Calvin Ramsay Joins St Mirren on Loan: A Fresh Start
Calvin Ramsay has drawn a line under his Liverpool career and come home to try and find himself again.
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 effectively ends his time at Anfield. His Liverpool contract runs out next summer and the decision has already been made: there will be no new deal. He will leave on a free.
Ramsay knows what that means. This isn’t just another loan. It’s a reset.
“I feel really good, really excited,” he told the St Mirren media team after completing the switch. “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.”
A return to familiarity
For a player whose last few years have been dominated by injuries and stop-start spells away from his parent club, the pull of familiar surroundings was strong. Ramsay came through at Aberdeen before Liverpool paid an initial £4.2m for him in June 2022, seeing him as a long-term project at right-back.
That project never really got off the ground.
Fitness problems and a series of loans meant Ramsay never came close to establishing himself. He made just four first-team appearances across four years at Liverpool, a stark number for a player once viewed as one of Scotland’s brightest young defenders.
Loan moves were supposed to provide the platform he needed. Instead, they only underlined the struggle. Between Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Kilmarnock over the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons, he managed a combined total of just 26 games.
By the time the 2025/26 campaign rolled around, Ramsay stayed put on Merseyside. Under Arne Slot, he was named in 20 matchday squads, largely as defensive cover during injury crises. He played only twice.
He needed more than a place on the bench. He needed a fresh start.
A club that fits the plan
St Mirren, he believes, can give him that.
“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.
“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.”
Those are the traits that persuaded Liverpool to invest in him in the first place. Now they will be tested in a league he knows, in a team that wants to build play and give him responsibility on the ball.
For St Mirren, it is a chance to tap into a player with Premier League-level coaching behind him, still at an age where his career can swing sharply upwards. For Ramsay, it is about minutes, rhythm, and proving to the wider market that the early hype around his name was not misplaced.
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.
The Liverpool chapter is closing. What he does at St Mirren will decide how compelling the next one looks.
