Ruben Selles is set to be appointed as the new Hull City head coach after owner Acun Ilicali made the Spaniard his number one choice to replace Tim Walter, who lost his job last Wednesday.

Selles leaves Reading sixth in League One after a bright start to the season amid growing uncertainty off the pitch at the SCL Stadium and arrives at the MKM Stadium looking to turn City's fortunes around, and will watch Saturday's game with Blackburn Rovers from the stands before taking the reins on Monday ahead of Wednesday's visit of Watford.

The Spaniard kept the Royals up last season despite being 10 points adrift at the bottom of the table at one point, dealing with transfer embargoes, fines and points deductions, and playing an exciting brand of football.

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City's new boss has developed a reputation for playing positive, high-pressing, high-octane attacking football, and in a first-person interview with the Coaches Voice during his spell at Reading, Selles gave a fascinating insight into his approach.

Here's an extract from that interview:

"Not only the fans watching the game, but the people playing it. When you can connect your way of doing things with a desire from the players to play football, you have a big advantage," he said.

"When you can find a way to do it that represents who you are as a person, what you are as a team and give an identity to the club, that is fantastic. By the end of my first season with Reading, I think we showed a little bit of what we want to be. My idea of football is always based in high-intensity moments, especially in defensive actions. We should be very dynamic and defend far away from the goal. Remember: we press to score goals.

"In possession, we should be organised and arrive very quick into the final third. We want to be vertical. We must be able to combine to arrive in the final third or, when it makes sense, break the lines with most combinative build-up. The organisation in possession is very important. My team should be able to apply a high level of counter-pressure to get a lot from transitions when we regain the ball. We love the ‘organised chaos’.

"When the offer came to join Southampton as assistant to Ralph Hasenhüttl, it was an opportunity to test myself against the best teams and coaches in the world, while working with some very talented players.

"I must say, though, it was a really difficult year – and a big disappointment when Ralph left. When his successor, Nathan Jones, left three months later, I was told to look after the team for a couple of days. The idea was to get a new manager, but there were some complications with that. So I was told to manage the game against Chelsea. That game changed everything for me. We made a really powerful performance and won at Stamford Bridge.

"The club decided to give me the rest of the season, knowing that it was difficult to stay in the Premier League. That was something that, unfortunately, we didn’t achieve, but from the first day to the last it was a wonderful challenge.

"I was clear from the beginning that we wanted to play high-intensity football. At the start I tried to apply the principles within the 4-2-2-2 system that we had used at Southampton. That didn’t work, though, because of the specifics of League One, among some other factors.

"Formations are always in line with principles and the idea, which in this case was to be a high-pressing, energetic team that could make quick transitions to attack. What we found was that there were some teams against whom we could not apply high pressure. We were expecting to win the ball in those high spaces, but it travelled too quickly towards our back four.

"We would look to commit several players to the first press. But with just one ball straight into their striker, the opposition could then have 3v3 situations and be first to the second ball. What was supposed to be our strength became our weakness. There were circumstances other than the formation. For example, in some games we were equal with the opponent, but conceded because we lacked control of key moments of the game. We lost three games early in the season to goals in added time.

"So we arrived at a point in the season where we said: 'We have the PPDA, the high-pressure statistics and all the transitions we need. We just need to make some adjustments to allow us to win.'

"First, to be more compact. Second, more aggressive on the second ball, probably with extra players in that situation and at the same time. Sometimes the first pressure is not about winning the ball in the first, second or third movement. It is about modifying the kick from the goalkeeper or from the centre-back.

"As soon as we identified those things and changed to a 4-3-3, we ended up having two or three players in the press. But now our back four and the three midfielders were always in place to win the second action.

"We also found it helped us to get the ball down and find some more levels of transition, in terms of playing forward. There were changes of position for players like Harvey Knibbs, who we moved from winger to number eight. We also modified the spaces for Lewis Wing, and worked a lot with the back four. We played with a line that was really high, with players able to defend big spaces. From that moment until the end of the season, we grew into that idea.

"Our approach when there was a points deduction was always thinking about the human being. I tried to communicate with the boys in the most honest way, but never overinformed them about the situation.

"Until the deductions were confirmed, we didn’t tell them that there was this potential loss. When they happened, we had a meeting and explained the situation, and that it was not related to what we have done. At the same time, on those days we gave them space in training.

"Every time we had a points deduction, we won the next game. Managing those moments was actually a very positive learning. It didn’t matter what happened off the pitch; on the pitch, we were going to do our thing. Another success was the feeling that we created together. There were nearly 20,000 at the stadium celebrating at the last game, and I think the biggest achievement of the season was to recover, for the club, a connection with its fans.

"Staff were being fired, or relocated, or not being paid more than 50 per cent on time. Players were leaving the club without a proper dialogue. But the fans started to connect, to feel that they wanted the club back. And they supported us. We need to focus on bringing the love of football to the players, staff and fans. Then I believe we could have a lot of fun.

You can read the full, unedited interview with Ruben Selles in the Coaches Voice here.