Hull City owner Acun Ilicali says he wants to have stability at the club but does not view changing managers as a problem.

The Tigers, who avoided relegation from the Championship on goal difference this season, sacked Ruben Selles last week, just six months after the Spaniard replaced Tim Walter.

“People say consistency is very important and I agree, of course it is good to go along with your coach,” he told BBC Radio Humberside.

“We have changed too many, that’s true. But who can say that changing coaches too much is killing a club?”

He added: “Nottingham Forest changed nine coaches in four or five years and now they maybe go to the Champions League, which is my dream.”

Ilicali sacked Liam Rosenior last May after the East Yorkshire side had finished seventh in the Championship and has also sacked Grant McCann and Shota Arveladze since taking over in January 2022.

When the Turkish entrepreneur was asked about criticism that they were becoming like fellow second tier side Watford, who have not started and ended a calendar year with the same manager since 2010, he said: “I wish I was the new Watford because they have been to the Premier League.”

Rosenior led Strasbourg to a seventh-placed finish in Ligue 1 this season but Ilicali defended his decision to sack him.

“We won two home games between January and May so I wanted to change,” he said.

“I want results and entertaining football. We had to change because we din’t have the results and we didn’t have entertaining football but some of the fans didn’t want to change and I respect that.”

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