In the charged aftermath of a Champions League draw between Fenerbahce and Roma in Istanbul, a coach's resignation and a president's refusal to accept it have placed a storied club at an uncertain crossroads. The stalemate on the pitch — punctuated by bottles thrown from the stands — became a mirror for the deeper frustrations of expectation and ambition that European competition so reliably surfaces. What followed was not a clean ending but a public contradiction, a reminder that in football, as in life, the power to leave is not always the power to go.