Manager Les Parry, due to open talks about his own future this week, offered new contracts to half a dozen members of the squad that fought off the threat of relegation from League One this season by a one-point margin.
But there were no new terms made available to front man Savage, winger Shuker or midfielder Edds, who boast close to 300 Rovers appearances between them. Midfielder Charlie Barnett, young front man Josh Macauley and Grenada International Kithson Bain will also be seeking new clubs next season.
The players offered new deals are front man Craig Curran, midfielder John Welsh, full-back Suman Bakayogo, defender Marlon Broomes and first-year professional Ryan Fraughan. Youth scholar Jack Mackreth has been awarded a first professional contract.
Savage, 28, joined Rovers in 2008 from Millwall. He made 62 appearances and scored nine goals but spent almost a year sidelined by a ruptured Achilles tendon injury sustained in a match at Leeds in April 2009.
Shuker, 28, signed for Tranmere in June 2006. He made 144 appearances, scoring 18 goals. He started only 19 senior games this season, largely because his style was not a natural fit for the 4-3-3 system Parry introduced after replacing John Barnes as manager in October.
Australian Edds, 29, joined Rovers in June 2008 and went on to make 82 appearances in a variety of positions, scoring six goals.
Barnett, 21, signed in the summer of 2008 and made most of his 41 appearances under Ronnie Moore last season. Macauley, 19, came through the youth system at Tranmere and made one substitute appearance for the first team.
Bain, 27, was signed by Barnes early in the season. He made 11 appearances and also spent a month on loan at non-league Kettering.
Tranmere have retained eight professionals with contracts that extend into next season. They are teenage goalkeeper Joe Collister, defenders Ian Goodison, Aaron Cresswell and Ash Taylor, midfielders Paul McLaren and Alan Mahon than forwards Ian Thomas-Moore and Terry Gornell.
Parry revealed Rovers have made a contract offer to Josh Labadie, the West Bromwich Albion midfielder who spent the final six weeks of the campaign on loan at Prenton Park.
Labadie will be out of contract at the Hawthorns this summer, making him a free agent. Rovers were impressed with the 19-year-old’s performances in seven senior appearances yielding three goals and made an early move to snap him up.
Parry is due to open formal talks about his own future with chairman Peter Johnson today. The long serving physio is hoping to be offered the opportunity to remain as manager, secure the roles of coaches Shaun Garnett and Wayne Allison and shape the squad for next season around his own specifications.
Parry has made no secret of his desire to hold on to the position he initially accepted on a caretaker basis following the dismissal of John Barnes last October. Rescuing Rovers from the threat of relegation – they had just seven points on the board from 11 games when he succeeded Barnes – should strengthen the case for Parry earning a longer-term deal. But Parry insists last weekend’s last-game escape at Stockport County won’t change the ideas he wants to pitch to the chairman and the board of directors.
He said: “I am meeting with the chairman and hopefully we will be able to thrash something out. I don’t think we will be making a definite decision because it is only one day and there is the need to go away and think about things. But hopefully I will have an indication about what is going to happen.
“I would still have wanted the job had we been relegated so I am honestly going into the meeting with a stronger hand than if we had gone down. I have ideas about the way I want things to be done and the result last Saturday does not change those ideas.”
Parry, Garnett and Allison had been working since December on the an arrangement that runs until the end of the season. Garnett stepped up to first-team duty is from coaching the youth and reserve teams while Allison joined the staff at Parry’s request in October.
Parry said: “I think they deserve the opportunity as well. We have been a bit piecemeal about the way we have done things with Wayne and with Shaun stepping up from the youth.
“If I get the job Shaun will have to make a decision on whether he wants to stay with the first team to go back to the youth. There would be a knock-on effect in quite a few areas if I got the job.”
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