Rather than value him by the amount of goals he scores - which is all you have done - let's try to value him in terms of importance to the team. His 9 goals and whatever in assists this season is way more than Coutinho, Allen etc. have scored/made yet Allen cost 18M and wasn't bought for his goal-scoring, neither was Coutinho who we all love to death and whose value is surely now somewhere around 30M.
Lallana's importance to the team comes in a few flavours; a like for like for Coutinho when one is injured or off-form or we need to juggle the team due to the number of matches in a week (currently we are having to move Sterling inside and change the formation, neither solution being ideal); another scoring midfielder (that we are short of); another bona fide 1st teamer and another player of high technical quality who can go past players (i.e. perfect for the way we play) and to cap it all a player who works his balls off for the team (ditto perfect for the way we play).
We need squad depth of players of 1st team quality, now. Not a paltry bench with no options. No more Aspas', Borinis or anyone else of that ilk. Do we now think that every transfer window will be a Sturrdige / Coutinho one ? Where we pick up great players for a relative pittance ? The tone of the naysayers seems to be along this line of thought. We can't afford to gamble on 1:4 chances any more, we need those 1:2 players. More likely, or just as likely, to be a success as a failure. Nothing is a 100% guarantee, there have been enough huge name failures in the PL to know that. However Lallana looks to be mould-perfect for Rodger's LFC.
