Hakan was appointed as Hamlet manager in March 2023, with the Hamlet earning 16 points from his 13 games in charge, only losing our National League South status on goal difference on the final day of the season. Hak has plenty of pedigree as a coach and manager, earning promotions with Grays Athletic, Luton Town and Maidstone United during his career. During his playing career, Hakan won the FA Trophy under Martin O'Neill at Wycombe Wanderers, and also won promotion to the Football League whilst there in 1993, and from Division 2 to Division 1 a year later. Sustained a serious knee injury with Cambridge United which would force him to retire form full-time football in 1997. Spells in non-league football followed, before taking up the managerial reigns with Waltham Forest in 2003, winning the Essex Senior Cup there, before moving to Thurrock and then Grays. There he earned the side promotion to the Isthmian Premier Division in 2013, before being part of the Luton staff to win the Conference title a year later. After leaving Luton in 2016 with the club firmly on the path back to the higher echelons of the Football League, he briefly worked at both Dagenham & Redbridge and Braintree Town. In January 2019 a move to Maidstone would start the path to a third promotion as a coach, with the Stones pipping Dorking Wanderers to the National League South title in 2022. Aged 53.