Real Madrid have been urged to drop summer signing Kylian Mbappe after their disappointing 3-1 defeat to AC Milan because “he will never be No.9”.

Mbappé left Paris Saint-Germain when his contract expired this summer and joined Real Madrid on a free transfer.

La Liga giants Real Madrid missed out on Mbappe on several occasions, but it seemed inevitable that he would eventually leave PSG for the Spanish club.

Without Mbappe, Real Madrid won the Champions League and La Liga last season and their dominance is set to continue with the World Cup winner in the fold.

However, Real Madrid have had a difficult start to the season. Their recent 4-0 defeat to FC Barcelona leaves them seven points behind the La Liga leaders with a game in hand.

In the Champions League, they are in 17th place in the table after recording two wins and two defeats in their first four matches. On Tuesday evening, they suffered a 3-1 home defeat against AC Milan.

Mbappe has ten goals in his 15 appearances for Real Madrid, but he has been criticized for his performances. Journalist Daniel Riolo attacked the Frenchman, saying he should be fired.

“You play without a center forward because – that was the case last year, that’s the case in the French team and that will be the case at Real, I’ve been killing myself saying it for months – Mbappé doesn’t is not and never will be a number 9,” ​​Riolo said.

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“Just like everyone else is a prisoner of this thing, Ancelotti is in the same prison.

“I’m going to repeat a sentence that I’ve repeated 150 times: Mbappé, either he’s on the left or he’s on the bench. And on the left, there are better people than him at the moment since Vinicius has the privilege of seniority and performance, so it will go to the bench because it cannot be otherwise.

“It’s not a 9, there is one on the bench (Rodrygo) and we will have to play him. Can Ancelotti take responsibility for such a decision? Real are a great club and capable of taking responsibility for such a decision but they cannot continue like this, that’s obvious.

The journalist also fears that Real Madrid are at “the end of a cycle” with coach Carlo Ancelotti not acting “normally at the moment”.

“If they don’t succeed by putting in Rodrygo, taking out Mbappé to find a team built in the same way as last year, it will mean that we are at the end of a cycle. Which would not be too much serious because it happens in the history of clubs,” he added.

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“When you have so many victories, when you have won so many Champions Leagues, when all these players have had so much success, it happens that you are supplanted by others who have the right to work well.

“It wouldn’t be bad to see Barca or Liverpool better. But before coming to that conclusion, Ancelotti will have to ask himself: what am I doing? Because he is doing things that are not normal in this moment.

Ancelotti meanwhile admits he is “worried” and revealed what his team’s “main problem” is.

“We had a lot of chances. The problem for me is not that,” Ancelotti said. “We probably failed to be clinical, but the main problem we need to solve is the ease with which our opponents create opportunities.

“We should be worried because the team is not playing well. We need to be more solid, more compact. We conceded a lot of goals. The reality is what we see on the ground, is that we are missing something. Worrying at these times is normal.

“It’s going to be a long night, but that’s what we have to do, think, all of us, about making things better. When you are not strong, you have to be more organized. You can’t say that my players are lazy, but at the moment we are not able to work together effectively.