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Liverpool are expected to go into the market for a new right-back in summer.
This season the position has been cursed - with Jeremie Frimpong and Conor Bradley enduring injury-ravaged campaigns.
Frimpong, 25, has only just returned to the lineup following a third hamstring injury of the season. Bradley meanwhile won’t play again this term owing to a devastating knee injury suffered in January.
That means a player like Denzel Dumfries could be acquired in the off-season - which would help prevent Arne Slot from having to use midfielders at right-back in an emergency.
Dominik Szoboszlai, Wataru Endo and Curtis Jones have all been pressed into action there this season - leaving specialist right-back Calvin Ramsay on the outside looking in.
Slot has even opted to rush Joe Gomez back from injury when he’s needed a right-back option rather than take a risk on Ramsay.
And according to a report on Football Insider the 22-year-old Scotland international has got no future at Anfield long-term. It is expected that he will be allowed to leave the club next summer.
Calvin Ramsay: Situation summary
Calvin Ramsay has spent this season hovering on the periphery of Arne Slot’s squad, and the reality is harsher than the optics. He’s fit, he’s available, he trains, he travels — but he’s not trusted.
Even when Liverpool’s right‑back options thinned to the point of crisis, Slot never once hinted that Ramsay was about to be accelerated into the picture. If anything, the opposite.
Every selection call reinforced the same message: the hierarchy is fixed, and Ramsay isn’t on it.
The club’s original plan was to send him back out on loan, but circumstances forced a rethink. He stayed, but not because anyone foresaw a pathway. He stayed because someone had to fill a squad slot, and he was already in the building.
Slot has leaned on Gomez, on Bradley before the injury, on hybrid solutions, on anything that preserves the team’s structure. Ramsay has been the emergency option who never actually gets used — the clearest indicator of where a player stands.
This isn’t a story of decline or failure. It’s a story of stasis. And in a squad moving forward at pace, stasis is its own kind of verdict.
Analysis
“Slot has made it clear that he has no long-term future at Anfield,” the report reads.
Ramsay signed for Liverpool from Aberdeen in 2022 - going on to make a brief first-team breakthrough under Jurgen Klopp.
He played games in the Champions League and EFL Cup during the 2022/23 season but saw his progress checked by injuries.
Frustrating loan spells followed - at Preston, Bolton and Wigan - and it was only due to injuries in the first team that he joined Slot’s squad this season.
The Dutchman has used him on precious few occasions - against Crystal Palace in the EFL Cup and Brighton in the FA Cup - but it’s clear he’s not fancied.