VICTORY No 4 FOR VARDY ACADEMY

JAMIE VARDY’S new V9 Academy has achieved another success with right back Alex Penny signing for Peterborough in a £50,000 move from Nuneaton Town. Penny, 20, is the fourth non-League player to use the Leicester striker’s academy to gain a Football League club deal. BOURNEMOUTH have rejected loan bids from Sunderland and Toulouse for winger Max Gradel, 29... NEWCASTLE UNITED striker Darryl Murphy, 34, is close to signing for Nottingham Forest in a deal worth £2million... FULHAM have asked to take Brighton and Hove Albion’s 26-year-old midfielder Oliver Norwood, a Northern Ireland international, on loan.