What millions?
NZF is broke as it is. Any money made from the Mexico tie will certainly not go towards a "quality overseas coach".
Not gonna happen.
Also I've read a figure of $5 million from selling the second leg television rights and ticket sales. Reportedly there's still about $4.5 million of the WC 2010 money invested. That's hardly "broke".
The problem with bringing in a good overseas coach, and I'd love a fresh attacking mindset, is a lack of games. NZF hardly likes to dip into it's purse to fund internationals. However a new coach could target the next Confederations Cup in 2016, which should, if we qualify, be self-funding from the $1 million plus prize money for winning Oceania. That should be a decent carrot for any up and coming coach wanting to make a name on the international stage. Outside of Ramon Tribulietx of ACFC, I don't think there's a domestic coach good enough.
That $4.5m is in a charitable trust for the benefit of grassroots football, which is great. They can't simply raid it to pay the bills.
Without the $5m from TV rights for next week we would be in a pretty bad financial position (see my previous post) and close to going broke within the next couple of years. The $5m needs to be spent very carefully.
However, you are right to point out the dilemma of appointing a good coach on a good wage without also committing to a decent international programme for the AWs. Otherwise, what is that coach actually doing? You could easily spend all of that $5m just on that.
See how fragile our financial position actually is?
EDIT: what Jeff said :)