His days begin at 6am and end late, the drive to and from his temporary digs to Hull City’s Cottingham training ground cloaked in darkness.
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Read MoreWith Hull sitting bottom of the Championship, there is a thudding sense of urgency about his work.
“This group of players has given me everything from day one,” he tells The i Paper.
One look at his CV suggests Selles deserves this opportunity.
From there he travelled to Russia, Azerbaijan, Greece and Denmark, even working as an assistant fitness coach, before being headhunted by Southampton’s data gurus to join Ralph Hassenhuttl’s backroom staff after being identified as one of Europe’s most promising young coaches.
Hull are currently bottom of the Championship (Photo: Getty)A case in point: in Berkshire he, along with club executives, forfeited wages for fortnight in solidarity with non-playing staff who had not been paid.
“I learned a lot, it made me a better coach and person. Those experiences were very painful in the moment but you learn to cope with different levels of stress and how to get the very best not only from yourself but also the very best from everyone.
“We were arriving at the point where they had a team they could recognise and everything was going in the direction where we keep the club stable but I also felt it was the peak of the things we could achieve with the club because of the situation not related to football.”
Botched summer recruitment overseen by Tim Walter – whose brand of “heart attack” football has left the Tigers flatlining in the Championship’s relegation zone – has also raised questions about the vision of Turkish owner Acun Ilicali, who has got through four managers in a little over two years.
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Read MoreHe dismisses concerns about the club’s managerial turnover, suggesting “a year in the job is about the average in the Championship”.
“I have a really positive feeling about the relationship moving forward and for the future of Hull we are aligned, we want to create something powerful.
It has barely been a fortnight but Selles’ diagnosis of the Hull squad is not that it lacks quality or ability.
“What we need to be conscious of is that things aren’t just going to happen,” he says.
“We need to create a habit of competitiveness and then through that the results will arrive. It can’t be ‘let’s see what happens’, we need to make things happen. In the position we’re in, nobody is going to give us anything.”
Selles previously managed Southampton and Reading (Photo: Getty)“From the fans’ perspective needing to just give that extra ten minutes of being extra loud or whatever it is in the game, from the club giving that extra support to the players, from us giving that extra quality that the situation demands.
When Hull did their due diligence on Selles, what came back was a coach whose sharp, engaging work on the training ground has energised his players.
“We want to have a team that want to be very vertical, very aggressive and attacking,” Selles says of his philosophy.
“The Watford game was a little bit of an example of what we want. We just need to improve on those moments but we should be a team that are very difficult to play against but can create chances in a relatively quick way.
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Read MoreHull intend to add to that “quality” in January and Selles reveals that meetings with sporting director Jared Dublin and the club’s recruitment team have already taken place.
“Obviously we have the opportunity to strengthen the team in January if we think we can strengthen it but when we talk about what we have in the team, our attitude is that the players we have are the best players in the world,” he says.
“But in our experience those players need to be a very, very specific profile.
“It should be two or three who really help us to make an impact in the team.”
It is a baptism of fire for Selles but he is undaunted.
“But we need to work hard for it, things don’t just happen.”
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