I'm of the opinion that we have sort of reversed what we needed to do with the team this year.
We were all (well, mostly) crying out for improvements in the bench-department at the end of the season - We had so many injuries that pretty much all of our bench options were a huge drop-off in quality, compared to the first-choice player that they were replacing.
So I was thinking that we needed to improve the level of player available on the bench - After all, we were never likely to sign more than a couple of big game players, were we?
However, what JK and the club appear to be doing is improving the bench by bringing in players who are upgrades (or at least SHOULD be upgrades, once they adapt to PL) on the existing encumbents, thus improving both the first XI AND the bench, by having the choice of starting either of the 2 options and having the other in the wings for rest/injury-cover.
Lallana is still an integral part of this team for me, as when fit, he is still a 50/50 option to start every game.
The advantage next season is that our backup players for any given game have improved massively on this season, simply by having viable alternatives, rather than a clear starter and a 50-75% as good alternative on the bench.
Let's be honest, almosty nobody is going to guaranteed a starting berth this season, and I cannot wait for it to start again.