Major League Soccer is poised to reinvent its schedule in a move that Apple TV and MLS Season Pass analyst Taylor Twellman believes will maximize its standing in the global market.

According to The Athletic’s Paul Tenorio, MLS is mulling over embracing a European-style calendar that would kick off in the fall and wrap up in the spring while breaking in the summer and winter.

If the new schedule is adopted, Major League Soccer’s transfer windows would sync up perfectly with the European calendar. As of right now, MLS teams routinely struggle to make a sizable splash in the summer period due to the fact that it takes place in the middle of their season.

Teams looking to sell their players at their highest price point in the summer often refrain from doing so, given that they’d be forced to part ways with their stars midseason with hardly any time to find replacements. Incoming talent, meanwhile, end up joining their new clubs with less than 10 games remaining in the MLS regular season.

As MLS times continue to increase their activity in the international transfer market, Twellman – who played eight seasons for the New England Revolution – encouraged the league to implement a European schedule. “I think it’s important that Major League Soccer maximizes its place in the world market,” he exclusively told Mirror Sports U.S.

“I think … the last two or three transfer windows, they’ve now seen that they can be a big player in the world market if it aligns itself with that.

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Taylor Twellman encouraged MLS to maximize its standing on the global stage

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“I think that is exactly why these owners, who are very smart men and women, are looking at it very pragmatically and understanding that maybe the time is now where Major League Soccer, Canada can really be a player in the world market, particularly the summer transfer window.

“I think that’s why they’re looking at it,” Twellman continued. “I don’t think the weather is a huge detriment, I’ve never really thought that the moment they expanded to so many of these cities that can now host games. I definitely look forward to the time where Major League Soccer is a big player in that. I think the schedule change would play right into their hands of really growing at a different level.”

It remains to be seen if Major League Soccer will go through with implementing the watershed adjustments. Speaking to The Athletic, MLS executive vice president of sporting product and competition Nelson Rodriguez conceded that he doesn’t know what next steps the league will take at this time.

“We have been engaged, really, since January, and it’s been very extensive and exhaustive and deliberate,” Rodriguez said. “It’s still too early. We’re still asking questions. We’re still collecting and analyzing some data. We’re still formulating models. Some of those models are for formats themselves, some of those models are how to assess the information that we get.”