Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he is happy to bring through more young players.

Promising youngsters such as Tahith Chong and Angel Gomes have been training with the first team recently - following in the footsteps of Scott McTominay, who has stepped up to be part of Mourinho's squad and featured in 12 senior games so far this season.

"It depends what you mean by promotion," Mourinho said. "If, by promotion, you mean that they are training regularly with us, then they have been promoted for a long time.

"Scott McTominay didn't arrive here from the moon. Before he came to the first team, he trained with us many times last season. He came with us in pre-season and then we realised that Andreas Pereira was leaving in the summer, so we decided: 'Okay, we are not going to sign another player, we have Scott McTominay ready to step up'."

The manager admits he could add kids to his bench for their FA Cup tie with Huddersfield.

"Maybe I will have one of the kids on the bench," the boss said. "The objective of not having a squad that is too big is exactly to be open for this. For example, this week we didn't have a few players because of injuries and small things that I wanted to protect.

"All these kids, they trained with us. Not today [Friday] because they [the Under-23s] play today but, yesterday and before yesterday, they trained with us."