On my save I play him as a Left Inside Forward and train him as a TREQ. IMHO though, he does better as a AMC or Forward ( I loaned him to FC Bayern and they played him as a forward and 80% matches the scout report states he turned in at least a *HIGHEST QUALITY* performance... Currently Overall...
This is what I did, Go to and extract those logopacks in
My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2012/graphics/logo.
Create a 'graphics' folder if you don't have it and a 'logo' folder inside graphics.
Afterwards, load FM12 and go to Preferences> Display & Sound, Check ( Tick )...
Was playing Bury and asked for Increased of Scouting Range near the end of first season( Around March) , when I asked I already won the PL spot. So maybe it's just what Striker said.