Surprisingly AC Milan dropping name for club initially gets praise (7)
I believe the answer is:
acclaim
'praise' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'surprisingly ac milan dropping name for club initially gets' is the wordplay.
'surprisingly' is an anagram indicator (a surprising ordering of the letters).
'dropping' is a deletion indicator.
'name for' becomes 'n' (I've seen this in other clues).
'club initially' becomes 'c' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gets' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'milan' with 'n' taken out is 'mila'.
'ac'+'mila'='acmila'
'acmila' anagrammed gives 'aclaim'.
'aclaim' going around 'c' is 'ACCLAIM'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for acclaim that I've seen before include "Welcome enthusiastically" , "Cheer" , "Great public praise" , "Enthusiastic and public praise" , "Hail" .)