Cristiano Ronaldo also changed his shirt number early into his Madrid career. Like Mbappe, the Portugal international wore the No 9 after joining the club from Manchester United in the summer of 2009. He inherited Raul’s N0 7 shirt from the 2010/11 season onwards.

Kylian Mbappé is switching numbers. The Real Madrid superstar is going from the No. 9 he wore last season to No. 10 after Luka Modrić left this summer for AC Milan, per ESPN's Julien Laurens, freeing up the number.

The battle for Madrid’s most iconic number begins – but it might not go to the man everyone expected. When Luka Modric played his final match for Real Madrid – fittingly against Paris Saint-Germain, the club of Kylian Mbappe’s past – it marked the end of an era.