James Maddison and Youri Tielemans both are under their radar at the moment. As Leicester are having a terrible season and under the threat of relegation, Newcastle must be thinking that it would be easier for them to convince them. However I'm pretty confident that there would be some bigger teams to try to sign them as well.
Those are two very talented players, and with the current situation in their club it would make sense to believe that sooner rather than later they might prolly leave for another club, if true then it is smart for Newcastle to be monitoring their situation, like you said there would prolly be other clubs doing the same thing, but Newcastle can prolly give them a big contract to further convince them to make the switch to the St James' park, we'd see how things pan out.Having said that, another thing is that even if these players would leave, i doubt it'd be in January, it would prolly be by the next summer transfer window, but despite that, it still makes sense to start putting plans in place, that's how club's with a vision operate, they look at the long term and start making purposeful plans.
