Van Basten is to join FIFA in a newly created position in which he'll be able to influence decisions regarding rule changes, referees and starting dates of competitions. Some of the things he reportedly wants to change:

1. All competitions to start on the same date
2. Transfer deadline 1 month earlier
3. One clear league for each country
4. One cup per country, no FA Cup and League Cup together like in England
5. Video referees
6. Completely abolish the offside rule (I'm not kidding, that's genuinely what Van Basten wants)
7. More unspecified changes regarding refereeing and rules

Source (Dutch): http://www.vi.nl/vivideo/fifa-creeert-speciaal-voor-van-basten-een-functie.htm

Welcome change if true IMO http://en.as.com/en/2016/08/30/football/1472574395_107843.html
Right now all matches start at 20.45 with some exceptions, such as matches in Russia and Kazakhstan.

Finally, a change I'm actually OK with!

Right, who has gone where for stupid amounts of money?

EDIT: David Luiz has gone back to Chelsea... oh dear.

Good change on the CL time. Chelsea's bid on luiz seems like a desperate buy. They missed several better candidates (john stones, eric baily) to their rival.

LTTP, never in my life i imagine leicester city could win EPL title. This year, epl will be interesting to watch

Ka-pi96 said: Selling David Luiz was the best decision Chelsea have ever made. Especially considering PSG were stupid enough to pay 50 million for him! Yet they went and bought him back?

Man is the only animal that stumbles over the same stone twice.

:(

An internal simulation to show how much money clubs will make with the Champions League and the Europa League from the 2018/2019 season and how the new way of calculating the coefficient ranking will affect the rankings has leaked (article in Dutch): http://www.vi.nl/nieuws/italianen-winnaar-nieuwe-verdeelsleutel-uefa.htm

• In the new model the market pool (TV money) will become less important. Instead, clubs will also get money based on their coefficient ranking
• 25% of the money UEFA awards to teams will be entry fee, 30% performance bonus, 15% market pool and 30% coefficient ranking
• Currently, the coefficient ranking is determined by a club's performance over the last 5 years, but starting 2018/2019 season clubs will also get points for the coefficient ranking based on prizes they've won throughout history, such as Feyenoord's Europa Cup 1 win in 1970
• Thanks to the new way the coefficient ranking will be calculated a team such as AC Milan will go up the coefficient ranking 16 spots. If AC Milan qualifies for the Champions League they could earn up to €20million extra just because of the new way of calculating the coefficient ranking and the way money is distributed by the UEFA. Juventus will go from 9 to 7.
• Ajax will go up 10 places, PSV will go up 4 places.
• Clubs with a less rich history who've performed well in recent seasons will go down on the rankings. Villareal, which was still active in the Europa League after the winter in the past 2 seasons will go down 14 places.
• The UEFA expects to pay about €2billion to Champions League teams from the 2018/2019 seasons, meaning €600million with be paid based on the coefficient ranking.
• The highest ranked Champions League participant will get 32 times as much based on the coefficient ranking as the lowest ranked participant. If these rules would apply to this season Real Madrid would get €35.5million, FK Rostov would get just €1.1million.
• With these rules and the way money is distributed, Real Madrid would get a total of €62.5million (€35.5m due to the coefficient ranking, €15m entry fee and €12m market pool) before they've even played a single match.
• Based on the simulation Real Madrid would have earned €136million in the 2015/2016 season, Maccabi Tel Aviv would have gotten just €19million
• Applying the new rules to the previous season PSV would have gotten €54million while Manchester United would have gotten €58million, even tho PSV reached the final 16 of the Champions League while Manchester United got knocked out in the Group Stage
• The monetary gap between the Champions League and Europa League will grow. Right now for every €1 the UEFA gives to Europa League clubs, €3 is given to Champions League clubs, a 3:1 ratio. Starting the 2018/2019 season, this ratio will grow to a 4:1 ratio.

He'll be whipped into form. I believe in Conte, you all should.

Plus 18 mil profit.