Hull City will assess the situation with striker Joe Gelhardt in the summer with a view to potentially making his loan move from Leeds United a permanent deal.

City signed the 22-year-old frontman last week on a short-term deal until the end of the season, though there was no option or obligation to buy inserted into the deal, something we've seen the Tigers favour in recent seasons.

Despite that, however, boss Ruben Selles admits signing Gelhardt is not just a quick fix for the short term, but, instead, something they'd like to revisit in the summer as long as the stars align with his Elland Road future up in the air, especially if, as expected, the Whites secure promotion back to the Premier League.

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For that to happen, City would need to preserve their Championship status and Gelhardt would need to hit the ground running and slot into Selles' system. But the Spaniard is confident that can happen, especially given he came off the bench to help the Tigers win 1-0 at Millwall on Saturday and move out of the bottom three.

"Well, we always talk about the kind of player that we have personality-wise, and Joe is a really good kid. He's a person who wants to just do better and wants to play football," the Spaniard told Hull Live, explaining why he pushed hard to get him above other Championship rivals.

"Playing for a team like Leeds with that level of intensity, he is a player that gives us that pressure and the counter pressure that we like and that verticality. His attributes in the final third and the combination just make him a very complete player who can add to us some more threat in front and, hopefully, add some goals also.

"I think for us, it can be one of our two winger positions, or he can occasionally be in the striker position; he can play in the three positions in front.

"I see him more playing coming from the side to the centre because his physical attributes in terms of the intensity and the pressure are really good, so I see him more than dynamic winger position, but he also can play in the centre."

Gelhardt still has two-and-a-half years to run on his existing Elland Road deal. But having not featured in the Championship, promotion to the Premier League would surely further limit those chances and Selles says the club would consider pushing for a permanent deal, provided they retain their second-tier status, and the player himself performs.

"Yes (something to revisit in the summer)," Selles said. "For the moment, it's a player that we want, and we believe he can be really good for us. Obviously, if we do things properly and we end up where we want to end up (staying up), and he ends up playing the minutes that we want him to play and doing the things that we want him to do, I think it will definitely be something that we need to evaluate (in the summer).

"That's when you get players on loan; you need to get, the quality up and you need to get players that are ready for the challenge, and I think he's one of those players."