Nothing like posting some links while the Real Housewives of Orange County yell at each other in the background (please save me!).

While it looked like Geoff Cameron was close to heading to Stoke City last week, it now appears that Stoke City and MLS are a good million dollars away from agreeing on something.

Michael Bradley is officially at Roma and here is some footage from his first day at practice (thanks to Armando for sending this in).

Carlos Bocanegra and Maurice Edu got blessing from the new ownership at Rangers to leave the club and look for a new team.

Charlie Davies did not make his Randers debut this past weekend, but he talked to Brian Sciaretta about his move to Denmark.

Ryan Bacic caught up with Brendan King about his new home at Bray Wanderers in Ireland.

Anton Peterlin is no longer on trial at Hearts.

Here is what Robbie Findley and Nottingham Forest will be wearing in home games this upcoming season.  I have always liked their tree badge/logo.

Brian Span came off the bench and played 45 minutes today in Djurgården’s 1-1 draw to Norrköping.

The second-qualifying round of Champions League starts up this week with Bryan Gerzicich and Ironi Kiryat Shmona playing Žilina tomorrow and Josh Gatt/Molde FK and Daniel Brkovic/Željezničar both playing on Wednesday.

Here are some links from the last couple of days.

Grantland.com is going to do a series of posts on the future of US Soccer and here is the first one on US Soccer’s efforts to centralize the development of youth talent.

Here are some field-level highlights of the USMNT’s 1-1 draw to Guatemala from earlier this month.

Howie wants your predictions on a few things Rangers related.

SJK defeated HIFK, 4-0, in Finland yesterday.  Both Justin Moose (SJK) and Kyle Luetkehans (HIFK) came off the bench and played the last 20 minutes of the game.

UEFA drew the first two qualifying rounds of both the Champions League and Europa League earlier this week.  Greg Seltzer has the breakdown for those teams with Americans on them.

Seltzer also has some nuggets/info on Bryan Gerzicich and Danijal Brkovic.

Yanks Abroad has a brand new design up this week and kicked off the new design with interviews/stories on Royal-Dominique Fennell, Caleb Patterson-Sewell and Joe Gyau.  And Brian Sciaretta gives us a top 10 list of uncapped USMNT players.

And finally, Mikkel Diskerud is still awaiting a purchase option decision from Gent, but in the event he does get bought by Gent, here are their home and away kits for next season.