This will be largely viewed as a positive and progressive appointment by Hull City, who need something to lift them from the despair of being in the bottom three and the stench of the failed Tim Walter experiment.
Selles was touted by a number of pundits and fans as the obvious choice given the impressive job he's done at Reading under increasingly challenging circumstances, and he should walk away from the Berkshire club with his head held high, even if he knows he's leaving the Royals still in a potentially perilous predicament off the field.
Thankfully, that's not the situation he's coming into with the Tigers but he still needs to make a relatively swift impact with a side whose winless run hit double figures in the post-Walter loss at Middlesbrough.