Hull City have appointed Ruben Selles as their new head coach.
The 41-year-old has joined on a two-and-a-half-year contract with a club option of a further year, after a compensation fee was agreed with League One Reading. His previous role in charge of a team was as caretaker manager of a Southampton side doomed to relegation in 2022-23.
Before that he had a string of different coaching roles in Greece, Spain, Russia, Azerbaijan, Norway and Denmark having taken up coaching aged 16. It led him to Southampton, initially as Ralph Hasenhuttl's assistant.
Coaches James Oliver-Pearce and Tobias Loveland are expected to follow him from Berkshire to East Yorkshire.
NEW MAN: Hull City coach Ruben SellesNEW MAN: Hull City coach Ruben Selles
NEW MAN: Hull City coach Ruben Selles
Oliver-Pearce was a coach Selles inherited at Reading having spent 10 years at Wimbledon, Loveland an analyst at Southampton who followed Selles to the Royals.
The Spaniard replaces Tim Walter, sacked along with his assistants Julian Huebner and Filip Tapalovic after an unconvincing spel as manager. Including seven pre-season games, Walter oversaw 25 matches and won just three, all in the space of an 11-game period.
The entertainment promised never materialised.
On paper, Selles' achievements in management are modest and he has no Championship experience, but the context of Reading's off-field troubles put having the Royals in the League One play-offs at this stage of the season in a more favourable light.
His style of football is also important to Hull chairman/owner Acun Ilicali, who sacked Liam Rosenior at the end of last season for narrowly missing out on the Championship play-offs with a brand of football he found dull.
Walter's approach has left Hull in the relegation zone after 18 matches. Caretaker Andy Dawson, who oversaw last week's defeat at Middlesbrough, is expected to take the team for the final time at home to Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.
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