millions of dollars the most expensive club is based in one jew and part owned by a billion a mars ali baba group it's thirty seven players have a total market value of more than eighty million dollars not the chinese super league has been able to attract more and more high profile foreign players as well and that has seen the total value of the really rise dramatically from thirty six million dollars just ten years ago to well over half a billion dollars right now so is football brain child china closer to the rest of the world or is it the other way around let's bring in. my colleague michael de silva from the w.'s sports department michael first my first question is you know. manchester city won a leading football clubs in the world you can even say but why then buy a third tier team in the super league in china is a good question i think the answer is probably potential there is sixteen teams you said all of them or nearly all of them are owned or part by some of the biggest chinese companies and the opportunity for investment is not so high. why basically . in the thirty year. the you