Major League Soccer may have found a new best friend in Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the top official at the German champion Bayern Munich and the chairman of Europe’s 207-member club association.

In an interview with France Football, Rummenigge suggested that shifting schedules away from games in the winter to the summer would make sense. His view is especially timely as officials at FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, grapple with the pros and cons of playing the 2022 World Cup in the summer in Qatar or shifting the tournament to the cooler winter months.

“Everywhere, be it Germany, France or England, summer is the best period of the year,” Rummenigge said. “And that is the season we don’t play. In deepest winter, when it is very cold and snowing, we play nearly all the time in conditions that are disagreeable for both players and spectators. It is not logical.”

Germany’s Bundesliga takes a six-week break in December and January, while leagues in France, Italy and Spain take shorter breaks over the holidays. In England, the Premier League plays through Christmas and New Year’s with an extensive schedule of games. Many observers in England have lobbied for a midseason break — because of the weather, but also because of anecdotal evidence that English players fare poorly in (summer) international competitions because their club season stretches too long.