The English contingent will travel with the squad but they won't play against Borussia Dortmund or rivals City in the International Champions Cup.
Mourinho told MUTV: "I am taking the English boys [to China] - that I wasn't expecting but they're coming. I will take them but I'm not going to play them.
“What is more important is to work, to be together, to live together 24-hours every day during the week and finally when you come back from China is when the others are waiting for us."
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