nuts.2 rules I'd immediately change in football are:
1. Scrap Offside completely. It gives needless advantages to a defending team for absolutely no sensible reason and the judging of it and the disallowing of great goals just cannot be justified any longer. This is an entertainment businesses and being caught offside or pmaying offside offers no entertainment whatsoever.
2. Scrap Penalty Kicks and introduce Penalty goals for when a foul or handball has stopped a certain goal. This would in an instant end players diving to win penalties and penalties being awarded for non goal preventing handballs. If it's an intentional handball then as in any other part of the field of play it's merely a free kick. If the hand ball was like Suarez in the World Cup and effectively a save then there is a goal awarded.
Just those 2 things would cut back on cheating and any bloody need for VAR anyway and I can guarantee it would be a better watch.
The “sensible reason” is that it prevents the game from being a contest of “Hail Marys” with each side playing long balls to an array of goal hangers.
Mind you, with Haaland we would win that contest hands down.