Calvin Ramsay Joins St Mirren on Loan for 2026/27 Season
Calvin Ramsay has drawn a clear line under his Liverpool career and headed back to where it all began for him – Scottish football.
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 have already decided he will not be offered a new deal, meaning he will leave on a free.
For Ramsay, that uncertainty made the decision simple. He wanted home.
“I feel really good, really excited,” he told St Mirren’s media. “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 a reset. A career that once looked to be fast-tracking towards the top of the Premier League has stalled badly.
Liverpool paid an initial £4.2m to sign Ramsay from Aberdeen in June 2022, seeing him as a high-upside understudy and long-term option at right-back. Injuries hit early and hard. Rhythm never came. The opportunities he needed never really arrived.
Across four years on Liverpool’s books, Ramsay managed only four first-team appearances. The club tried to nudge his development along with loans, but those spells never truly caught fire either. Between Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Kilmarnock over the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, he played just 26 times in total.
He stayed on Merseyside for the 2025/26 campaign under Arne Slot and was named in the matchday squad on 20 occasions. Yet he stepped onto the pitch only twice, his involvement largely driven by defensive injury crises rather than any sustained breakthrough.
So he has gone looking for something different: games, responsibility, a club built around hard edges and honest work.
“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 simply looking for a safe harbour; he wants a platform. A side that will let him use the ball, step into play, and rediscover the confidence that persuaded Liverpool to invest in him in the first place.
St Mirren, for their part, gain a Scotland international still young enough to reshape his narrative. Ramsay has already felt the pull of the national team jersey; a consistent season back in the Scottish Premiership would put him right back in that conversation.
From January, he will be free to speak to other clubs about his next permanent move. Every performance in Paisley will double as an audition.
For now, though, the equation is simple. A defender whose career has drifted needs minutes and momentum. A club with ambition and a reputation for being awkward opponents needs quality on the ball and belief in big moments.
If Ramsay finds himself again at St Mirren, this loan won’t just mark the end of his Liverpool chapter. It could be the start of the one that finally shows what he was meant to be.
