If you cast your mind back to January and February of this year, you’ll remember that it wasn’t an absolute certainty that there would be a 2020 Major League Soccer season, or that it would start when originally scheduled if there was one. MLS and the Major League Soccer Player’s Association were locked in negotiations regarding a new collective bargaining agreement, and the negotiations were taking a long time.
Clearly, the two sides were eventually able to come to an agreement, because the 2020 season wrapped up earlier this month. With the CBA that was agreed upon back in February due to last until 2025, there wasn’t any reason to think we’d be talking about the subject anytime soon.