Rangers have suspended Joey Barton for three weeks following a heated verbal exchange at the training-ground.
The midfielder, 34, was sent home last Tuesday and returned to Ibrox for a meeting on Monday morning.
A statement from the club said: “The manager, Mark Warburton, and club believe that time and space is required for both the club and the player to assess all that has happened.
“Neither party will make any further statement or comment on this issue.”
Barton was involved in an altercation with team-mate Andy Halliday in training. In his own account of events – which Barton delivered in a radio interview on Friday that was unauthorised by the club – the Englishman said he was sent home and Halliday was not because he also had a frank exchange of views with Warburton afterwards.
Barton was told to stay away from the club until Monday, but on Thursday night released a statement on Twitter. “Some of the things I said were inappropriate and for that I apologise unreservedly,” the 34 year old tweeted.
He admitted that some of the language he used “did overstep the mark” and that he regretted the incident and remained committed to Rangers.
Moments after his Twitter statement, Barton published a tweet he later deleted reading: “Apologising doesn’t always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It means you value your relationship more than your ego.”
In his radio interview the following day, he described his suspension as”strange” and “wrong” and that he did not believe he had done anything to apologise for.
Barton attended the Monday meeting at Ibrox but did not join up with his team-mates at training afterwards.
He signed a two-year contract in the summer as a free agent, after turning down the offer of a contract extension at Burnley.
