The Premier League has postponed a key meeting of its clubs – originally scheduled for Thursday – which aimed to decide how to respond to last week’s verdict in the legal battle with Manchester City over the rules governing commercial deals.

On Friday, chief executive Richard Masters warned clubs that they were “taking the necessary time” to review the decision, and hinted at a possible delay.

BBC Sport has now learned that the meeting will take place early next week.

Meetings of the Financial Controls Advisory Group and the Legal Advisory Group, which were scheduled to take place on Wednesday, were also delayed.

BBC Sport has learned the league hopes they will take place later this week.

Both sides claimed victory after an arbitration panel’s decision was published last Monday, following a legal challenge by City to the league’s Associated Party Transactions (APT) regulations.

PTA rules are in place to ensure that sponsorship deals with companies linked to club owners represent fair market value.

City saw some complaints upheld, with two aspects of the rules found illegal by the court.

The court said that low-interest shareholder loans should not be excluded from the scope of the APT rules, and that changes made in February to tighten the regulations also violated the law of the APT. competition.

In its initial response on Monday, the Premier League said the committee “endorsed the overall objectives, framework and decision-making process of the APT system”, adding that it would seek to change its rules “promptly and effectively”.

But City later claimed the Premier League’s summary of the panel’s decision was “misleading” and contained “several inaccuracies”, in an escalation of the dispute.

In a letter sent to top clubs and the Premier League, City wrote that the rules were now “void” and that the club was “concerned by the Premier League’s suggestion that new PTA rules should be adopted within the next 10 days. “, and signaled possible legal action in the event of a “knee-jerk reaction.”