Jose Mourinho has criticised pitch conditions amid chaotic scenes in Beijing ahead of Mondays International Champions Cup clash against Manchester City, and stated his only objective was to get his Manchester United players home healthy. The United manager held an impromptu briefing with some members of the press on the side of the stadium pitch on Sunday after the initial news gathering inside the conference room at the National Stadium was cancelled due to soaring temperatures. My only objective is to take the players home safe and without injury. These are no conditions to play a good game of football. Jose Mourinho on Mondays Beijing friendly Hours earlier, City boss Pep Guardiola was handed a towel as temperatures reached unbearable levels inside the Olympic Sports Centre during his press briefing. The incident capped a chaotic 24 hours for United after half the first-team squad were re-routed on their flight from Shanghai to Nanjing airport 160 miles away from Beijing due to adverse weather in the Chinese capital. International Champions Cup on Sky Whos playing when and where and how to watch Further torrential downpours are forecast over the next 24 hours and Mourinho claims the condition of the pitch at the Birds Nest - which organisers believe will be fine for the game - have caused him to re-evaluate his priorities ahead of Mondays meeting with City (kick-off 12.30pm BST).Mourinho said: I think Beijing is unlucky because the pitch is very bad. The condition of my players is more important than the results in pre-season. Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says city rivals United will be a better team this season under Jose Mourinho My only objective is to take the players home safe and without injury. These are no conditions to play a good game of football.If it was a friendly, it becomes a double friendly now. No injuries, play calm, play safe, go home and keep the preparation for next week. I hope our players and Citys players can go home without injury. Pep: I will shake Joses hand Pep Guardiola insists he will shake Jose Mourinhos hand on Monday Manchester City have been doing all they can to make sure the game goes ahead as planned. For the past 10 days, their deputy head groundsman has been in Beijing working - at Citys expense - with the ground staff at the Birds Nest Stadium.Mourinho also voiced his displeasure at having the travel plans of half his squad disrupted.We were supposed to fly with two different planes, with half of us in one plane and half in the other, added Mourinho.The ones in the first plane were lucky because we landed safely and were in the hotel to have dinner. Highlights of Uniteds 4-1 defeat to Borussia Dortmund in the International Champions Cup on Friday The second group was unlucky. The plane was not good. They had to make an unscheduled landing for a couple of hours, and then they arrived in the hotel to have dinner at one oclock in the morning.After a 4-1 loss to Borussia Dortmund on Friday, and now the difficult weather conditions in Beijing, Uniteds trip to China has not been ideal preparation for the upcoming Premier League campaign.Mourinho admitted he cannot wait to get back to Manchester and begin training with his full complement of players. Jose Mourinho helped launch Manchester Uniteds new home kit for the 2016/17 season during their tour to China Manchester City have all of their players. We have six, seven or eight, which played in the Euros, he said.What I want is to get back to Manchester and train with the full group.Asked why the club has come to China for pre-season, Mourinho added: Its good for the fans and for the commercial side of things.We have a good group, we have a good spirit and we cope with it. Monday is the last day and then it is over. Follow Man Utd v Man City on Monday on skysports.com and Sky Sports mobile and iPad apps, with highlights available to watch across Sky Sports from midnight. Also See: Pogba not worth £86m - Scholes Pep: I will shake Joses hand Jose: Our goal is the title ICC guide - whos playing when? Byron Maxwell Jersey . The 26-year-old Regina native teamed up with Denny Morrison and Mathieu Giroux to win gold in 2010. Makowsky also was 13th in the 5,000 metres and 19th in the 1,500m in Vancouver. He also represented Canada at the 2014 Games in Sochi, helping the pursuit team finish fourth and finishing 28th in the 1,500. 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LOS ANGELES -- Don Mattingly will be back as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers next season with a new three-year contract that takes him through 2016, quieting speculation that his future with the club was somehow in doubt. A person familiar with the agreement, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized, said Mattingly is getting a raise from the $1.4 million he made last year. By comparison, Yankees manager Joe Girardi, entering his seventh season in New York, is starting a $16 million, four-year agreement after completing a $9 million, three-year deal. Mattingly had sought the stability of a multiyear deal. "I just want guys to know the organization has confidence in you is important to me as a manager," he said by phone from his off-season home in Evansville, Ind. Mattingly has a 260-225 record in his first three seasons with the Dodgers, who reached the NL championship series this year, automatically triggering an extension of his contract that was set to expire at the end of last season. He was runner-up for NL Manager of the Year last season. Last winter, the Dodgers declined to exercise Mattinglys option for 2014, a move he believed portrayed him as a lame-duck in the clubhouse. In an awkward October news conference after the Dodgers were eliminated by St. Louis in the playoffs, Mattingly said the organization put him in a difficult position by not exercising the option. The front office didnt clarify his status for 2014 that day, which frustrated Mattingly. "I knew my contract had vested. I thought that at least that would have been said that day," he said. "It kind of got left open and thats what got me going a little bit. If I had to do all over again, I would have preferred it to be in-house. 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Mattingly began his career with the Dodgers in 2008 as a hitting coach under Joe Torre, who mentored Mattingly and endorsed him as a successor after Torre retired. NOTES: Colletti has talked to the representative of star pitcher Masahiro Tanaka and he said his camp is in a feeling-out process with all 30 MLB teams. The 30-day window to sign the 25-year-old Japanese right-hander ends on Jan. 24. ... The team has talked to the agent of NL Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw, who is eligible for free agency after next season. "Its our desire to sign him here for a very long time," Colletti said. ... CF Matt Kemp is out of the walking boot that was on his sprained left ankle at the end of last season, and hes starting to hit. The Dodgers expect him to be ready by the middle of spring training. ... Colletti would like to sign another infielder to give the team more versatility. ... INF Dee Gordon is playing winter ball in Puerto Rico. ... Pitchers Chad Billingsley and Scott Elbert wont return until midseason after recovering from Tommy John surgery. 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