Calvin Ramsay Joins St Mirren on Loan for 2026/27 Season
Calvin Ramsay has drawn a line under his Liverpool career and headed home, backing himself to rebuild in a league he knows and a country that still believes in him.
The 23-year-old right-back has joined St Mirren on loan for the 2026/27 season, subject to international clearance, in a move that all but confirms his Anfield story is over. His Liverpool contract runs out next summer and the club has already decided he will not be offered a new deal, meaning he will leave on a free.
Ramsay isn’t dressing it up. He wanted Scotland. He wanted familiarity. He wanted a reset.
“I feel really good, really excited,” he told the club after completing the move. “I’ve been in and trained and met all the boys, so yeah, I’m looking forward to it.
“I know the league and I wanted to come back up here and try and show what I can do and rebuild myself again. I feel like it’s a good place to come. I want to try and perform, work as hard as I can and see where that takes me.”
This is not the path anyone imagined when Liverpool paid an initial £4.2m to prise him from Aberdeen in June 2022. Back then, Ramsay arrived as one of the most highly rated young full-backs in Scotland, seen as a long-term option on the right side of Liverpool’s defence.
Instead, injuries bit hard. Rhythm never came. Loans misfired.
Across four years on Liverpool’s books, Ramsay managed just four senior appearances. His temporary spells at Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Kilmarnock during the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons brought only 26 games in total, a scattered collection of outings that never quite added up to momentum.
He stayed on Merseyside for the 2025/26 campaign under Arne Slot and was named in 20 matchday squads. On paper, that suggested progress. In reality, he played only twice, his presence largely down to a defensive injury crisis rather than a genuine breakthrough.
So he has gone back north, not as the next big Premier League full-back, but as a Scotland international determined to prove he still has a career to shape.
Ramsay has chosen a club and a ground he already respects.
“It’s a really tough place to come for opposition teams and I think the pitch is really good as well from when I played here,” he said. “It’s a good set up, it’s a good club and I’m just excited to get going.”
The conversations with the manager helped seal it.
“I spoke to the manager a couple of times before I came up and he got his plan across and what he wanted to do.
“It’s probably a different St Mirren compared to the last few years. That’ll suit me. I’m comfortable on the ball, I’m composed, I like to get on it and try and create things and make things happen.”
That is the version of Ramsay St Mirren hope to see: the ball-playing, forward-thinking full-back who emerged at Aberdeen, not the frustrated squad player stuck in neutral in England.
The move also sets up a pivotal few months for his long-term future. From January, with his Liverpool deal running down, Ramsay will be free to speak to other clubs about a permanent switch.
If he gets it right in Paisley, he won’t be short of offers.
