Calvin Ramsay ‘didn’t even know’ he had stress fracture when Liverpool told him

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Calvin Ramsay said he ‘didn’t even know’ he had a double stress fracture when Liverpool told him. The right-back was shocked.

Calvin Ramsay moved to Anfield in the summer with quite a lot of promise, signing a long-term contract on £15k per week. He’d stood out as a prospect in Scotland, competing at senior level while still a teenager.

And so Liverpool appeared to have made a risk-free signing when they completed the deal with Aberdeen. Only, it wasn’t that simple.

On performing his medical, it became clear that Ramsay was actually injured. Aberdeen didn’t know, Liverpool hadn’t been aware – and the player himself had no idea. It wasn’t any old injury, either, but a double stress fracture.

“I was gutted, to be honest,” Ramsay told the official Matchday program. “I was in a scanner for about two hours and got told I had two stress fractures and had to go back in – I didn’t even know it was there and I couldn’t feel it. When they told me I thought: ‘That can’t be right’.

“I went back into the scanner and it showed the two stress fractures again. It made it even worse that I couldn’t feel it because it felt like I was fine and could go out and train and play.”

Calvin Ramsay at Liverpool

That injury has meant we’ve barely seen Ramsay. In fact, as we approach February, we’ve only seen him in the senior side twice. The first time was three minutes at home to Napoli in the Champions League. The last time came in early November as he played the entire League Cup tie against Derby County.

And so Ramsay hasn’t actually featured in the Premier League yet. A massive part of that is his lack of any pre-season, of course.

But the 19-year-old says he’s now back.

“Now that I’m back and feeling good I need to keep working hard to try to get into the team,” he says. “It won’t be easy, but it’s never going to be easy at a massive club like this.”

And you can’t really ask for more than that attitude. Liverpool haven’t yet seen the best of Ramsay – but it’s on its way.