Calvin Ramsay Joins St Mirren on Loan for 2026/27 Season

Calvin Ramsay has drawn a clear line under his Liverpool career and headed home to try to rebuild it.

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 chapter is over. His Liverpool contract expires next summer and the decision has already been made: there will be no new deal. He will leave on a free.

For Ramsay, that reality sharpened the choice. Go somewhere new, or go somewhere that feels like home.

"I feel really good, really excited," he told the St Mirren media team 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 route anyone predicted when Liverpool paid an initial £4.2m to sign him from Aberdeen in June 2022. Back then, he arrived as one of Scotland's brightest young defenders, a modern full-back expected to grow under elite coaching and learn the demands of a title-chasing side.

Instead, injuries and stop-start loan spells stalled everything.

Across four years on Liverpool’s books, Ramsay managed only four senior appearances. Loan moves were meant to offer a reset, yet they brought only frustration. Between Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Kilmarnock across the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, he played just 26 times in total. Not disastrous numbers, but nowhere near enough to properly kick on.

Last season he stayed on Merseyside. Arne Slot named him in 20 matchday squads during the 2025/26 campaign, a sign that he was at least on the fringes. But the reality was harsher: he featured only twice, his involvement largely driven by Liverpool’s defensive injury problems rather than a genuine breakthrough.

No wonder the pull of Scotland grew stronger.

"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," Ramsay said of St Mirren. "It's a good set up, it's a good club and I'm just excited to get going.

"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 line matters. Ramsay is not talking like a player simply searching for minutes. He wants a platform that fits his game, a team that will actually use his strengths rather than park him as cover.

For St Mirren, it is a calculated gamble with real upside. They are getting a Scotland international still young enough to reshape his story, but hardened by the reality of life at the top end of the English game. For Ramsay, it is something more personal: a chance to feel important again.

The loan runs for the season, but the bigger picture looms. From January, with his Liverpool contract running down, Ramsay will be free to speak to other clubs about his next permanent move.

What happens between now and then in Paisley will go a long way to deciding who comes calling.