Rovers used no fewer than 11 loan players during the 2009/10 campaign.
Two players, goalkeeper Luke Daniels from West Bromwich Albion and full-back Shaleum Logan from Manchester City, were on season-long arrangements while centre back Chris McCready signed from Northampton Town in January on a deal that ran until the end of the season.
A further eight players made contributions on short-term loans: goalkeepers David Martin and Peter Gulacsi (both from Liverpool) defenders Gavin Gunning (Blackburn) and Luke O’Neill (Leicester City), midfielders Ben Gordon (Chelsea) and Joss Labadie (WBA) and front men Marvin Sordell (Watford) and Andy Robinson (Leeds United).
Parry has praised the commitment of the players who came to Prenton Park on temporary assignments over his seven months in charge of team affairs. But the long-serving physio turned manager wants to establish a solid base of players on permanent contracts for next season.
Parry said: “We don’t want to be starting next season with season-long loan players and that will be our aim. Whether we accomplish that by the start of the new season, only time will tell.”
Parry added: “Our loan players were fantastic this season. Whether we have been lucky I don’t know. One of the directors at Norwich City recently went on record as saying he thought that loan players, particularly towards the end of the season, are a waste of time because they have one eye on leaving and do not put the effort in.
“That may be the case at some clubs but here, Shay Logan, Luke Daniels and Chris McCready were absolutely fantastic. They all gave 100%. They all behaved as if they belonged to the club. No one could look at the team and say they were loan players.
“Even the short-term loans like Peter Gulacsi, Ben Gordon, Luke O’Neill, Marvin Sordell, Andy Robinson and Joss Labadie did really well.
“In the case of Joss we have made him an offer to stay with us and hopefully we can keep him.”
Parry opened discussions with chairman Peter Johnson this week about the prospect of remaining in charge of team affairs after successfully completing the mission to keep Rovers in League One.
The futures of coaches Shaun Garnett and Wayne Allison, who assisted the long-serving physio over the last seven months, are likely to be tied to the outcome of Parry’s negotiations.
Meanwhile the players offered new contracts by Rovers this week, including Craig Curran, John Welsh, Zoumana Bakayogo, Marlon Broomes and Ryan Fraughan, have a month to make up their minds on accepting deals.
Should Parry earn the opportunity to carry on, he says he plans to stick by the pragmatic tactical system that enabled the team to dig their way out of trouble over the final 35 games of the campaign.
“I think we would continue with the 4-3-3 formation because the players here are comfortable with that,” Parry said. “The aim is to bring in players who are also comfortable with it.
“I would want to bring in players who are hungry, fighters and winners. A lot of the players we have here at the moment fall into that category.”