It's the story which just won't go away, buzzing around like an irate wasp no matter how hard Gino Pozzo swats.

But ultimately, it's the Hornets owner whose resolve looks like it will ultimately force Everton to buzz off - no matter how much they want Marco Silva.

The Goodison Park club have submitted the same offer, of £10 million, twice to prize Pozzo's 40-year-old starlet from the managerial hotseat at Vicarage Road.

It would have been nice, both for the club and fans, if those bids were rejected because of Silva's desire to continue a project he has only just begun.

But the Portuguese head coach, who you would expect was informally sounded out by Everton before any approach was made, will not have enamoured himself to the Watford hierarchy after national media outlets learned of his readiness to move on. Those kind of 'understandings' do not happen by coincidence.

And so you could say, rightly, that any off-the-books approach from the Toffees is out of order, but let's be honest; it's 2017, no club is going to waste time chasing a coach, or player, without doing a bit of background research.

The departed Luke Dowling even admitted Watford's policy is not dissimilar on the transfer front when he was interviewed on Radio 5 Live earlier this year.

In the end, the whole saga will probably blow over, and Silva will most likely remain at Watford, primarily because Pozzo doesn't want the upheaval of a new management team mid-season when he already has a perfectly good one in place.

After all, CEO and chairman Scott Duxbury has made the club's loyalty during a season one of its selling points; and doing everything it can to hold on to Silva, as well as being in its best interests, only strengthens that position too.

And the Hornets' line that they are not looking to entertain offers is as much a warning as it is a statement - Everton have come and had a go, but they don't look hard enough to crush them into submission.

For a head coach who places such a priority on hunger, desire and workrate, the fact Silva is willing (but not desperate) to jump ship after 12 games has more than an element of contradiction about it.

Certainly players like Richarlison who, because of language barriers can only converse conversationally with Silva, his backroom staff or Heurelho Gomes, would feel betrayed should he leave.

The same could be said of Andre Carrillo, who might not have been lured in by Silva's language, but certainly was by his man management after their spell at Sporting.

As the saga drags on and gathers pace into a third week, it's been notable the odd grumbles from the virtual terraces of social media too - but you get the impression should Silva stay, which he most likely will, they will fall silent quickly enough.

To be clear, this piece is not an attempt to restrict Silva from bettering himself. Life, and football, is too short, and ultimately he can do whatever he likes.

However, Watford's head coach is a man who is very good at saying something without saying it, and it's what he and those around him have 'not said' in the national press which will raise a few eyebrows in the Vicarage Road boardroom.