Julian Nagelsmann has resigned as German national team coach.The public gets what the public wants. From the moment Germany were eliminated from the World Cup on Monday after losing on penalties to Paraguay, there have been demands for Nagelsmann to go — from fans, from pundits, from the many former national team players who command prominent positions in the media. Nagelsmann’s position had become untenable.The wish now is for Jurgen Klopp. He is the popular choice and the German FA have already indicated that they will be seeking talks with the former Liverpool manager, who is currently Red Bull’s head of global soccer.It’s the logical end to what has been a strange few weeks. Klopp was working for Magenta TV during the tournament and provided running analysis of Nagelsmann’s team selections and mistakes. It was an odd dynamic. Klopp’s popularity, ubiquity and past coaching success have meant that he has figuratively loomed over national team coaches for years, but never before in such a literal way.That is the direction of travel now. If the German Football Association (DFB) does reach an agreement with Red Bull and Klopp, then the national mood will spike again and the country will feel that it’s on the road to footballing recovery once more.Could Klopp replace Nagelsmann after World Cup elimination?Cerys Jones and Mark CritchleyMaybe — hopefully — but international football rarely works like that.Watching Germany cope with elimination has been revealing — familiar, even. In the aftermath of that Paraguay shootout, the response has been erratic.On Monday night, Lothar Matthaus raged to Sky Deutschland about how much time players were able to spend with their families once the squad arrived in the U.S. and how prominent they were around the camp in North Carolina. Matthaus claimed that arguments over travel arrangements had also flared between a few players, with disagreements about whose mother, wife and child had been able to fly with what sort of ticket and what kind of aircraft.That has received much attention. In addition, every media outlet in the country has published its version of an expose. There were a few cockroaches at the team hotel, says one. Some of the team selections were not communicated in a way that pleased everyone, says another. A few members of the squad got bored, almost all of them reported.Nagelsmann has also been accused, by Dietmar Hamann, the former national team midfielder, of not spending enough time watching players such as Kevin Schade of Brentford and Yann Bisseck from Inter Milan. There has been plenty said and written about the refereeing performance in the Paraguay game, too, and the decision to disallow Jonathan Tah’s goal in extra-time. It was contentious, certainly, and arguably wrong, but — as with every other grievance on this list — it’s not really the point.Nagelsmann has left his job as Germany head coach (Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)Anybody who grew up in England between 1990 and 2010 will recognise this process. It’s the search for a scapegoat and the scramble to explain everything in a way that makes it sound easy to fix.