A Liverpool defender has scored his first goal for his club two months after his arrival.
St Mirren badge on the corner flag during the William Hill Scottish Premiership match between St Mirren and Motherwell at the Paisley 2021 Stadium, St Mirren, UK on 21 February 2026.
St Mirren badge on the corner flag during the William Hill Scottish Premiership match between St Mirren and Motherwell at the Paisley 2021 Stadium, St Mirren, UK on 21 February 2026.
For a player whose four years as a Liverpool player have been defined by injuries, frustration and loan spells that never quite worked out, Saturday afternoon in Paisley was a rare chance to celebrate.
The Reds’ on-loan right back, now playing as a wing back in Scotland, scored his first goal for his new club around two months after completing a season-long move in late August.
Better still, it helped end a painful run of results.
St Mirren went into the game against Dundee having lost five league matches in a row, and the conditions were cold, wet and windy, hardly suited to free-flowing football.
In the 20th minute, Eseosa Sule broke down the right and played the ball across goal into the path of the wing back, whose shot was partly blocked by Dundee goalkeeper Owen Goodman but still trickled over the line.
He almost added a second soon after, rising to meet a free kick from the left, but this time Goodman held the header.
Sule then headed in a second goal in the 57th minute, and although Bradley Fink pulled one back for Dundee, St Mirren held on for a 2–1 win.
Calvin Ramsay arrived at Anfield from Aberdeen in the summer of 2022 for an initial fee of £4.2 million, having been named Scotland’s young player of the year.
He was seen as a long-term understudy to Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Instead, injuries dominated his time at the club, including a serious knee problem that required surgery.
He has made only four senior appearances for Liverpool, the first against Napoli in the Champions League, and loan spells at Preston North End, Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic and Kilmarnock all failed to give him the regular run of games he needed.
That is why St Mirren made sense.
Speaking when he joined in August, Ramsay was candid about what he wanted from the move.
“I needed to get back playing again,” he told STV.
“I just want to remind people I’m good enough and prove my talent.”
“I want to play 30 or 40 games and see where that takes me.”
The bigger picture is a little bleaker for Liverpool supporters who once had high hopes for him.
Ramsay’s contract runs until June 2027, and he is widely expected to leave as a free agent when it expires.
From January he will be able to hold pre-contract talks with clubs outside England.
For the 23 year old, performances like Saturday’s are therefore about more than helping St Mirren climb the table, because they are also an audition for his next permanent club.
St Mirren manager Craig McLeish described the result as one his side “probably needed”.
For Ramsay, after so long on the sidelines, it might be the moment his career finally starts moving forward again.
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