Manchester United have snapped up five young players from a fellow Premier League side.

Huddersfield Town have decided to scrap all of their academy teams from the Under-16s down, meaning dozens of young players are now available.

United handed trials to a number of youngsters and five have now signed contracts.

The Mail report that the new recruits have been given the option of either continuing their education in Yorkshire or switching to a school new United's Carrington training base.

Jose Mourinho, meanwhile, hailed another recent recruit Romelu Lukaku after the Belgian continued his remarkable scoring run by bagging a brace as Manchester United swept aside CSKA Moscow.

The £90million summer signing from Everton needed only four minutes to open the scoring at the VEB Arena and he was on the scoresheet again either side of Anthony Martial's penalty and Henrikh Mkhitaryan's second-half strike.

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Following the 4-1 Champions League win in the Russian capital that took United to six points after two Group A games, Mourinho was full of praise for Lukaku, who took his tally to 10 goals from nine appearances.

The Portuguese told BT Sport 3: "I have to admit that he's scoring really important goals almost every game.

"We know that he's a very good player, he can score lots of goals and playing in a team surrounded by quality players it is even easier to do that."

Lukaku was far more measured when assessing his performance, saying: "I just work hard with the team, we're doing well at the moment and we have to keep going.

"I just want to win trophies, that's it. Goals, I keep for myself. I just want to win and we have to keep going like we are now.

"It's still early in the season and we have to improve but I'm really happy with the win and the form that we are in."